#sweat session

[traviskwayne]

Started my day off right

[ghjco]

November House Happenings

Happy November, friends!

We have a full month of happenings planned, and we’d love to see you as we pop-up across the city. On this month’s agenda: much merriment, holiday planning for eager elves, a cocktail-making workshop, and more! Scroll on for details.

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What: Greenhouse Food Fête When: Thursday, November 2nd / 8-10pm Where: lululemon Queen Street West (318 Queen Street West)

About: It is with ravenous excitement that we invite you to our Food Fête!

We'll be toasting the launch of our new capsule collection of plant-based food items, from breakfast pots to salads, panini, and hangry bites. Many of the recipes were inspired by The Greenhouse Cookbook, and all are made with love in Toronto by our friends at Foodbenders.

To Attend: This event is by invitation only, so please send us a note to learn more: [email protected]

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What: Hank and Hook x Knitted Knockers When: Saturday, November 4th / 7-9pm Where: Greenhouse Forest Hill (328 Lonsdale Road)

About: Hank and Hook will be taking over our Forest Hill location after hours to knit 100 Knitted Knockers before the holidays. Knitted Knockers are special handmade breast prosthesis for women who have undergone mastectomies or other procedures to the breast. These soft, comfortable, lightweight prosthesis are available for free and made by volunteers. All knitters in attendance will receive a complimentary juice to keep them going while they knit!

To Attend: RSVP at bit.ly/knittedknockersCAD! Anyone can RSVP for free (You must pay $10 to confirm your spot, but it will be refunded to you when you arrive), but spaces are limited.

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What: UnCo’s “When Life Gives You Lemons...Make Lemonade” When: Wednesday, November 15th / 6:30pm Where: Make Lemonade (326 Adelaide Street West)

About: In partnership with Make Lemonade, this event focuses on sharing diverse experiences of adversity—how you overcame it, and how it has shaped who you are today. Speakers include our own Hana James of Greenhouse Juice, Kayley Reed of Wear Your Label, Sheena Brady of Tease Tea, Eva Wong of Borrowell, and Kyla Broden of Wiz Kid Coding. Nasma Ahmed will moderate.

Greenhouse will be sampling juice and our new salads post-event.

To Attend: This is an intimate evening, with only 40 attendees. Tickets will soon be available here: https://www.picatic.com/UnCo.

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What: AGO’s Member Shop Day When: Thursday, November 16th Where: Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas Street West)

About: For one week a year, AGO members get double their discounts on all items in the gift shop. Members can enjoy 20% off during this week, except on Guillermo Del Toro’s exhibition merchandise. On the 16th, Greenhouse will be offering complimentary samples to promote our presence there. (Did you know we have a fridge in the gallery’s gift shop?)

To Attend: All are welcome to drop by, but please note the discount is only for AGO Members.

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What: Greenhouse Talks: Boxcar Social When: Monday, November 20th / 7:30-10:30PM Where: Boxcar Social Harbourfront (235 Queens Quay West)

About: We’ll be joining forces with our friends at Boxcar Social for our third Greenhouse Talks event. Our friends at Boxcar will be leading a Mixology 101 workshop, helping guests prepare three unique holiday cocktails, which attendees can enjoy post-event. You’ll go home with recipe cards to recreate them all season-long.

To Attend: Purchase your ticket HERE.

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What: Detox Market x Greenhouse Holiday Shop Night When: Wednesday, November 22nd / 7-9PM Where: The Detox Market (420 King Street West)

About: We’re hosting a Shop Night with our friends at The Detox Market. The event will have food, drinks, and everything you need to get holiday-ready, Psst: If all goes well, we’ll also be previewing some exclusive Greenhouse merch.

To Attend: This free event is open to everyone to attend, but we ask guests RSVP through our event page. This will go live on November 13th. Stay tuned!

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What: StriveLife November Sweat Session When: Saturday, November 25th / 12-1pm Where: StriveLife Ultimate Athletics (849 Adelaide Street West)

About: We’ll be getting sweaty with our buff pals at StriveLife, whose classes always leave us sore—in a good way! Post-class, we’ll enjoy a juice and Hangry Bites.

To Attend: We’ll be launching an event page on November 15th. To register, each attendee is asked to provide a $5 donation to Harvest Kitchen. Keep a lookout for the announcement if you’re interested in sweating with us.

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What: STYLE.ca x Offsite Holiday Pop-Up When: Sunday, November 26th / 10am Where: Offsite Concept Space (867 Dundas Street West)

About: STYLE.ca is hosting a two-day holiday pop-up at Offsite. Greenhouse will be there, creating a holiday treat from The Greenhouse Cookbook.

To Attend: Stay tuned! More details coming later this month.

[thatfitchickwannabe-blog]

Jab, Straight, Hook, Upper Cut!

I’ve always been afraid to try boxing. It seems like it’s so intense and intimidating. My perception was I will die and hate it. I always vehemently refused to try boxing… until recently. Thanks to GuavaPass, I’m able to try all sorts of classes and I always believed that we should try new things, even just once.

Last night, I was checking what workout I would do this morning. My regular Monday class of choice is Led Ashtanga in Life Yoga but for some reason, it wasn’t on the list. The other yoga classes in BGC were hot yoga (no way, tried it before and hated it. Almost fainted, I literally saw spots and couldn’t breath. NOT FOR ME, THANKS.) and yin yoga (I want to sweat, this sounds too steady for me). So took a look at Makati classes and decided to finally bite the bullet and go for boxing at Elite Boxing and Muay Thai. It also helps that class is at 8am so I don’t have to wake up at like 4:30am.

I was nervous all up to my warm up and was questioning why I was there. Everyone seemed so intense and there I was, a little noob. I reminded myself of my goals and went in there with an open mind… and came out all smiles! We started with a 6-minute jog to warm up, then straight to stretching. Since I was a newbie, he spent some time teaching me the different types of punches. He had me do a few minutes of shadow boxing and then the fun began! I put on the gloves and just followed his instructions. Did that for a few minutes then the speed ball. I think that was the most challenging. Seriously, i don’t know how they do it so fast!! I’ll get you soon, speed ball. Back to another few rounds with the last 2 being the most explosive. I think the coach took it easy on me since it’s my first day but I didn’t die. Cardio-wise, I was good but my arms during the last 2 rounds were dying. At the end, I was just trying to tap the coach’s gloves even without power. The goal was not to keep moving until the end. I really enjoyed myself, it was such a good sweat for a Monday morning that I think I want to make it my regular Monday morning workout. I also like getting to Makati and the office early so I can ease in to work mode.

The facilities of Elite are good too! Their showers are spacious but no hot water but really, after that workout, you want a nice cold shower. It’s also just fans is the bathroom so not a good place for me to put on make up which is fine, I can just do that in the office.

Today I surprised myself and found another workout to add to my options. I got a lot of messages from friends asking how it was. Apparently, I’m not the only one intimidated by boxing. My response to that is DO IT. If I survived, so can you!

http://eliteboxing.com.ph/

[jillymariefit]

Cardio in a hoodie and sweatpants is harder than I remember.

[prettygirlssweat]

Want surfer's abs and surfer's arms? Get a surfer's BOD! Break a sweat with this 7 min workout.

[prettygirlssweat]

On today's Sweat Session, fitness trainer Kelsey Lee takes on the 200 squat challenge (she does 225 to be exact). Learn how you can burn 100 calories just by doing squats! Kelsey uses body and dumbbell weight resistance to go through a series of squats while she burns 100 calories in just a few minutes!