As the Canada Summer Games and the International Association of Athletics Federation , IAAF, start taking place in August, track and field will be back on center stage. The beauty of track and field is that there are no referees or timeouts. It is all about who can get from one point to the other the fastest, who can jump the highest and longest and who can throw the furthest. Of course there are...Read more

Kale has been on the radar lately, with its high nutritional value and low calorie count - a cup is 36 calories and provides more than 100 percent of the daily value (DV) of vitamins K and A, and 200 percent of the DV for vitamin C - it's easy to see why. Kale is a leafy green vegetable that is part of the Brassica family of cruciferous vegetables which includes broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and...Read more

Injury to the shoulder is common in sport especially with athletes who depend on regular and heavy use of the shoulder joint, for example: baseball, tennis, badminton, weightlifting, football, golf and swimming. The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles that work together to stabilize the shoulder joint. It is a ball and socket type joint where the top part of the arm bone (humerus) forms a...Read more

SIRC Newsletter now available online: Canada Summer Games - Sherbrooke 2013 The Canada Games is an exciting sporting event that will host 4,200 of Canada's top athletes as they compete in over 20 different disciplines. Supported by over 5000 volunteers, it brings all the provinces and territories together in the largest national multi-sport event for young athletes in Canada. This year it will be...Read more