Jonathan’s Journal

My name is Jonathan and I own Fitness For Freedom. This feed consists of my stories of fitness and business. As a student of life I have found that trial and error is the best way to figure things out, so I will share my successes, mistakes and how I will do things differently going forward.

This blog is a reflection of my previous week and comes out on Saturday mornings.

Top 10 Reasons Why I Exercise

Written by Jonathan

Exercise has a lot of health benefits like preventing Heart Disease, improving your bone density, preventing Type 2 Diabetes and decreasing your chance of getting Alzheimer’s, but if I’m going to be completely honest I […]

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The 14th Thing and No One Knows This One

Written by Jonathan

I cannot believe the response we got from our 13 Things Only a Couple of People Know About Me post. Your encouragement and thoughts towards it and us have been overwhelming and for that I […]

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13 Things Only A Couple Of People Know About Me

Jonathan Chant, presenting at University of Ottawa. Two fingers pointing out. Written by Jonathan

I read in someone’s blog somewhere that you should write out a list of things people don’t know about you so they can get to know you better and build a better relationship with them, […]

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Taking Stock of What’s Really Important

Written by Jonathan

This week for the podcast we interviewed a woman in her early 30’s, she suffered a stroke several months ago and almost died. The conversation we had was an emotional rollercoaster as she talked about […]

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I Want to Change the World

Jonathan Chant Written by Jonathan

Just typing that makes my heart beat a little faster, but it’s true. I don’t know where it comes from, maybe I watched too many episodes of Superman growing up or maybe it comes from […]

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Are You Living Up to Your Full Potential?

Jonathan Chant Written by Jonathan

Have you ever been in the middle of a task or project and asked yourself ‘Why am I doing this right now?’ and not been able to answer it clearly. This happened to me last […]

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Do You Value Time More Than Money?

Jonathan Chant Written by Jonathan

About 6 months ago I embarked on a journey. I didn’t realize that’s what I was doing but it was. I came to the realization that the online version of what I was trying to […]

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When a 2 Hour Job Turns Into a 2 Day Job

Jonathan Chant Written by Jonathan

This was a long and moderately frustrating week, you know when you’re first learning a new skill or you’re not sure how to do something and somehow a task or a job that you think […]

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If I’m Right Then By Default You’re Wrong

Jonathan Chant Written by Jonathan

I’m flawed, but shhh don’t tell my parents, they think, I think I’m perfect, something about being a cocky teenager, but that ship sailed years ago and someone forget to tell them I age just […]

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