It is becoming more likely you will have a person with diabetes in your studio, fitness class, or as a personal training client. In fact, Diabetes Canada recently reported that 640 Canadians are diagnosed with Diabetes each day – one person every six minutes. It is National Diabetes Awareness month and as fitness professionals we need to be educated and informed about the c...

For Barry, exercise is the gift of life. The retired teacher had his first heart attack 20 years ago. The second came only a week later. He then had a third heart attack eight and a half years ago. THAT GOT MY ATTENTION “The third heart attack got my attention, and I retired from my 33-year career in education,” says Barry, who was not only a teacher and reading specialis...