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Well, it’s official: I’ve completed my six weeks of training with Equinox Tier-3+ trainer, Roy Chan, and damn, what a ride it was. ICYMI, a lot went down. I started training with the intention to learn proper form and avoid injury only to suffer from another injury leaving me feeling discouraged and convinced I wasn’t going to achieve […]

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Welcome to February, everyone. Finally. For some reason, January felt like the longest month ever. Add injury to that, and well, it just seemed to drag on even more… Okay okay done with the January jokes A post shared by Betches (@betches) on Feb 1, 2018 at 7:09pm PST What injury you may ask? Well, if […]

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Okay guys, I’ve made it to week four of my training series with Equinox Tier-3+ trainer Roy Chan, and let me tell you, this was the roughest week of all. But for those of you who are new here (welcome!) and don’t know what the heck I’m talking about, here’s the TL;DR version: after suffering […]

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Hello, friends. You’ve made it to the third instalment of my “Training After Injury: The Road to Rehabilitation” series. To recap: after suffering from a neck injury (and nursing it back to health, thanks to my physiotherapist), I’ve become very cautious of how I exercise, to avoid any future injuries. Equinox hooked me up with […]

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Welcome back, friends. You made it to the next instalment of my “Training After Injury: The Road to Rehabilitation” diary. If you’re new here and have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, you can see my first post here. The TL;DR version? I suffered a neck injury back in 2016, have an SI joint that […]

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A couple of years ago, I suffered from a pretty bad neck injury. It was during All Star Weekend 2016 in Toronto, which, you may recall, was one of the coldest weekends that winter. I was walking down the street when all of a sudden my neck locked on the left side. I felt pain […]

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Last fall I was offered the chance to work out with a Tier-3 (read: top level) personal trainer at Toronto’s Equinox Bay Street. To some, this might sound torturous, but for a health editor and fitness fanatic, it’s the fitness equivalent of a spa day. (The change rooms feature private showers with Kiehl’s products, a […]

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A few weeks ago we had the chance to do a Beyoncé-themed workout at Equinox Toronto, and, like any opportunity that involves Queen Bey, it was a no brainer to give it a try. The class, led by Nike athlete Eva Redpath, was a special version of Equinox’s very popular Barre Burn workout. Barre Burn is a ballet-inspired full body workout that seems easy at first, but quickly melts into a core-strengthening sweat session. So the all-Beyoncé soundtrack makes sense: You’ll definitely leave the class feeling confident enough to star in your own “Partition” video remake.