Has this ever happened to you? You like someone. You want to date them. You’re too shy to ask them out. They show signs of sort of being interested, but several weeks have slipped by and now your stuck in the dreaded trap called the friend zone.

 

You can try to justify it as some sort of friendship holding pattern until the right time presents itself, but the truth is you want more… and they don’t. It’s nice to feel wanted and needed, but most relationships should have more than just a couple of their needs met. If you're hanging out with someone and they never sleep with you, but call you all the time to hang out, or go shopping, or need your shoulder to cry on… buddy, you’re stuck in the friend zone. 

 

There are even sub-categories of friend zoning such as the BFF, the chauffeur, the therapist, and the last minute date.

Are you starting to feel like you’ve been taken advantage of? Well then stop it! Stop this bad amusement park ride right now. If you need help (because you look like you do), then listen to the weeks, Antidote Podcast.

 

This week Marie discusses the Friend Zone phenomenon with Mr Friend Zone himself, Todd Battle. They discuss various points from the book, "Friend Zone" written by The Wing Girls, Jet and Star. Todd drops a couple of cringe-worthy anecdotes and war stories from the front lines of the friend zone that might have even happened to you.

On today’s episode of Low Fidelity, Todd explains to Marie why he failed at being a vegetarian. Now that God’s little creatures are no longer off limits, does he plan on taking another shot at a more compassionate dinner plate in the future? With a little retooling of his vegetable based diet plan, he lets the listeners know how he will be back to take another swing. 

 

Not all is lost. Todd has taken up a new food challenge called, "The No Eating Out Diet". Over the last couple of days prior to today’s podcast, Todd had two dining-out mishaps that made him really think about what is on his plate and how much he is willing to paying for it. Surely his hard earned money could be spent somewhere else; like a new cookbook or something nice for Marie. 

 

With all this talk about food, what does the title “The Flip Flopper” have to do with this week’s Low Fidelity Podcast? 

 

 

If you remember back some months ago on a previous Low Fidelity Podcast, Todd talked about how dealing with children is like “handling a bag of rattlesnakes”. His analogy of deadly snakes ready to bite explained his fear of people looking for the negative in his desire to mentor a child outside of his own family. Faced with an opportunity to mentor an 8 year old aspiring film maker, Todd has since Flip Flopped on his old position and fears by taking on a new journey with the talented and super awesome kid, Austin.

Is losing weight a goal? Surprisingly it isn’t. This show will tell you why, and also help you understand what’s missing in your life after all the money is made, and the kids have grown up.

 

Do you feel as if you are too swamped to even have a worthwhile goal? If you do then your life needs a reset. Hear about a man named Spencer West who might make you think twice about all the excuses you have ever made about not doing something. Your life won’t wait for your goals to be made, you have to treat this day as if it is the first day of your new life..because it is.

 

Without specific, measurable goals, can you still achieve the big things, like your career, your retirement or even your health? Maybe not. In this episode, Marie and Todd talk about some of the tools they have found that are steering them in the right direction.

It’s that time of year again where the men that can grow a mustach do to help raise awareness to fight Prostate Cancer; except for Todd. Instead he’s decided to grows sideburns instead, this Movember. Last year, Todd tells the listeners that he looked like a dirtbag with his ridiculous handlebar mustach and so has decide to opt. Does he have the right or must he suffer the home grown snot catcher  along with his fellow men?

 

Well he started off the Movember festivities with his first straight razor shave, ever! Todd wasn’t scared to have a complete stranger swing a straight precariously above his jugular vein.  That’s because before he went under the knife, Marie treated him to a stiff glass of Jack Daniels Whiskey with a splash of actual smoke, burnt off a strip of maple.

 

With a couple of nicks and some blood stains here and there, Todd’s face felt like it did when he was 13 years old. So smooooooooth!

 

November’s Movember draws awareness about Prostate Cancer but it is also a time for Remembrance. We lost two Canadian soldiers on home soil just weeks before our Remembrance Day Ceremonies on November 11th. In two separate incidence, we lost two of our bravest. 

 

This week’s episode of Low Fidelity, Todd lets his Canadian pride shine free. Dropping Canadian hits from Bob and Doug Mckenzie to Reggae legends Messenjah, Todd talks about his new friend from Brazil, Douglas. Douglas speaks softly with the rasp like Marlon Brando. He’s been working so hard to become a Canadian citizen, and boy we’d be lucky to have him! At night he studies English, works out in the early morning and pays his taxes from a job he does during the day. Douglas may have his Masters degree but no job is beneath him. If he had to flip burgers he would and I know he’d be the best at it. He knows there are problems everywhere, even in this place called Canada, but he’ll never say a damn thing derogatory about his new country. Douglas doesn’t even bitch about the weather...

 

 

In essence, Douglas has the substance needed to be an awesome Canuck. This weeks podcast is all about Canadian Pride

Before Jillian Michaels, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and all the other posers that just showed their abs off to the world, there was one fitness superstar that literally blew all the others out of the water.

 

This incredible person was Jack LaLanne.

 

The list of things this man has done for humanity, and the growing fitness community at large is too long to mention here. We try to list a fraction of all he has done, but there was so much that we couldn’t pack it all into one show.

 

Did you go to the gym today? You can thank Jack LaLanne for that. Did you use a cable machine at that gym? Again, thank Jack. Listen to this episode to hear all the reasons why we should all speak his name when we talk about building our bodies to their fullest potential.

Did someone say “Easy” and “Workouts” in the same sentence? Well today is your lucky day because on today’s show Marie shares 10 ways to make your workouts easier, and more enjoyable without sacrificing your fitness goals! 

 

It may not be that the high cardio intensity, the heavy weights or even the 2 hours in hot yoga class that make your workouts feel impossibly tough. Your biggest challenges placed on your training regimen may come from what you do to yourself outside of the gym. 

 

In this episode of The Antidote, Marie gets into the nitty-gritty of sport nutrition, optimal pre workout food choices and hydration, after all, you are what you eat. Lets not forget to pack a positive attitude before stepping into the locker room; setting a good mental tone along with some good tunes will do wonders when facing the squat rack full of plates.

 

This podcast is perfect for those who wish to improve on their fitness goals without any extra heavy lifting! Listen Now!

Marie recently took on a new client who has never worked out in the gym. 

At some point, we have all been there. First-time newbies who don’t have a clue what to do, and equally unsure about how to transform their bodies. This new client is in her 70s, and just a beginner. Good for her! She said she had never worked out before because 'it just wasn’t "the fashion" back then'.

 

How the heck did gym women start to exercise for health and for beauty? Was there one specific person that caught Marie’s attention in the fitness world who was a pioneer? Absolutely. Her name was Elizabeth Arden.

But wait you say, Elizabeth Arden was a cosmetics mogul that transformed the cosmetics industry by launching over 100 spas and salons during her decades of beauty reign. Yes this is true, but there is much more to the story of Elizabeth Arden, and how she influenced and impacted the fitness world than you could ever imagine.

 

Marie uncovers a long forgotten, but fascinating story of how this early 20th century visionary wanted to make all women beautiful, and chose to do it not from the neck up, but from head to toe, and inside-out.

Revenge Gym is known for many things. One of those things is for creating the one minute push up challenge. 

 

Sure, it may be only one push up but it will be the hardest one you have ever done. The rules are rather simple; All challengers must do a classic push up from their toes, lowering themselves to with in an inch off the ground, returning to the start position with their arms full extended. However, the push up must be completed without pause during the contest for the entire minute. We recommend using a stop watch to pace yourself. Marie and Todd have been shooting #oneminutepushup videos all over the great city of Toronto. For those that have completed it come the spoils of bragging rights, an electronic certificate and the authority to call out anyone, anytime… anywhere to do the #oneminutepushup. 

 

Not to be out done, Marie took her newly earned authority to twitter last week, to call out various celebrities, fitness gurus and rockstars to do the One Minute Push Up Challenge . Surely such an esteemed list of who’s who is bound to draw our first celebrity certification. Heck, we only asked them to film themselves doing the most excruciating exercise they've ever done in their entire life. 

 

That Oscar might look good on their fireplace mantel but the #oneminutepushup certificate has power….pectoral power!

Before there was Todd and Marie, there was Todd, then there was Marie. 

What is the story behind Revenge Gym? How did it start? How did Todd and Marie meet and create what you now see and hear over all the social media platforms? In this week’s episode, Marie gives the listeners some backstory on how Todd Started Revenge Gym, and how it has evolved to what you experience today.

 

 Everyone runs into obstacles to success. The point in life really is how obstacles get handled, and the things you can learn along the way. Sometimes tough times change us for the better. Sometimes changing for the better means first changing for the worse. Misfortune happens, then growing, healing, and evolving to something quite fantastic can result. This can be a long process at times. Todd shares his journey to how Revenge Gym was first conceived, and Marie reveals all the twists and turns that they both went through to arrive at where they are, and what they have learned so far.

Have you ever wanted to look younger than your actual chronological age? Did you ever want to be perceived as older when you were in your early teens, or as a kid? Why do we want to be something that were not? In this episode Marie outlines conditions typically related to aging that are complete myths. There are things accepted in our society that are considered a part of aging that are simply false. Certain processes, like blood pressure shouldn’t rise as you get older. Eyesight doesn’t need to decline. Flexibility can and does remain constant for some individuals, so why not you?

 

Why is youth pushed so hard in the media? At what point did we as teens rush ahead to look older, only to turn right around at 40-something and resist it will all our power and money in our bank accounts? What is so wrong with admitting we are mortal? But wait. Something like our back goes out when we lift luggage, and all of a sudden it’s due to "our aging”. This is absolute nonsense.