Councillor Case Ootes presents Emmanuel Manolakakis with a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the City of Toronto after accepting a cheque from the FightClub FitBody Program for the Toronto East York General Hospital.
FitBody is an amazing program geared towards health, well being and community!
Come and see for yourself!
Posted in Health & Fitness, Nutrition.
By admin
– July 20, 2010
This event proved to be well organized and a lot of fun! This is the furtherest distance I have ever run. Never stopped once or felt weak.
My breathing and pace never left me and I finished in a time of 1 hour 29 minutes!

Emmanuel Manolakakis at the finish of the Acura 10 miller
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By admin
– July 13, 2010
Although the average brain weighs only three pounds, it has approximately 100 billion neurons!
There are enough blood vessels in the brain to go around the earth four times!
As long as you remain mentally active, your body will continue to make new neurons throughout life.
At rest, the brain uses about one-fifth of the total oxygen supply available in the body.
Excessive stress can alter brain cells, both in structure and function.
You can’t tickle yourself because the brain can tell the difference between an external, unexpected touch and your own.
When you are awake, your brain generates enough energy to light a light bulb (about 10-23 watts of power).
Every time you blink, the brain “kicks in” to keeps things illuminated internally so the world doesn’t go dark during a blink (which happens about 20,000 times a day!).
You experience an average of about 70,000 thoughts daily.
The brain is made up of 75% water.
Posted in Health & Fitness.
By admin
– July 6, 2010
Detailing the key elements of Russian Systema’s 4 essential health exercises. Filmed on location at Rick Fowler’s Kenpo Karate School in Texas and Sensei Sali Azem’s Lakes Region Systema Academy in New Hampshire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGa_SCfkaHw
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Tagged with Kevin Secours.
By admin
– June 22, 2010
Kettlebells are cannon ball shaped lumps of iron or steel with a handle. In this country they have been popularized as a rapid means of fitness, mobility, and endurance. Very specific protocols have been installed to educate muscle movement, build strength, and rehabilitate or prevent injury. There are many benefit from the primary exercises of kettlebell lifting.
There are several advantages to training with kettlebells.
– You learn good lifting mechanics for every day tasks.
– Weaknesses and inflexibilities are rapidly targeted and corrected.
– Lifting in this style prioritizes the often neglected posterior chain muscles.
– Flexibility and cardiovascular endurance are a byproduct without direct focus.
– It enforces strength as a technique or skill.
There are many ways to use a kettlebell. Bad form means injury. There are many very interesting guidelines regarding alignment, gripping, posture and specific drills teach you the safest and most effective way to train and lift.
By all means, seek the best instruction available. With the advent of the internet most average citizens can be sensational. However, training and teaching history are a matter of record. Do a little research before you pick a workshop or instructor. The “Fit Body” program taught at FightClub offers KB training as part of the training routine. The instruction and guidance is exception. What are you waiting for?
Emmanuel
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By admin
– June 16, 2010
The Ride For Heart ride was a truly monumental day!
75 km in 2 hours 10 minutes (my best time and longest distance to date!)
It was cold, rainy and windy!! Lost feeling in my fingers and feet towards the end.
All the breathing work we do at FightClub came in real handy, not to mention the psychological toughness needed to complete this ride.
Feel great now that it’s all done!
Emmanuel

Posted in Health & Fitness.
Tagged with 75km bike ride, Heart & Stroke Ride.
By emmanuel
– June 7, 2010
On the road on a bike? Then you’re considered a motor vehicle. Act like one, says John Tolkamp of the Canadian Cycling Association.
As triathletes and other cyclists head out on the roads this spring, safety should be their primary concern, says John Tolkamp, president of the Canadian Cycling Association. Several riders have already been killed on the roads in recent weeks. Three of six triathletes hit by a truck during a training session in Quebec died earlier this month. Only two days later, a 57-year-old man was struck by a car and killed as he rode on the shoulder of a highway in the Laurentians. Close calls happen every day, in every city across Canada.
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Tagged with awareness, equipment, road safety, Safe cycling.
By emmanuel
– May 31, 2010
In the never-never land of diet hype, something new is on the scene—alcoholic beverages labeled for carbohydrate and calorie content, and many of them boasting of low carb beer, low carb wine and “no carbs” liquor. You may not have noticed the labels yet, but they are either in the marketplace already or in the offing. The labeling of beer, wine, and the hard stuff for calorie content is not a bad idea—it is useful to know the caloric content of anything you’re about to consume. But carbs?
How Many Calories Does Alcohol Contain?
Pure alcohol contains about 7 calories per gram, which makes it nearly twice as fattening as carbohydrates or protein (both contain about 4 calories per gram) and only just under the caloric value for fat (9 calories per gram). This means that if you want to lose weight and reduce excess body fat, alcohol is not a good choice.
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Tagged with calories in alcohol, weight loss.
By emmanuel
– May 24, 2010
(HealthDay News) – Fit bodies may bring kids better test scores in school, a new study finds.
“Children’s physical fitness is associated with their academic performance,” said study author Lesley Cottrell, an associate professor of pediatrics at West Virginia University, in Morgantown.
In general, the fitter the student, the better the test scores, Cottrell’s team found.
The researchers evaluated almost 1,200 students, assessing their fitness in the fifth grade and then again in the seventh grade. They tested them in four subjects in seventh grade - reading, math, science and social studies – using standardized tests.
The researchers hypothesized that those children who maintained fitness over the two-year span would have the best test scores, and they were right.
Those who were in the “healthy” fitness zone in both the fifth and seventh grades did the very best of all – an average reading score of 3.31. “Mastery” at reading begins at a score of 3 or greater.
The emphasis was on fitness, not body weight, Cottrell said, which is good news for those children carrying a few extra pounds. “It’s really their level of fitness [that is associated with the better test scores], not their body mass index,” she said, citing previous research that agreed with that finding.
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Tagged with Kids fitness, level of fitness, school grades.
By emmanuel
– May 17, 2010
Canadians of all ages are heavier, bigger-bellied, weaker and, by every conceivable measure, less fit than they were a generation ago, according to grim new data from Statistics Canada.
The first comprehensive, directly measured look at the fatness and fitness of Canadians in decades reveals that between 1981 and 2009, the average weight of a 45-year-old man ballooned by 20 pounds and his waist size swelled by almost three inches. The average 45-year-old woman is carrying an extra 12 pounds and three unwelcome inches have been added to her waist.
In fact, for Canadians, being overweight – meaning 25 per cent or more of their body weight is fat – is now the norm by age 36.
All told, 61 per cent of adults are considered to be overweight or obese, according to a pair of studies published in Health Reports.
Children and youth are faring no better, data collected in the Canadian Health Measures Survey show.
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By emmanuel
– May 10, 2010