View the Original Article Here The best CrossFit gyms in Toronto offer intense training sessions, heavy lifting to challenge your strength and endurance and a variety of gruelling exercises to whip you into shape. Once a niche offering, CrossFit is now mainstream with gyms in neighbourhoods across the city. Here are the best CrossFit …

  View the Original Article Here Image: Instagram/@flyqueenwest Looking to get fit but hate the gym? Intention is one thing, execution is another and it’s especially difficult when the treadmill and free weights send you into a lazy stupor. Lucky for you, we’ve rounded up the top 10 unique workouts in Toronto so you can actually have fun while …

New fitness clubs in Toronto range from Crossfit studios to fancy boutique gyms but if there’s one trend from the past 12 months it’s that Toronto continues to see an influx of US and international chains cross the border to compete with local upstarts aiming to prove they know the local market best. Here are …

If you enjoy weight training in an intense and competitive – yet friendly – atmosphere, then CrossFit could be for you. There are gyms across the country, and I tried two classes: One with my up-for-anything dad (age 70), at CrossFit Plateau in Montreal, and another with my friend and fellow trainer, Tara, at the …

With the new year here, gyms will be flooded with new exercisers. Crossfit, yoga and other experts share what annoys them. Yoga instructor YuMee Chung teaches her class a move at the Octopus Garden Holistic Yoga Centre. (NICK KOZAK / FOR THE TORONTO STAR) To that person who hovers around the squat rack waiting to …

I do not like new things and change. I do not like them. I find them strange. I do not like change thrust on me. Of happenstance or collaterally. I do not like change with a ball, or with big weights or climbing wall. I think you can see where this is going. I’d be …

Location and range of services gives new Yorkville CrossFit gym a competitive edge During meetings related to his other ventures, Dr. Sheldon Levy can look past his business-attired clients and their drab PowerPoints, through a glass wall, and see the rig for his latest project, CrossFit YKV. This bright, 6,000-square-foot gym spreads over three levels, …

  View the Original Article Here Our correspondents in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax tried more than 25 new workouts across the country to bring you the definitive list of the best new ways to break a sweat this summer. Ania Boniecka, Gracie Carroll, Caitlin Kenny, Gabrielle Lacasse, Nicolina Leone, Cara McLeay and …

  The cult-favourite workout that you might just have to try by Bianca Teixeira Living May 31, 2016 As much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, no one can avoid the fact that summer is approaching and with it comes sunny days filled with bikinis, short shorts and topless tanning (just …

  View the Original Article Here Just the idea of Crossfit makes us feel shaky in the knees but a new gym in Yorkville may make Crossfitters out of us yet. Besides state-of-the-art equipment, a robust schedule of classes and its convenient bright and airy location (just a quick walk from Yonge and Bloor), the …