“5 Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Dramatically Improve One’s Wellbeing”, With Sara Hodson of the LIVE WELL Exercise Clinic (Originally published on Medium) Make a date with exercise The most successful thing you can do is simply add exercise to your calendar. The moment you add it to your calendar and book time for yourself the same way you would do an appointment, the more l...

LIVE WELL FOUNDING MEMBER REFLECTS ON HIS JOURNEY AT LIVE WELL The bells rang and the room was full of beaming smiles as White Rock LIVE WELL founding member Sam Sarophm celebrated his 1000th workout, with former employees coming home to honor his incredible accomplishment. Sam was the third member to walk in the door in 2011, and has been coming to his bi-weekly exercise ...

It is becoming more likely you will have a person with diabetes in your studio, fitness class, or as a personal training client. In fact, Diabetes Canada recently reported that 640 Canadians are diagnosed with Diabetes each day – one person every six minutes. It is National Diabetes Awareness month and as fitness professionals we need to be educated and informed about the c...

For Barry, exercise is the gift of life. The retired teacher had his first heart attack 20 years ago. The second came only a week later. He then had a third heart attack eight and a half years ago. THAT GOT MY ATTENTION “The third heart attack got my attention, and I retired from my 33-year career in education,” says Barry, who was not only a teacher and reading specialis...