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Sleep Hygiene Checklist
Sleep is critical for our health. While one bad night’s rest may put you in a bad mood, where a not-hot-enough coffee equates to THE END OF THE WORLD, what we’ve really got to pay attention to is what happens to our bodies when we’re chronically sleep-deprived. In come heart disease, weight gain and diabetes,…
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Recover From New Years’ Resolution Setbacks
It can take up to three months to create a new habit. When we waver during that period, it can be hard to get back on track. We’re here to help!
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How To Balance Work And Play
Our jobs are more time-consuming than ever. So how do we balance work and play? Here are 5 simple things you can do from your office to get started.
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How to prevent coronavirus when traveling
With the spread of the coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, travel can be a bit scary right now. Many people are smartly reconsidering their plans to highly infected areas like China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, Spain and France but does this mean you should cancel your trip to other countries? We have assessed the situation,…
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9 Ways To Digital Detox
Sitting is the new smoking, but do we understand why? Learn how sitting leads to chronic inflammation, which plays a role in almost every major disease including cancer, heart disease, and dementia.
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Engaging Your Core For Fitness
As the name suggests, our core is integral to every movement we make. It’s a complex series of muscles that extend well beyond your abs and include everything except for your arms and legs. In this article, and in the video below, Mountain Trek’s fitness director Cathy Grierson talks about how to engage your core…
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Dr. Josh on How To Eat Smarter & Lose Weight
Mountain Trek offers Lifestyle Performance Coaching via clinical psychologist Dr. Joshua Klapow, who’s also an alum of our retreat. It seems the good doctor is also adept at explaining matters of nutrition as well given an article that has appeared on beachbody.com. In it, Dr. Josh is asked to explain how to eat smarter through “mindful…
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CN Traveler Awards Mountain Trek
More than 300,000 travelers took part in Condé Nast Traveler’s 29th annual Readers’ Choice Awards survey submitting millions of ratings and over 75,000 comments to create a list of winning favourites – and Mountain Trek Fitness Retreat and Health Spa was one of them. In fact, Mountain Trek made it onto the list of the 15…
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Bedtime Yoga | Best Restorative Poses to Promote Sleep
For this instructive video, we enlisted the help of Mountain Trek’s yoga teacher and fitness instructor Katya Hayes to show us some relaxing bedtime yoga techniques.