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Memberships will be transferred to other local gyms, the company said in an email to members Wednesday

Ultima Fitness in Wellington announced the gym at 12799 W. Forest Hill Blvd. in Wellington will permanently close Friday.

Members, personal training clients and staff members were altered to the closure via email on Wednesday.

The Merrell family, owners of Ultima Fitness for 20 years, could not immediately be reached for comment. The gym was known as the occasional workout spot for Bruce Springsteen, who lives part-time in Wellington.

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A two-week employee said he was blind-sided yesterday by the email and does not know why the club is closing.

"We all lost our jobs," said Brandon Olavarria. "I have another part-time job, so Ill be fine. I just feel sorry for the members and trainers."

Details of the announcement are as follows:

Members: Club closes Friday, with the exception of Taekwondo and CrossFit classes, which will continue until Jan. 31. As of Friday, all non-personal training memberships will be transferred to You Fits Lime membership at a rate of $24.99 per month. Clients may visit any location, but the closest is 13865 Wellington Trace C, Wellington. Members wishing to cancel their membership must do so through You Fit.

Personal training clients: Membership and remaining sessions will be transferred effective Friday, Jan 24 to Resilient Fitness, 11596 Pierson Rd. Suite 10, Wellington. Members wishing to cancel must do so through Resilient Fitness.

Tae Kwon Do and CrossFit clients: Classes will end at Ultima Fitness on Jan. 31, at which time they will be transferred to unspecified locations. Contact Grandmaster Pope for Tae Kwon Do questions and Jeff Dempsey for CrossFit questions. No contact information was provided.

Membership fees will continue to be charged unless accounts are canceled.

"We spent a lot of time and consideration working with both clubs to ensure it will be a good fit for our members," the email stated. "We believe you will be excited at their vision for the future."

As of Thursday, the Ultima Fitness Wellington Facebook page was closed.

The gym has no affiliation with Ultima Fitness Performance in West Palm Beach. That gym is still open and fully running. Both Ultima's have separate owners and have not had any connection with each other in more than 15 years, a spokesman for Ultima Fitness Performance in West Palm wrote in an e-mail.

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Midlife Fitness Files: The Telegraph's new health series, in which we get keep fit advice from the experts as they talk us through their weekly workouts and daily diet

Davina McCall is 52 and lives in Kent with her three children. She is currently a panellist on ITVs The Masked Singer and her next TV project will be the new series of ITVs Long Lost Family.

My weight has yo-yoed most of my life. In my early thirties, I would workout loads in the new year, then get totally unfit and start again the following year. But when I had Tily at 36 I couldnt bounce back and knew I had to get serious about fitness. Thats when I met my trainers Jackie and Mark [Wren]. Theyre responsible for a huge turnaround in my life, mentally and physically. Ive learned the yo-yo fitness thing isnt good for me but nor is being overly fit. Now, Im seeking a base level of fitness. My legs get flabby quickly and on telly I like waving my arms around in short sleeves without worrying about a bingo wing flinging around, so I want to be toned all year around.

Health is now my biggest motivator. I lost my sister Caroline to cancer when she was only 52 and my mum also to cancer. Exercise is one thing you can do to prevent all kinds of illness, so keeping fit feels like a gift to myself; an act of self-love.

Im training for a 10km run on February 9th so I do two short runs of about 20-30 minutes and one long run which is about 7-8 miles (about an hour) each week. Ill combine the short runs with a half hour intermediate home workout from ownyourgoalsdavina.com.Ive just discovered Reformer Pilates which as a game-changer, so once a week Ill run for 20 minutes to my local Pilates class, do that for an hour and then run home. On Saturday, Ill do the same thing but with a Spin class, then come home and do a ten minute abs session. About three hours a week of exercise is my ideal but if I am busy I will try do six half hours or a little less. I have a job! Its all I can manage.

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We're pulling into the end of January now, so if you haven't picked up your cheap fitness tracker yet now's the time to do so! The first month of the year is well known for its fitness tracker deals, with so many New Years resolutions requiring a tech treat to get started with. That trend continues this weekend, with a whole haul of Garmin fitness tracker deals to get you up and out in 2020.

Savings abound on everything from the cheap and simple Garmin Vivosmart 3 for just $52.99 all the way to the Forerunner 935 with $136 off at $363.21 this weekend. Such is the range of Garmin fitness tracker deals on offer right now, you can pretty much pick up a cheap smartwatch for whatever you need. Whether you're just picking up a simple tracker for steps and heart rate monitoring or you're after something a bit more complicated, with added navigational systems and onscreen training.

We've found excellent Garmin deals on the Vivosport series as well as the popular Forerunner models with the cheapest Forerunner 35 coming in at $99 right now. There's even an excellent price tag on the rugged Garmin Instinct model - a perfect smartwatch for adventurers holding a $100 discount right now, bringing it down to $199.

We've rounded up all the latest Garmin fitness tracker deals for you right here so you can find out which cheap smartwatch you'd like to pick up this weekend.

Not in the US? Scroll down for Garmin fitness tracker prices in your region.

Garmin Vivosmart 3 fitness tracker - small / medium, purple | $139.99 $52.99 at WalmartComing in cheapest today is this Garmin Vivosmart 3 fitness tracker deal from Walmart. You're saving $87 on the simple, easy to use activity tracker - a fantastic 62% off the original price. The Vivosmart 3 is a slimline tracker with a small screen displaying stats, notifications, and monitoring tools in a discrete shell. View Deal

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Garmin Vivoactive 3 fitness tracker | $249.99 $129.82 at AmazonThe Vivoactive 3 brings Garmin Pay to the fitness tracker party along with a range of personalization features and preloaded training programs. The Vivoactive 3 offers that perfect halfway point between a fitness tracker and smartwatch that makes it supremely capable for either use case. View Deal

Garmin Instinct fitness tracker | $299.99 $199.99 at Best BuyThis Garmin Instinct fitness tracker deal brings the price of the outdoor-oriented smartwatch down below $200 this week. With a 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter as well as access to three global navigational systems, this is a fitness tracker designed for the adventurer, especially considering it comes with an impressive 14 days of battery life.View Deal

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Sometimes, dedicating your life to wellness is exactly what the doctor prescribed. In the case of Burn Fitness Jonathan Cruz, he opted to go full-time with exercise and founded his Boston-based boutique studio after leaving the medical field.

I started teaching classes and I started to personal-train clients while I was still in medical school, Cruz told the Track of his graduate studies at Dartmouth College.

It all kind of started because I was a triathlete and needed to find ways to cross-train, he continued. I decided to try some group exercise classes and when I tried those, I decided I wanted to go and teach them.

After finishing medical school and stretching all the way through his residency, Cruz kept leading sweat sessions at least a couple of times each week. His career as a neuropathologist, which included a gig within the highly lucrative pharmaceutical industry, didnt even detract from his time in the gym.

I decided to retire early from my career and that was in 2001, but continued to teach more classes, Cruz said. But I didnt retire necessarily because I wanted to go and do this.

Cruz stressed that an early departure from the workforce was always in the cards for him. But he didnt know that his planned professional pause would only be temporary, or that it would eventually end in him becoming a gym owner. He spent a few years of his newfound free time traveling as intended until he decided he needed more.

It wasnt until years later that I decided to go back and do something completely different, Cruz said. After about four years, I came out of retirement and opened up Burn in the South End. It was about helping out people in a different way than how I was helping people before.

I wanted more stimulation so I decided to do this, to start my own business, he added. I didnt have a business background. I didnt go to business school. It was all self-taught, self-learned. It was tough. Every single day I had to wear a different hat. One day, I was the business guy. One day, I was the janitor. Another day, I was the architect.

And of course, every day Cruz is still a doctor. Its been almost six years since hes opened Burn Fitness first South End location and three years since he added its Back Bay outpost, but he still taps into his old M.D. skills.

I understand the body a lot better than other people in the fitness industry, Cruz said. It gives me a different perspective. When Im training my personal training clients, Im able to explain some of the real physiological changes that theyre going through and what were trying to do.

It helps focus on prevention of injuries and recovery from injuries because I understand the body and its different systems, he added. I do what I do because I love it. I did have a really good career before. I went through a lot of education and training, but what Im doing now is something I really enjoy.

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WELLINGTON, Fla. Ultima Fitness in Wellington will close down as of 5 p.m. Friday, the gym tells WPTV.

Its very disappointing to see something like this happen, says Donta Finney.

Management at the fitness center, which is located at 2799 W. Forest Hill Boulevard, Taekwondo and CrossFit classes will continue until Jan. 31.

The price went up overnight via email, Finney says.

On Thursday, members were trying to figure out where they would go and what was happening to their money. Randy Riccardy says his wife recently had paid for a one year membership.

She signed up for an annual and only got four months out of it so were just looking for a refund on the difference, Riccardy says.

Members say rates at the club has increased in the last few months in some cases doubling as the owners say they were trying to offset rent increases at the property at Wellington Trace and Forest Hill Blvd.

Bainbridge WCP Ltd., owners of the building insist rents were not raised other than a 3% hike for consumer price index.

Gym officials said all non-personal training memberships will be transferred to Youfit's Lime membership at a rate of $24.99 per month.

Clients may visit any Youfit location, but the closest is 13865 Wellington Trace C in Wellington.

Ultima Fitness members who wish to cancel their membership must do so through Youfit.

If you have a personal training membership, your membership and remaining sessions will be transferred on Friday to Resilient Fitness, which is located at 11596 Pierson Road Suite 10 in Wellington.

Members who wish to to cancel their personal training memberships must do so through Resilient Fitness.

After the Taekwondo and CrossFit classes end at Ultima Fitness on Jan. 31, they will be transferred to unspecified locations.

Contact Grandmaster Pope for Tae Kwon Do questions and Jeff Dempsey for CrossFit questions.

Membership fees will continue to be charged unless accounts are canceled.

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Lincoln Northeast's Hannah Ray finishes firstduring the A-4 district girls cross country racein October 2019 at Pioneers Park.

Gymnastics wasnt a good fit for Hannah Ray, and her 5-foot, 2-inch frame didnt lend itself to basketball.

In the fall of 2016, Beth Ray encouraged her daughter to go out for cross country at Lincoln Northeast High School. Hannah had run cross country and track in middle school, but lacked expertise in training and competing.

As a high school freshman, she started out of the blocks slowly, finishing her first race in over 23 minutes, but Coach John Snoozy and some of the upperclassmen saw potential in the diminutive freshman. Two weeks later, she cut 90 seconds off her time and earned a second-place medal at a freshman meet.

Three weeks later, she ran 20:07 at a talent-laden district meet, followed by a 19:41 and 15th place at state.

Steadily improving

Improvement has been a benchmark of her glittering career. Entering her final track season at Lincoln Northeast, the girl who once looked to carve her niche in athletics has rewritten virtually every girls distance record on the books at the esteemed 78-year-old high school.

The four-time state cross country meet qualifier and three-time Class A state medalist holds all of her high schools cross country course records, including a school all-course record time of 18 minutes, 51 seconds in the 5K.

Her senior season of cross country last fall included an individual title at the A-4 district meet, where she ran 19:07, and a fifth-place finish in a talented Class A field.

On the track oval, Hannah holds school records in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs with times of 5:08 and 11:17, respectively. Her track goals this spring are to lower her school-record time in the 1,600 meters and to finish the 3,200 meters in under 11 minutes.

Middle distance is not her forte, but she hopes to add the 800-meter mark to her slew of school records this spring.

With the girls running programs low in numbers, Hannah has found a warm reception while practicing with the Northeast boys teams. "We dont have a lot of depth in the girls programs, so theres no girl there to push me," said Hannah. "The guys have been very supportive of having me run with them."

Lincoln Northeast's Hannah Ray (4) and Lincoln Southwest's Lindsey Blehm race in the 3,200-meter run May 10, 2019 during the A-1 district track meet at Beechner Athletic Complex.

Scholarly, too

Hannah also posts impressive numbers in the classroom, where she has posted a cumulative GPA of 4.371. She plans to major in biology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Hannah has been an ambassador for our sport among others, said her head coach, John Snoozy. At this years state cross country meet, multiple coaches told me how impressed they were with Hannah as a distance runner and her display of sportsmanship with other competitors.

The daughter of Chad and Beth Ray has been selected as one of two Star City Sports Youth Athletes of the Year and will be honored at the upcoming Girls & Women in Sports & Fitness banquet.

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President Trumps impeachment trial in the Senate got underway at a tough time for people trying to keep their fitness resolutions in 2020. The days are very long when each side gets (and takes) 24 hours for opening statements.

Lets take, for example, Dry January. Who among us can stick to that goal after a day of impeachment? The only thing I really wanted after a day of sitting for several hours listening to the House managers was a glass of Cabernet. Just one! I gave up on that resolution on the first day. Oh, well. Theres always next year!

And then there is the sitting. And the sitting and the sitting. Sitting is the new smoking, havent you heard? While we have been sitting and listening and we are listening, we promise! our posture is compromised and our legs are going numb. It is like we are on a non-stop flight around the world. And the entertainment system stopped working after the first hour.

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I asked my fitness trainer what he suggested I do during these long days in a chair. Aside from getting a workout in the morning and some yoga or Pilates after work, here are his suggestions:

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Blood flow and circulation

At least once an hour, do some ankle rolls, point and flex your feet, and extend your leg from your knee. Do some neck rolls to keep your shoulders and upper back from getting too tight. Just like being on a long flight.

Higher-intensity squats. Every time you stand up and sit down counts. (Note: this is a bit hard to do sitting next to my colleagues and being on camera, but I get his point).

Mobility

Keep everything moving that you can. Simple neck rolls, arm circles, chest stretch with hands clasped behind your back, standing hip flexor and quad stretch, Figure Four stretch, waiters bow ... you get the idea.

Reducing tension

Release muscle tension and deal with boredom or frustration when you cant move (he knows me ... and impeachment ... well).

Progressive relaxation (focus on each body part starting at the feet and working your way up and spend a few seconds getting it to relax. By the time you get to your head, you should feel calmer for a while).

Box breathing (imagine a box then breathe in for four counts, hold for four counts, breathe out for four counts, and hold again for another four counts before starting the cycle again). This can also help with falling asleep.

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Hydration

Drink 8 ounces every two hours or less (more reason to leave and use the restroom, which means standing and walking).

Nutrition

Small snacks, like collagen bars, dont have too much sugar ... but allow you to consume enough energy to stay awake!

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Finally, I asked about the wine. Oh, definitely. You can have wine.

Hes the best.

Ive managed to do most of these things during the first week of impeachment wish me luck for the second week!

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FLATIRON, Manhattan We can run for miles and take spin classes, but when it comes to stretching, it seems like that's the part we walk away from.

So now the folks at the new boutique fitness studio, Stretch*d, want to do the work for you. They want to help you get loose.

It's the newest fitness trend, assisted stretching. It's supposed to help improve flexibility, lower your risk of injury and help you relax.

We headed into Stretch*d in the Flatiron District to see what it's all about.

Amanda Freeman the co-owner of Stretch*d said they have all types of people visit their studio.

People who sit at their desk all day and people who sit in front row of spin class, being stretched by someone else is a lot more effective and enjoyable.

Marathon runner, Yosef Herzog comes here twice a week.

This place has helped me round out my recovery and ascend my prevention arsenal.

The owners of Stretch*d even said stretching can give you some height by improving your posture.

They recommend you come at least twice a month to get the full benefit!

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(BPT) - Avoiding weather woes this winter? It doesn't mean you need to give up on your fitness goals. Being indoors provides ample opportunity to stay fit, whether you're doing so due to the weather or simply by choice. Check out some of the top trends for indoor fitness in 2020 and challenge yourself to try something new to make yourself happier and healthier.

Indoor simulators

Missing the greens? If you like to golf, consider heading to an indoor golf simulator that lets you practice your swing without having to pay greens fees or worry about weather. But that's not all indoor simulation can do for fun and fitness lovers. For example, people of all ages and skill levels enjoy playing simulation games at Kohler Swing Studio & Golf Shop. The Topgolf Swing Suite experience boasts a variety of virtual games including the Topgolf target game, Zombie Dodgeball, Hockey Shots, Baseball Pitching Carnival Classic and more.

Customized classes

Indoor fitness classes are always a good idea for getting exercise despite the weather, but today's offerings have evolved so that there's something for everyone, no matter your interest or fitness level. Crave upbeat and energetic? Cycling classes challenge you to keep the pace in a supportive group setting, such as the ones offered at Bold Cycle. Prefer a peaceful way to find your fitness and inner Zen? Explore yoga in a variety of different settings, such as the classes offered at Yoga on the Lake.

Technology-enhanced fitness

Technology-connected exercise machines are trending in 2020, offering people the ability to take live classes at any time from the comfort of their home. For a more affordable option, people are finding their favorite fitness channels online and accessing classes at home. From yoga and dance to circuit training and more, you'll find plentiful options on the internet. Finally, wearable fitness continues to evolve, offering people keen insight into their wellness no matter what indoor fitness activity you choose.

Wellness-focused travel

Indoor fitness opportunities are flourishing at resorts across the country, meaning you don't need to travel to a warm climate for an incredible wellness retreat. As a guest of The American Club Carriage House at Destination Kohler, youll revel in wellness choices any time of year thanks to the Unlimited Wellness program for Carriage House Guests. From complimentary access to yoga, indoor cycling and fitness to cold-pressed juices and Wellness Concierges, you'll enjoy every minute, mind, body and soul.

Group and family fitness

Adopting a fitness lifestyle is more than just an individual endeavor. In 2020 look for more partners and families to participate in indoor fitness activities together. Whether it's taking a multigenerational class or helping each other work out at home, family fitness is a wonderful way to bond, get healthy and keep everyone accountable. Sign up for that intro class as a couple, make a weekend date for the entire family to exercise together at home or try a fitness vacation together over the next break from school.

Indoor fitness is poised to flourish throughout 2020. Consider taking advantage of these top trends and you'll enjoying getting active and increasing your wellness.

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Choose a good spot Find a comfortable, quiet space, with room for your mat and for you to stretch your arms out and up. Make sure you can see the screen clearly: once youre used to the postures, youll rely on it less. Wear fitted clothes so they dont hang over your face when your heads lowered, and no socks.

Pay attention You wont have a teacher to help with alignment, so watch the instructor carefully; avoid poses that might hurt your neck, or that involve twisting too much. If something feels too complicated, stop. Start with an easier style, such as hatha.

Find a teacher you like Spend time looking for a teacher who resonates with you. You could try 50 classes before deciding on the right person. Choose levels and styles that work for you. You can repeat classes you enjoy as many times as you want.

Stay motivated Try to allocate a regular time for your practice. Subscribe to a channel, so you receive notifications when classes are posted, and participate in an online challenge for a month, say.

Erin Sampson runs fiveparksyoga.com

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