The Athletic-Minded Blog

Archive for May, 2007

Edmonton Now Live

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

First there was Toronto, next came Vancouver, then Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary followed. Now we’re proud to announce Edmonton is part of The Athletic-Minded Traveler.
As with all of our cities, we traveled to Edmonton, Alberta, to get a first-hand look at the most fitness focused hotels, the best hotel gyms, fantastic health clubs, healthy [...]

This healthy cook book is a James Beard winner

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The James Beard Foundation recently handed out awards and “Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way” won for the Healthy Focus category. This grabbed our athletic-minded attention.
The book gets great reviews. For example, on Amazon.com one reviewer writes, “This book is a must for anyone trying to make sense of whole-grain recommendations and [...]

2007 Top 10 Hotel Lap Pools in North America

Monday, May 14th, 2007

AthleticMindedTraveler.com is on a crusade. We seek to revolutionize the way hotels describe their gyms by identifying which properties truly provide “state of the art” fitness centers. And, on behalf of our fish-like friends, we’re on a mission to help hotels understand the difference between a “lap pool” and a recreational pool. [...]

Suns Out, Guns Out!

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Ahhh, finally the entire country is experiencing consistently warmer weather again. This means convertibles come out of the garage in the northeast, boats are launched in the midwest, snow melts in the mountains, and rain turns to ’shine in the northwest.
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This part of the year is also [...]

Bye Bye Basso

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

After only 5 months into his recently inked 3-year contract, Italian cycling phenom Ivan Basso has resigned from Team Discovery Channel (partly owned by Lance Armstrong). Basso was signed in November 2006 as the heir apparent to King Lance (he finished 2nd to Lance in 2005 at TDF) with hopes of returning Discovery to [...]