The 2021 Défi Cardio 5 Heures Challenge requires doing five consecutive hours of virtual exercise, within a team or on your own. It’s open to everyone (Énergie Cardio members or not), and everyone participates at their own pace! This year, discover our completely new, completely virtual formula, where pushing your limits has never been more accessible.

From the comfort of your home, you can get moving simultaneously with all the other participants in the Défi Cardio 5 Heures Challenge and join the cause to help our sick kids in Quebec. Over the years, more than 1000 participants have joined the cause and given their all for five hours at a time!

You can also get in on all the other options happening alongside the Challenge, to boost your fundraising or just get in on the fun! See our events below.

For more information or for any requests relating to Défi Cardio 5 heures, contact us at deficardio@energiecardio.com

How does Défi cardio 5 heures works?

Everyone (Énergie Cardio members or not) can participate! Click here to see all participants. Click here to see the amount raised.

Other ways to contribute

Open to all

Coming soon

60-minute workout with the Alouettes Cheerleaders

Move for the cause ! The video will be available as of May 15th.

$10 Booking
From may 5th

Doser son stress mécanique pour la prévention et la gestion des blessures

[En français seulement] Conférence par Mathieu Foster et Gabriel Flamand, tous deux physiothérapeutes et fondateurs de Physiothérapie Nomade.

$10 Booking
Saturday May 9th, 8:45

Cours virtuel Cardio Tae-Boxe

[en français seulement] Vous avez envie de vous défouler et de vous entrainer en vous inspirant de la boxe et des arts martiaux ? Voici le cours par excellence où Marie-Claude vous fera travailler un bon coup.

$10 Booking
Sunday May 9th, 10:00

POUND training

You want to live an intense and fun training session while letting off some steam? Then POUND is for you! This Rockstar style training will permit you to work your cardio and your muscles all in one.

$10 Booking
May 11th, 6PM

Zumba 90 minutes

[en français seulement] Renée et Élise vous offrent un Zumba spécial de 90 minutes virtuel

$10 Booking
May 13th, from 12:15 to 12:45

Entrainement virtuel de groupe 30 minutes de type Tabata

[en français seulement] Joignez-vous à nous le 13 mai prochain, de 12h15 à 12h45 pour un entrainement virtuel 30 minutes de type Tabata!

$10 Booking
May 14th, 15th and 16th

Course Énergie Cardio - 5km

[En français seulement] Coureurs expérimentés, nouveaux coureurs, marcheurs ou familles, cette activité est pour vous ! Nous vous proposons de marcher/courir 5km entre le 14-15-16 mai. En vous inscrivant à cette activité, vous aurez accès à un plan d’activation complet pour être prêt au jour-J.

$10 Booking
May 20th

LesMills BODYFLOW

[en français seulement] Retrouvez Rebecca et Jessy dans ce cours qui plongera votre corps et votre esprit dans un état d'harmonie et d'équilibre.

$10 Booking
May 21st

Pédalez pour la cause!

[en français seulement] En collaboration avec MP2 productions, on célèbre la santé avec Nancy et Luce le 21 mai prochain, sous formule d’un spin-o-thon 5 @ 7 virtuel

$10 Booking
Coming soon

Conference on motivation, sports psychology and how to get your kids active in sports by Dr. Jean-Michel Pelletier

The video will be available as of May 15th.

$10 Booking
Coming soon

Parent-Child Course

3 types of classes: Yoga, Zumba and Circuit. The video will be available as of May 15th

$5 Booking
Saturday 22 May 2021

Come back to cheer our participants, live !

Watch our participants sweat. You will be able to make donations during the event in real time.

Achieving goals will bring surprises live. Don't miss it!

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Our ambassadors

Isabelle Huot

A renowned nutritionist, Isabelle Huot is THE nutrition reference in Québec. Isabelle regularly writes columns for several written media and does several TV chronicles about nutrition. Each year, Isabelle gives lectures everywhere across the province to the general public, and as a guest speaker at corporate events. She is the author of 9 books and owner of 5 nutrition clinics; she elaborated an assortment of ready-to eat meals and snacks sold on-line or in supermarkets.

Alex Perron

Alex graduated at the end of the 1980s from Laval University with a major in theatre; he then cofounded the Nez à nez theatre in Baie Saint-Paul, where he participated in several productions as stage director and actor. He went on to further his training at l'École de l'humour and cofounded, in 1996, the Mecs Comiques. With the group, he will go on to participate in two comedy show tours. After that venture, he becomes co-host on the radio and makes, along with his group, a multimedia comedy album called "On chante toujours mieux dans not'char". In 2002, the group writes and films their very first dramatic TV series "3 x Rien", which, critics say, "reinvents TV comedy." Around the same time, he starts writing an urban humoristic column in the Actuel section of La Presse. In the summer of 2006, as part of the Just for Laughs Festival, Alex hosts a new outdoors comedy shows series called "CKOI ton spectacle", live on the air of CKOI, a first for Just for Laughs. In the fall, he then goes on to host "La mode en vedette" on Musimax, a fashion and design-oriented TV show. His first solo comedy show, "Un gars c't'un gars", premiering in Montreal in the fall of 2009, was a huge success. At the same time, he collaborates to several TV, radio and stage projects among which "Pour le Plaisir" on Radio-Canada, "Atomes Crochus" on V, "Opération Séduction" also on V, as well as book projects including India "Cherchez la Femme" from author India Desjardins. He also hosts the series "Alex en Floride" on Évasion and co-hosts the TV morning show "Ça commence bien" on V; he has been hosting the night segment of Opération Enfant Soleil's Telethon for several years, and hosts "Mordu de toi" on Canal-Vie. Since 2016, Alex is a panel member on the "Échangistes", and is the host of "Votre beau Programme's" web segment, both shows airing on the TV of Radio-Canada. He is currently co-hosting "Contact", airing on ROUGE FM … all this, always enjoying what he does, and having fun doing it!

Étienne Drapeau

Étienne is a Quebec singer-songwriter, who sings in French, Spanish and English, Étienne Drapeau has 7 albums to his credit, several hundred shows, 7 songs on the radio, 9 million YouTube views for her song T'es ma femme, you're the most beautiful, a million and a half streamings and downloads per year and more than 52,600 likes for her Facebook site.

Recognized in Quebec for his humanitarian and social involvement, Étienne has participated in numerous humanitarian missions in Ethiopia, Morocco and the Dominican Republic. On February 16, 2013, at the Quebec National Assembly, Étienne was honored by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec for his involvement.

Étienne is the spokesman of Sainte-Justine in the heart of the world, which carries out missions in pediatric cardiology around the world. A tour will be held in Quebec during the summer season and Etienne Drapeau will leave in October and November 2018 tour on the island of Cuba, invited by the Ministry of Culture of this country. For the first time in Cuban musical history, a Quebec artist will present a series of shows in Spanish in several cities and famous theaters in this country. Under the agreement signed between Les Productions Québec-Cuba inc. and EGREM, the most important Cuban music label, Étienne Drapeau will be touring the Cuban artist Enrique Alvarez and his Charanga Latina orchestra.

Then there will be many other exciting and prolific projects for his career. The arrival of the quarantine confirms to Étienne that he is now at the right place with this project and that he will commit himself for the next years with all his passion for the music which, even today, transports him beyond borders he has always hoped to cross

Josée Boudreault

Josée spawned in the media for almost 30 years already. Known on the radio as the co-host of “La Belle et Macleod” and then at “Les midis de Véro”. On TV as presenter of the quiz Duo and “de ma Liste à moi” with Marie-Christine Michaud. Since the last 5 years she is a speaker following the release of her 2 best-sellers: "Be your best friend" that helps women to look empathically and affectionately about themselves.

Louis-Philippe Rivard

Louis-Philippe has been working as a writer for almost 25 years. He has written about twenty comedy shows like Peter MacLeod, Michel Barrette, Marc Dupré, Véronic Dicaire and Jean-Michel Anctil. He has participated in the writing of 3 Bye Bye and is currently a designer on Véronique Cloutier's first show.

Marie-Claude Perron

[In french only] Depuis près de dix ans, Marie-Claude s’est taillée une place de choix dans le milieu des médias, que ce soit en tant qu’animatrice ou comme voix à la radio et à la télé.

Touche-à-tout et des idées plein la tête, Marie-Claude est dynamique, ambitieuse et passionnée. Native de Matane, en Gaspésie, elle n'a pas peur des défis et elle travaille fort pour réaliser ses rêves.

Elle est ambassadrice de la marque Énergie Cardio et instructeur de cours en groupe depuis 7 ans. Elle a créé et animé la série web Garder La Forme de Sports Experts et la série de capsules SKIGÖ et SNOGÖ de Ski Saint-Bruno. Nous pouvons entendre sa jolie voix sur différentes publicités télé et radio. Elle est également reporter circulation pour les radios Énergie et Rouge. S’ajoutent à ses nombreux projets en tant que comédienne à la télé (entre autres dans la populaire série Blue moon).

Parmi les mandats marquants de sa carrière, il y a eu la conception, production et animation des séries télé Wake dans'rue et SMF Snowboard sur les ondes de TVA Sports, la co-animation d’une quotidienne sur les ondes de VRAK.TV et plusieurs apparitions sur les ondes de MusiquePlus.

Sa voix saura vous charmer et il n’y a aucun doute que vous verrez de plus en plus son sympathique minois !

marieclaudeperron@hotmail.ca / 514-688-9451 / marieclaudeperron.com

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