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The archive · 2009–2023
Earlier writing.
These 50 essays preserve a body of work written before this site’s renewal. They reflect the questions, convictions and moments that shaped my thinking across movement, performance, health and life.
Explore my current ideasFrom the beginning
Earlier ideas, observations and reflections.
2023
What 2020 Taught Me
Kindness costs nothing but is in short supply Adversity reveals authenticity What about your friends? We are truly social animals. It is truly a small wor…
2022
Breath Taking
When I first started teaching my clients about the importance of breathwork, it was a tough sell. While some immediately embraced the concept, others outr…
2021
THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR DEREK CHAUVIN
“I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember thi…
THE FORCE OF NATURE: KOBE BRYANT
"When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will n…
2020
Tell me what it’s like. You mean being black?
Tell me what it’s like. You mean being black? An essay.
Coronavirus: Town Hall
I want to thank everyone who took time on Wednesday, April 15th to meet with Dr. Elaine Chin, Dr. Jimmy Gutman, Dr. Eric Goodman, Donovan Bailey and I dur…
#INEEDYOU30
Curate your own playlist based on the answers to this quiz.
Open Letter to Our Fitness Community
Whether an independent facility owner, Personal Trainer, client, Physiotherapist, customer, local partner, official supplier, attentive clinician or recep…
Normalcy Interrupted
There are probably too many of us who will take a long time to arrive at the obvious conclusions because they are firmly rooted in denial of what’s to com…
CABIN FEVER
Put on your favorite pair of headphones and lose yourself.
GLUTATHIONE: IMMUNOCAL
The immune system is incredibly complex, but a major cornerstone relies on its ability to obtain a molecule called glutathione. Glutathione exists in ever…
Coronavirus: Reliable Sources
The word Coronavirus, acronyms like 2019-nCoV and CoViD-19, places such as Wuhan, China and Italy are all in the news lately. For good reason, the media i…
COVID-19: Explained
According to 3D4Medical, “a coronavirus is a type of virus that can infect the respiratory tract, through the eyes, nose, mouth, throat, sinuses, or lungs…
Unmasked: Who does it Attack?
The novel Coronavirus knows its victims. Across the world, public health officials have been trying to find out who the most at risk of infected and letha…
The Novel Coronavirus
“This virus is not SARS, it’s not MERS, and it’s not influenza,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing on Tuesday, March 3, r…
2019
Doctor’s Orders
Athletes love and swear by their Sports Supplements. No wonder they’ve become such a big money maker. “We all know the nutrition industry is competitive”,…
2018
The Senior Leader and the Athlete
Executives and elite athletes share much in common. The Generalities: They both must perform at a consistent high level in persistently and routinely stre…
Exercise Versus Training: An Important Distinction
The problem with the English language is that we have many words that can be conflated to imply the same thing, yet are quite different by definition. Add…
2017
THE HISTORY OF HUMAN FITNESS (PART 1 of 3)
“A pattern that had been familiar throughout history is that after a war is fought and won, the tendency is for society to relax, enjoy life, and exercise…
WHAT YOU TRAIN, IS NOT WHAT YOU GET
It takes your Central Nervous System lesser time to complete any task than it will take for me to explain it. But bare with me. This is fundamental to why…
A MOVEMENT FOR MOVEMENT: WHAT'S REPS GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Some of us enjoy breaking the rules or taking the shortcut, no matter how great the risk, regardless of the potential punishment, especially when for shor…
MOVE IT OR LOSE IT
We are born natural movers, and that is what we are intended to still be. However now, researchers are confused why some of us are not responding to exerc…
JUST MOVE IT,
For more than 25 years, I've watched, often horrified as the most tragic accidents play themselves out. Hardworking people unwittingly propel themselves i…
2015
BALANCE FITNESS WORKOUT COMPANION
Everyone suits up for their day differently. For some, packing their headphones along with the required Lululemon gear and heart rate monitor is a normal…
WANTING TO BE SOMETHING
I woke this morning with a Facebook notification on my phone that I had been tagged in a post by Richard Dixon, a longtime friend. With friends like Richa…
A RESPONSE to KNEE INJURY PREVENTION STUDY
"Some training methods are better than others at preventing knee ligament injuries in young women", wrote Ms. Madeline Kennedy on behalf of Reuters News A…
It's About Confidence, Not Race.
I was brought to this country, which I now call home, on Feb. 25, 1977. It was a miserable winter. I must have cried for a week. Frostbite on the first da…
7 PATTERNS of HUMAN MOVEMENT WORKSHOP SERIES
#WhereFitnessMeetsWellness
2014
SIX WEEKS, AND LEFT WANTING MORE
The participants entered with open minds and left knowing that there was far more to learn. From December 1st through to December 6th, 2014, sixteen curio…
Technogym Partnership at Balance Fitness
I am thrilled to share some wonderful news with you. Next week, you will see a dramatic change to our cardio space. Through a new partnership with Technog…
The Power of the Mind
Visualization is a tool used by professionals and novice alike during training and work. In the end, visualization is used to reach success. However, it c…
Foundation Training Interview
In may, 2014, I had the privilege of being interviewed for the Foundation Training Newsletter, answering questions about my business and personal practice…
Failure is Insidious
Our lifespan allows us the luxury of ignoring the negative results of inactivity. But, we now have proof that pain and many symptoms of aging can be attri…
Pre-Hab
"When you have a muscular or structural imbalance, says Dr. Eric Goodman (creator of Foundation Training), you're taking that imbalance further or making…
The Only Vehicle You'll Ever Own
The most sophisticated machine in the world doesn't even come with a manual. Do you remember the first car that you owned? Imagine, on the day you were ha…
Proper Movement. The Fitness Trend Discussed Among Few
I’m going to advocate for small shifts and changes, rather than big nudges. Working in phases and stages, rather than fits and starts. I love watching peo…
Making Fit Choices
"This isn't meant as an insult, but you are physiologically lazy. So am I. So are we all". Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times writer and best-selling autho…
2013
SUCCESS for LIFE. THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN HIGH PERFORMERS in BUSINESS and ATHLETICS.
Original story has been published in Village Living Magazine, Issue NO. 4, November/December 2013 – By: Andrew Seale I’ve long consider there to be a stro…
BLOOR STREET ADVENTURES, PERCEPTION AND BUILDING STRENGTH.
As a Personal Trainer, our successes are hinged on wide ranging criteria, some self-proclaimed, other times declared so by the media. Sometimes that succe…
STARTING FROM SCRATCH. BUILDING YOUR BALANCE.
To consult a physician before starting an exercise program is good advice. But before starting an exercise program, you should first step back from some c…
Building a Foundation in Soho
Every now and then, you might have an experience that is so profound, it leaves you with so many things to say, yet, also completely speechless. During th…
I'M SORRY, YOU HAVE BREAST CANCER
I can’t imagine that there are many words more damaging to a woman’s self-worth than to be told: “I’m sorry. You have breast cancer.” The indignity. The s…
FOUNDATION TRAINING
For several weeks leading up to October 10th, I had been looking forward to my trip to New York. And, although I have visited this great city that is home…
2009
Perfecting the Art of the Training Session
He’s a husband, father, acclaimed film producer/director and philanthropist. He is president of Endeavour, the ad agency he co-founded. His client list is…
Raise the (chin-up) bar to get kids to lose weight
If you let me play sports, I will like myself more. I will have more self-confidence — 1995 Nike ad campaign The pre-adolescent children featured in the c…
A spring purge of 10 exercise myths
Spring is finally here and many of us will use this as an opportunity ship out the old and begin anew.
Why is it always the short end of the services stick for healthy people?
Some Canadians are angry. Earlier this year, I wrote a column for this newspaper headlined “The Price of Being Healthy.” In it I wondered, why does the me…
Knowing the needs of knees
Over recent months, many members and staff at our club have become familiar with the letters ACL — sometimes even painfully aware.
Hiking the sense to new awareness
A client recently gave me an article to read from the National Post entitled “Life Can Be A Real Balancing Act.” It’s a story about a person who is always…
The work today