Sensational Smoothie Recipe

Spring is in the air!

Craving a smoothie?

Try this recipe for a healthy, refreshing snack or breakfast!






Ingredients:

1 cup vanilla flavored fat-free yogurt (I like Source)
1/2 banana, sliced
1 tablespoon ground flax seed
4 large strawberries
1/4 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
1 tablespoon fat-free milk

How to Prepare:

In a blender, combine all of the ingredients for 35-40 seconds. Pour and enjoy!

Totum Fitness Studios in Toronto

I was introduced to Totum Life Sciences today, the location near King and Spadina, right next to Crush Wine Bar. If you are in the Toronto area and looking for a new club to join, you gotta check out Totum, where they offer fitness, health, and sports rehabilitation services.

The inside architecture is truly inspiring, with exposed brick, hardwood floors and high rise walls. Kinda makes you feel like you're right on 5th avenue, with that Manhattan-style vibe.
They hold a handful of different classes in their studio, including a wide variety of yoga classes, core classes, 30 minute rapid fire sessions, pilates, bootcamp, cycling etc.

The exercise equipment is modern and state of the art. The downstairs area of the club is used for the lobby and private rooms where they offer massage therapy, acupuncture, chiro, physio, and nutrition counseling.

There are three locations, one on King, one on Roxborough and one on St. Clair.
Check out their site, http://www.totum.ca/ and ask to speak with Donna, the very nice lady who introduced me to Totum, when you check out their studio.

They even have trial sessions to see if you like it before you join. What do you have to lose?

Join the Tea Revolution!

If you're anything like me, you've already jumped on the tea train. Lets face it, is there anything tea isn't good for?

From Black Tea's de-stressing and energy-boosting benefits to Green Tea's skin, immune system and metabolism benefits, tea is much more than delicious. I was recently introduced to David's Tea, and have been checking out their menu of 135 teas. David's Tea is ideal for both first-time tea sippers and long-time tea connoisseurs.

You can find David online at www.davidstea.com or visit one of their locations in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Dieppe, Edmonton, Laval, or London.

My personal recommendation is 'the skinny (organic)' - which contains pu'erh, ginger and ginseng - speeding up your metabolism and blocking fat absorption, cup by cup!
Click here for their locations: http://www.davidstea.com/stores

It's definitely worth the click!

A Great Fitness Resource in TO: ExerciseToronto.com

Looking for information on fitness, sports and athletics in Toronto? Look no more!

ExerciseToronto.Com is a Toronto based platform that offers a commitment to unite relevant, fitness activities and businesses with Toronto’s amateur, exercise community.

ExerciseToronto.Com’s focus is separated into two, yet equally important areas:

• Maintaining a successful platform for exercise related businesses to promote their services to the Greater Toronto Area… In a cost effective way.

• Staying connected to the athletic community of the GTA by profiling everyday exercisers, landmarks and community based events that are taking place in the Toronto area.

Initally, ExerciseToronto was created because the publishers became fed up with traditional, out of date, community directories that continually asked small businesses for their marketing dollars and did little in return to drive relevant traffic to the website. As a result ExerciseToronto.Com was launched with the small business’s and the GTA based exerciser’s interests in mind.

As the site continues to grow, they hope you’ll grow with it and come along for the ride as ExerciseToronto.Com becomes the ‘one stop shop’ for everything exercise in the Greater Toronto Area!

Check out the website at http://www.ExerciseToronto.Com

Or follow them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=500432505346&ref=ts