Locally Owned and Operated..Celebrating Issue No.122 Hello Spring!
Springtime...Time To Get Fit
Get fit this Spring with the Beach Chiropractic Running Club. The 12 week 10K clinic starts Wednesday, March 30th. The 10 week ‘Learn to Run’ program starts Wednesday, April 13th. No running experience required; join a group of like minded positive people for a fun and inspiring program. For more information visit www.beachchiropractic.ca , call 705-429-0-911 or drop by their office at 1344 Mosley Street. – Dr. Sarah Adams Beach Chiropractic & Wellness Centre 1344 Mosley St. Unit #5 Wasaga Beach, ON 705-429-0-911
Wasaga Beach Beach BOOSTER Promotions Wasaga Beach Lions Club Bingo every Friday evening. Up to $5000 in prizes..New!!$1500 Jackpot Game. RecPlex Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Contact: Wasaga Beach Lions Club at 705-429-3331 Wasaga Beach Toastmasters meet every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Wasaga Beach Public Library. For more information call 429-6416 or 429-5464. March 23 - Cork & Canvas Location: Wild Wings Restaurant, 321 Main Street. Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. There is an instructor that will do demonstrations on how to paint a tropical painting, then you paint your own. Two More Classes. Pre-register at Wild Wing. Cost: $20.00 to reserve your seat. Must pay by March 6th. Limited space- register early. Last two classes were sold out. For more information contact Wild Wing at 705-429-8400 March 23 - Local Employers Job Fair - Hosted by Career Solutions Location: Career Solutions, 1288 Mosley Street, Wasaga Beach. Time: 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Join us at Career Solutions prior to the day and register. Bring: Resume, Cover Letter, Sin Card or Proof of, References, Dress to impress. Check us out at www.careersolutions.ca March 26 - Easter Eggstravaganza Location: Oakview Woods/RecPlex, 1724 Mosley Street. Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Celebrate Easter with the Easter Bunny, an Easter Egg Hunt, Community BBQ and more fun for everyone! *Some fees may apply*. For more information call 705-422-2494 March 31 - Business After 5 Location: Imagine Jewellery Ltd., 1256 Mosley Street, Unit 5. Time: 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Networking, auction prizes, delicious food and great people! Everyone is welcome! There is no charge to attend and membership is not required. We look forward to seeing you there! For more information contact: Cathy Holland-Hendry, Business After 5 Coordinator and WBWBA - 705-429-1112, cathysflowers@rogers.com / Trudie McCrea, Office Manager, Chamber of Commerce - 705-429-2247 April 1 - April Fool's Youth Dance Location: Wasaga RecPlex, 1724 Mosley Street. Tickets: $5.00 in advance. Grades 5-8 only! Time: 7 p.m. - 9 pm. Tickets are available at the Recreation office in the RecPlex 705-429-3321, Chamber of Commerce, 550 River Rd. West - 705-429-2247 and the Youth Centre, 1621 Mosley Street - 705-422-2494 April 9, 10 - 23rd Annual Wasaga Beach Home and Garden Show Location: Wasaga RecPlex/Oakview Centre, 1724 Mosley Street. Time: Sat. - 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sun - 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission: Adults: $2.00 (Children under 12 free). All proceeds go to community projects. Free Draws, Door Prizes, Snack Bar, Children's Activities and more... Many new exhibitors, Home Renovations, Decorating and Landscaping. Presented by the Wasaga Beach Lions Club. For more information call the Lions Club at 705-429-3331
Leadership Styles for Dealing with Difficult People Could you improve your listening? By Rachel Sheehan. Managing Director at Slalom Consulting in Atlanta, Georgia.
So we talked a little bit about difficult people or challenging situations. There’s another scenario that we often encounter where trying to walk in from a place of empathy, where you’re truly putting yourself in the other person’s position and understanding their feelings and their beliefs more so than their behaviors. So understanding people’s feelings is a better indicator in terms of why there might be challenges because we can dive into beliefs that drive behaviors. And once we really understand the beliefs that are occurring, then you actually can start to change behavior as a result. So being in that empathetic stance, I’m really looking to dive into, again, feeling something that you do not oftentimes hear in workplace conversations. “I hear that you’re feeling frustrated,” or, “I hear that you might be feeling a little scared or a little intimidated by this challenge. Tell me more about that.” As I approach these discussions, I try to find a very empathetic and passionate position for myself as well as for the people who I’m engaged with. So as we start to understand the passions of those who are involved, I think it helps for me to be vulnerable and to be very empathetic and to share things about myself, my feelings so that people are able to open up and also be vulnerable along with me. So it’s not me expecting them to be vulnerable and I’m happy to set the example and start there so that we both come from a place of vulnerability and openness. I find taking that first step is usually a great way for helping people to step into a more open and a more sharing situation and, again, we like to talk about feelings because I think once you start to speak about feelings versus oftentimes you’ll have conversations where there’s a lot of business terminology or jargon, you can’t really tell what’s behind that and what the motivator’s really are. So I try to lose all that as I’m in very authentic conversations with people. A colleague once said, “Rachel, you can turn a three-minute conversation into a counseling session.” And I found that an interesting piece of feedback to have because all I really do is try to listen and I do ask a lot of questions. And questions, again, around feelings which . . . it’s interesting to see people’s reactions often times when you’re asking those kinds of questions. It sometimes takes people aback and takes them a minute to really think about how they actually feel because they’re so busy thinking about the work or the task or the process and not really about the feelings that are involved in the work that they are doing.
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Mustard Crusted Pickerel with Wilted Spinach
Wednesday's you can often find me, or one of my fellow chefs in the community room at the Superstore in Wasaga Beach preparing "what's for dinner" It’s one, fun filled hour from 11 AM until noon where you can ask questions and see a wide variety of foods being prepared and cooked. The $10 cost for lunch,recipes and demo is offset with a $10 gift certificate that can be used to shop anywhere in the store. One of the dishes we cooked and served up recently was a mustard crusted Georgian bay Pickerel with wilted greens. Pickerel is one of the many gems found in Georgian Bay renowned for its clean white flesh, mild sweet flavour and small flake. The mustard and lemon work well with the natural sweetness of the fish, and the wilted Spinach compliments the presentation and provides a bit of crunch. 4 Fresh water Pickerel Fillets (about 6 oz each) 1 tbsp dijon mustard 4 tsp lemon juice 2 tsp olive oil ½ tsp fresh thyme 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 4 tsp finely chopped garlic 12 oz spinach 2 tsp roasted sunflower or pumpkin seeds 1 tbsp finely chopped green onions Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a bake sheet with tinfoil. Cut the pickerel into approximately 6 oz portions and pat dry with a paper towel. Place skin side down on the tinfoil. Stir together the mustard, 1 tsp of the lemon juice and 1/2 the oil, the thyme and 1/2 the pepper in a bowl. Spread moisture over the surface of the fillets with a pastry brush, Bake in the center of the oven for about 10 minutes . Turn the oven to broil and cook until the fish is golden and flakes easily when prodded with a fork. Meanwhile, heat remaining tsp of oil in a frying pan over medium high heat and cook the garlic and remaining tsp of pepper 1 or 2 minutes, stirring constantly until garlic is tender. Stir in the Spinach and 1 tsp of the lemon juice and cook stirring until just barely wilted. Transfer to serving plates and top with the pickerel and sprinkle with sunflower seeds, onions and parsley.
More Excitement To The Beach this Summer! Skydive Wasaga Beach at The Main Beach Area
Les Farkas and Melanie Case are excited about operating their new business this summer in The Beach and it is sure to add to the fun at our Main Beach area this summer. Les and Melanie are married and are both active skydivers. Now calling Wasaga Beach home with a baby on the way, they are eager to share their love of skydiving with the many who are eager to try this sport, whether to fulfill a lifelong dream, complete a “bucket list”, celebrating a milestone in life or simply take in the thrill and the views it affords. Wasaga Beach Skydiving is an affiliate of internationally recognized Skydive Toronto, bringing with it a 40 year safety record and once operating over our shoreline, will be the only “Beach Drop Zone” in Canada! The drop zone will be located in the Beach Area Two area, although the exact location has yet to be determined. Wasaga Beach Skydiving will be offering Tandem jumps only, meaning every jumper will be attached to a highly experienced tandem instructor. Customers will be picked up at the beach location and taken to Edenvale Aerodrome, where their adventure of a lifetime will begin, offering amazing views and an experience to make their visit to Wasaga Beach something extra special. Les and Melanie are eager to share the thrills and excitement of Skydiving with residents and visitors to Wasaga Beach and look forward to working with other local businesses as we continue to bring good things to Wasaga Beach! For more information on Wasaga Beach Skydiving, look for them on Facebook or call 416-509-1301. Beach BOOSTER Group welcomes Wasaga Beach Skydiving to Wasaga Beach! Joe Bickerstaff
Crime Stoppers In The Beach
The Wasaga Beach Crime Stoppers Committee was set up at Foodland Wasaga Beach last weekend to show off the great prize for their fund raising draw to be held in June. A chance to win the Pedego City Commuter Electric Bike (retail value $3,500.00) is only $5.00 per ticket (only 1,600 tickets printed) and all the proceeds go the help our local Crime Stoppers Committee continue their great work in Wasaga Beach. Tickets can be purchased at upcoming special events or by calling 705-441-6575. Local Crime Stoppers impressive 2015 results include 160+ arrests, 500+ criminal charges, 2,700+ tips and $2.8 million illicit drugs & property recovered! Beach BOOSTER Photo by Joe Bickerstaff: (L-R) Wasaga Beach Crime Stoppers volunteers Chris Lee, Susan Barker, Glen Bailey with supporters Colleen Hough, Mike Dopp of Wasaga Beach Foodland, Bill Frieday and Victor Miller of Beach BOOSTER Group.
Exotic Dancer Mommy Dear Mrs Jones I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture does not show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home depot. From now on I will remember to check her homework.
Barrie Central Metamorphosing into School of the Arts Barrie Central Collegiate epoch is metamorphosing into Central School of the Arts. Spearheaded by Damian Spaulding, founder and visionary of the Spaulding School of Music, who shared this exclusive news with beachBOOSTER radio. Beach Corner was privy to a round table meeting back in February where I had the opportunity to hear first hand as to the vision and goals of this transformation with the committee members (current standing of 50 individuals) all of whom are bringing their own expertise to this initiative. Spaulding School of Music has been steadily doubling over the years and according to Damian it's the next logical steps after the extraordinary success found within the Spaulding School of the Arts. “Central Collegiate is closing this year. We are now in a position to purchase Central by pulling the community of Central Collegiate into Central School of the Arts engaging Kindergarten to grade 12. Teaching all areas such as math, science geography right down to dance and music but from an artistic perspective,” said Damian Spaulding, founder and visionary of Spaulding School of Music. Damian is known as the man behind the method. He is a professional studio musician, live stage artist and music teacher. In the last 20-years, Damian perfected a method of learning music by ear recognized as the “Spaulding Method” that is now being standardized and taught worldwide. It all started with a rumour, the Barrie Spaulding School of Music studio is located at 80 Bradford Street beside Central Collegiate where they shared a parking lot. Damian was dreaming of creating a full bloom profile education from K-12. “I struggled through grade school and high school although I got the grades but often found myself being bored in class. They weren't working at the right pace and they weren't giving me the materials in which I would enjoy. By the time I would self teach myself. I am a self taught musician, entrepreneur, programmer and through this history build the largest school in Central Ontario”, said Spaulding. This will be a private school allowing the most leverage and dynamic fluid in their vision as well as making it affordable for anyone. “Very competitive easy to budget at the same time working with different philanthropists, individuals in the area in sponsoring children.” The building holds an auditorium of a capacity of 1,000 people. Damian plans to open the auditorium for productions at a lower price making it affordable for the majority of individuals showcasing their plays. His vision is not limited to an Arts Centre but a complete Community Centre. The team has a few months to raise the funds to secure the asset by June with renovations starting in July/August and ready to open the doors by September 2016. As far as transportation they are doing their best sorting out the buses to accommodate approximately 1,000 students pulling from the region along with Wasaga Beach, Collingwood, Barrie and abroad. For more information please visit centralarts.ca. Dianna Chycki is host of Beach Corner and Co-chair of the Wasaga Film Festival. Beach Corner now available on podcast with a new weekly show anytime from our new beachBOOSTER radio podcast page. Simply click the podcast button from our Home page to enjoy our unique and local programming. Beach Corner sponsored by Exchanging Vows Bridal Boutique.
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RESOLVED THAT Council does hereby declare the month of April 2016 as “Film Festival Month” in the Town of Wasaga Beach. Well friends it’s official. Now it’s up to you to make our film festival a motor for our local economy and support it as one of our building blocks towards building a Wasaga Beach Cultural Centre. Here’s how many hands make light work. For every “Friends of the Festival” ticket you purchase for $50.00 you not only receive a pass for two to attend every Public View and Vote that is scheduled in the Month of April, you lend a friendly helping hand to grow the Wasaga Film Festival making it more and more successful. This helps the festival provide more entertainment and feature more acts that we can enjoy every year as we attract more and more visitors to our town and make our community more viable to attract outside grants and funding. As the Wasaga Film festival grows alongside sister festivals like the Georgian Triangle Music Festival, the Wasaga Beach Blues Festival, The Wasaga Beach Palaver International Literary Festival and others, we strengthen our community business case to build a Wasaga Beach Cultural Centre and re-invigorate the Wasaga Beach brand. We will continue to build recognition for Wasaga Beach as a place for exciting family and fun experiences known for good food, good getaways, reflection, good fun and great attractions while being recognized as a leading community in South Georgian Bay in which to live and work and play. As of Wednesday March 16, 2016 our Gala tickets and “Friends of the Festival” tickets officially go on sale. They will be available to purchase at the Wasaga Beach Chamber of Commerce on 550 River Road West in Wasaga Beach. The tickets for the Red Carpet Gala Awards are $25.00 each. You’ll meet Bobby Curtola, wear your glamour best
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Bobby Curtola Canada’s Rock & Roll Legend Coming to The Beach! The Wasaga Film Festival is very excited to announce that Canada’s own Rock & Roll Legend will be attending this year’s festival as a presenter and will perform at the Red Carpet Gala on April 30, 2016 at the Wasaga Beach RecPlex. Bobby Curtola is presented by Wasaga Beach Brewing Company With over 25 Gold Single Records and the massive success of his signature song “Fortune Teller” that sold 2.5 million records worldwide, Bobby Curtola is still performing for his loyal fans at sold out concerts. Mr. Curtola will also be a Special Guest at the intimate, invitation only Wasaga Film Festival Pre-Party for presenters, artists, sponsors and other VIPs. Special thanks to Wasaga Film Festival partners, the Wasaga Beach Brewing Company for arranging Bobby Curtola’s participation in this year’s festival. Beach BOOSTER Media Group is a proud sponsor of the 2016 Wasaga Film Festival. For more information please visit: www.wasagafilmfest.com Joe Bickerstaff
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duds, be entertained and have a few hors d’oeuvres, buy your favourite person a drink at the bar and take a fancy picture at our Red Carpet station to impress your friends on Facebook. This night is touted as one of Wasaga Beach’s finest evening’s to attend. The Red Carpet Gala Awards ceremonies will feature all of the category award winners and provide a celebration to remember. Tickets to each Public View and Vote Film Category Events will be also sold at the door at each event for $5 each. This year we have 82 films to feature. This is almost double the amount of films featured than last season. We are also featuring 22 business advertisement videos bringing the power of film and video to our Beach businesses this season. We expect this category to grow year over year making a splash on the internet featuring our businesses year round. We want to make this business advertisement video category a cause for local business celebration. This year, the Wasaga Film Festival as member of the national network created by Reel Canada for Canadian National Film Day, April 20th, 2016 will be featuring the work of Nate Lacroix a film maker from Midland, Ontario. The Wasaga Beach Waterside Retirement Lodge will be hosting this event for its second year as a valued sponsor to the Wasaga Film Festival. Your help can go a long way. Contact the writer at Gary@beachBOOSTER.com if you would like to volunteer and sell tickets. Here’s the Schedule: April 2nd, Doors open at 12:45 pm: Documentary Category Public View & Vote, at the Wasaga Public Library 120 Glenwood Drive, Wasaga Beach April 6th, Doors open at 6:00 pm: International Category Public View & Vote, at the Waterside Retirement Lodge, 239 Zoo Park Road, Wasaga Beach April 7th, Doors open at 6:00 pm: National Category Public View & Vote, at the Waterside Retirement Lodge, 239 Zoo Park Road, Wasaga Beach April 8th, Doors open at 6:00 pm: Youth Film Category Public View & Vote, at the Simcoe Street Theatre, 65 Simcoe Street, Collingwood April 9th, Doors open at 6:00 pm: Business Video Ad Category Public View & Vote, at Upstairs Stars Arena Hall, 425 River Rd W, Wasaga Beach April 16th, Doors open at 1:00 pm: Action and Sportscam Categories Public View & Vote, at the Wasaga Beach Paintball Adventure, 3600 Vigo Road, Elmvale April 20th, 2016 Doors open at 6 pm: National Canadian Film Day at the Waterside Retirement Lodge 239 Zoo Park Road, Wasaga Beach (Free Admission) April 23rd, Doors open at 6:00 pm: Music Video Category Public View & Vote, at the Wasaga Beach RecPlex, Oakview Room, 1724 Mosley Street, Wasaga Beach at 6:00 pm April 30th, Doors open at 6:00 pm: Red Carpet Gala Awards, at the Wasaga Beach RecPlex, Halls 1A & 1B, 1724 Mosley Street, Wasaga Beach at 6:00 “Be the Beach”, send me your thoughts and comments at Gary@beachBOOSTER.com. Your efforts count in making this community the preferred place in which to live, work and play. Gary is president of Critel Professional Services, www.critel.ca, chairs the Wasaga Society for the Arts and the Wasaga Film Festival. Gary also lives, works and plays in Wasaga Beach.
Tanya Snell Keynote Speaker at Lions Club Learning Weekend Tanya Snell of Wasaga Beach was a keynote speaker at Lions District A-12 Learning Weekend held in Barrie this past weekend. Tanya is pictured here with Lions District Governor Richard Ratensperger, who is also from Wasaga Beach. Tanya of whatsuphut.com spoke to the 130 Lions present offering ideas on how to market their clubs and club events. Her topic touched on ways to use Social Media effectively. She also stressed the importance of the printed brochures and postcards to get your message out.
One of the proposed conceptual drawings of the new Main Street Market Beer Garden, to be operated by the Wasaga Beach Brewing Company.
Summer of 2016! The Beach is BACK!
Residents and visitors to Wasaga Beach have been waiting for many years, to see much needed changes to our World Famous Main Beach area and Wasaga Beach’s once vibrant and active Historic Main Street. All of us at Beach BOOSTER are very excited to share just some of the exciting things that will be offered this summer! Beach BOOSTER Media Group will be giving updates in this local beach BOOSTER publication, on our popular social media sites and on truly local Beach BOOSTER Radio, as to the ongoing plans that will make residents proud to not only enjoy, but boast about with friends and family everywhere! The Main Street Market concept is moving forward with an official RFP out for construction of unique and distinctive “Kiosks” to bring fun and lively businesses back to Historic Main Street, a bleak and baron stretch of our Main Beach area since the destructive fire of 2007. Interest from existing local businesses and others for operation of the kiosks has been very encouraging. Council has approved the construction of a “tropical” looking beer garden to be a part of the fun of the Main Street Market. This open air patio will be operated by the Wasaga Beach Brewing Company who are in the process of brewing a unique and rewarding “Beach One Cerveza” , to be available late April. Approval has also been given for Live Entertainment to be a part of the experience and will hopefully be approved at the April 7th General Governance meeting. The Official Opening of the Main Street Market is planned for Canada Day Weekend! Many new businesses will be welcoming folks on Beach Drive this summer as there has been tremendous interest in the municipally owned buildings over looking our Main Beach. Previous tenants are looking forward to returning to enjoy the rejuvenated Main Beach area, including Burger King and Tim Hortons, as new comers will be added to the mix, including Beavertails being offered on the beach front! Keep watching for more Beach BOOSTER updates as we look forward to being a part of the excitement at our Main Beach area this summer!
Wasaga Beach Lions Club Presents 23rd Annual The former Miramar Motel (inset) on the Beach Front, commonly referred to as "The Blue Building", may finally see a new and exciting life! A proposal from local entrepreneur, Greg Buchanan of Junior's Pizza on Main Street, has been approved by town council. Greg hopes to move forward with a new and refreshing Food Court concept, filling the 6 units with unique offerings such as Pizza, Gourmet Hot Dogs, Subs & Pressed Sandwiches, Gourmet Fries, Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt and a Smoothie Bar with custom concoctions. A welcoming patio overlooking the Main Beach will complete this new exciting addition to our World Famous Main Beach.
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Original Capstan Inn opened in 1912, but was destroyed by fire in 1915 and replaced.
The Capstan Inn One of the first beach front hotels in Wasaga Beach was the Capstan Inn. Sarah Ann and John McLean had operated businesses in The Beach with hotels and motels on the river. In 1911, they purchased a beach front lot at First Street and built the original Capstan Inn. This hotel offered a large outside porch and veranda that offered great views over the bay. A 1915 fire destroyed the first Capstan Inn, but the Mclean family quickly rebuilt a larger and more modern inn on the site to be open for the summer of 1916. This new elegant summer hotel became a landmark on the shores of Wasaga Beach, clad in white siding with a wide front verandah and a unique circular rotunda. The success of the Capstan Inn, meant a Dance Hall would
be a great addition to the Wasaga Beach attractions, so the McLean family built the historic Dardanella Dance Pavilion across First Street in 1918. John Adair McLean, wrote in the Toronto Telegram in the 1950s, “The guests used to dress for dinner and then as the great ball of the sun went down in the bay, they would walk across the cooling sands to the dance hall (the Dardanella) where they would perform the fox trot between waltzes and sip ice cream sodas between dances”. Some guests would come prepared to stay at the Capstan Inn for weeks at a time in the summer months, arriving from Toronto by train in Stayner and then by horse drawn coaches to our sandy shores to start their Wasaga Beach holiday in the sun. The Capstan Inn remained in the McLean family throughout the years, with several major renovations taking place, including the addition of the famous Windjammer Room,
The Capstan Inn as most of us may remember, 1970s with the addition of The Windjammer Room (Photo provided by Mike Miller)
Capstan Inn as it was in 1942 known as “The Jammer”, offering great live entertainment. Other notable Wasaga Beach hotels run by the McLean family were The Nottawa Inn, The Breakers, Wasaga Inn and they also operated a similar establishment in Clearwater Florida over the winter months, known as The Oceola Inn. After the hotel left the ownership of the McLean family in 1958, the Capstan Inn remained in operation with several owners over the years, until it was acquired by Blue Mountain Resorts in 1984. This was the first investment for Blue Mountain Resorts outside of the Blue Mountain area. The structures on the property were demolished and the new owners installed a $1.3 million complex, Wasaga Beach’s first Water Slide. Joe Bickerstaff
Blue Mountain Resorts invests $1.3 million in Wasaga Beach's first Water Slide in 1984, on the Capstan Inn site.
Expert answers to your health and wellness questions by Jessica Brown Question: I have a very simple question for you…how often should I weigh myself? Answer: Assuming you’re trying to lose weight, it really depends on where you are in the weight loss process and how sensitive you are to the results. If you’re in the early stages of active weight loss, I’d only recommend weighing in once every one to two weeks. Keeping it to a minimum will help you focus more on your behaviors. After all, consistency is key when it comes to both diet and exercise, and obsessing about the numbers on the scale won’t change anything. And let’s not forget that it can take some time for the scale to start trending down, especially if you’ve just started an exercise program. However, if you’ve reached your weight loss goals, and you’re now in maintenance mode, I’d recommend weighing yourself more frequently. That’s right—I said more often, and there’s actually research to support this. The logic behind it is simple. If you’re weighing more frequently, you’ll be able to quickly identify weight gain trends and respond accordingly. A couple days each week is probably enough to keep you at or near your target. There’s one last point that’s important here, and it sort of goes without saying. The number on the scale is just one aspect of the weight loss process. In other words, tracking other metrics of success, like how you’re feeling, your circumference measurements, and your body composition are just as important! Question: A friend of mine keeps telling me I should be doing more compound movements. What does this mean and what are the benefits? Answer: Your friend is right! Isolated movements are really more appropriate for targeting weak areas or for rehabilitating after an injury. Today’s fitness trends typically involve more functional movements that mimic real-life activities. That’s why compound exercises are becoming so popular. They’re essentially just multi-joint exercises that work several muscles at a time. Examples include pull-ups,
push-ups, squats, lunges, deadlifts, kettlebell swings, dips, and even jumping rope. And this is only scratching the surface when it comes to compound exercises. There are numerous reasons to incorporate more compound movements into your training. Here are just a few of the benefits: · Provides a full body workout in a shorter period of time · Improves coordination, reaction time, and balance · Provides cardiovascular benefits by keeping your heart rate elevated · Decreases risk of injury during sports · Burns more calories · Allows for heavier lifts that will build strength faster I highly recommend adding compound movements to your workout regimen, and if you give them a try, have fun with them and get creative. Think of new ways to use stability balls, medicine balls, Bosu balls, bands, kettlebells, ropes, and, of course, your own body weight to work multiple muscle groups at a time!
About the author: Jessica Brown is the Member Experience Manager at Anytime Fitness in Wasaga Beach, Alliston & Orillia. She studied Fitness & Health Promotion at Durham College, where she became certified as a CSEPCertified Personal Trainer. To submit a question for future articles, please contact the author at jessica.brown@anytimefitness.com