6 Helpful Tips to Help Prevent Dehydration during Summer Workouts Lorraine Pelley July 8, 2018 Featured, Health 852 The scorching summer heat has increased the risk of dehydration and other heat related conditions for citizens unable to escape the extreme weather. Even early morning, a typically prime time for avid Masters ...
Mental Health and the Masters Athlete Lorraine Pelley May 31, 2018 Featured, Health 1083 By Lorraine Pelley As the Winnipeg Jets weave their way through the NHL playoffs with game scores as unpredictable as the weather, fans near and far are riding a rollercoaster of emotion with every game and ev...
Preventing Your Knees from Mastering Your Athletics Lorraine Pelley March 19, 2018 Featured, Health 808 By Lorraine Pelley Common Knee Injuries in Older Athletes and How to Protect Them If you have ever suffered a knee injury, you will know just how frustrating it can be to have a crucial joint impair your ability to perform your favourite athletic sport. It...
Sports Psychology and the Masters’ Athlete Lorraine Pelley March 7, 2018 Featured, Health 987 By Lorraine Pelley If you are an Olympic Games fan, more specifically, an Olympics ice skating fan, then you are probably like me and thousands of other people who became instant admirers of Canada’s super cou...
Cardiovascular Disease and the Masters Athlete Lorraine Pelley February 17, 2018 Featured, Health, News 639 By Lorraine Pelley Now that we have finished celebrating the annual heart day, during the heart month, it seems only fitting that I write a blog about what else – the heart. February is Heart month in Canada a...
Top Fitness Trends Then and Now Lorraine Pelley February 9, 2018 Featured, Health 673 By Lorraine Pelley Now that it’s February, we have all had time to settle comfortably into the New Year. Winter is already half over and everyone is either going full swing with their fitness schedules or starting to wane from their New Year’s resolutions. ...
When It Comes to Attitudes in Aging and Fitness, Baby We’ve Come a Long Way Lorraine Pelley February 2, 2018 Featured, Health, Sports 1047 By Lorraine Pelley Watching old television reruns from the 1970s and 1980s, it is almost comical to hear past perceptions on age. In many of the once popular sitcoms, anyone over the age of 30 was considered o...
Should we hang up our skates? sports-masters December 16, 2017 Health, Hockey 691 In the wake of Alan Thicke’s recent death from a heart attack, a cardiologist says there's no right age for someone to hang up their skates. The Canadian actor died December 13 in Los Angeles at the age of 6...
Hidden Secret to Losing Back Fat Deanna Hansen December 7, 2017 Contributors, Deanna Hansen, Health 1025 ...
Why Diaphragmatic breathing feeds the body up to 600% more oxygen. Deanna Hansen November 19, 2017 Contributors, Deanna Hansen, Health 1558 How is it possible that breathing consciously can feed the body with up to 600% more oxygen? It sounds a little ridiculous because the thought of pulling in that much more air into the lungs seems impossible...
