Cold exposure has become like crack to us!!!
This past June, while looking for hot Canadians to feature on my July 1st Canada Day themed posts, I discovered the social media accounts of brothersJohn and Brad Mayo. Although Canada Day may have come and gone, but I didn't want to wait another year to introduce the Nova Scotia brothers to FH readers.
Still in their twenties, both John and Brad are retired kayakers living in their parents lakeside home just outside of the city of Halifax. The brothers decided they wanted to make create a new brand of healthy living they call 'Cold Exposure.'
Each day, spring, summer, autumn and winter, they take their morning shower not in the bathroom, but in the lake, even if they have to dig through ice to jump in. In addition to the beauty of the adorable siblings, I love seeing the four seasons so beautifully captured, usually with the lake and surrounding tree's as the brothers majestic and colorful background. In addition to cold exposure, the brothers also practice parkour and have a focus on calisthenics.
'Basically the etymology of calisthenics is "beauty" and "strength." So kalos is beauty and sthenos is strength. So just kind of like, functional movements.'
'A lot of people come up with excuses for why they can't work out or think they need a gym membership, and we just kind of became obsessed with this guy—Ido Portal [who's trained Conor McGregor]—and I was like, "wow, this looks way more interesting than just being in the gym doing bench presses," which is what we were used to because we were both competitive kayakers. We did that our whole lives, but weight training kind of got boring, so once we retired from that sport we kind of got bored with what we were doing, [and] we were like, we want to do some cool interesting stuff.'
