Profiles
Ranked #1 in the world and will crush you like a grape.
Ranked as the number one super heavyweight arm wrestler on the planet, Devon Larratt wants to wrestle anyone in the Ottawa area who dares to challenge him.
Helping Others Run – How one man in Ottawa made is a role model for runners
Ken Parker is both runner and coach. He is a businessman and volunteer. He is a sponsor to professional athletes and the man who runs the Runner's Web, (www.runnersweb.com) a resource and tool for athletes at all levels of training. Inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame in 2005 he is prominent player, and role model, to the sport of running in Ottawa.
Keep on pushin’: How an Ottawa man broke the world record for pushups
For record number one, Roy completed 3,416 push-ups in one hour. Record number two was for 100 push-ups with his feet on an 80cm high table. Beating the previous record of 68 seconds, he achieved this feat in just under 46 seconds. Record number 3 saw him successfully complete 138 push-ups in one minute.
Octogenarian “paints” his life with healthy fitness routine
You can't keep a man like Cliff Poulin down. This 86-year-old real estate agent, who has been known to put in a 70-hour week, and works out at the gym three mornings a week, says if he won the lottery tomorrow, he wouldn't change what he's doing today.
Through thick and thin - Personal trainer finds her groove
On her journey from a 227-pound woman to a svelte, muscular 120-pound trainer, Joanne Hale learned a lot about metabolism, nutrition and the psychology of obesity.After two decades of yo-yo dieting, Hale developed from a “chubby” teen (about 130 lbs at five foot two) to a morbidly obese thirty-something married mother of one...
