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Last week I made this huge giant salad. I used spinach as the base, with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from our garden and then I put some olives cashews, hemp and chia seeds to top it all off with some balsamic vinaigrette. Of course, what I intended to be a modest lunch salad quickly turned into a giant beast of a salad, but I felt up to the challenge and started eating it with the intent of finishing the whole thing, but halfway through my son Cooper started to cry and I had to take an intermission from my salad to change his not so clean diaper, which took somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes. But here's the interesting thing that happened, when I sat down to finish my salad I was no longer hungry and instead of finishing it off like I would have in the past I put it in a container and ate it a couple of hours later when I was hungry again.

I don’t know if something like this has ever happened to you before where you’re famished at the start of a meal and get interrupted part way through only to realize when you come back to it that you’re not actually hungry anymore and you don’t need to finish all the food you prepared yourself. But it got me thinking about something, how often does the opposite happen, where you’re hungry, so you ram a bunch of food into you as fast as you can only to feel not only full, but stuffed 20 minutes or so after you finish your meal, I think for most people this secondary scenario is much more common. I know when I was a teenager I fell into this category, because when I came home from school almost everyday I would devour an entire box of crackers as a snack, but then be so full after I would unable to move or do anything productive, until dinner time when I would eat again.

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If you’re new to the show welcome, if you’ve been listening for a while thanks for coming back we appreciate that you’ve taken time out of your busy day to listen and hope that in return you get some valuable information and some things that you can apply into your everyday life to be the healthiest and most active version of yourself.

One of our trainer’s Richard just started working with a new client and after their first session she came on our facebook page and posted this and I quote:

Thank you Richard, a bit of torture today but I feel great

A client I used to work with that was trying to lose weight, would eat a bag of potato chips everyday in the afternoon for a snack, not a little bag, a big bag and after months of trying different strategies to get her to not stop, but just eat less or a smaller bag, I finally asked her why she needed to eat potato chips everyday and her response was - Because I don’t want to suffer and to me not eating chips is suffering.

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As some of you know I played hockey while I was growing up and continued to play men’s league or beer league hockey until a few years ago when I had to give it up, because the games are too late and I’ve been devoting most of my time to growing Fitness For Freedom and my family. Playing late night hockey was starting to wear me down and burn me out. So I hadn’t played for a few years when I recently got the call to fill in, ‘Hey, Jonny we have an 8:30 game this Thursday, you think you could make it?’ to which I responded, ‘Gordo, that is the only day and time that is even possible, so I’ll do it.’

It was only a couple days away which didn’t give me much time to train, if you’ve ever played hockey after an extended absence you know that it doesn’t matter how many leg exercises you do, hockey makes your legs a different kind of sore no matter what and my Friday morning squash game was already feeling it. So on the Wednesday night instead of doing a race pace run on a flat surface like I usually do, I ran to the quarry by my house and did interval wind sprints up and down the hill, 10 times at which point I almost vomited and decided to call it a night. The next day when I hit the ice I felt like a million bucks, I could skate well and my legs were only mildly sore at the end of the game, which for me is unheard of after such a long time off, and I attribute it to the hills I ran the day before and it also got me thinking. Hardly anyone does hill training which is unfortunate because there are so many benefits than just not being sore after your hockey game the next day, so day we have the Top 3 reasons everybody she incorporate hills into their training program no matter what.

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Tracy - Outside of weighing myself, what are some good ways for me to measure my improvement? I’m not worried about weight exactly, I just want to feel healthy. How can that be measured?

Yasmin - I don’t like restricting my food but I know I don’t eat great. Is it possible to exercise enough that my diet doesn’t matter?

Dan - For someone just recently getting into strength training, what should an exercise set look like? Specifically how many exercises should I do in a set and what are some good ones to target everything?

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Your Glute muscle is one of the biggest most powerful muscles in your body, well hopefully it's one of the biggest and most powerful muscles in your body, because sometimes you can’t see where someone's back ends and legs begin, because they are flat into each other and this is unfortunate for a few reason.

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