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Its time for Apple Watch to get serious about fitness Here's how watchOS 4 could improve Apple Watch for fitness buffs. Image: Graham Bower/Cult of Mac

Apple puts fitness front and center in its advertising for Apple Watch Series 2, even going so far as to claim the device is a superior sports watch. But in reality, it is not a sports watch at all. Its a smartwatch. And thats a massively important distinction.

Sports watches, like the TomTom Runner or Garmin Forerunner, are cheaper and more reliableat logging workouts, while smartwatches arejacks of all trades, which usually means they are masters of none. Or at least, not masters of fitness.

The sad fact is that it doesnt have to be this way. Right now, its mostly the software that is letting Apple Watch down. Thats why Im hoping that with its next major software update, Apple will finally get its smartwatch into shape for fitness fans. Heres what I want to see in watchOS 4, which Apple will likely unveil at its Worldwide Developers Conference this June.

Ive been an Apple fan for almost three decades, and I love all of my Apple gadgets. I experience a frisson of pure joy every time I slide my finger along the Touch Bar on my shiny new MacBook Pro.

But if theres one thing Im more obsessed about than Apple, its fitness. And from that perspective, Apple Watch just doesnt measure up to Cupertinos normal high standards. Sure, it gets some things right: The Activity app is perfect for anyone who just wants to live a healthier day. But if your fitness activity includes running, cycling or swimming, it sucks.

Anyone who has seriously tried to use a running app on Apple Watch knows exactly what I mean.

Apples problem with fitness stems from the fact that smartwatches do more than just log workouts. They run third-party apps, which need fancy stuff like multi-touch Retina displays and power-hungry processors.

These features are not great for fitness wearables. The display drains battery and must be turned off most of the time. And the touchscreen doesnt work when you get sweaty or jump in the pool. You also cant useit without looking at it. Thats why most sports watches rely on reflective displays and regular buttons instead.

Smartwatches are more complicated that sports watches. And with extra complexity comes greater risks of things going wrong. So if all you are looking for is a reliable way to log your workouts, and you dont need any other fancy features, then you are better off using a simple sports watch.

There is not much Apple can do about these hardware issues. But watchOS adds even bigger software problems, and Cupertino should be able to fix these things.

When you log a workout using Apples built-in Workout app, you dont get much to show for it. Theres no easy way to view your progress and share it with friends. Sure, you can use third-party apps that provide more stats. But in every other respect, they prove vastly inferior to the built-in app.

Third-party apps dont let you use the Apple Watchs buttons to pause a workout. You cant activate the waterproof mode, so workouts accidentally stop when a damp sleeve brushes the touchscreen. And syncing workouts from a third-party watch app to an iPhone app is very unreliable. Sometimes your hard-earned workout data just vanishes without explanation.

If Apple is serious about fitness (and it certainly seems to be), then its time to stop entrusting this realm to third parties and improve the built-in Workout app. Alternatively,Apple needs to massively improve the tools it gives third-party developers, so they can build the truly great fitness apps that Apple Watch so desperately needs.

Ideally, Id like to see Apple do both. Heres what needs to happen.

My biggest problem with Apple Watchs built-in Workout app is that there is no companion app for iPhone.

The whole point of logging workouts for most people is that you want to be able to see your progress over time, with handy charts and stats. Thats something youd expect to see in even the most basic workout app. But Apple gives you no stats at all. Instead, you hunt around in the Activity app to find your data, where it gets lost in all your daily activity, and you can only view one workout at a time.

Maps in the Activity app are also extremely basic. You get a color trace of your route, to indicate where you sped up and slowed down, which is nice. But youll find no mile markers, and no way to check your pace, heart rate or elevation from a particular point along the route.

Id like to see a new Workout app for iPhone, and ideally for iPad and Mac as well, which would serve as a proper companion to the watch Workout app. It would be dedicated to providing detailed stats and insights into how you are doing, and sharing your workouts with friends and family. Maps should include charts for heart rate, pace and elevation. Apple could even go to town on this with cool 3-D animations using Flyover.

This ideal Workout app should also let you delete workouts (a task which rather confusingly must be done in the Health app currently) andmanually add workouts you forgot to log with your Apple Watch.

One of the big limitations for sharing currently is that Apple saves all your workout data into HealthKit. For privacy reasons, this data gets encrypted and stored locally on your device, rather than in the cloud. Sure, iCloud can back up your HealthKit data, but this is also encrypted not even Apple can access it. This makes sharing workouts difficult, and viewing them online impossible.

There is a very good reason for all that security. HealthKit handles some super-sensitive information, like your medical test results. But for less-sensitive stuff, like workouts, I think Apple could make sharing a little easier. In particular, Id like to see an Apple-designed Workout website, where you can view your workouts online and share them with friends and family. This could either be presented as another app within icloud.com or even as a stand-alone Apple Workout website.

Once your workout data is on iCloud, theres another awesome service Applecould add: integration with third-party services such as Nike, Strava and Runkeeper so your workouts could automatically sync to all the major fitness apps. This would be great if, like me, your buddies use different apps, and you want to share your workout data with all of them.

Most GPS devices provide an indication of signal strength. But not Apple Watch. This would be fine if it just works was true and signal strength was not a problem. But it doesnt and it is. If you start a workout before your Apple Watch Series 2 gets a good, strong GPS signal, it is likely to bork your run completely.

Third-party apps like Runkeeper solve this by adding signal-strength bars. But they should not need to. GPS signal strength should be built right into the watchOS status bar, appearing whenever an app accesses GPS, so you can clearly see when the watch is ready for you to start your run.

Another issue I have with GPS on my Series 2 watch is that it gives me a poor sample frequency. A GPS sample is the coordinates for your location at a particular point in time.In my testing, I get about onesample per second with Apple Watch, whereas my TomTom Runner delivers four samples a second. When apps plotyour route, they join these locations together, like a dot-to-dot drawing. More dots means a more accurate route map.

My guess is that this problem relates to battery life: Apple may be attemptingto preserveyour battery by being conservative withthe frequency at whichappscan get samples. Weve been here before: App switching used to take forever because Apple was trying to conserve power, but somehow in watchOS 3 they fixed it. Hopefully, in watchOS 4 Apple will find a way to improve GPS sample frequency while preserving battery life.

If the built-in Workout app synced with third-party apps (see my suggestion above), I suspect most people would use it instead of flaky alternatives.After all, theseapps all do pretty much the same thing anyway: They use theHKWorkout class in HealthKitto get your heart rate, distance and pace, then save itso your workout appears in the Health and Activity apps on your iPhone.

The only difference is that third-party appsutilize branded user interfaces and also save the data to their own cloud services. Currentlythats an unreliable process. Workouts usually appear inApples Activity app, but they sometimes fail to reach the third-party devs iPhone app. I think Apple could help more with this.

Once a workout gets saved in the Health app, it becomes available to all fitness apps on your iPhone that support HealthKit. Thats great in theory. But the problem is that, in practice, HealthKit does not store all the data types required for most workouts. For example, when you log a workout usingmy weightlifting app, (Reps & Sets), it can only save basic information like duration and calories burned to HealthKit, Other important workoutdata such as exactly which lifts you performed, what weight you used and how many sets you completed are not supported by HealthKit, so my appmust use its own database instead. Similarly, when you log a run, the GPS coordinates for your route cannot be accessed via HealthKit.

If Apple extended the data types that could be stored in HealthKit to provide more comprehensive support for common workout types, such as running,third-party apps would no longer need to handle transferring workouts from Apple Watch to iPhone themselves. They could leave HealthKit to do all the heaving lifting instead.

Currently, if you log a workout with a third-party Apple Watch app, you can only view the route map in the corresponding third-party iPhone app. The details of the workout may alsoappear in the Activity app, but not the map. You only get to see maps in the Activity app if you logged the workout using Apples built-in Workout app.

Another benefit of making more workout data available in HealthKit would be that route maps wouldbe available everywhere. So the Activity app (and hopefully the new Apple Workout app I suggested above) could display all of your route maps, regardless of which apps you logged them with.

With the launch of watchOS 3, Apples Workout app gained two important new features: a waterproof mode that disables the touchscreen during a workout, and the optionto pause a workout by pressing the side button and Digital Crown simultaneously. Thats handy when the touchscreen is too wet to use. Unfortunately, Apple did not give third-party developers access to these features. And they need that access. Badly.

WhenIm running in the rain, I wear a long-sleeve running jacket, which rubs agains myApple Watch screen and sometimes inadvertently triggersthe End Workout buttonwithout me realizing it. The only solution to this right now is to use the built-in Workout app with thewaterproof mode enabled.Another problem with rainyconditions is that sometimes I cant end the workout when Im done because the touchscreen is too wet. Adding the two-button pause option to third-party apps would solve this, letting me pause the workout to get inside anddry off, then end the workout properly with the touchscreen.

If watchOS 4 addresses all of the issues above, Apple Watchs fitness offering will be dramaticallyimproved. Itssmartwatch form factor still wont be as suited to sportsas that of aspecialized watch: Battery life, the always-off displayand physicalbuttonswill remain issues. Butmany fitness users will be prepared to accept a fewcompromises in order to enjoy onewatch that also doesso many other things so well.

Can a smartwatch ever be a truly perfect sports watch as well? Who knows. If anyone can do it, Apple can.

Cupertinomay be best known for its moments of radical innovation, but its the slow and steady incremental improvements over time that turn promising products into world-beaters. The first Mac, iPod and iPhone all suffered from serious limitations, butafter a few iterations they achieved perfection.Maybe watchOS 4, and Apple Watch Series 3, will finally deliver on Apples promise of a superior sports watch.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The pain was real.

Some 48 hours after being put through Danica Patrick's fitness test by Danica Patrick herself it's the basis for her upcoming book and the sort of thing that will occupy her time when retirement from racing comes I wasn't constantly sore. But every time I stood up came a sharp reminder from my legs that Patrick had kicked my butt.

This was the workout: 100 air squats, 100 push-ups (on my knees), 100 butterfly sit-ups and 100 lunges, all timed to see how long it took to complete the set. That's the benchmark for more than 700 participants in the trial program for Patrick's "Pretty Intense" book, due out next year.

Her fitness challenge has been an ongoing project this season while balancing her NASCAR duties. Participants sent in "before" pictures of themselves and were given access to Patrick's 12-week fitness and "clean eating" program. The results, including "after" photos, will be part of the book.

With Patrick's driving days possibly nearing an end in the not-too-distant future, what might have seemed like an off-track hobby is being fast-tracked into something far bigger. She launched the clothing line "Warrior by Danica Patrick" on HSN after participating in the design process. And she developed the workouts and meal plans for the book.

Ask Patrick about how much longer she will race, and her reply doesn't suggest the question is off-target.

"As long as it's fun and it hasn't been super fun lately," she said before the season started. "But every year I start the year, I always have hope that it's going to be the year that things are going to click. I understand my career hasn't progressed.

"Maybe it's regressed? Why is that? Am I worse driver than I was a couple of years ago? Probably not," she said. "I don't think anybody gets worse. So it's really a matter of all the factors around you."

Patrick turned 35 last month. She has been racing more than half her life, building her brand along the journey and using a marketing strategy that has made her one of the most recognized female athletes in the world despite her limited on-track success. She is ranked 29th through the first seven races of the season.

Patrick drives for one of NASCAR's top teams, but the sponsorship that was so easy to come by during earlier days remember the GoDaddy TV ads? is now a harder sell. Before the season, Stewart-Haas Racing and primary sponsor Nature's Bakery became embroiled in a lawsuit over missed payments by the sponsor and what Patrick did or didn't deliver on behalf of the brand. It was an 11th-hour loss of about $15 million and it shed light on how hard it is to sell even the most marketable of drivers.

Now in her fifth full season in NASCAR's top series, Patrick has yet to win a race and she only has six top-10 finishes in 161 starts.

Make no mistake: She can drive. She has led laps in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.

But her lone victory in the IndyCar Series came in 2008 and sticks out as a glaring reminder of how her superstar status outstrips her racing resume.

It's been a popular thought for some time that Patrick eventually would make the transition to a lifestyle career, maybe becoming some version of a Rachael Ray type. This much is true: Patrick appears capable of doing pretty much anything. She can whip up a five-course gourmet meal, pair wines, paint, and dress for either black tie events or black dirt at the race track.

Is carving out a space in the lucrative health and fitness business where she ultimately wants to be?

"Sure," she said after a long pause. "If I'm going to do all this and write a cookbook and a fitness program, I'll take this as far as I can to motivate people to be successful. The program works. I know it works."

After giving up dairy and gluten a few years ago, she really noticed the difference. She no longer would slog through a crummy afternoon and thought, "Man, today is just not my day."

"I just don't have those," she said. "The only thing that knocks me out now, sometimes, is allergies. But I don't get tired. I don't get full when I eat and I eat all the time, too."

She is a firm believer in meal preparation, and almost always carries a cooler with healthy eating options. At Thanksgiving, she served a grain-free, dairy-free stuffing, and a cold salad of shaved brussels sprouts, toasted butternut squash and a homemade dressing.

She's gone from working out once per day to twice per day and now occasionally three times. When it comes to food, there's no such thing as a cheat day.

"Wine, and every now and again, I have too much. But that happens," she said. "But I don't ever, ever, not on purpose, cheat on food. It's a routine. When I eat like (crap), I feel like (crap). If you want to lose weight and lean out, you have to eat well."

There's been a trickledown effect on her inner circle.

Friends make elaborate breakfasts. They work out more. Boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has completely changed his routines and auditioned last year for "American Ninja Warrior." Patrick's mother did the fitness challenge and has never felt better.

As for me, well, I'm not totally inactive but I wouldn't label myself a "fitness enthusiast."

I should have known I was in trouble when I arrived early for our side-by-side workout and found Patrick already warming up on the treadmill.

Or when she told me to tighten my shoelaces.

Or when she laughed out loud at my first attempt at a squat.

Truly, though, my biggest mistake was trying to keep up at the start. She was reeling off lunge after lunge in a race against the clock to beat her personal mark. It didn't take long for me to fall off her pace, and Patrick laughed later when she told me most people initially try to keep up, and instantly regret it.

I didn't finish the test. It seemed next to impossible when going head-to-head with Patrick, who completed the exercises in just over 9 minutes.

Afterward, Patrick the trainer scolded me and offered a bit of insight into how she thinks about her own professional life.

"With racing, working out, you name it," Patrick said, "if you are not determined in your mind that you can do it, then you won't do it."

And her personal life? Well, the divorcee says she does want a family. Her April Fool's Day joke was to post a photo of herself and Stenhouse on her social media platforms suggesting they had gotten engaged.

She let it sit overnight before finally acknowledging, again on social media, it was a prank. She posted a photo of a tree swing Stenhouse had built her in the woods of their North Carolina estate.

Once so glamorous off the track, and so competitive and confrontational on it, these days Patrick is more like a love-struck, self-described hippy who preaches serenity and takes time to enjoy everything around her.

So when is that family coming? The proposal from Stenhouse?

"I got that under control," she smiled.

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Eye on her future, Danica Patrick races into fitness space - Allentown Morning Call

An Anytime Fitness is coming to Pender. Co-Owner Paige Peterson says the facility will have running and weightlifting equipment. Im going to put a Anytime Fitness within the Community Center. It will be 4,000 square feet. And the type of equipment that I will have Ill have treadmills and ellipticals, seated ellipticals, hopefully some spinning bikes. Looking forward to having a Zero Runner for those runners that still want to get out and run, but they just cant handle the impact anymore. Well do some group fitness training, and Ill have a lot of freeweight equipment like squat racks and dumbbells, etc.

Peterson says the Community Center is located next to the Veterans Memorial right off Main Street.

Peterson adds her business is determined to help people get in shape and feel good. Yes, health definitely improves quality of life overall. Its very important to take care of the one body that youve been given here on this earth. And that actually is our tag lineget to a healthier place. We want to you to come in and be able to see the results that youre coming in for. We will help you get to that place. We will staff the facility with people that are knowledgeable about the equipment, knowledgeable about the body, knowledgeable about how we can get you from Point A to Point B, what you came in for.

Peterson also Co-owns Anytime Fitness Franchises in Oakland, Gretna, and Lincoln with her husband, Steve.

The Pender Anytime Fitness is projected to open in either August or September.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The pain was real.

Some 48 hours after being put through Danica Patrick's fitness test by Danica Patrick herself it's the basis for her upcoming book and the sort of thing that will occupy her time when retirement from racing comes I wasn't constantly sore. But every time I stood up came a sharp reminder from my legs that Patrick had kicked my butt.

This was the workout: 100 air squats, 100 push-ups (on my knees), 100 butterfly sit-ups and 100 lunges, all timed to see how long it took to complete the set. That's the benchmark for more than 700 participants in the trial program for Patrick's "Pretty Intense" book, due out next year.

Her fitness challenge has been an ongoing project this season while balancing her NASCAR duties. Participants sent in "before" pictures of themselves and were given access to Patrick's 12-week fitness and "clean eating" program. The results, including "after" photos, will be part of the book.

With Patrick's driving days possibly nearing an end in the not-too-distant future, what might have seemed like an off-track hobby is being fast-tracked into something far bigger. She launched the clothing line "Warrior by Danica Patrick" on HSN after participating in the design process. And she developed the workouts and meal plans for the book.

Ask Patrick about how much longer she will race, and her reply doesn't suggest the question is off-target.

"As long as it's fun and it hasn't been super fun lately," she said before the season started. "But every year I start the year, I always have hope that it's going to be the year that things are going to click. I understand my career hasn't progressed.

"Maybe it's regressed? Why is that? Am I worse driver than I was a couple of years ago? Probably not," she said. "I don't think anybody gets worse. So it's really a matter of all the factors around you."

Patrick turned 35 last month. She has been racing more than half her life, building her brand along the journey and using a marketing strategy that has made her one of the most recognized female athletes in the world despite her limited on-track success. She is ranked 29th through the first seven races of the season.

Patrick drives for one of NASCAR's top teams, but the sponsorship that was so easy to come by during earlier days remember the GoDaddy TV ads? is now a harder sell. Before the season, Stewart-Haas Racing and primary sponsor Nature's Bakery became embroiled in a lawsuit over missed payments by the sponsor and what Patrick did or didn't deliver on behalf of the brand. It was an 11th-hour loss of about $15 million and it shed light on how hard it is to sell even the most marketable of drivers.

Now in her fifth full season in NASCAR's top series, Patrick has yet to win a race and she only has six top-10 finishes in 161 starts.

Make no mistake: She can drive. She has led laps in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500.

But her lone victory in the IndyCar Series came in 2008 and sticks out as a glaring reminder of how her superstar status outstrips her racing resume.

It's been a popular thought for some time that Patrick eventually would make the transition to a lifestyle career, maybe becoming some version of a Rachael Ray type. This much is true: Patrick appears capable of doing pretty much anything. She can whip up a five-course gourmet meal, pair wines, paint, and dress for either black tie events or black dirt at the race track.

Is carving out a space in the lucrative health and fitness business where she ultimately wants to be?

"Sure," she said after a long pause. "If I'm going to do all this and write a cookbook and a fitness program, I'll take this as far as I can to motivate people to be successful. The program works. I know it works."

After giving up dairy and gluten a few years ago, she really noticed the difference. She no longer would slog through a crummy afternoon and thought, "Man, today is just not my day."

"I just don't have those," she said. "The only thing that knocks me out now, sometimes, is allergies. But I don't get tired. I don't get full when I eat and I eat all the time, too."

She is a firm believer in meal preparation, and almost always carries a cooler with healthy eating options. At Thanksgiving, she served a grain-free, dairy-free stuffing, and a cold salad of shaved brussels sprouts, toasted butternut squash and a homemade dressing.

She's gone from working out once per day to twice per day and now occasionally three times. When it comes to food, there's no such thing as a cheat day.

"Wine, and every now and again, I have too much. But that happens," she said. "But I don't ever, ever, not on purpose, cheat on food. It's a routine. When I eat like (crap), I feel like (crap). If you want to lose weight and lean out, you have to eat well."

There's been a trickledown effect on her inner circle.

Friends make elaborate breakfasts. They work out more. Boyfriend and fellow driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has completely changed his routines and auditioned last year for "American Ninja Warrior." Patrick's mother did the fitness challenge and has never felt better.

As for me, well, I'm not totally inactive but I wouldn't label myself a "fitness enthusiast."

I should have known I was in trouble when I arrived early for our side-by-side workout and found Patrick already warming up on the treadmill.

Or when she told me to tighten my shoelaces.

Or when she laughed out loud at my first attempt at a squat.

Truly, though, my biggest mistake was trying to keep up at the start. She was reeling off lunge after lunge in a race against the clock to beat her personal mark. It didn't take long for me to fall off her pace, and Patrick laughed later when she told me most people initially try to keep up, and instantly regret it.

I didn't finish the test. It seemed next to impossible when going head-to-head with Patrick, who completed the exercises in just over 9 minutes.

Afterward, Patrick the trainer scolded me and offered a bit of insight into how she thinks about her own professional life.

"With racing, working out, you name it," Patrick said, "if you are not determined in your mind that you can do it, then you won't do it."

And her personal life? Well, the divorcee says she does want a family. Her April Fool's Day joke was to post a photo of herself and Stenhouse on her social media platforms suggesting they had gotten engaged.

She let it sit overnight before finally acknowledging, again on social media, it was a prank. She posted a photo of a tree swing Stenhouse had built her in the woods of their North Carolina estate.

Once so glamorous off the track, and so competitive and confrontational on it, these days Patrick is more like a love-struck, self-described hippy who preaches serenity and takes time to enjoy everything around her.

So when is that family coming? The proposal from Stenhouse?

"I got that under control," she smiled.

___

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Eye on her future, Danica Patrick races into fitness space - Virginian-Pilot

BLOOMINGTON When Molly McNamee was growing up in Bloomington-Normal, she was all about fitness.

Since relocating to Los Angeles several years ago to pursue a dance career, she has become a fitness professional, doing personal training and teaching fitness classes throughout the L.A. area.

That means McNamee, who turns 25 on Saturday, has a perspective into differences between fitness in Southern California and Central Illinois. Those differences are highlighted in the accompanying story.

"I have a passion for fitness and I want everyone to experience that," McNamee said by phone from L.A. last week.

As a child, she competed at Stacy's Dance Factory and Gymnastics Etc. In high school, she danced with three companies and her high school dance team.

"Fitness always has been a part of my life," she said. "I stuck with it because I enjoyed it."

After graduating from Normal Community High School in 2010, she attended Illinois State University for one year as a dance major before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a dance career.

"I wanted to move to something bigger. This is where the commercial dance industry is," she said.

She moved in 2011, began auditioning for musical artists and trained with choreographers at several L.A. studios while teaching dance to children and adults and performing as a dancer.

Shortly after arriving in L.A., "I began going to the gym and enjoyed it," McNamee said.

"The move (to L.A.) was a lot," she admitted. "I was truly alone. When I went to the gym, I met other people and it provided stress relief."

She attained her personal training certificate from the National Academy of Sports Medicine in 2013 and began working as a personal trainer.

"I found a passion for fitness and helping people," she said. "Seeing the changes (weight loss, muscle growth, stress relief and reduced pain) in my clients helped me to realize "Hey, I'm pretty good at this.'"

McNamee attained other certifications, including as a corrective exercise specialist (for people dealing with pain or recovering from injury), core specialist and yoga and boot camp instructor.

In 2014, she started her own business, MFit, offering personal training and small group training in parks and in peoples' homes, and yoga and boot camp classes in several studios in the L.A. area. She recently expanded into online training.

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Fitness passion brings hope - Bloomington Pantagraph

There goes the neighborhood. Theyre trying to build an LA Fitness behind the Sprouts at The Shops at Rossmoor in Seal Beach.

Last year, real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) proposed a 37,000-square-foot LA Fitness. It was approved by the Seal Beach Planning Commission but the Seal Beach City Council voted the project down on appeal. Now the project is back again.

And, back again, too, are the complaints from residents: noise, traffic and that folks in the nearby condos really like using the back of the shopping center as their personal parking lot.

To be sure, no one likes sitting in traffic, and the peaceful enjoyment of your home is certainly something worth protecting. But those arguments seem to have become an excuse to veto any proposed development from homes to shopping centers to infrastructure projects.

A consulting firm hired by JLL completed a traffic study showing that the health club would generate about 1,218 additional daily trips to the center, the Register reported. However, the analysis concluded that minor alterations to the entryway off Seal Beach Boulevard would offset that influx.

While one should always be leery of studies paid for by the very people that want the project to move forward, it is reassuring that they are at least acknowledging that steps need to be taken to mitigate impacts to the neighboring community. And this is really the best outcome. Our region continues to grow, no matter how much we persist in trying to block new developments. People are coming, and they need their housing and shopping demands met. We shouldnt shut the door on newcomers to protect those who already have theirs. We should grow in a way that makes sense.

Ultimately, it is up to local governments, those who build the roads and likewise approve these development projects, to find the middle ground. One that recognizes the needs of those who are already here and those who want to be part of our communities.

There is no reason why an LA Fitness cannot open at The Shops at Rossmoor. Its a shopping center, and that is where city planners have decided establishments like LA Fitness are supposed to go. This shouldnt be a hard one for the city to solve.

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Exercise fairness in LA Fitness dispute - OCRegister

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EL PASO, Texas - Police officers arrested a man for the burglary of a vehicle outside the Planet Fitness Gym at 3000 Joe Battle.

17-year-old Brandon Snell was charged with "Burglary of Vehicle" and "Credit Card Abuse."

The alleged burglary happened April 3, 2017.

Police said the victim reported his vehicle had been burglarized while he was inside the gym.

Officers said Snell gained entry into the vehicle through an unlocked door and a wallet containing credit and debit cards was stolen.

Snell was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $10,000 bond.

Police said this case is not related to the burglary of nine vehicles outside a Gold's Gym in East El Paso.

El Paso Police say this is a rising crime trend throughout the city. Police say gym parking lots are lucrative targets because victims often leave valuables like electronics, wallets, purses and cell phones in their vehicles while they work out inside the gym.

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BARBOURSVILLE - A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Thursday afternoon for a new fitness studio in Barboursville.

Orangetheory Fitness, owned and operated by Brock Meadows and Bruce Hinckson, opened its first location in West Virginia at 3034 Champion Drive at the Merritt Creek Plaza.

"We are passionate about health and wellness and are excited to bring Orangetheory Fitness to our community," Hinckson said.

Hinckson says the 60-minute, five zone heart-rate monitored interval training concept used at Orangetheory Fitness has helped tens of thousands of members lose weight, get toned and meet their overall fitness goals in a short amount of time.

"We can't wait for Barboursville, Huntington and surrounding area residents to become part of the Orangetheory family and start seeing results from the unique and high-energy workout," he said.

Orangetheory officials said additional locations planned throughout West Virginia for expansion, but did not release any details.

The Barboursville location will officially open to the public on Friday, April 14, with classes starting at 5 a.m., Hinckson added.

Orangetheory Fitness launched its first studio in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in March 2010, and has more than 532 studios in 44 states and 21 countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Colombia.

For more information on the Barboursville Orangetheory Fitness and membership packages, call 304-521-1500. More information is also available on Orangetheory's website at orangetheoryfitness.com and they can be followed at Orangetheory Fitness Barboursville on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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New fitness studio opens in Barboursville this Friday - Huntington Herald Dispatch

As far as contests go, this is a unique one: All Arlington personal in-home fitness trainer Joe Tryon wants is for you to guess how long it was between the taking of the before photo and the after picture.

The photos are of him.

This is something I wanted to do since before I started the business, says Tryon.

His company is called Kinematics; the former Army captain offers in-home and mobile personal training and nutrition services, and hes offering up his own body as proof that hes on to something with his methods.

Your fitness goals are met using his personalized exercise plans designed to meet those goals. Your experience with fitness training and schedule are all taken into account to insure success at your own pace.

Tryon knows what youre going through: Once he left the Army and began working a desk job his discipline and fitness routines that got him through Airborne and Ranger schools took a beating, as did his body when he attempted to get back in shape. A skilled physical therapist put him back together and thats when he gained the motivation to acquire the certifications needed to help others.

And now hes having a contest.

In each photo hes holding a copy of that days newspaper. The person who comes closest to guessing how many days elapsed between the photos wins a nifty TRX GO Suspension Trainer system, a $129.95 value, and if you dont know what it is, you might want to sign up for a free assessment from Kinematics.

Heres the link to the details of the contest.

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