Health and Wellness, Fitness and Exercise, Stress Management, Mental Health, Nutrition and Diet, Sleep and Recovery, Science and Research, Wearable Tech and Devices, Lifestyle and Self-Improv
Devon McGregor
Heart Rate Variability: The Key to Unlocking ...

  • Understanding HRV: The difference between heart rate and HRV

  • The implications of low HRV and its connection to age

  • Identifying a "good" HRV and personal baselines

  • Strategies for improving HRV: lifestyle changes and monitoring

  • HRV's role in understanding stress response physiology

  • Choosing accurate devices for measuring HRV

  • Balancing the Autonomic Nervous System for better health

  • Early illness detection through accurate HRV readings

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has gained significant attention recently as a powerful tool for monitoring overall health and well-being. Understanding the nuances of HRV can help you unlock your body's full potential, improve your recovery, and manage stress more effectively.

Heart Rate Variability: The Key to Unlocking Your Health Potential
Wellness, Wellbeing, Health, Exercise, Training
Devon McGregor
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 outright rejected it. After all, it's always there: whether awake or asleep, we take 20,000 per day, or 14 to 20 breaths every minute. Still, the pandemic has taught us that this is an opportune time to take every breath seriously.

Breath Taking
Wellness, Wellbeing
Devon McGregor
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 this next time.”

Kara Lee Corthron, “The Truth of Right Now”

On this day, the former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted by his peers of three charges: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Today, a rare thing happened when a white police officer was held accountable and will be punished for murdering a black man while a small group of people - young and old, white and black, man and woman - watched, frustrated by the hopelessness of it all.

THE GUILTY VERDICT FOR DEREK CHAUVIN
Devon McGregor
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 not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, 'You are a failure,' I think that is almost worse than dying."

Kobe Bryant

THE FORCE OF NATURE: KOBE BRYANT
Devon McGregor
Tell me what it’s like. You mean being black?

Tell me what it’s like. You mean being black?

Over the recent weeks, that direct question naturally keeps being respectfully asked of me from well-meaning friends. And I’m appreciative for the genuine interest.

I must candidly confess my immediate thought is firstly an internal question: Is that the first time you’ve had that burning curiosity? You don’t have to satisfy me with an answer to that. Allow me to respond to your question, though.

We’ve been masking for a long time. All people of color have had to wear masks to conceal our authentic voices, faces, emotions and thoughts for much of our lives. And, the clever woman of color, her mask is her foundation. She carefully applies makeup atop her mask.

Tell me what it’s like. You mean being black?

Balance Fitness, Toronto

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SIX WEEKS, AND LEFT WANTING MORE

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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 curious individuals walked into our studio anxious to participate in the Foundation Training Intensive Workshop that I would be conducting.

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Technogym Partnership at Balance Fitness

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 Technogym, official fitness equipment suppliers to the Olympics, we are installing 13 new cardiovascular machines , which will be operational by  December 10th  2014.

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