Category: Blog
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Quarantine workouts #3
And so begins another set of workouts to help keep you busy during these stay-at-home times! *** Day 1 Rise and shine quarantines! Today’s active motivation! Not interested in lifting weights today? No problem! A no weight workout today! Wall squats. Put your back against the wall, lower down into a squat position. Hold for…
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10 Years of blogging
April 4th, 2020 marked ten years since I first started blogging. If we’ve known each other for that long you might faintly recall that time I started my blog: it was just after I’d finished teaching in South Korea for a year and was travelling through southeast Asia. Here is my very first post: What…
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Things are turning around (in Beijing)
The weather has turned much better in the last week or so, in major contrast to Winnipeg which just got snow dumped on it again. But that’s how Spring can be, and with Spring here in Beijing, we’re seeing more people out and about, the flowers are blossoming (including the seasonal Cherry Blossoms), and the…
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Quarantine workouts #2
If, like most people, you’re in quarantine and getting antsy, you’ll need to get up and get moving. Here are a few more ideas for home-based workouts that don’t require much equipment to accomplish. *** Day 1 Pushups. Done any of those lately? Do your normal push up and then when you get to the…
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Mall hopping in Beijing
I took Sunday off from my usual schedule of studies and decided to venture out a little bit around my neighbourhood. Last week I wrote how there seemed to be a bit of more traffic around yet malls still seemed a bit empty. So I went a different direction today and decided to go to…