"Anything worth having is worth working hard to get it."
"No one ever regrets being healthier."
"Every one breaks records when they strive to do their best - and beat their own records."
"The only way to have pride in yourself is to do something you didn't think you could do."
"Don't wait to make yourself a better person. Start today and become better by tomorrow."
"Sweating is easy. If exercising is hard, then it means you are making progress."
"Go outside. Do stuff you enjoy doing."
"Persistence doesn't come easily. You have to do it again and again and again."
"Even a baby can exercise. It is called baby steps."
"Facing challenges changes you - one step at a time."
"Exercise like you mean it."
A few statistics...
Since its first post CardioTrek.ca has been visited by over 1.6 million visitors, mostly from Canada and the USA.
Most of my clients live in Toronto, but the website gets visitors from around the world. Outside of North America, visitors are most likely to come from: United Kingdom, France, India, Germany, Australia, Russia, Taiwan + Mexico.
Not sure why CardioTrek is so popular in France, but sure. Whatever. I am okay with that. Might have something to do with the words "cardio trek", which means exactly the same thing in French. Apparently I picked a name that was perfectly bilingual. Maybe in the future I should make CardioTrek bilingual so it is also available in French? Hmm. Although truth be told my Korean is better than my French.
Archery Trivia
France has over 72,000 registered archers. More than any other European nation. France even has more archers than the USA.
There is a rumour (unsubstantiated) that French forces sometimes cut off two of the fingers of captured enemy archers so that they wouldn't be able to fight against the French later in the future. This supposedly led to the phrase the "Two Finger Salute", however there are many historians who question the accuracy of this rumour.
The phrase "keep it under your hat" speaks of an ancient tradition of archers keeping a spare bowstring under their hat so it doesn't get wet.
The phrase "playing fast and loose" refers to archery jargon for "fast" which was traditionally used to mean "stop shooting fast" and the word "loose", which means to loose your arrows at the enemy. "Playing fast and loose" thus originally meant a person who would stop and start things quickly.
The phrase "a bolt from the blue" refers to a person struck by a crossbow bolt launched from a long distance, coming out of the proverbial blue sky from an unknown crossbowman.
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| It could also be used to shoot broken or damaged arrows whenever the archer started running low on arrows. |
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