1 CrossFit ”If you attend three to four classes a week, you’ll notice improvements in strength, flexibility, coordination, body awareness and, most importantly, confidence,” says Mel Clarke, CrossFit coach at Blended Athletics (580 Wright Avenue). With tailored work-out plans, CrossFit requires consistency to see results but the strong sense of community mixed with achievable personal […]
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What do you think needs to be fixed?
[Image-1] We reached out to public figures, community leaders and business owners to find out how they would fix the city. Some edited responses were printed in this week’s issue, but below are the full replies we received. “More use of our wonderful harbour. We should have extended hours on our downtown ferry, with more […]
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South Park YMCA set to close in May
We all knew this was coming, but for some reason it still feels shocking—the South Park facility of the YMCA will be closing its doors permanently as of May 30. The aging 1564 South Park Street has been home to the Y for 60 years, growing an engaged community of regulars (disclosure, myself included) along […]
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Revolution Fitness gets a start
If you’re already plotting your New Year’s resolutions you might want to hear what Jackie Kellestine and Lisa Baldwin are up to in Dartmouth. The longtime friends will open Revolution Fitness (112 Woodlawn Road) on December 16, a fitness studio that’s aimed at working with all types of abilities, offering classes to prenatal and postnatal […]
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Cyclone Cycling’s expanding
It was two Christmases ago that Elana Liberman had the idea for Cylcone Cycling, her spin-class-centric fitness studio that would open at 2-5187 Salter Street just over six months later. And it’s been a wild ride since then. A recent nominee for the Halifax Business Awards’ New Business of the Year, Cyclone’s grown its membership […]
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New location for Core Essentials in Dartmouth
Living in Dartmouth and feeling as though you deserve some added wellness? Core Essentials Fitness & Sport Conditioning has moved into a new space (50 Queen Street, 830-8052, in the Union Protection Building, the same place as Carousel Rubber Stamps) and call themselves “HRMs most holistic personal training studio.” Expect to find fitness training of […]
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Best Fitness Instructor
A former Best of Halifax winner reclaims his crown. “We’re doing a lot more stuff for corporations,” says Sherrington about what has kept him busy since he last appeared in our pages. “Fitness for companies, boot camps and fitness on site.” The boot camps are especially popular: He and his colleagues will go to an […]
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Your heart will beat like a hammer at CrossFit
CrossFit Kinetics (5540 Cunard Street, 497-1557) is a new fitness club in the heart of the north end and Cunard and Creighton. It may surprise you with its Spartan décor: 1,700 square feet in a former auto body shop, no machines, just weights and rings and mats and space. “We’ve taken away all of the […]
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South Park YMCA to get cable TV treadmills
TV has rarely married well with good health. But further to the battle against tedium while you exercise, coming soon to the South Park YMCA are new 17″ personal viewing screens with 60 channels of cable (including The Comedy Network, if you wanted to watch South Park while sweating on South Park). Four will be […]
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Halifax indoors: 14 tips to well being
Besides choosing to take the stairs rather than the elevator or having a lot of sex, many of us become sedentary during the winter months. This year, The Coast offers suggestions for those who’d rather not sweat outdoors, but who still want to get the blood flowing.