The Lil Black Dress Project Starts again Monday November 9th Our last one wrapped up at the end of September and there were some amazing transformations! Yes the weight loss was in the the double digits for many of the girls! But the one thing I was most moved by, was how much the ladies had changed on the inside. The smiles in the after pics were brighter, the confidence that beamed from their faces was truly beautiful. The Lil[…]
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Lets Kick Cancer Right in the FACE We Hate Cancer We Love lifting weights So we have decided to put these 2 passions together to launch the first annual Hostyle Barbells 4 Boobs Deadlift Competition This Friday OCT 30th at 7 pm at Hostyle. This will be a fundraiser to help raise much need funds towards a cure. Lifters entry fees were minimum $50 donations to the Canadian Cancer Society. We have 15 Lifters so far… To help even[…]
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Andrew grew up playing competitive sports. Baseball, Rugby and Hockey. His focus was hockey and in his last 2 years of minor hockey he played at the highest level. That was followed by three years of junior hockey in Rockland in which he was an assistant captain in the 3rd year. As an athlete he missed that competitive spirit until he found Hostyle. Hostyle brought that intensity and competitive drive that he had been missing since his competitive sport days.[…]
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Friday, October 30at 7:00pm ‘Til Finish! Hostyle Conditioning Gym 1977A St Joseph blvd, Orleans, Ontario K1C 1E5 This is a powerlifting fundraiser for The Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation in memory of Sylvie Fortin, wife of Hostyle Conditioning’s own Michel Fortin, our resident webmaster. This is a deadlift-only style meet. This competition is open to all lifters, novice or experienced. Registration is a suggested $50 donation (or whatever you can). You can do it online, by mail, or by phone to[…]
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It’s time to revive a lifting classic, the Hostyle Strength Challenge, formerly known as the “Fitness Warehouse Strength Challenge”. When we were strictly a retail outfit under Fitness Warehouse, we began running an outdoor powerlifting competition. In fact, many of today’s local active powerlifters lifted for the first time in one of our previous six Strength Challenges. We started with the bench press and added the deadlift, and in later years we added log press and farmers walk building on the[…]
Read More »I have a CPF Powerlfting meet coming up May 9th – just around the corner.. I will be competing in the bench only – of course! Many lifters ask me how I get ready for my meets, so I decided to start a bench training video Journal of my training. I have been filming my Tuesday nite bench sessions. In each video I Outline what the workout for the session is. I then film my main lifts and some of[…]
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Susan Bewildered was having a rough week, actually more like a rough month. Her kids were constantly sick, her husband didn’t pay much attention to her needs and she had stopped losing body fat. The latter being today’s top problem in the books. She just couldn’t figure out she was doing wrong. She had been training with Steve, her personal coach, for several months now and she had gotten a lot stronger, her work capacity was through the roof; but[…]
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Sally walked into the gym with a sluggish gait. She had made some great progress this year so far in her pursuit of the “perfect body”, but now she felt like she just couldn’t do it anymore. She wasn’t quite sure why she felt this way, but it was beginning to worry her. The last few weeks she could barely get up the energy to drag herself to the gym and slog through a rigorous workout, let alone do much[…]
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Carl Johnson sat down on the bench next to him with a huff of annoyance. This was the fourth time this week that he’d been out of gas after a workout. After not even starting a workout really. He had managed to get through his warm-up fine, dynamic stretching went well, but the first main exercise felt like a million pounds. Even the warm-up weights were slightly harder than they should have been but no big issue, he thought to[…]
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Amy Stopelgo walked away from the spa slightly more perturbed than she had entered. It wasn’t her manicure or full body massage that was bothering her though. Something was bugging her and she just couldn’t shake that nagging feeling that she’d experienced so many times before. She just couldn’t believe she’d been weight training for weeks now with minimal progress. It was always so quick before. She’d start up a new program, suffer through the weights, the dieting and get[…]
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