THE CHALLENGE: The La Cloche Silhouette Trail is an epic 78 km backpacking trail in Killarney Provincial Park that runs through the 2.3 billion-year-old La Cloche Mountain range. At one time its peaks were taller than the Rocky Mountains. Years of erosion from wind, water, and frosts have caused these once massive cliffs to transform […]
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Banana Protein Muffins Prep time: 5 mins Bake time: 12-15 mins https://vimeo.com/450489972 Ingredients 2 large, ripe bananas 1 egg 4 tablespoons maple syrup 3 tablespoons coconut oil 3/4 cup almond flour 1/2 cup protein powder 1/2 cup nut butter 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips or blueberries (optional) STEPS: Preheat oven to 350 Mash bananas Add ‘wet ingredients’ Add dry ingredients Pour into lined muffin
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Men and women have roughly the same core body temperature (37C), so why are my hands and feet freezing while I am burning up and my partner is lying in bed comfortably? If we really are all the same temperature on the inside, why does dual zone climate control even exist? Popsicle toes explained: Our
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“Your recovery time should be proportional to your training intensity level.” In the strength and conditioning world, it has been long understood that the warm-up and cool down is essential for optimal performance and recovery. In the athletic world, you will quickly realize that warm-ups and cool-downs all look different. Some people warm-up for 5
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Cauliflower ‘Hot Wings’ Prep time: 5 mins Grill time: 20 mins Why should you try these instead of regular hot wings? 1- Because they taste BOMB! 2-Eating less meat and more healthy plant-based foods can help reduce the incidence of chronic preventable diseases, 3- It’s good for the planet. Eating less meat, helps preserve precious
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Grilled Peaches Prep time: 5 mins Grill time: 5 mins China is getting a bad rep as the birthplace of the novel Covid-19 virus. You know what else originated in China? Peaches. The peach is the most widely grown stone fruit. It is native to China and was introduced to Europe 2,000 years ago. In Canada,
We hear a lot of different excuses for why things don’t get done. For me, I often hear excuses for why someone didn’t follow my exercise recommendations. By definition, an excuse is “something offered as justification or grounds for being excused; an expression of regret for failure to do something; a note of explanation of
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‘No’ is the new ‘Yes’. Time to identify your priority and respond “F**K YEAH” or “THANKS, BUT…” to any request. When it comes to reasons why we don’t get sh*t done, we are really good at ‘rationalizing’ a.k.a. making excuses. (read Mitch’s blog about the worst excuse of all time) “I lost track of time”, “The day
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MB CHOICES : 10 BOOKS THAT WILL MAKE YOU THINK BETTER. It wasn’t easy but we chose 10 of our favorite books to recommend that helped us build a better mindset. The below books all have incredibly powerful, and transformational insights into human high performance. They are listed in no particular order. If you
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If you don’t use it, you lose it – and we’ve been losing it for thousands of years. Yuval Harari, historian, professor, and author explains how we got to where we are today in the New York Times best-seller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind” . About 2 million years ago, there were prehistoric