Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government will announce on Thursday that it's putting the entire province under lockdown restrictions for 28 days, multiple sources tell CBC News.
B.C. has recorded the highest single-day number of new cases of COVID-19 to date, with 1,013 confirmed cases and three more deaths.
Canada has entered a "challenging" stage of the pandemic and Canadians must do all they can to follow public health measures and give vaccines time to work, said Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam.
Premier François Legault says Quebec City, Lévis and Gatineau will essentially shut down for 10 days starting Thursday evening to curb the "exponential" rise of COVID-19 cases in these three cities.
Almost six per cent of Ontarians online are spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, according to exclusive new research conducted on behalf of the Ontario Medical Association.
Alberta doctors have voted against a tentative agreement with the provincial government.
Hi friends! How’s the day going? I hope you’re having a wonderful morning so far. We’re jus hanging
Today on the podcast, I’m chatting with Ashley Fillmore. She’s an online health coach and personal trainer and I love her balanced perspective on living a happier and healthier life.
Here’s what we chat about:
– Background and how she helps her clients
– How to repair metabolic damage after crash dieting
– Tips on prioritizing self care, fitness, and nutrition
– Difference between sustainable healthy changes and quick fixes
Here’s a bit more about Ashley and her background:
Ashley is a leading expert in sustainable weight-loss who helps women heal their metabolism, balance their hormones, and achieve body composition changes that last a lifetime.
Ashley is the Founder and President of Metabolic Fix™, a premium online coaching company that has helped thousands of women finally break free from chronic dieting for good and achieve long-term, sustainable results using the Metabolic Fix Method™.
With a deep commitment to helping women better their lives, Ashley strives to inspire others to embrace a life of health, happiness, and self-love they deserve.
Ashley is a renowned keynote speaker, frequents top-rated podcasts, has a BSc in Exercise and Nutrition, is a certified personal trainer Professional, Nutrition Coach, and Health Educator.
You can find her on her website and on Instagram.
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Have a happy Wednesday and I’ll see ya in the am! Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.
xo
Gina
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It's hard for Prentice Scott to choose a highlight from a day spent vaccinating seniors against COVID-19 in the lobby of their Windsor, Ont., apartment building.
Many transgender, intersex and gender-diverse people with the menstrual-related condition are now demanding greater inclusivity in the fight to get endometriosis better recognized by health-care workers and researchers.
A Federal Court judge has approved a class-action lawsuit against the federal government alleging the RCMP's physicians sexually assaulted applicants during mandatory physical examinations.
Admissions of COVID-19 patients to Ontario's intensive care units (ICUs) have surpassed the previous pandemic high, a government agency that tracks hospitalizations said Wednesday, as the province reported another 2,333 cases of the illness.
The UN health agency says coronavirus cases globally rose for a fifth straight week, with counts in Africa and the Americas now ticking up after holding mostly steady for weeks.
Dianne Desjarlais Cardinal prays every day that her son Matthew, 34, is going to pull through as he battles COVID-19. She also hopes that everyone understands that the deadly virus targets the young as well as the old.
Representatives from all three levels of government announced joint funding to expand Canada's vaccine manufacturing capacity in Toronto on Wednesday morning.
In a study of 2,260 U.S. volunteers ages 12 to 15, preliminary data showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 among those given a placebo, Pfizer reported in a press release on Wednesday.
At least two staff members at B.C.'s Big White ski resort will be fired and a local restaurant's lease could be in danger, after a raucous party was held there on Monday evening.
Brian Nadler, 35, was charged last Friday in the death of 89-year-old Albert Poidinger. Ontario Provincial Police have been investigating multiple suspicious deaths at the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital, where he worked.
When the Chinese firm Feihe International invested $332 million to build a milk formula factory in Kingston, Ont., it promised to create hundreds of jobs in Eastern Ontario. Some of the people who took those jobs are now warning the workplace isn't safe — and they're afraid someone could get killed.
Employees at the Canada Royal Milk plant in Kingston, Ont., say management treated them like “minions” — denying them safety gear that fit, harassing employees by accusing them of being “overpaid” and less hardworking than workers in China and — in one case — unnecessarily touching a worker during a heated dispute.
There are currently 7,062 active cases of coronavirus in the province, with public health officials monitoring 11,164 people across British Columbia who are in self-isolation due to COVID-19 exposure.
Alberta passed an important COVID-19 mile marker on Tuesday — moving in the wrong direction — with 301 patients now being treated in hospitals for the illness.
Ontario confirmed 2,336 more cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, as a government agency that tracks hospitalizations reported the biggest single-day jump in admissions of patients to intensive care since the pandemic began.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today that while the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight and vaccine deliveries are speeding up, Canadians need to hold on a little longer and follow public health guidance.
The holy grail of incredible results meets at the intersection of personalized recommendations, proven techniques, and consistency. Without those variables, you’re unlikely to dramatically transform your body.
But, there’s one other variable that’s required, which is most often misunderstood or incorrectly applied: adaptation.
Shredding fat and building muscle is a byproduct of adaptation—but too much adaptation means you won’t change. It’s about working that thin line between challenging your body and burning them out. Between getting stronger and plateauing.
The best trainers find that line by using periodization: systematically programming workout routines over the long term through a variety of daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles.
“If we run the same program on you year-in and year-out, you won’t progress. You’ll actually get worse,” explains Minnesota-based exercise physiologist Mike T. Nelson, Ph.D., C.S.C.S.
“Instead, looking over the mesocycle [a larger chunk of time, which typically runs for about a month, made up of smaller microcycles], you should see your clients progressing while lowering their rate of perceived exertion. You have to help them disturb the body from homeostasis, but allow it to recover through appropriate manipulation of the General Adaptation Syndrome [GAS].”
GAS is informational fuel for trainers: Broken down into the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases, it describes your body’s reaction to stress. For optimum results, workouts must shock your body (the alarm stage) and allow it to adapt to become stronger (resistance) without overtraining (exhaustion).
Let’s dive into the two main periodization models—linear and undulating—and how to put them together so that you can identify the type of plan that might best help you crush your goals.
The original form of periodization, linear progressions started as a method to get high-level athletes ready for competition, explains Nick Tumminello, C.P.T., owner of Performance University in Fort Lauderdale.
“Trainers asked, ‘What does their performance need to look like for competition?’ And then they worked backward. In its purest form, that’s what periodization comes from.”
When programming linear plans, trainers manipulate intensity or load while keeping sets and reps relatively constant. For instance, a trainer may instruct a client to perform three sets of 10 bench press reps once per week for a month or two, going up in weight when able.
A trainer may also have a client perform those same bench press reps three days per week, lifting with a heavy load on the first day, medium on the second, and light on the third, Tumminello says.
However, as linear plans originated as a way to prepare athletes for competition, they typically progress throughout the year from muscular endurance- and hypertrophy-based schemes to prioritize max strength and power. Intensity increases and volume decreases every few weeks or months.
Spin-offs of linear periodization models, undulating schemes are based on the theory that linear models do not include enough variations, or undulations, in workload to spur optimum adaptations, Tumminello says.
So rather than only varying loads, they also switch up sets and reps throughout the microcycle, usually on a daily basis.
For instance, you may perform a strength workout on one day, a hypertrophy (muscle-building) workout on the second, and a muscular endurance-based workout on the third.
“Everything that goes into each day is associated with one adaptation,” Nelson says. “Through the course of the week, you promote a wide range of adaptations.”
No single periodization plan is best for everyone. Rather, the right model for every p comes down to:
If you’re trying to get healthier, lose some excess weight, or gain functional strength, the ultimate goal is adherence.
After all, according to a 2015 Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research meta-analysis of 17 prior studies, both linear and undulating methods result in similar increases in upper- and lower-body muscle strength.
If you’re somewhat new to training (less than 2 years of consistent workouts), it’s usually helpful to see progress to help keep you on track and motivated. If this applies to you, then a linear plan might be best.
Linear training models can also be the easiest to follow if you aren’t meeting with a trainer or have an accountability system.
Alternatively, if you get bored easily with your workouts, undulating models can feel more interesting.
If you have more than 2 years of consistent weight training or competitive goals, you’re more likely to benefit from undulating plans that integrate high, medium, and low loads and rep schemes.
For example, while a 2016 study from CUNY Lehman College found that undulating could potentially lead to superior upper-body increases in strength and muscle growth, and an International Journal of Sports Medicine study found that undulating plans enjoyed better developments in muscular endurance.
“Understand what parameters you are trying to improve and focus on those,” Nelson says.
To do that, it’s often helpful to think of both linear and undulating plans as options at different times. For instance, Tumminello often has more advanced clients follow a linear model in a few “benchmark moves” like a squat, deadlift, bench press, or rows, and, then, perform assistance exercises (think isolates moves like biceps curls) with an undulating scheme.
Every four to six weeks, the program, including benchmark moves, changes. FYI, in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research meta-analysis, study authors emphasized that no matter the periodization plan, varying the workout every two to six weeks is ideal for maximum effectiveness.
That said, things don’t have to be complicated, and it’s important not to over-plan your workouts. If you’re training consistently, working hard, and improving how much weight you lift, reps you perform, sets completed, or become more efficient with your rest periods (or all of the above) — that’s when you know you’re on the right track and will see results.
Deconstructing The “Best” Workout Plan
How Often Should I Change Reps?
Are You Really Overtraining? (Or Just A Little Sore?)
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A World Health Organization team probing the new coronavirus's origins cited problems accessing raw data, the health agency's chief said on Tuesday, as he called for further studies.
Sharing a short and sweet barre ab burner that you can do anywhere! All you need is a mat. Let’s set that core on firreeeeee.
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! How’s the week going so far? Today I have back-to-back podcast interviews and am going in for a much-needed haircut. A few times lately people have asked if I’ve highlighted my hair and my “highlights” (if that’s what you can call them) are like 9 months old. I’m definitely looking forward to a fresh cut and feeling like a person again.
For today, I have an all-new barre ab burner for ya. The core portion of barre is always intense, so I thought I’d share a quick and fun burner that you can add to today’s workout plans. (Also, if you’re looking for workout ideas, make sure you’re subscribed to my newsletter! I send out a plan each Friday for the upcoming week.)
For all of the core workouts I design, I like to include specific components: flexion, extension, rotation, and stabilization. This super short workout checks all of these boxes and also works all of the major muscles in your core (transverse abdominis, obliques, rectus abdominis, low back, glutes, and inner thighs, which are BFFs with your pelvic floor).
Here’s the workout if you want to give it a try! Subscribe to my YouTube channel here.
To get a full workout, try the above workout after this barre wild card workout. Heads up: if you like barre, I’ll have the details up for Barre Bootcamp 2.0 exactly one week from today! Get ready. 🙂
Have a wonderful morning! Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today and I’ll see ya in the morning!
xo
Gina
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The world’s social media giants promised to crack down on harmful COVID-19 misinformation that has proliferated since the pandemic began, but a CBC Marketplace investigation found that when problematic posts were flagged, most weren’t labelled or removed.
Premier Doug Ford is dangling the possibility that Ontario's already-delayed March Break for schools could be postponed yet again, as the province confronts its third wave of COVID-19.
Canada has the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared with other wealthy countries, according to a new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
The reason many people feel they can eat healthily is they don’t believe they have time to cook.
And I get it—I am a mom of two, wife, have a job, working on my master’s, plus all the other demands life throws my way.
It is why I am dedicated to creating easy meals, simple recipes, and sharing shortcuts that I use in my own kitchen.
Today’s shortcut: Frozen Mahi-Mahi fillets.
Why I love it: keep them on hand so you are never without a protein source. Mild flavor and don’t taste “fishy” or stink up the house. Mahi-Mahi is “Meaty” and that means filling. They can be thawed in a bowl of cool water in 15 minutes if you forgot to take them out of the freezer (like I ALWAYS do).
Tip: Makes great fish tacos with jicama slaw
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Watch TV morning news and nearly half the commercials are direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads. Watch evening news and you will likewise be inundated by drug commercials. They all follow the same script: People living their lives, having fun, happy, while the potential side-effects of these drugs are recited. The happy visuals serve to make the side-effects mentioned seem remote.
So I thought we should parody a DTC drug ad. This is not for any drug; it’s for how to avoid being exploited by the healthcare system and by doctors. Sure, we need them when there is injury, infection, or a genetic condition. For the vast majority of common chronic modern health issues such as high blood pressure, fatty liver, pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes and numerous other common chronic health conditions, you can obtain results that are superior to what is passed off as “health” by doctors and the healthcare system.
I therefore asked my filmmaking friends in San Diego, Ron and Karen Cook, who also produced all the wonderful Wheat Belly and Undoctored success story video interviews, if they would be interested in making an Undoctored “drug’ ad. This is the terrific result they came up with.
DTC ads don’t promote drugs that cost $2, $5, or $10. These are drugs that typically cost $4000 per month, $40,000 to $100,000 per year. Imagine if the ad for Skyrizi, a drug for psoriasis, had to include its cost: $52,609.60 every 3 months. Oh, but good news: If you use one of the discounting services, you can save 47% off the retail price and get your prescription for only $27,561.40!
Personally, I find the whole world of DTC drug advertising abhorrent. It drives up healthcare costs, it encourages use of higher cost products, it obscures the fact that genuine health is achievable without costly prescription drugs. The biggest downside, however, is that now nearly all major media outlets, broadcast and print, are no longer willing to air any content that could be potentially antagonistic to their biggest advertiser: Big Pharma. You may have noticed that, over the last few years, book authors (such as myself) who write on health topics, investigative TV news reports on the problems in healthcare, reports on the crippling costs of healthcare, are no longer aired. There are virtually zero reports on the awful, exploitative, and financially crippling industry called American healthcare. And anyone who might say something antagonistic to Big Media’s number one advertiser are now effectively blacklisted.
I can therefore only hope that messages of truth like this “drug ad” strike a chord and help everyone realize that health is something you achieve on your own without the interference of the doctor or healthcare system.
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A new briefing note from a panel of science experts advising the Ontario government on COVID-19 shows a province at a tipping point.
Canada's vaccine advisory committee is recommending immediately suspending the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Canadians under 55, following reports of rare but potentially fatal blood clots in Europe that appear to be connected to the shot.
B.C. is implementing a three-week "circuit breaker"-style lockdown, introducing sweeping new restrictions on indoor dining in restaurants, group fitness and worship services.
U.S. government's first look at the real-world use of the mRNA type of COVID-19 vaccines found their effectiveness was nearly as robust as it was in controlled studies.
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to recommend today a pause in the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on those under the age of 55 because of safety concerns, sources tell CBC News.
Hi friends! Happy Monday! How was the weekend? I hope you had a great one. It was a girls’ weekend over here since the Pilot was finishing up a 6-day trip. We had pizza and movie night (Yes Day was super cute), P had a soccer game, BarreU started (!),
I organized our mess of a pantry,
we made this awesome rainbow cake,
and when the Pilot got home on Sunday evening, the fam was here for dinner! Madre, nana, Trevor, Paul, and Nova (Trev’s sweet baby husky puppy) all came over to grill.
Madre grilled a ton of steak and chicken sausages, and I made French fries, maple roasted Brussels sprouts, and we also snacked on brownies, chips, hummus and veggies, and the above rainbow cake. She also brought salsa and tortillas to make tacos with the steak. We enjoyed dinner chatting in the backyard while the girls had a dance party, and then brought out the jumping castle at the end of the night. It was the perfect way to cap off the weekend and I’m feeling refreshed for the week ahead.
I can’t even believe that Easter is next weekend! I feel like the past year has taken forever but also gone by in a blur. It was just LAST Easter and here we are again. If you don’t have your menu planned yet, definitely add Nana’s famous egg casserole to the mix! It’s the best ever.
I’ve kind of been slacking on the preparation front this year and haven’t planned too much. I’d love to hear about your fave Easter basket stuffers!
We always do new sandals and swimsuits (they’re getting these Birks and these suits this year), and I’ll add a couple of small toys and their favorite candies.
(We’re all on team Peeps over here.)
Some more ideas:
– These name bracelets (I got the girls these for Christmas and they’re adorable.)
– Bubbles
– Sidewalk chalk
– Little dolls or Legos
– LOLs (why do these love these so much?!)
Any fun Easter basket ideas? Any spring traditions you like to do with your fam? Anyone else feeling the spring cleaning bug? I feel like I finally have a chance to empty out the closets and organize ALL THE THINGS.
I hope you have a happy Monday and I’ll see ya in the am with a new workout!
xo
Gina
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Ontario reported another 2,094 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, as the number of vaccine doses given out in the province surpassed two million.
A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is "extremely unlikely," according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.
Most long-term care residents have now been vaccinated, prompting BC to announce looser restrictions on visitors. But in Ontario, residents are still starving for human connection — and they’re calling for changes.
Mary McVeetors, a paralegal in Edmonton's Assiff Law Office, started the journey to donating her kidney with the simple idea that she wanted to help someone in need.
Stricter public health measures come into force in two Ontario regions today as the province continues ramping up its vaccine drive.
