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Fruit Camps

Fruit Camps

Outdoor Summer Fitness Groups for Gay Guys

With only a couple of months until summer, we think it's a great time to get out and get healthy with HIM's annual outdoor Fruit Camps....

Put a Ring on it

Put a Ring on it

Most guys like to talk about their successes when it comes to their body or body image.  

For the Love of Chocolate

For the Love of Chocolate

Have you ever felt the need to justify little indulgences in your diet?

Have a Healthy Pride

Have a Healthy Pride

What are you doing this weekend?

LGBT Volunteers Provide Daily Coverage of the Outgames

LGBT Volunteers Provide Daily Coverage of the Outgames

There’s so much to do so little time this summer

LGBT Sports!

LGBT Sports!

The 2nd GLISA North America Outgames will be held from July 25th to July 31st right here in Vancouver

Measuring Body Composition-The Whole Package

Measuring Body Composition-The Whole Package

So far I have covered three of the four primary components of fitness.

Flexibility

Flexibility

Flexibility is one of the most overlooked components of fitness.

Muscular Capacity

Muscular Capacity

Muscular capacity is one of the four components of fitness, which refers to endurance, strength, and power of our muscles.

Heart Health and Cardio Training

Heart Health and Cardio Training

Hopefully you’ve given some thought about setting your S.M.A.R.T. fitness goal; you’ve been given the green light by your family doctor to get started

Setting a SMART Fitness Goal

Setting a SMART Fitness Goal

We’ve all thought about getting into shape. Maybe it was putting on a favorite pair of jeans that just didn’t seem to fit right anymore

Crossing the Finish Line

Crossing the Finish Line

Our first Running clinic in conjunction with Vancouver Frontrunners ended last week with a celebration brunch on the waterfront.

Gaily World News Briefs: Sports Edition

Gaily World News Briefs: Sports Edition

In light of outbursts made by Kobe Bryant and Joakim Noah, this edition of Gaily World News Briefs is dedicated to gays and their supporters in sports.

Spring ahead - April is Running Month

Spring ahead - April is Running Month

Let’s face it, the elliptical machine feeds on your will to live. Those things are completely soul destroying. The other day, as I pushed, pulled, and glided in the gym, I realized that was staring at the sun out the window. What was I doing? It’s spring. I should be running outside!

Personal Strategic Advisors

Personal Strategic Advisors

Do you feel like you're bogged down or having difficulty with some aspects of your life?

A Sweet Threat: Steps to Preventing and Managing Diabetes

A Sweet Threat: Steps to Preventing and Managing Diabetes

Diabetes
Diabetes affects over 3 million Canadians and is definitely no stranger to the gay community.

Learn to Run with HIM

Learn to Run with HIM

Understanding The Formula to Build Better Muscle (Warning: This is no quick fix)

Understanding The Formula to Build Better Muscle (Warning: This is no quick fix)

Yes summer is still a good six months away, but judging from a recent article I read on getting your body into shape and getting those pumptastic muscles ready for show time, you better start now!

Getting Over Depression

Getting Over Depression

Many people, after a few months of very little sun, find themselves thinking that life is just divided between the horrible and the more miserable. It’s natural to an extent.

Health surveys have found that depression is one of the most serious health concerns facing the queer community today.

Walk with Waren!

Walk with Waren!

HIM Learn to Run 8K - in collaboration with Vancouver Frontrunners

HIM Learn to Run 8K - in collaboration with Vancouver Frontrunners

Tai Chi for Health & Relaxation

Tai Chi for Health & Relaxation

Join a Gay-Friendly Sports Team

Join a Gay-Friendly Sports Team

Yoga with HIM

Yoga with HIM

20,000 Reasons to Quit Smoking

20,000 Reasons to Quit Smoking

Who needs a good excuse to quit?  How about 20,000 reasons?

Recent studies have shown that, unsurprisingly, gay guys are still sucking a lot more than their straight counterparts.

Nutrition, the Fatabase and Food Diaries

Nutrition, the Fatabase and Food Diaries

Keeping (Gay) New Years Resolutions

Hangovers are great times to reflect.  So in the wake of an autumn hangover I decided to evaluate my 2010 resolutions.  

Finding Your Inner Peace

Finding Your Inner Peace

Carb Rinse

Carb Rinse

Strange but True

Strange but True

Overindulging

Overindulging

You look tired...

You look tired...

HIM does the Grind

HIM does the Grind

Sugar in the Gas Tank

Sugar in the Gas Tank

Trucks can be cute, sexy, rusty, new, old, up-on-blocks; the variety is endless. Like our bodies. High performance is good, but it requires upkeep and good fuel. Like a high performance vehicle, our own bodies convert fuel/food into energy.

Carpenteria

Carpenteria

"I was a cycling machine, rising before dawn to shower and eat before riding a hundred miles, at one with my bike."