by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
This chocolate olive oil cake is rich in healthy fats and totally gluten-free! It was simple enough to make quickly, with help from my kiddos, tasted delicious, and lasted several days for secret late-night snacking. 🙂 This Easter I wanted to bring a dessert...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Everyone is always very curious about how a personal trainer ACTUALLY eats. There are all types of personal trainers with all kinds of eating habits. I’ve worked with trainers who ate all day from strange little containers of seeds, sprouts, veggies and...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | POSTPARTUM EXERCISE
I’ve been thinking about how workouts with household objects like cans or jugs of detergent usually are cast into the “not real fitness” category. ??? I’m going to NOT delve into the gender and socioeconomic bias that relegates anything homemade or home-based...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The sun is shining and it’s finally starting to get warm in Toronto, and for some reason that made me want greasy fried things… So I drove past the McDonalds that sits 3 blocks from my house and came home to make this bowl of yumminess for...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s appetizer season! Christmas appetizers, New Year’s Eve appetizers, open house appetizers, even (blah….) Superbowl Sunday appetizer season is approaching. Here’s the perfect, easy but mind-blowingly delicious recipe to add to your...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
This spring marks our 5th Belly Bootcamp outdoor season. I can’t believe it’s been 4 full years and already onto the 5th. We’ve had the pleasure of training so many amazing women that I rarely go to a park, farmers’ market or family event...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is a protein-packed breakfast or lunch that is not only delicious and simple, it can help you slim down for summer and avoid sugar cravings later in the day. WHY EGGS? 1. Your mother told you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and,...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yoga is a great way to tone and build endurance in the muscles of the core & legs. If your butt, legs & abs need no toning whatsoever, you can stop reading now. Still with us? Steal these 3 baby-friendly lower body yoga moves from Belly Bootcamp...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It has not been the fairest of springs in Toronto this year. I know some of you from other, more northerly climates are rolling your eyes right now but for those of us who are chasing a lovely stroller fitness season (or running, or hiking, or cycling), a cool,...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
We love BBQ season as much as the next Canadian family, but some days in spring are still cool enough to open the windows and fire up the oven. Case in point: spring 2013. Which – basically – has sucked. Yesterday it was cool and rainy and the...