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Valentine’s Day-Christmas switcheroo can help make winter much more tolerable
The celebration of the winter solstice is a long-standing pagan tradition, that, like Halloween, has been co-opted into a number of...

Marc Lalonde
Mar 7, 20203 min read


Chipping away at the misery of winter and embracing the optimism of Spring
It doesn’t take much sometimes, does it? A friend reminded me recently that there were but three weeks left until Spring, and that was a...

Marc Lalonde
Mar 6, 20202 min read


Almost Famous wisdom and the trials of February explained -- I think
There’s a line in a great film from two decades back that told the story of a budding 15-year-old journalist who was writing a magazine...

Marc Lalonde
Feb 23, 20204 min read


It’s such an exciting time of year in Montreal -- and why is that?
Can you feel it? The snow is starting to melt and life is about to get great again. The heavy coats, the large, bulky hoodies and the...

Marc Lalonde
Feb 17, 20202 min read


Placebo effect, sunshine, or coincidence? Let’s talk about 5-HTP
So, I’ve been fighting depression on and off basically since I began this bodybuilding thing; some weeks were OK, while other weeks were...

Marc Lalonde
Feb 12, 20204 min read


Football is back! Yes, you just read that correctly in February
I know, I know. The Super Bowl, which usually signifies the tail end of the football season as we know it, was just last weekend. There’s...

Marc Lalonde
Feb 4, 20202 min read


Clearing things up: the S-word. No, not ‘sword,’ Sean Connery. Supplements!
Every day, I get up in the morning and go straight to the kitchen for breakfast. Sort of. The first thing I consume every day since I...

Marc Lalonde
Jan 17, 20203 min read


Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, oh my!
My quest to lean put to bodybuilder proportions continues unabated this week, despite the NFL playoffs, despite the holiday season and...

Marc Lalonde
Jan 15, 20204 min read


My training week, my daily supplement routine and the aches and pains of bodybuilding...
My training week, my daily supplement routine and the aches and pains of bodybuilding Bodybuilding is as much a science as it is an art,...

Marc Lalonde
Jan 9, 20203 min read


How Trevor Lovig’s championship offence is just like Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out
Yes, that’s what I said. Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out was the absolute first thing I thought of when Trevor Lovig and I sat down to discuss the...

Marc Lalonde
Jan 6, 20202 min read


My day at the CBC, or how I learned to stop worrying and love live radio
2020 has already been an amazing year to date. New friends, new clients, and new contacts in a pair of incredible women I met on Jan. 2....

Marc Lalonde
Jan 6, 20203 min read


It’s OK to not be OK
Dear readers, I owe you a big apology. For the past few weeks, I have left these pages untended. My garden of ideas grew a little wild,...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 27, 20192 min read


Livin' on the edge -- and how Ted Stote turned his defence into a powerhouse
Cougars’ defence was livin’ on the edge in 2019. When you ask nine- and 10-year-olds to play football it’s often a miracle that you can...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 9, 20192 min read


Considering the past 365 days...and the next 365
It's a challenge at any point in time to predict the future, but I have proved particularly inadept at it in the last decade or so. This...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 8, 20193 min read


Fatigue and the month of December are trying to gang up on me
The advent calendar is strong in our house. With multiple iterations being gifted upon my children from all sides, I grow ever more...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 4, 20192 min read


Greens and protein followed by ....more greens and protein
The secret to leaning out is super easy, and if you lean in really close I'll tell you what it is. For free. My bodybuilding consultant...

Marc Lalonde
Dec 3, 20192 min read


C’mon now. There’s always time -- you just gotta look
So I hadn’t planned on making this my blog post this weekend, but I had no other choice. I hear from people all the time about exercise...

Marc Lalonde
Nov 30, 20192 min read


Finding the courage to say the things we cannot say
Where do we find the courage when everything seems dark and cold? In the wake of a friend’s passing by way of suicide, I have taken a...

Marc Lalonde
Nov 29, 20192 min read


A question of time management
I had a great conversation with one of my fitness mentors today in the gym, and it rotated a little bit around time management and how...

Marc Lalonde
Nov 27, 20193 min read


I did abs with Muna and lived to tell the tale
I must say, knowing that ultimately the end goal is not to win but to participate, that I have enjoyed the bodybuilder weightlifting...

Marc Lalonde
Nov 26, 20193 min read
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