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Fitness family continues to grow Sandusky Register SANDUSKY For the last five years, Tim Dorsey has made it his mission to encourage others to just keep moving. Since the best way to lead is by example, that's exactly what the fitness guru has been doing, as he continues to expand his gym, Tim ...

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By Roger Fingas Friday, March 31, 2017, 10:22 am PT (01:22 pm ET)

Actors in the spot can be seen hiking, sprinting, and playing sports, as well as doing many other activities that make use of the watchOS Activity and Workout apps. Often though scenes specifically involve water, namely swimming, riding a waterslide, or dashing through a balloon fight.

Only brief interludes focus on other watchOS features, such as the Breathe app or animated emoji.

Apple has placed a heavy emphasis on fitness with the Series 2, both in its design and recent marketing. In addition to being waterproof, the accessory includes built-in GPS for running, cycling, and walking, and comes in a Nike+ edition with a different band and special preloaded software. The band is now available separately.

Very few rumors have emerged about what a third-generation Apple Watch will offer. Apple could be adding LTE, which would allow it to work fully independently of an iPhone. It might also switch from touch-on-lens technology to glass-film, though that's unlikely to have much impact on actually using the device.

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Adidas has announced some details of its new All Day mobile fitness application, and is recruiting consumers to participate in a closed beta program before making the app generally available this summer.

The All Day app, which will integrate with the Adidas Chameleon HR fitness tracker, provides a variety of short-term training routines and practices called Discoveries, which are based on science and cover the four drivers of performance and well-being movement, nutrition, mindset and rest.

Adidas said 12 Discoveries will be available at launch, including clean eating tips from chef Candice Kumai, workout sessions from yoga teacher Adriene Mishler and celebrity trainer Stephen Cheuk, as well as a custom mix of music designed to help you sleep from DJ Nina Las Vegas. Discoveries will be available at beginner, intermediate or advanced levels of fitness.

Adidas earlier this month said it would open its mobile fitness app to leverage the contributions of third-party partners, and the All Day unveiling showcases the first example of that strategy to employ open source collaboration methods.

The apparel and footwear claims the All Day app "has been informed by the best thinking across sports, data and behavior science," a claim backed up by the fact that Adidas partnered with the American College of Sports Medicine, the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. Adidas is filling the All Day app with sport science research and insights from ACSMs expert network and working with long-standing partner EXOS, a company focused on methods for maximizing athletic performance, to bring training best practices and insights from elite athletes to the app. In addition, Adidas is working with Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary and Google sister company that is providing advisory support focused on healthcare and life sciences.

There is a lot more to the app to get into, but at the risk of losing ourselves and you in a jargon soup of sports science, let's just say that Adidas, like its biggest competitor Nike, is loading its app with a mix of straightforward capabilities and expert-driven content. These two companies and Under Armour have been battering one another on different levels and in different market segments shoes, apparel, the ability to land celebrity endorsers and partnerships with professional sports leagues and now the competitive battles are moving into the mobile app arena (and maybe the fitness tracker arena, too?).

That makes sense, as consumers are living in a mobile world, and expect to be able to fully engage with their favorite brands in that world not just be able to visit a website on their smartphones that has been formatted to fit the device, but have a true interactive experience that leaves them feeling like they have gained something. Adidas has decided the best way to make sure that happens is not to do everything itself but bring the best of what its partners can provide. All Day's initial partnerships seem like the start of that effort, but there are probably more to come. We'll see what this summer brings.

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CHESAPEAKE

The city is hoping to make ailing Northwest River Park and Campground a bit more fit, but needs some help to do it.

Starting April 1, as part of the National Recreation and Park Associations month-long Meet Me at the Park campaign, people can nominate Chesapeake to receive a $20,000 grant to install outdoor fitness equipment at the park. Other Hampton Roads cities are also vying for the grant, as well as others from across the country.

Kevin Kaul, Chesapeake's parks manager, said after an early March story in The Virginian-Pilot about Northwest River Park and its various needs, hes been approached by people asking how they can help. Not everybody can clear drainage ditches and trails, he said. The grant campaign is a cool idea in which people could easily be involved in creating something new at the park.

Parameters for the grant include a park improvement project or program that connects youth to nature, increases youth access to sports and/or inspires healthy living, said Lynn Jordan, a city recreation specialist.

Kaul said the money would be used to create a fitness area similar to one at Chesapeake's recently renovated Elizabeth River Park. It could have an assortment of equipment, like outdoor rowing and elliptical machines, and places to do pulls-up and leg lifts.

There have been increasing requests from people for things like that, Kaul said, and he hopes to find a spot with a view. Existing park amenities include disc and miniature golf courses, children's playgrounds, trails and boat rentals, in addition to the campground.

Kaul said the money can't be used to replace Northwest's rotting wood and aging infrastructure, but its an easy way for people to help the park.

Votes can be cast daily at http://www.nrpa.org/beinspired until the end of the month. The city with the most nominations gets the grant. Jordan said the winner will be revealed May 18.

Everyone who nominates a city will be entered into a drawing for a tablet thats been outfitted to be used outdoors, according to a press release. Norfolk, Portsmouth and Suffolk are also taking part in the campaign.

A Virginia Beach parks and rec spokeswoman said the city doesn't have a park submitted for consideration, but would support nominations that come from the public.

Meet Me at the Park is in its third year and is a collaborative effort with The Walt Disney Company, including Disney Citizenship, Disney|ABC Television Group and ESPN, to revitalize U.S. parks, according to a press release.

Visit Chesapeake's Parks, Recreation and Tourismwebsite for more information.

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It turns out that a giant multisport watch doesnt have to be a giant multisport watch.

Case in point: the new Garmin Fenix 5. Garmin has taken its big, aggressive, I Am A Serious Outdoors Person line of Fenix multisport watches and shrunk it into something that looks a little less obtrusive. It was also designed with women in mind. (Yay!) The Fenix 5 model has a 47mm face, compared with the 51mm face of the Fenix 3; and the Fenix 5S, aimed at women and anyone with smaller wrists, has a 42mm face. The Fenix 5X is the only one in this series that has maintained its massive size, due to its advanced mapping features.

Garmin shrunk its heavy-duty Fenix watch into something more approachable and actually designed it with women in mind

Almost more important than size is the fact that the Fenix 5 knows what it is and what its supposed to do. Its not a smartwatch posing as a fitness watch, and its not a fitness watch that has co-opted the app platforms and battery-sucking touchscreen displays of smartwatches. Its a fitness tracking watch with all of the stuff that you would expect from a high-end Garmin.

This all sounds great! The gut punch comes when you consider the price: the Fenix 5 starts at $599, and only goes up when you move into the Sapphire glass models. Thats more than Garmins Forerunner running watches, more than its triathlon watches, more than Polars multisport V800 watch, more than Suuntos Spartan Sport watch, more than... okay, you get the idea. The Fenix 5 is a very expensive sport watch. For that price, youd want to to track every activity under the sun. Fortunately, it pretty much does that.

For the past month Ive been wearing the Fenix 5S during both workouts and day-to-day life. Its relatively small and light, weighing in at just 2.4 ounces with a silicone band, the lightest of all the Fenix models. The model I have is white; it also comes in black and teal. Over time the watch body and silicone strap have started to look dingy, so Id recommend getting another color unless you have your heart set on a white watch.

For people interested in the Fenix 5: the 5 and the 5S record the exact same activities, differing only in size, display resolution, and battery life. (See pic above for a size comparison; the 5S is on the left.) Not surprisingly, the Fenix 5Ss smaller size equates to shorter battery life. The Fenix 5S is supposed to last nine days on a charge in smartwatch mode, and up to 14 hours in GPS mode; the Fenix 5, on the other hand, will last two weeks in standard mode and 24 hours in GPS mode. In my experience the Fenix 5S lasted closer to a week in smartwatch mode; coupled with consistent GPS workouts, I was looking at charging it around every five days.

The 5S has a round face, a fiber-reinforced polymer body, and a stainless steel bezel. Its still fairly thick, with a swollen underside and flashing green heart rate sensors, but its not quite the monstrosity that is the LG Watch Sport.

The button on the upper right brings you to sport options; the bottom right button brings you back a step in the watch interface and lets you mark laps. On the left side of the face, theres a backlight button and two more buttons that act as both up / down buttons and shortcuts to data pages (showing things like daily step count, calories burned, local weather, altitude, and recent notifications). TL;DR: these buttons take time to learn, even with button identifiers etched on the bezel.

The 1.1-inch display is the same multicolor, transflective display youll find on other newer Garmin watches, but its worth noting that the Fenix 5S didnt get a resolution upgrade. The 5S has a resolution of 218 x 218 pixels, while the 5 and 5X now have a slightly higher resolution of 240 x 240 pixels.

Okay, so you can see it in sunlight, and theres not much innovation around the display. Lets talk about what it actually does. It has GPS, Glonass, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, an altimeter, a barometer, a compass, and built-in heart rate sensors. It records running, trail running, treadmill running, hiking, climbing, cycling, indoor cycling, mountain biking, pool swims, open water swims, downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, triathlons, stand up paddleboarding, strength training, and more. Also: sleeping.

The Fenix 5 tracks every sport you could possibly want to track and if it doesnt, you can create one

If your sport isnt listed as an option, you can create a new one letter by letter using the watchs buttons, which is about as fun as entering in a password using a TV remote and assign GPS to it. I did the bulk of my Fenix 5S testing during a weeklong trip to Montana, when I was snowshoeing, downhill skiing, and occasionally doing other workouts, and I was able to customize a GPS-enabled "Snowshoe" option. The watchs barometric altimeter also came in handy that week when I realized that a bout of dizziness and shortness of breath was likely the result of climbing past 8,400 feet. Amateur, am I right?

Thats the thing that makes the Fenix the Fenix: it doesnt just track your sport, it gives you a crazy amount of granular data around that. Since Im not a super competitive runner or cyclist, simply getting an accurate reading on outdoor distance and pace are enough for me, along with having an easy way to change data screens while Im working out. The 5S delivered that, although it tended to give conservative readings on non-GPS indoor runs compared with what the treadmill recorded.

Also, while accurate heart rate readings tend to be sketchy on a wristwatch, in my workout tests on a spin bike, the Fenix 5S generally matched or was within a few beats per minute of the reading from a Polar chest strap. Garmin says it also upped its sampling rate for non-workout heart rate readings on the Fenix 5, which means its now reading the data more frequently throughout the day, and in theory should offer better readings.

Garmin now breaks your workouts down into aerobic vs. anaerobic activities, which is new

But there are plenty of other features that fitness freaks go nuts for. The new Fenix breaks your workouts down into aerobic vs. anaerobic training zones when youre done, which is a new feature. Like other sport watches, it gives you a VO2 max estimation; it will also now tell you your current training status whether youre overdoing it or whether you should train as usual as well as your training load over a longer period of time. You can create interval workouts, and load them onto the watch. You can customize the watchs multisport mode to have it track basically anything you want.

The one area where I regretfully didnt get to test the Fenix 5S was in the pool or ocean, due to a minor injury thats made swimming unfeasible. But it is waterproof rated up to 100 meters, and is supposed to record lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, and calories burned.

As for its flaws, the Fenix 5S has all of the same downsides as previous Garmin sport watches like the inability to interact much with notifications, or a less-than-awesome mobile app. This is both maddening, given that Garmin has had years to work on its app and "smart" features, and also forgivable when you remember what the express purpose of a device like this is.

Its not that the Garmin Connect mobile app is terrible; it runs on almost all smartphones. And it does freely share data with other popular health and fitness apps. But theres little about Garmin Connect that draws me to open it on a regular basis aside from syncing the watch. At the end of the day it still feels like a super-detailed desktop dashboard thats been compressed into a mobile app. There are 10 10! different Snapshot pages in the app to swipe through, showing things like daily steps, specific workouts, your weight, your intensity minutes, and more.

The more prescriptive advice is either buried in the app, or happens on the watch itself. For example: theres an Insights option in the app that will compare your workouts with other Garmin users in your age and gender group, but in order to get truly interesting info (like "You tend to log fewer steps on Fridays" or "You sleep six hours during the week but nine on weekends") you need to go a step beyond that, tapping on a tiny "View All Insights" option. Occasionally, the mobile app will send an alert: "You are moving more than a typical Monday."

The Garmin mobile app still feels like desktop software crammed into 10 pages of a mobile app

While the watch itself gives plenty of guidance after intense workouts, it lacks finesse when it comes to day-to-day activity alerts. "Move!" the watchface says when youve been sedentary for too long, vibrating on your wrist. "Move bar cleared!" it says when you get up and move around. Garmin does not mince words. For whatever reason, despite its multitude of sensors, the watch could not tell the difference between sitting down for an hour and taking a yoga class for the same amount of time. "Move!" it would tell me in the middle of class.

And for people who care about onboard music: the Fenix 5 watches still dont have this. You can control your music from the watch, but you cant load it up onto the watch itself and run phone-free.

The watch also froze up entirely during one outing, while I was snowshoeing through Yellowstone National Park, and really, really wanted to record the activity. Exactly 23 minutes in, the watch stopped working, with an incoming Slack notification frozen on the screen. (Guess the watch doesnt like getting work alerts on vacation, either.) It only worked again after a hard reset. Garmin said it may have been an early software glitch, since Ive been testing a preproduction watch. Im inclined to believe that was the case, because I didnt experience any other issues after that.

Despite all that, this new Garmin very well could be the 2017 multisport GPS watch to beat. At $600, this is not a Fitbit or even an Apple Watch; its a commitment watch. And generally speaking, its still a thick, heavy-duty sport watch. But the Fenixs smaller size now allows it to be a little bit more aspirational. Someone might buy this watch not because theyve already arrived at their fitness peak, but because they want to. And they might just wear it every day, too.

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By Kelaine Conochan | Mar 31, 2017 Special to espnW

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More than anything else, Ashley Horner is concerned about the mental part of running 230 miles through Haiti.

This butt was built from thousands of squats. Thousands of deadlifts. And thousands and thousands of miles. This is Ashley Horner's butt.

On Monday, Horner and her butt will embark on a 230-mile run -- roughly the distance between Washington, D.C., and New York City -- along the rugged coast and mountains of Haiti.

Her goal on the impossibly difficult run is to raise funds for the Maison Fortun Orphanage, which provides education to more than 300 students and housing to more than 210 orphans in the modest town of Hinche, Haiti. She hopes to raise $28,000, enough to fund its elementary school for a full year.

"I'll just be counting on my team to feed me salt tablets and rub out my butt when it gets sore," says Horner, who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. "Mentally, I'm ready for it. I know I'm going to be sore, and I'm going to hurt, but other than that, it's all mental. I'm just going to go for it."

Hers, then, is quite literally a butt that won't quit.

Today, Ashley Horner is a strong, hard-working 32-year-old woman who owns and runs five businesses. She played for the Guam national soccer team in 2011 and is now a fitness pro with nearly 500,000 Instagram followers. Her body looks carved by the lightning of Zeus. She has sold more than a million copies of her fitness e-books. She's also happily married, with three young sons --Tripp (9), Cash (8), and Otto (2).

In the gym and in her career, Horner looks strong, stable, even splendid. There are no signs of the struggle that got her where she is today. But you can feel it. It drives her.

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Ashley Horner hopes to fund the elementary school at Maison Fortun Orphanage for an entire year.

Despite her success in sports, Horner struggled with body issues growing up in the small town of Sapulpa, Oklahoma. "I hung out with skinny girls who were cheerleaders, and I was this athletic girl who had the big legs, the big butt," she says.

Then Horner's father got cancer. She dropped out of college at Northeastern State University to be home with her family, where she watched her dad fight for his life, enduring pain and suffering until he passed. It changed her. Made her appreciate her body. Made her understand what a gift it is to be strong and resilient.

She turned her grief into strength, a strength used to rebuild her life, to get past the pain. "Among that chaos in my life, that's when I really found fitness and started to embrace that I am a strong female, physically. I wasn't meant to be skinny," she says.

But then came a string of bad relationships. "I found myself as a single mom. I wasn't making any money or having any help from anybody. I had the kids full time," she says.

Horner remembers when she couldn't pay her rent. When her electricity got cut off. "I don't know how my car didn't get repo-ed."

"One relationship really stripped everything from me," she says. "I didn't have a dollar to my name, and I knew at that point that I had to be successful."

Working her butt off was the only option.

"Through all the madness and the craziness, the one thing that centered me was training," she says.

And when friends and strangers asked her for fitness advice, she figured out how to turn her passion into her livelihood, writing and selling fitness e-books.

She made her first million dollars while still in her 20s. She and her boys moved seven times, each stop a new opportunity to meet and inspire the people she trained, helping them to find beauty in their strength. She even created the Unbroken Foundation, which raises funds to provide housing and services to women and families who have suffered domestic violence.

After all the hurt, the loss, the turmoil, Horner built herself up and tried not to look back. "When I hit rock bottom, I had to figure it out. I had to figure out for myself how to be a successful female."

For centuries, the people of Haiti were ravaged by colonialism, slavery and political corruption. And you want to talk about rock bottom? How about cities being leveled by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti in 2010, killing some 220,000 people and leaving another 2 million homeless.

After the devastation of the earthquake, thousands of children and families sought refuge in Hinche. Rather than placing the children in homes for adoption, Maison Fortun Orphanage houses them on-site, providing structure, consistency and classroom instruction that will allow the children to grow and develop in a loving, supportive environment, Horner said.

By focusing on education, Maison Fortun empowers these children to become leaders who can, in turn, raise up their whole community, Horner said. To build themselves. To help them find beauty in their strength.

Stop us if that sounds familiar.

But Horner had no prior connection to Maison Fortun. And is not even quite sure what drew her to Haiti in early December 2016, let alone that orphanage.

"I'd never been to Haiti. I didn't know anybody from Haiti. But for some reason, a few times a year I would go online and search for orphanages and Haiti," she says. "A small seed was planted in my heart, and I do not know why."

Horner's journey will begin the moment she lands in Port-au-Prince, where she'll hop in a van and drive to the outskirts of the capital city. From there, she'll run up the coast to Saint-Marc and continue on to Gonaives before heading inland to Plaisance. From Plaisance, she'll head to the north coast of Cap-Haitien before taking the valley pass, an unpaved side road, to Saint-Raphael.

Then it's onward to her destination, to Hinche, where Maison Fortun's students will run the last mile with her.

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Ashley Horner still is unsure why she gave her heart to Haiti.

A small crew will accompany Horner in a van carrying her provisions. She'll rely on them for physical, mental and emotional support throughout her run. They'll be provided with a purified water supply to prevent cholera or other diseases that are commonly caused by Haiti's contaminated water, but ice will be scarce at best. They'll also pack plenty of sunscreen, bug spray to prevent Zika, and the copious amount of food she'll need to fuel her trek.

"I plan on eating the whole time," Horner says. That includes the standard runner fare -- goos, chews, bars -- as well as some calorically dense junk food that will convert to fuel quickly. "During these long runs, my body wants Oreos and Pop Tarts and anything that's high sugar content."

Remember that butt? The one that won't quit? Well, Horner's plan is to run continuously for the full 230 miles, stopping only to change clothes and maybe -- maybe -- for a couple of naps. But there are so many variables and unknowns that will impact even the best plans. "If I need sleep," she says, "I'll sleep in the van."

Conservatively, it will take Horner three full days to complete the run, with temperatures likely in the mid-to-high 80s. "One of my concerns is heat exhaustion," she says casually. "And I will change clothes at least twice a day to stay as dry as possible and avoid chafing or blisters. But I'm going to be sweating buckets."

And what about her feet, which will carry her for 72 hours or more? "The last time I did something like this, my feet swelled more than two sizes. So, I usually wear a size 8, but I have shoes all the way up to a 9.5."

Some, naturally, say she's crazy. "I'm not doing this for them -- I'm doing this for the children at the orphanage," she says. "Whenever it gets rough, I'll just think of them. Even now, I can see their faces. That just makes it all worth it."

Horner knows the journey will be long and hard. But she is ready for it. She welcomes the pain.

"I'm going to be sore, I'm going to hurt. The thing is that with pain, it goes away. There's an end. The pain and suffering will stop."

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Cheers

... to the McLean County Museum of History in downtown Bloomington for its newest permanent exhibit, Challenges, Choices & Change: Farming in the Great Corn Belt.

The exhibit, curated by Susan Hartzold and Don Meyer, connects visitors to the county's rich agricultural history and its future.

For years, agriculture, insurance and education have been the underpinnings of McLean County's economy. The museum's newest exhibit celebrates the farmers and their farms have helped make the county what it is today.

... to, on a related topic, the various entities that celebrated the recent National Ag Day, including farm bureaus, insurance companies, schools and universities.

"If you ate today, thank a farmer" is a simple yet crucial way to understand the connection between a farmer's job and what it means to our community and the world in general.

Here in the Corn Belt, every day is Ag Day and we are grateful to the people whose work makes it possible.

... to the six-week fitness challenge announced by the McLean County Wellness Coalition's Workplace Wellness Subcommittee.

The program, for any county resident age 16 or older, tracks exercise minutes, shows new places to exercise and increases camaraderie, according to a story by reporter Paul Swiech.

A recent community health needs assessment revealed that 32 percent of county residents are obese, so the effort is needed.

... to American Red Cross, Bloomington and Normal fire departments, Home Sweet Home Ministries and O'Brien Mitsubishi for their April 8 program to offer and install free smoke alarms to families who need them.

... to organizers of the new Bloom Community School, a small elementary school that will let students learn in environments outside traditional classrooms.

Curriculum will be project-based. Bloom has partnered with entities like the McLean County Museum of History, the Children's Discovery Museum, West Bloomington Revitalization Project and University of Illinois Extension.

... to our dear newsroom friends and colleagues, Chuck Blystone, Bill Flick and Steve Smedley, who retired in March after a combined 109 years of service to The Pantagraph.

The newspaper is an institution made up of individuals. For 180 years, The Pantagraph had served our communities thanks to the dedication of dedicated employees like Chuck, Bill and Steve.

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BLACKSBURG Yogas benefits are touted for everybody, but not all yoga is for every body.

Nicole Boyle, owner of In Balance Yoga studio, believes this so fervently that she and instructor Ellen Goldlust are offering free sessions of a yoga hybrid accessible to people whose warrior pose wobbles on land.

Partnering with Blacksburg Aquatic Center, In Balance is leading classes in water yoga each Thursday afternoon through April. Standing chest deep in the pool, participants move through traditional yoga moves such as the half moon, the triangle, and the cobra. Buoyed up by water, they rise on their toes, balance on one leg, and execute deep bends that would topple them elsewhere.

We feel that pool yoga allows people with joint pain, injuries, or other body issues to get exercise in a way that doesnt hurt them, Goldlust said. Being immersed and supported by water can take away the fear factor. Its a low impact way to improve strength, flexibility, and range of motion. It may be the only way some people can get exercise.

To do water yoga, one doesnt need to be able to swim. Or even understand yoga. Goldlust guides participants through poses asanas, they are called in yoga language.

She often has the yoga practitioners moving in sequence with their inhalations and exhalations. Goldlust asks them to notice how their back feels in one pose, their feet in another. Yoga, whether in water or in the studio, is all about breathing and body awareness.

I ask everyone to focus inward, to notice their breathing and their body sensations, to feel the water around them, Goldlust said. Yoga is a time for getting away from all the demands on you, all the texts and phone calls. Its a time of calmness and peace. I think water helps create a feeling of physically slowing down and relaxing.

Goldlust asks participants to concentrate on centering their body, using small movements, adjustments in the position of shoulders, spine, hips and legs. Conditions such as arthritis, MS, obesity, pregnancy, and injuries can make traditional yoga practice on land extremely difficult. The force of gravity during standing poses may be too great for some peoples level of conditioning.

While most yoga exercises will be easier in water, a few seem more challenging as participants try to hold a position with the unaccustomed weight of water pressing in from many directions.

Use your core muscles as you find balance, Goldlust said.

Goldlust says water yoga has long been her favorite type. In 2016, she commemorated her 50th birthday year by becoming a certified yoga instructor. When Boyle asked Goldlust to teach their summer water yoga classes at Clay Corner Inns pool, Goldlust said she was delighted. Now she teaches water yoga regularly at Blacksburg Aquatic Center, donating every other class she teaches to In Balances community service effort.

Lynne Krulich, aquatic center director, says her facility began waiving the pool fee for water yoga participants when In Balance started offering the class free this winter.

Its a great community service the aquatic center can do, she said. We love having water yoga here and being able to support In Balance Yoga.

Steve Reisinger has been coming to water yoga since it started in Blacksburg. I never miss a class if I can help it, he said. Its helping me with my injured leg. And maybe with old age too. I just feel better when I do this.

Rebecca Absher, another regular, says the yoga moves give her a little more mobility after each session.

Water yoga is better than regular yoga for older people, said Florence Richardson, who has attended twice. Its just wonderful exercise.

This class is for all levels and ages, said In Balance owner Boyle. Triathlon athletes have come in after a race. We also have folks with joint replacements whove never tried yoga before. The water acts as a wonderful supportive prop.

Boyle says she will continue to offer water yoga classes in the summer, although they will move to Clay Corner Inn and the Blacksburg Country Club when the weather warms up.

In Balance Yoga offers a range of yoga classes at its studio in Clay Court at 401 S. Main St., Blacksburg. Offerings include hot yoga, warm yoga, prenatal yoga, therapeutic yoga, yoga with wine, and a kick-butt yoga called yoga barre that combines ballet, pilates, cardio-vascular conditioning, and yoga in a low-impact workout.

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(CNN) Theres a hot new fitness trend you may have seen. Its called aerial fitness and it involves hanging from the ceiling like a trapeze artist. If that sounds far-fetched to you, aerial arts studios have a technique that will allow you to get the benefits without the risks.

A quick warm-up includes a few rounds of jumping jacks and high knees to get the blood flowing then were ready for the silks.

Lindsey Duggan, Owner of AIR Los Angeles said, Aerial Fitness is actually a combination of a lot of fitness trends at the moment all blended into one class. We do some elements of hit, some elements of Ballet, Barre, and of course Aerial work as well to strengthen and lengthen your core.

For some, the workout has other benefits. Christina Ward, an Instructor said, Things like motor skills sounds very strange, hand eye coordination, and confidence. Dexterity in my hands its something as you get older you start to lose, and that had helped a lot with gripping the silk and continuing to work those muscles that we dont get to exercise as regularly.

Safety has to be a top priority, especially when it comes to difficult routines.

Duggan said, I think Aerial Fitness definitely has a component of women and women empowerment, and strength. You dont see that a lot in different studios I think its like a sisterhood that we have here.

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"Don't stop believin', hold on to that feeling!"

LOWELL - On March 18, the 18th annual Fitness For A Cure Gala to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, presented by Flexecution Inc., was held at Lowell Memorial Auditorium. The high-falutin' gala was dedicated to Danny's Dream for Danny Thomas, who founded St. Jude's Research Hospital.

More than 1,100 guests filled the "Family Show" during the day and evening gala, which featured magnificent dance performances from the St. Jude Performance Team. More than 100 exhilarating children and students from the Merrimack Valley and New Hampshire, ranging in age from first grade to college, danced their hearts away, day and night, all for the love of St. Jude's children.

The SLS Fitness Team

Sherri Laffey Sarrouf organized the gala. Sherri is a 53-year-old Lowell native, a well-known health and fitness guru, and owner of the popular SLS Fitness Strength and Conditioning Center of Lowell and Woburn. The Energizer Bunny has nothing on this gifted fitness guru. Sherri, with her passion for fitness and her family, formed the St. Jude Performance Team and created the Fitness For A Cure event 18 years ago, and the event has generated more than $4 million all for St. Jude's.

Sherri and her strong and talented SLS Fitness Team visit St. Jude's in Memphis, Tenn.

Sherri and her longtime childhood friend, Heather Rozen, and her children, Stephen and Elizabeth Sarrouf - both UMass Lowell students and choreographers of the Fitness For A Cure Performance Team - raised $507,000 in just this single day and night event with the help of their students, the SLS team, sponsors and volunteers.

So "don't stop believin', hold on to that feeling" with love, prayers and support for all the admirable St. Jude's Children. For more information, visit http://www.stjude.org.

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