Results tagged “fitness”

Lose the flab, attract a partner. Too honest? Too vain? Then Fit2SpeedDate is not for you. The latest joint venture from workout behemoth Extreme Fitness and FastLife.ca combines circuit training with speed dating. We know, it's hard to believe, but the press materials promise the opportunity to "connect with the opposite sex through friendly endurance competitions, strength challenges, and partner assisted stretches." What could be more entrancing than watching your well-coiffed companion start to wilt under the weight of her barbells, or scrunching your nose as even the most liberally applied cologne fails to mask the scent of exertion?

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon, except when Ms. Snappy Answers is in New York City, as she was last weekend—sorry! Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com.

Conservative finance monkey Jim Flaherty on the budget: "We chose to support hard-working families." The budget has won favour with the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois, saving Stephen Harper from a dangerous early election. Flaherty recommended that Toronto "be prudent in their budgeting", dismissing David Miller's One Cent Now and transit plans.

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur, the new graffiti king in town, Bill Cosby's adorable dog, and the disturbing tale of a yoga instructor who was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, a dancer from Ohio who stripped to make ends meet.