On Saturday, October 26th join us in our Fitness/Dog Walk, one of many other walks that are available for you to join for free in Riverside’s 5th Annual WalkFEST Festival.
Led by Tamara Zerener founder of Fit Dogs, this walk focuses on health benefits of walking and the city of Toronto’s walk-ability.
This walk will guide you on how to keep healthy and supported by City of Toronto’s Chronic Disease Prevention Directorate you can have free access to a pedometer to use during the walk and followed by exploring Riverside’s dog-friendly business, parks, alleys and the whole Riverside district – starting with a Ribbon Cutting of Thompson Street Parkette, which has been inaugurated as Riverside’s official off-leash dog park.
Making sure that you can keep up with your pup, energyXchange will do some intro circuits and stretches. energyXchange is an “un-gym” with a holistic approach to keeping all aspects of you healthy.
Your Fit Dogs romp around Riverside is lead by the founder Tamara Zerener, a world-ranked tennis player turned social worker for at-risk youth and introduced the sporting life to the chaotic lives of her young clients -using sports as a constructive energy outlet and method to foster self-discipline amongst youth. While busy working with kids, Tamara’s under-stimulated dogs started chew up her house. Recognizing the beneficial impact sports had in her life, and the kid’s she worked with, Tamara started up Fit Dogs in 1997 as a way to get unruly pups the exercise they need.
Tamara has developed dog-centered exercise interventions, starting with her own dogs. After each workout, her dogs were very tired, very happy, refreshingly unambitious on the home front, and newly slim and trim – they were fit dogs!
If you would like to get fitness tips and learn activities that you can enjoy with your dog, sign up for this walk for FREE.
Go to www.riversidewalkfest2013.eventbrite.com and reserve your place.
Riverside WalkFEST was possible due to generous sponsorship from Streetcar