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You and your girlfriends have traded in happy hours for SoulCycle and high-intensitybarre sessions. Plus, ClassPass has gotten youtotally addicted to along list of other trendy workouts in local studios that make you feel like a million bucks. The boutique fitness industry is responsible for getting many of us off our butts and motivated to get in shape. But are these classes here to stay? We spoke with Daniel Sobhani CEO of fitness app Freeletics to get his take on what the boutique workout world will look like in the future.

There are classes and products out there that are indeed providing the desired results of their audiences, Sobhani says. Ultimately, the results and how people feel are what it comes down to. The studios and trends that fail to provide a big payoffwont make it in the fitness world of fierce competition. Its a good thing for consumers that the most effectiveworkouts are rising to the top, as these uber-specific studios propel theboutique fitness trend. Sobhani also believes a unique sense of community has also played a significant role in the trends success.

Sobhani tells us that the amazing community each studio builds also gets people to keep going back to a specific studio or class. These studios are niche, some offering specific benefits promised only through their classes. Most importantly, the successful studios motivate their students to return, whether the motivation stems from paying a hefty fee or loving the music played in each class.

All of this sounds great, right? If our beloved boutique studios are offering us great workouts, awesome tunes, and a #fitfamthat can motivate us to get out of bed each morning and feel the burn, then what could possibly be missing and where could the industry go wrong?

According to Sobhani, one thing that many boutique studios are seriously lacking is an on-the-go component. As millennials continue to travel more for work and play, it may increasingly become a challenge for spinning studios, barre classes, and the like to accommodate their mobile needs.

We know from our own [Freeletics] users that [an on-the-go option] is a key aspect to sticking to a workout routine the ability to train anytime, anywhere, and to instantly find training partners, if need be, Sobhani says. People expect constant access to their favorite products or experiences, and these studios that may only exist in one neighborhood cant provide that. We expect fitness products and gyms to provide options for maintaining workout schedules in spite of travel or relocation to another city.

Sobhani also expects that the successful fitness businesses of the future will take a more holistic approach to health. Already, many studios and apps (including Freeletics) are beginning to offer integrated services related to fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, and more. This means a larger focus on wellbeing which includes the mind by either explicitly adding meditation to a schedule, or subtly prioritizing mindfulness as an ultimate goal in the fitness regime, Sobhanisays.

If only the strongest among the boutique fitness industry are likely to survive these ongoing transitions in the business, how are we supposed to know when its time to jump ship and leave our precious classes behind? Sobhani advises that everyone stick to whatever workout regimen keeps them motivated and feeling their best. If the community aspect and catchy tunes at your faveboutique studio encourage you to stick with the program, then go for it! Thanks to technology, though,therell only be more opportunities in the future to reap these benefits in other ways.

There are plenty of options outside of boutique fitness studios that are less expensive or even free, Sobhani says. If youre on a budget, but are still looking for some sort of community wrapped around shared fitness goals, technology has provided us ways to find these groups without cost through Facebook, Meetup, or Freeletics.

What do you think of the future of boutique fitness studios? Tweet us @BritandCo!

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Fitness Trainer Gains Thousands of Instagram Followers After Being Compared to a Tree Men's Health Life as a fitness model can you make you the object of adoration for many users, and Danny Jones, a Southern California personal trainer, is no stranger to this type of fandom. The man, after all, has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Instagram. and more »

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BLOOMINGTON Exercise programs for people with disabilities are nothing new.

But a new, medically supervised pilot program targets a group of people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. After one year, program partners the McLean County Health Department, Advocate BroMenn Health & Fitness Center and Marcfirst will analyze each participant's health and fitness data to determine whether to continue the program and perhaps expand it.

"Our overall goal is for individuals with disabilities to have the same opportunities as people without disabilities," said Laura Beavers, health department behavioral health division manager.

"It's almost two months into the program and, so far, it has exceeded expectations based on program participation and member feedback," said Molly Smeltzer, the health and fitness center's fitness and wellness manager.

On May 23, Nicole Ward was among several people working out at the center. She picked up a medicine ball, steadied herself and threw it to the floor.

"Slam it down!" she yelled at the encouragement of her personal trainer/health coach Sara Freed and caregiver Karly Enger.

She did that 10 times, the most she'd ever done. Next, she played catch using an inflatable ball.

"Nice throw," Freed said after Ward tossed the ball to her. "This is her first time throwing it. And she's doing a lot better catching it instead of letting it slide off her," Freed said.

A few feet away, Neysa Danilson did rail-assisted squats for the first time holding onto a bar in front of her, squatting onto her wheelchair, then back up again.

"Push through your heels. There you go. Remember to use your legs more than your arms," said her coach, Cody Haenitsch.

Jeffrey Sapp-Paris worked out on battle ropes, coached by Smeltzer. "Getting better," Sapp-Paris said.

The health department and the McLean County Board for Care and Treatment of Persons with a Developmental Disability had been exploring wellness opportunities for people with developmental disabilities because research shows they are three times more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer than people without disabilities, Beavers said.

Furthermore, people with a developmental disability die, on average, 25 years earlier than people without disabilities, Beavers said.

The health department first approached Advocate BroMenn Health & Fitness Center which develops individualized, medically monitored fitness programs and then Marcfirst, which has programs for people with disabilities.

"We've always had a wellness component, encouraging people to walk and eat healthier" but the new program takes that to a new level, said Marcfirst CEO Laura Furlong.

The program began April 1. There is no charge to the individuals because, for the first year, the disability board is spending $40,338.80 from a tax levy designed for individuals with disabilities.

In addition, "Advocate Charitable Foundation has created a fund for incidental expenses and to expand the program and carry it beyond this year," Beavers said.

Funding is available for 41 Marcfirst clients and their caregivers. So far, 22 people with disabilities and 18 of their support people are participating, Smeltzer said.

Their health histories have been taken, they have received doctor's approval to begin exercise, they have undergone health screenings, discussed their fitness goals, and exercise plans have been developed to help them to reach those goals, Smeltzer said.

While each exercise prescription is different, generally each program calls for 20 to 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise, strength training and core and flexibility exercises two to three times a week, Smeltzer said.

Each participant has their own "Technogym Key" which plugs into each exercise machine to remind members of their exercise weight, repetitions, numbers of sets or amount of time and what exercise to do next. The key also records exercise, giving coaches another opportunity to monitor members' progress, Smeltzer said.

Ward, 33, who lives in a Marcfirst group home in Normal, has an intellectual disability, a seizure disorder and wears a helmet because she has a poor gait and is a fall risk. Her exercise prescription includes working with resistance bands, the medicine ball, the inflatable ball, stepping up onto a box and walking on the track.

Danilson, 45, who lives in an apartment in Bloomington with Marcfirst support, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. "My goal is to walk with crutches," she said.

She uses an exercise bike and arm bike, does a variety of upper and lower body strength training and has added rail-assisted squats. "It makes me stronger in my legs and arms," Danilson said. "It makes me feel good."

Sapp-Paris, 24, who lives in a Marcfirst home in Bloomington, has autism and wants to lose weight. In addition the battle ropes and exercise bike, he does a variety of upper and lower body weight machines.

"He's getting very comfortable with his workout and, after gym days, he's more conscious of what he's eating," said his support person, Kim Fischer.

So far, the program has been a success, organizers agree.

"Everyone is excited to go," Furlong said. "Having a place to go where people know your name, where you are a part of the community that is a very rich part of this."

Freed turned to Ward and said "This is your gym."

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Imagine every minute of your workout being results-driven and having to spend less time exercising in order to lose weight. The Method CRA test allows a person to look at their individual unique metabolic fingerprint at a cellular level. Although great trainers help with providing the programming to achieve fitness and performance goals, the Method CRA test can be used to assure that you burn fat when training and not muscle.

There has been a rise in heart rate based training classes in the fitness industry. The concept of monitoring your heart rate while working out is smart. However, the number displayed on the monitor or your Polar watch is irrelevant if you dont know what YOUR number should be. The heart rate zone charts displayed everywhere are simply a general guide, not an accurate range.

Metabolic fingerprinting has reinvented heart rate based training to provide a person with their specific range to achieve fat burning and avoid using muscle as a fuel source. For decades the fitness industry has been using heart rate based training that relies on these zones. These zones only offer a guesstimate.

Heart rate based training that uses zone charts that are grounded in the work of Dr. M.J. Karvonen who performed the original research on heart rates. He was monumental in discovering that exercise must be performed at the correct level of intensity, frequency and duration. The Karvonen Formula (220-age) was created in 1957 and provides the science used by the heart rate zone charts you see on every treadmill and cardio machine. But today in 2017, technology has improved and there is now a way to knowyour precise heart rate range and help you burn the greatest amount of fat when exercising.

The Method Difference, a Denver-based company offers simple technology that reveals a persons individual metabolic fingerprint through a non-invasive test called the Method CRA. Although metabolic fingerprinting has been around for a decade, it is now accessible to the public and no longer cost-prohibitive. The Method Difference has connected science, medicine and exercise in a way that allows everyone to train smarter, not harder.

Stop Using 60 year Old Charts to Make Decisions About Your Exercise Program

Despite the contributions of Dr. Karvonen and the good intentions of all the zone workout programs, it is important to understand The Method CRA test is far more precise and provides an individual with an accurate number for their unique prime, anaerobic and peak range. It is like using a map from 60 years ago to maneuver through a city when you could just get a new onethat reflects all the enhancements, as well as the most efficient route to your destination.

Here are the three key numbers revealed during a Method CRA test.

Prime is a range where your body will experience the most performance improvements, where it will maximize the use of oxygen and where you will burn the most amount of fat as a fuel source.

Anaerobic is the range where your body is exclusively using stored carbohydrates and no longer burning fat.

Peak is where there is a heighten risk for injury. At this range, you will decrease performance gains and your body is depleted of stored fuel so it begins to burn muscle mass.

4 Reasons to Stop Using the Heart Rate Based Training Protocols

The Future of Fitness

Interval training has had a significant impact on the exercise sciences community influencing people to reach their maximum heart rates during training. High intensity interval training is a great tool for weight loss. HIIT has also helped to increase the overall fitness level of its users. A bi-product of this type of training is that it is considered stressful and requires an appropriate amount of rest to receive 100% of the benefits. When you know your metabolic fingerprint, you are provided with your individual anaerobic and peak range, which is so valuable for those who perform HIIT style workouts.

If you are training past your peak range your body stops using fat as a fuel source. At this point, protein gets used as a fuel source and therefore the muscle contraction gets weaker. In fact, there are unaligned contractions and incomplete contractions. You will also experience slower neurological firing of the muscle fibers. All of this has a negative impact on recovery, power output and muscle repair. Protein needs to remain reserved for building and repairing of muscle cells. When you know your exact ranges from your metabolic fingerprint you are able to train smarter, not harder and do the exact amount of work your body needs to increase strength and power with less stress. This is the future of fitness. Whether you are a cross-fitter, MMA fighter, marathon runner or on a weight loss mission follow this mantra TRAIN SMARTER, NOT HARDER.

If you have an interest in learning more about this ground breaking technology and if your city offers a Method CRA testing center reach out to the Method Differenceor contact them by email(jacy.hibbard@themethoddifference.com).

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The Nevada City Swimming Pool will be open from noon to 4 p.m. on June 3 and 4 for public swim. Beginning June 10, the pool will be open for the summer. Swim lessons are available for children of all ages and abilities. The Nevada City Recreation Department also offers day camps for school aged children. Parents can stop by the swimming pool during hours of operation or visit the city's website at http://www.nevadacityca.gov, to view the Summer Program Guide for days, times and fees for all programs.

Kids who are between 11 and 14 years old and enjoy swimming are encouraged to register for the Junior Lifeguard Camp, where campers learn basic water safety skills and decide if lifeguarding is something they might want to do when they are older. New this year is a Chess Wizards camp for kids who want to learn the game of chess or improve their game. This camp offers other activities as well to keep the campers engaged. Other popular camps returning include Kidscience, Lego Camp and British Multi-Sports. Register soon as space is filling up. Aquatic programs are available for adults too, including exercise classes and adult lap swim times beginning on June 12.

For more information on programs, visit the pool during hours of operation or leave a message at 530-265-8223.

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THE more you think about exercise, the more weight you lose.

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For some people, exercise is their favourite part of the day, for others its just another chore they want to get over and done with.

However, thinking of exercise as a chore could actually be the reason we cant lose weight.

Researchers from the University of Michigan have suggested the key to weight loss is all in our minds we need to change the way we think about exercise.

The study published in BMC Public Health, found what makes us feel happy and successful overall can be determined by our exercise methods.

The study showed both active and inactive women said connecting with others and helping them be happy and successful made them feel fulfilled, along with being relaxed and free of pressures during their leisure time, and accomplishing goals from grocery shopping to career goals.

However, inactive women said the way they felt about exercise made them feel less happy and unsuccessful.

This is because many of them said they believed valid exercise must be intense, yet they said they wanted to feel relaxed during their leisure time.

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The inactive women said they feel pressure to exercise for health or to lose weight and yet during their leisure time they dont want to be pressured.

And these women also said they believe success comes from achieving goals, yet their expectations for how much and how they should be exercising was leaving little room to achieve these goals.

Comparatively, active women didnt feel bad if they missed a workout every so often and for them exercise was a middle priority.

Michelle Segar, study author said: "Their beliefs about what exercise should consist of and their past negative experiences about what it feels like actually prevents them from successfully adopting and sustaining physically active lives.

Michelle said she thinks the traditional approach to exercise 30 minutes of vigorous exercise per day could potentially harm motivation.

She added: "We need to re-educate women they can move in ways that will renew instead of exhaust them, and more effectively get the message across that any movement is better than nothing.

Michelle continued that the key is to make exercise fun, not daunting and prior studies have shown exercising with friends or finding a fun exercise can help with this its all about changing the mindset to enjoy exercise, not fear it.

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ON-CALL Friday's here again and so, therefore, is On-Call, our weekly dip into absurd tech support tales contributed by readers.

This week, meet Rick who kicked off his career supporting laptops running Windows 95 and tells us that One day I had a call from a sales rep who said 'My new laptop computer needs to lose some weight, it's getting heavy.

Getting heavy? In the age of Windows 95 laptops were rather less svelte than today's machines and could bulk up a bit with a double-height PCMCIA card inside, but there was no reason for them to get any heavier than they were when they left the factory.

The rep explained he couldn't save files so perhaps he was complaining that his disk was full. But he also complained the machine was heavy, along the way mentioning that his weight theory had been prompted by an error message. So Rick asked the user to read him the error and heard the following response:

This is The Register so we'll assume you know that FAT is the File Allocation Table, a filesystem widely used until the early 2000s.

Oh I see, said Rick. Yes, I see the confusion.

What can I do, the rep asked. The longer I walk around with it the heavier it gets.

Rick kindly arranged a new laptop that was actually 0.5Kg lighter and ran Windows NT. The second part of the fix was to format its hard drive with the NTFS file system, a ploy that solved the problem.

I had a very happy customer and one less Windows 95 machine, Rick says, so it was all good really.

Have your users misinterpreted acronyms with amusing results? If so, write to me with your story and you, yes you, might just appear in next week's On-Call.

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Autism Symptoms Not Aided By Special Diets, Supplements Psychiatry Advisor HealthDay News There is no solid evidence that any diet changes or supplements to ease symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) work, according to research published online in Pediatrics. The new review findings were based on 19 clinical trials.

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Fred Kummerow sounded equal parts relieved and content on that Tuesday afternoonin June 2015. The Food and Drug Administration had decided to ban artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply, finally eliminating a key culprit in the rising rates of heart disease in the nation.

Kummerow, then a 100-year-old University of Illinois professor, had spent nearly six decades warningabout the dangers of the artery-clogging substance and fighting an often lonely battleto ban it, and he was finallyseeing his work vindicated.

Science won out, Kummerow, who sued the FDA in 2013 for not acting sooner, told me that day. It's very important that we don't have this in our diet.

Kummerow died Wednesday at his home in Urbana, Ill., knowing that his research likely has saved thousands andthousands of lives.

Professor Kummerow was a maverick and a trailblazer, and his vision and persistence are, to this day, transforming the American diet, the university's chancellor, Robert Jones, said in a statement. We are lucky that he chose to use his intellectual gifts in this way, and that, in spite of decades of opposition and hardship, he never gave up.

He was nothing if not persistent.

As a young university researcher in the 1950s, Kummerow persuaded a local hospital to let him examine the arteries of people who had died from heart disease. He was startled to find that the tissue contained high levels of artificial trans fat, a substance that had been discovered decades earlier but had become ubiquitous in processed foods throughout the country.

He later showed that lab rats developedatherosclerosis after being fed artificial trans fats. When he removed the substance from their diets, the atherosclerosis all but vanished.

Kummerow first published his research warning about the dangers of artery-clogging trans fats in 1957. He soon began to detail the massive amounts oftrans fat in the shortening and margarines lining grocery shelves, and he worked to persuade food companies to lower the content of trans fats in their products.

But despite his growing body of research and his repeated warnings, Kummerow spent decades as a sort of lone voice in the wilderness. His recommendations largely were ignored. Artificial trans fats remained a staple of processed food for decades. Even into the 1980s, many scientists and public health advocates insistedthat partially hydrogenated oils were preferable to more natural saturated fats. The food industry was slow to move away from its embrace of artificial trans fats, which were cheaper than natural ingredients, offered longer shelf life and an appealing taste and texture in food.

Bythe 1990s, more and more studies revealedthat trans fats were a a key contributor to soaring rates of heart disease in the country.The advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the FDA in 1994 to require that the substance be listed on nutrition labels a move the agency put into place in 2006.

As the dangers of trans fat became unmistakable, public opinion also shifted, and food companies increasingly removed the substance from products voluntarily, though it remained in a broad range of foods, from cake frostings to baked goods.

Frustrated by the lack of action, Kummerow at age 94 filed a 3,000-word citizen petition with the FDA in 2009, requesting that it ban partially hydrogenated fat from the American diet. His 3,000-word petition citedthe mounting body of evidence against trans fat.

Everybody should read my petition because it will scare the hell out of them, he said at the time.

Four years after filing his petition and hearing nothing, Kummerow suedthe FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services in 2013, with the help of a California law firm. The suit sought tocompel the agency to respond to Kummerow's petition and to ban partially hydrogenated oils unless a complete administrative review finds new evidence for their safety.

Three months later, the FDA announced its plans to effectively eliminate trans fats by saying that the substanceno longer would be assumedsafe for use in human foods. In June 2015, the agency finalized thatinitial proposal and gave manufacturers three years to reformulate products or to petition the agency for an exception.

Kummerow, who maintained his university lab until the age of 101 and who was knownto dip into his own pocket to pay the scientists who worked with him, was more than just a scientist. He also was an outspoken citizen.

A recent Chicago Tribune article detailed how archivists going through his 110 boxes of papers found a man interestednot just in studying lipid biochemistry in his lab, but engaged in everything from the national debtto wars to clean energy:

In addition to one book and 400-plus scientific papers he authored in his career are letters to five U.S. presidents, members of Congress and other people of distinction on topics such as the national debt, the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and energy. University officials plan to include these letters in the archives because they are indicative of the times in which Kummerow worked and show his personal commitment to the well-being of the people and his country.

I don't know if it made a difference, Kummerow says in retrospect. But it might have.

There's little doubt that hemade a difference. Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tweeted Friday that Kummerow's work had sparedhundreds of thousands of lives.

As for his own diet,Kummerow never was convinced that cholesterol was a major factor in heart disease. Into his 100s, he ate eggs and drank whole milk. He avoided french fries, margarine and other fried foods. At his 100th birthday party, he even passed on the store-bought cake someone brought after he noticed it contained trans fat.

I threw it out, helater recalled.

There was plenty else to eat.

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