Ep. 177: Summer Weekend Wellness
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If you’re anything like us, you’ve been waiting for the sunny days of summer. Between all the plans and trips you might have in store, it can be easy to let your healthy habits and routines fall by the wayside. So how can you optimize your wellness while you’re away? Join fitness managers Anna Topali and Tyler Kerr and their fitness team leads to find out. They provide tips and tricks to help you turn your weekend trip from a wellness challenge to a healthy cross-training opportunity, and come back to the city feeling as great as you did when you left.
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You can get expert, personalized guidance from a trainer or book a personal training session by emailing fitness@medcan.com.
This article in Nature explains how working out outside is potentially more beneficial for memory, focus and cognition than working out inside.
Learn more about the Muskoka location opening this summer.
Benefits of Water-Based Exercise by Dr. Andrew Miners
The Importance of Keeping A Routine During Stressful Times in Very Well Mind
INSIGHTS
05:19 Why is it important to keep a fitness routine, and what happens to your body when your routine stops?
07:15 Swimming is one of the best ways to exercise at the cottage. Hear about the benefits you get from swimming, and how to easily incorporate it into your day.
09:26 Trainer Simon Lim explains why swimming is a great de-loading technique, and why it’s important to be aware of your surroundings in the water.
10:59 How to maximize your workout with bodyweight exercises.
13:28 Trainer Steph Tzemis creates a quick cottage circuit that you can do with just the dock and your body.
15:41 The benefits of walking in nature, and how to increase your intensity while you walk.
17:49 Trainer Kurt Morrison explains how a round of golf is great for short bursts of exercise and for walking more than 10,000 steps.
19:15 The trainers come up with fun and unique activities to try at the cottage, like spike ball, paddleboarding or a cold plunge.
21:28 If you don’t get a chance to exercise at the cottage, it could take you a few days or more to bounce back. What’s the best way to get back on track?
23:59 Learn why trainer Simon helps his clients train a little harder right before they go away.
from left to right: Anna Topali, Tyler Kerr, Erol Ivanov, Stephanie Tzemis, Kurt Morrison, Simon Lim
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