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Beauty

Fitness bonanza: Our assistant fashion ed hits the exercise buffet

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I read somewhere that a woman’s mental age is often much younger than her chronological age, and that no matter how many years go by it’s very possible for women to think and feel like they are still teenagers. This
mindset is all well and good when I’m acting out the “Like a Prayer” video at a pyjama party with my girlfriends, but when the mounds of popcorn, peanut M&Ms and chewy candy get passed around, and I have more than my fair share (because what kid doesn’t?), my body is screaming for me to grow the hell up!

Well guess what? Those screams are getting louder and louder these days and it’s getting hard to ignore them. The time has come to take action, so when my local gym studio, Get Spun (getspun.ca) challenged me to a one month fitness frenzy, taking everything that they offer from spin classes, to pilates, to TRX suspension training
and beyond, I eagerly signed on the dotted line.

The time has now come and I’m shaking in my brand new Burberry boots, but I’ll be damned if I can’t rock this season’s super slim legging pants so stay tuned as I keep you up to date on my progress, week by painstaking week.

Check back every Friday for a new entry in assistant fashion editor Jordan Porter’s fitness diary.


Beauty

The Wii Sports Resort collection

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jul09wiiresortAfter the most dismal start to summer in recent memory, Wii Sports Resort ($60) has come just in time to remind us what it’s like to have fun in the sun. Read more »


Beauty

Dance boot camp: Week three

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Beauty director Adriana Ermter tests the Core Rhythms (corerhythms.com) dance DVDs.

I’ve hit a new level: I can actually perform 30 minutes of Latin dance moves without having to press pause and repeat. It’s a miracle and a head rush all at the same time. So while I only achieved three out of my five intended workouts, the fact that I am no longer wiping the living room floor with my butt is a massive achievement. Read more »


Beauty

Dance boot camp: Week two

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Beauty director Adriana Ermter tests the Core Rhythms dance DVDs.

I feel hungover. I’m not, but working up a sweat while attempting to contort my body into unnatural dance positions within five seconds of ripping myself out of bed is disgusting. I’m not fully awake, I haven’t had my three-cup caffeine infusion, the Globe lies unread at my door, it’s 6:30 in the morning… it’s inhumane.

But I think I love it. Read more »


Beauty

Dance boot camp: Week one

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In my mind, I’m a dancer: My lithe, lean body leaping, pirouetting and chasséing to and from the office, the grocery store, Sunday brunch…

In reality, I’m a beauty director: Sitting on my ass 24/7 be it on a Euro-bound plane or in front of a computer screen. But I covet the art of dance the same way an eight-year-old girl craves cupcakes covered in sprinkles. To be able to make my body⎯the one that trips when walking in flip flops and routinely bangs into my desk, the wall and occasionally my colleagues at work⎯swivel, twirl and undulate anytime I want and look amazing doing it? I could swallow it whole.

Well aware of my not-so-secret desire (thanks to incessant chatter about So You Think You Can Dance), health editor Rani Sheen suggested I give the Core Rhythms (corerhythms.com) dance DVDs a try. Add a little Latin-influenced bump and grind to my current finger snapping, left-foot-right-foot-slide repertoire, and tighten my tushy and abs simultaneously? She didn’t have to ask me twice. Read more »


Beauty

Dance class revolution

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So you think you can tone? Dance is becoming the hottest new way to work it out. FASHION checks out the top classes across Canada.


Beauty

Boot camp diary: Week four

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Part four in a four-week series on beauty editor Lesa Hannah’s experience at Best Body Bootcamp (bestbodybootcamp.com).

Monday: Never before has the desire to sleep in been stronger than it is this morning. It must be the result of my True Blood hangover. I consider bailing for a moment, but then fight through my sloth and go. To work our lower bodies, we do duck walks—squatting while taking 10 steps forward and then back. Reps of side lunges and squatting while jumping are broken up with jog-sprint-walk laps around the park and bursts of suicide laps. I imagine that my belly is being blasted of excess as I muster all my energy to tear through the grass. At the office, I flip the bird to the now-broken-for-a-month-elevator as I head for the stairs. Read more »


FASHION Reporters

Calgary: Strike a (yoga) pose in Cocymela

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Blue top, $50; Orange tank, $35; shorts, $40, all by Cocymela. Chris Schoenne Photography

Yoga fashion is a bit of an oxymoron. It seems so ridiculous to be concerned about outer appearance while working on inner change and enlightenment, doesn’t it?  Classes are meant to be serene pools of space and time where students can relax into the present, but this is easier said than done when your pants are riding where the sun don’t shine during a salutation. Read more »


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