Radix Barbell Club

Hey Everyone! Just a heads up that I have my last surgeon appointment tomorrow afternoon in Toronto and Carson will be coaching for me. A lot of you have been coached by him before and he does a great job!

What goes on in the deep depths of my mind? + 2 NEW RADIX PROGRAMS! -

What goes on in the deep depths of my mind? + 2 NEW RADIX PROGRAMS! I was offered by a friend to try Floating for this first time ever last week. Now Floating if you have no idea is where you go to a indoor float tank facility that looks like a really nice spa and they have float tanks that has a 1000 pounds of salt at a comfortable temperature and you get down to ...

January Member of the Month + How to Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet! -

January Member of the Month + How to Make 2019 Your Best Year Yet! This months Member of the Month has been coming to Radix for a year and a half. He shows up consistently, works hard and has made tremendous gains in strength, conditioning and packed on some muscle in the process. Congratulations to Eric Lavigne for being our Member of the Month! Eric has become a....

2018 - The Year in Review -

2018 - The Year in Review One whole year in our lives GONE! Just like that, Bam, Done. 12 months gone, 52 weeks Good-Bye, 365 days all done, 8760 hours spent, 525 600 minutes blown, 31 536 000 seconds tick tocked away. How many of those seconds were focused? how many were spent with family? how many were mindlessly scrolling...

Competition- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly -

Competition- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Your Holiday Survival Guide- Don't Let the festivities ruin your Hard Work! -

Your Holiday Survival Guide- Don't Let the festivities ruin your Hard Work! On Thursday, December 13th at 6:00pm, the Radix Run Club will hold its second group run.  This is meant to be fun – running with your Radix Community.  We’ll start out easy, keeping your heartrate at a reasonable level (180 – your age), which means you should be able to chat during the run...

Random Acts of Kindness + Radix October Schedule -

Random Acts of Kindness + Radix October Schedule This story about to tell you is not to try and make me look like a good person or toot my own horn in anyway, I tell you this story because I want it to inspire you and inspire anyone who hears it. I want to see a world where random acts of kindness are not praised but a norm. I want to see a world....

Perspective? How it can change EVERYTHING -

Perspective? How it can change EVERYTHING Some days are just not your days, some weeks are also not your weeks and hey maybe sometimes your year just seems to have gotten away and you feel like nothing productive has happened. Believe me when I say I understand, my mind constantly works and thinks about thing I dream about of where I want R...

3 Years Later and it only gets Better and we got NEW Swag in Stock! -

3 Years Later and it only gets Better and we got NEW Swag in Stock! Three years ago we officially opened Radix Performance Center here on Speers, if you were there for the grand opening you would've seen me propose to Rach and all the amazing times that have unfolded afterwards. This whole business itself started 10 years ago after years of competing in martial arts...

What I learned on The Greg Carrasco Show AM 640? + 12 Week Challenge ROUND 3!!! -

What I learned on The Greg Carrasco Show AM 640? + 12 Week Challenge ROUND 3!!! I had the privilege on Saturday of going on The Greg Carrasco Show on AM 640 again, where 10's of thousands of people tune in every Saturday to listen to Greg's show on Cars that half the time doesn't talk about cars, I was there to talk about why people get fat in their 30's and 40's. The Show st...

The Sound Track of my Life- Music and it's effect on your Performance + 12 Week Challenge ROUND 3!!! -

The Sound Track of my Life- Music and it's effect on your Performance + 12 Week Challenge ROUND 3!!! Music is a very powerful thing, it can change your mood, it can help you sleep, it can make you want to dance and also make you want to cry. You attach songs to certain times and moments in life that will never leave you. Your Wedding song, your first dance, the music you listened to before your fir...

You can Keep Your Metabolism Burning and your BodyFat low all year Long? That's NEAT right? -

You can Keep Your Metabolism Burning and your BodyFat low all year Long? That's NEAT right? I read a lot, especially on anything fitness, nutrition or health related. I've read hundreds of books and articles on all these subjects and it ALL still fascinates me so much. I was listening to a podcast lately with Dr. Mike Molloy who is a Sports Nutritionist who works with some of the best Cro...

What Does a Gym Owner think about on a daily basis? Walk inside my mind for a full work day :) -

What Does a Gym Owner think about on a daily basis? Walk inside my mind for a full work day :) Someone asked me the other day while I was looking out into nothingness before a workout what I was thinking about as I coach. It got me thinking about the things that go through my mind on a daily basis as a business owner and Head Coach here at Radix. So I'm going to give you a day of thoughts a...

Health and Weight Loss Myths Exposed! + Last week to enter our YouTube Challenge! -

Health and Weight Loss Myths Exposed! + Last week to enter our YouTube Challenge! I was thinking about all the crap out there on weight loss and health. This diet and that diet, lose 10 pounds here, gain 10 pounds there. I feel like I just need to simplify things for you and give you some truth so you don't get lost in the interweb trying to figure out how to look like the guy o...

Weird Things That Make Me Happy + Win $400 in Training in our YouTube Challenge -

Weird Things That Make Me Happy + Win $400 in Training in our YouTube Challenge Driving into work this morning I was thinking about the weird stuff that makes me happy. Maybe I'm just weird or maybe it's somethings you do to and maybe it's normal or maybe we're both just weird but I thought these were interesting observations and at the end of the day it's the little things in....

Why I love Monday and You should to + WINNER of 100th Newsletter Giveaway -

Why I love Monday and You should to + WINNER of 100th Newsletter Giveaway You must think I've lost my mind, but before you punch through your computer to try and grab me by the throat let me explain. I love Monday's and I was driving in this morning to open up at 5:30 am thinking how much I really do and here's why. I read somewhere once that if you take a second to sit a...

Our 100th Newsletter Giveaway! + Long Term Diet Maintenance -

Our 100th Newsletter Giveaway! + Long Term Diet Maintenance Well we've made it, 100 newsletters of you reading my opinion on the things I love. Hopefully you've learned something a long the way, I also hope your not sick of the content just yet, I have lots more teach and rant about ;) SO in honor of our 100th newsletter we are giving away 1 new CrossFit RPX...

2 Big Events + Energy Systems, what are they?how do they affect you? -

2 Big Events + Energy Systems, what are they?how do they affect you? It feels nice to be back in the gym after being off, I can tell you I used very little energy systems in the last 14 days lol. Today I'm going to give you as little knowledge on Energy systems to peak your interest. I will be hosting a Performance Talk again coming up and we'll be going a lot more i...

Thoughts heading into Surgery + Murph and Dream Dealer Workout! -

Thoughts heading into Surgery + Murph and Dream Dealer Workout! As many of you know I'll be heading into surgery tonight at 9pm to get my nose fixed. I've been waiting about a year and half now to be booked in and have been dealing with not being able to breathe properly for years.  Years of competitive muay thai and boxing have led to some broken noses and a ...

2nd Annual MURPH Day Saturday May 26th -

2nd Annual MURPH Day Saturday May 26th One of the coolest things about CrossFit is that thousands of people all around the world all do the same workouts, often on the same day!  Memorial Day in the US has become the day for CrossFitters to do "Murph", the hero WOD named after Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy. 1 mile run 100 pullups 200 p...

Biggest Thing I learned From doing My CrossFit Level 2 + Our new logo revealed and pre-order your summer T Shirts! -

Biggest Thing I learned From doing My CrossFit Level 2 + Our new logo revealed and pre-order your summer T Shirts! This past weekend I did my CrossFit level 2 Certification, this is a course that goes into more depth of teaching,coaching, correcting movements. I thought it was a really well laid out course that made a lot of sense. Kudos to CrossFit for evolving and growing. There will always be things in there....

Get ready for MURPH! Sat May 26th -

Get ready for MURPH! Sat May 26th We had a great time at the track this past Saturday! Our warm up included some of the stuff Dan learned at the recent Aerobic Capacity seminar, then it was a classic CrossFit partner workout with pushups, lunges, squats, and wheelbarrow walks!  We are using this running training to get ready for MU...

Join the comp June 2nd! + The Power of the Mind -

Join the #WOD4SICKKIDS comp June 2nd! + The Power of the Mind Once upon a time, before there was Radix Performance Centre, Dan, Rach and Nick did a CrossFit competition together! Held every year at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre during the Pro Show, Sweat RX Magazine puts on a huge competition, and this year they want scaled and intermediate athletes ONL...

Track Day Workout Sat May 6th + 2 years of Marriage? What I now know... -

Track Day Workout Sat May 6th + 2 years of Marriage? What I now know... We are closing Radix on Saturday May 5th all day. As all our crossfitters know the floor in the main CrossFit area has gotten beat up pretty good around the steel drains in the floor over the years. This drives nobody crazier than me! So on Saturday May 5th we are shutting down so Coach Marco, whos....

12 Week Challenge Round 2 starts this week + 3 Habits for Better Performance -

12 Week Challenge Round 2 starts this week + 3 Habits for Better Performance We had such an awesome success with the 12 week Challenge in September last year we decided to do Round 2 starting TODAY! This time we have 20 people taking on the Challenge of their lives and ready to make changes that will allow them to gain back their bodies and health and work towards goals they...

New Priorities, Same Values + NEW CLASSES this week! -

New Priorities, Same Values + NEW CLASSES this week! Dan and I have learned a LOT about priorities since having our first child, Malachi, 4 months ago... Everything you ever thought was important before totally goes out the window! In the beginning there was just this beautiful fog of excitement, with family and friends bringing food and gifts, grand...

Up Coming Events @ Radix + Are you your worst Enemy? -

Up Coming Events @ Radix + Are you your worst Enemy? It's Finally SPRING!!! I guess, sorta lol There's been a lot more sun and + degree weather lately and we're almost there for some Vitamin D days in the sun. SO what's coming up at Radix this Spring and Summer? #1 POST Open Talk and Report Cards- On Saturday April 14th at 10am we will be having a post...