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John Mackey, the CEO and founder of Whole Foods,didnt eat any vegetables growing up.

He discovered his love of veg in his 20s, just a few years before startingthe health foods store. Now Mackeyshares his story, and the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, in his new book, The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longetivity.

In my 20s, I moved into a vegetarian co-op and that was the beginning of my own food consciousness journey. I was a very picky eater. I never ate vegetables, but within a pretty short period of time I became a vegetarian, Mackey tells NBC News.

But he didnt completely stick to vegetarianism, and started eating fish.

Gradually, over time, I was starting to gain weight, Mackey says. My biometric measurements were not as good as they used to be. I was getting older. I just thought, Oh, this is coming with age.

Then he discovered Colin Campbells book The China Study, whichconvinced him to go vegan, and ditch processed foods entirely.

When I stopped eating all those processed foods and combined that with a plant based diet, my health was just amazing, Mackey says. I now weigh the same as I weighed when I was 18 years old. My cholesterol is under 140. My LDL is under 70. My blood pressure is 110 over 65. Im an extremely healthy person now.

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But Mackey says you dont have to cut out meat and processed foods all at once, move through the transition on a relatively slow basis. Mostly because we need to re-educate our taste buds. You have to expose yourself to a food about ten times before you really come to like it.

Mackey used this method to train himself to love vegetables, which was the key to his weight loss, and what he says is the best way to eat.

When you combine the things our body naturally craves whole starch foods (sweet potatoes, brown rice, beans, etc.) with fruits and vegetables you can eat all you want and youll lose weight, he says.

Still, though, he isnt perfect, and other foods slip in to his diet.

Im still on a health journey too, Mackey says. I do not put myself out as a perfect human being in terms of healthy eating. However, its the overall diet pattern that matters. If you occasionally make a mistake, or you occasionally indulge yourself, it doesnt matter. Its about the overall pattern: when you have the next meal, or the next snack, just do better.

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The City Commission unanimously requested Monday that the Florida Department of Transportation undertake a rigorous study of an ambitious plan to alter South Florida Avenue.

LAKELAND The City Commission unanimously requested Monday that the Florida Department of Transportation undertake a rigorous study of an ambitious plan to alter South Florida Avenue.

Commissioners opposed to the most controversial part of the plan, the reduction of South Florida Avenue from five lanes to three from Pine Street to Ariana Street, assured residents speaking in opposition that they were not consenting to the change, but rather to study and potentially test it.

"By approving this, we are not approving the reduction in lanes," Mayor Howard Wiggs said.

The commission requested the study be programmed into FDOT's 2018-19 budget. As part of that study, FDOT may close two of the lanes for one year to demonstrate the feasibility of the "road diet."

The intent of the lane reduction would be to expand the remaining lanes and widen the sidewalks to encourage pedestrian use of South Florida Avenue through Dixieland and downtown.

Until that test happens, the transportation issue that has sharply divided the city and its commission will likely take on a lower profile.

City staff members assured commissioners there would be another "offramp" if the solutions proposed by FDOT to make South Florida Avenue safer and more open for development are undesired.

By the time the state road agency would be seeking the commission's go-ahead to build, every commissioner but two, Jim Malless and Bill Read, will have been term-limited from the board.

Malless said he supports the plan, not only for Dixieland but to connect the area west of downtown into the district that is divided by a road some planners have called hostile to all users.

Commissioner Don Selvage agreed.

"This corridor connects with every district in the city," he said. "I make no equivocation that I support this project."

Selvage said he understood the opposition, which is worried the lane reduction would cause traffic mayhem along the major north-south thoroughfare and divert more cars into residential streets.

"Try to keep an open mind and look at these in a factual, objective manner moving forward," Selvage told opposing residents. "I think we're trying to keep an open mind and listening to both sides."

Lakeland Transportation Planner Chuck Barmby said the commission's approval will allow FDOT to perform a detailed analysis of the entire "complete street" plan for South Florida Avenue, even if the lane reduction isn't ultimately supported.

During the FDOT study, there will be multiple public workshops and forums, Barmby said.

"I'm a little hesitant but I think something needs to be done to make that area safer, spur some economic development," Commissioner Justin Troller said.

Commissioner Bill Read concurred, adding, "at this point I am opposed to the dieting of South Florida Avenue."

Christopher Guinn can be reached at Christopher.Guinn@theledger.com or 863-802-7592. Follow him on Twitter @CGuinnNews.

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You may be hearing a lot about the ketogenic diet as a way to slim down while noshing on butter and heavy cream. This way of eating is suddenly hot among venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, who believe it will help them live longer and healthier,CNBC reports.

Some praise the high-fat/ultra low-carb plan for helping them to lose weight and have energy all day long. Otheradvocatessay it finally helped them to get control of their body.

How does it work and could it help you?

We askedBonnie Taub-Dix, a registered dietitian nutritionist and author of Read It Before You Eat It; andKeri Glassman, nutritionist, registered dietitian and TODAY Tastemaker.

To start with, both said they would never advise the ketogenic diet for weight loss.

Cutting out carbs is usually an invitation to overeat them at another point, Taub-Dix said. For a diet where youre looking to lose weight, look good and feel good I would not recommend a diet like this.

For safe and effective weight loss, the carb reduction is too extreme, Glassman added.

Heres what you need to know:

Its a diet fine-tuned in the 1920s to help treat epilepsy. It does help to control seizures in some children, but its not recommended for adults mostly because the restricted food choices make it hard to follow, theEpilepsy Foundationsays.

The diet has just recently begun to be touted as a weight loss plan, Glassman noted. She described it as eating mostly fat with a teeny bit of protein and carbs.

Your body normally relies on carbohydrates for energy. It breaks them down into glucose, which is your main source of fuel.

If thats not available when you stop eating carbs, your body turns to fat for energy in a process called ketosis. Fat becomes your fuel.

In a word: fat. Lots and lots of fat.

The desired ratio in the ketogenic diet is consuming 3 or 4 grams of fat for every 1 gram of carbohydrate and protein, which amounts to getting about 75-80 percent of your daily calories from fat.

You can eat foods like butter, heavy whipping cream, mayonnaise, and oils, the Epilepsy Foundation notes.

Its putting butter on your butter, Taub-Dix said. A sample daily menu might include eggs with olive oil and avocado on the side for breakfast; leafy greens, salmon, nuts and olive oil for lunch; and steak, greens, vegetables and oil for dinner, Glassman added.

Its all about that fat to carbs/protein ratio, so even though youre not really counting calories, the meals have to be planned very carefully to adhere to the strict formula.

Carbs. That means all breads, pastas, grains, sweets and more. You have to be extremely careful because even toothpaste may contain sugar, the Epilepsy Foundation warns.

The ketogenic diet restricts the intake of carbs to as low as 2-4 percent of calories. As a point of reference, a standard diet provides about 45-55 percent of calories from carbs, Glassman said.

Yes, you can lose weight on the ketogenic diet. One reason is that the body burns fat for fuel. Another is that you cant eat many of your favorite foods, like crusty bread, potato chips or sugar-laden pastries. Plus, all that fat keeps you full, so you may just skip your usual 3 p.m. snack because youre not hungry.

But the nutritionists were adamant that if you want to slim down, this is not the way to go.

Generally, whenever you do something like this, its extreme. Most extreme things, you lose weight, but that doesnt mean its good that doesnt mean its healthy, Glassman cautioned.

Its not really sustainable, nor is it good for you, Taub-Dix added. In most cases, youre just dying to have a cracker so the weight gain is usually pretty quick as well.

Since this diet doesnt provide all the essential nutrients, youd need to take supplements and multi-vitamins, Taub-Dix said. Youd also need to make sure your digestive system works properly because the diet is very low in fiber.

The ketogenic diet is a very restrictive plan that most people cant stick with and shouldnt try for weight loss, the nutritionists said. People with heart disease or diabetes should especially stay away, Taub-Dix warned.

There is one healthy takeaway, though: In general, reducing carbs and incorporating more healthy fats, like nuts and avocados and certain oils, in your diet without going to extremes is a good idea for most of us, both Glassman and Taub-Dix said.

Im a big believer in having a lot of healthy fat in your diet, and many people skimp too much on healthy fats, Glassman said.

If youre eating a more well-balanced diet eating carbohydrates that are high in fiber, whole grains, and combining it with fats, you feel good, too, Taub-Dix noted.

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Strava Inc., maker of a fitness tracking app that caters mostly to outdoor athletes, has just announced a new feature: Athlete Posts, a kind of blogging platform within its existing app that lets select athletes write extensive stories and publish photos. The move is clearly a part of Stravas desire to turn the app, which for a long time was used predominantly by cyclists, into less of a niche fitness app and more of a social network by traditional social network standards.

Athlete Posts, to start, will only be available to 36 select athletes, including professional athletes, former pros, and a triathlete who has completed 50 Ironman races in 50 days across all 50 states (really, this is a thing). The idea isnt for them to just post a couple notes or photos about their epic adventures, something you can already do in the Strava app; but to write about training tips, suggested gear, or even more personal stories. One of the examples Strava gives is Food Hacks for Traveling Athletes. Eventually, the plan is to roll Athlete Posts out to all Strava users, sometime later this summer.

Its a feature that borrows heavily from pretty much every existing social network (with the exception of Twitter, which has held fast to its 140-character limit) and the goal behind it is clear: to get users more engaged in content within the app so that theyre more inclined to use the app, feed the data beasts, and maybe even upgrade to a premium account. The $7.99 per month subscription is one of the ways Strava makes money; the other is a service called Strava Metro that involves Strava selling user data to urban planners and departments of transportation that want to better assess traffic and commute patterns.

San Francisco-based Strava wont say how many users the app has, or how many of those users pay for the app versus those who use the free version. But it has said it gains a million new members every forty-five days and that each week approximately eight million activities are uploaded to the app. And Strava, to its credit, is still a privately-owned fitness company at a time when many of its competitors have been snatched up by big-brand apparel companies.

But Strava is still primarily an app for outdoor sport enthusiasts or people aspiring to be one; it boasts of having more than 600 professional athletes on its platform, Olympic champions have used it to track gold-medal wins, and even non-professionals tend to get highly competitive in the app. So Strava either has to double-down on its current audience and extract more value from those users; or strive to become a household name among non-enthusiasts. Athlete Posts seem like it could potentially help with both.

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NBC 4 New York & Telemundo 47 To Host Fifth Annual Health & Fitness Expo, Presented By Quest Diagnostics EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ For the fifth consecutive year, NBC 4 New York / WNBC and Telemundo 47 New York / WNJU are teaming up with the four-time Super Bowl champion New York Giants for the annual FREE family-friendly Health & Fitness Expo, presented by Quest Diagnostics. One of the Tri-States largest and open-to-the-public health events, the Health & Fitness Expo will be held at MetLife Stadium on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day.

NBC 4s lead sportscaster Bruce Beck and Telemundo 47s lead sportscaster Veronica Contreras join New York Giants Linebacker Mark Herzlich and Offensive Lineman Justin Pugh as co-hosts of the health and fitness-focused event, which attracted more than 50,000 visitors in 2016, an increase of 20 percent over the previous year. Beck, Contreras, NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47 anchors and reporters, as well as active and retired Giants players, will all be on hand throughout the weekend to meet attendees and sign autographs.

The Health and Fitness Expo is one of WNBCs most important community events. Not only is it free and open to the public, but our Expo is filled with a number of fun experiences designed to promote a healthier lifestyle. It is also the only Tri-State event where visitors can tour the Giants locker room, get an up-close view of four Vince Lombardi trophies and meet their favorite WNBC on-air news personalities, said Eric Lerner, President and General Manager of NBC 4 New York.

New for 2017, visitors will be able to obtain their Passport to Health presented by Quest Diagnostics by completing a series of health-themed activities such as fitness tests and health screenings across MetLife Stadium. Visitors completing all passport-related activities will be eligible for giveaways and special prizes to be awarded Expo weekend.

As the Spanish-language home of the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, health and fitness are very important to Telemundo 47 and the communities we serve. Whether your sport of choice is futbol or football, our free Health and Fitness Expo will offer local families an action-packed weekend of activities designed with their health in mind, said Cristina Schwarz, President and General Manager, Telemundo 47.

Visitors will have the opportunity to walk on the actual field where their favorite players play, and will even have access to exclusive locker room tours. While on the field, visitors can access two Zipline towers and participate in a number of activities designed with their health in mind, including scaling a rock wall, running the 40-yard dash and joining the Giants Experience presented by Verizon where fans can participate in football-themed activities on the MetLife Stadium field.

For the fifth straight year, Quest Diagnostics, a proud partner in health of the New York Giants, is the presenting partner of the NBC 4 New York & Telemundo 47 Health & Fitness Expo at MetLife Stadium. Quest will again be on-site offering attendees 18 years and older complimentary health screenings at the Quest Diagnostics Health Center, located inside the MetLife 50 Club within the Stadiums main Great Hall. With their highly trained medical staff, Quest will be offering testing for cholesterol, vitamin D, kidney function and blood sugar level. Each attendee who participates in the free testing will receive their test results directly through the MyQuest mobile health app and online health management system.

Visitors can enjoy healthy cooking demonstrations throughout the weekend and meet with on-site experts to discuss integrative approaches to disease prevention, healthy dieting and nutritional information. The mega-yoga activity, Zen in the Zone, presented by HackensackUMC Fitness & Wellness Powered by the Giants, also invites a crowd of 1,000 yogis to practice yoga on the MetLife Stadium field for the fourth consecutive year.

Separate stages will include the FitnessAge Challenge, a program that reveals your fitness age and the Family Fun Zone, featuring workouts designed for kids and their families. Visitors can participate in virtual winter sports at the Expos Champions Village. The American Heart Association will offer a circuit for kids to test their fitness and health knowledge on the concourse. USA Football will demonstrate their Heads Up Football program, teaching safe tackling techniques and proper equipment fitting on MetLife Stadiums Kids Field, located on the Plaza. Soccer fans will also be able to participate in a clinic lead by FA Euro.

Rain or shine, visitors can participate in the dual NBC 4 New York / Telemundo 47 New York Interactive Weather Center. Participants can see how they look in front of a simulated weather broadcast, meet meteorologists and weather anchors from both stations and tour two new weather vehicles: StormRanger 4 / CazaTormentas 47 a first-of-its-kind mobile Doppler weather radar truck and StormChaser 4 / BuscaTormentas 47, a military-spec sports utility vehicle which can travel directly into the storm.

Further and in service to the Tri-State community:

The NBC 4 New York & Telemundo 47 Health & Fitness Expo at MetLife Stadium is produced and managed by Network Events, an event development, marketing, sales and management firm specializing in the production of large-scale consumer events for media partners and professional sports teams. For more information on Network Events, Inc., please visit http://www.networkevents.tv.

Additional updates on the NBC 4 New York & Telemundo 47 Health & Fitness Expo presented by Quest Diagnostics will be offered in the coming weeks. For more information, please visit http://www.nbcnewyork.com/expo.

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Countdown Fitness in Greenwich: Intensity means results

It is usually safe to assume workouts promising results from just 30 minutes per week are too good to be true.

Greenwichs Countdown Fitness stands apart.

On his website, Countdown Fitness owner Anel Dzafic readily admits the claim sounds a little fishy. About 90 seconds into working out with him, the fierce burn of his ultra-slow, high-intensity exercises clears up any doubts.

Intensity means results, said Dzafic, who lives in Stamford. The mind has to get to the point of, I quit; I dont want to do this anymore, for there to be results.

Dzafic has made a career of training anyone from children and 90-year-olds to professional athletes and pregnant women, he said, since learning whats become his Countdown Fitness model from a gym in Manhattan. For a little more than a year, he has been working with Connecticut clients, using Rick Stebbins Performance Therapy in downtown Greenwich near the Metro-North train stop as a home base. Stebbins offers his space as a place where personal trainers, like Dzafic, can run their businesses.

By July or August, Dzafic hopes to have all his business moved to Greenwich, he said. His roster of Connecticut clients grows and his wife prepares to have a baby. Countdown Fitness lends itself to the regions busy lifestyle, Dzafic said. His $95 sessions last for 30 minutes, and he typically meets with clients once a week so they can slot a quick workout into their schedules.

Dzafic emphasizes that to see results, clients need to eat well and many work out on their own, but his method has proved so successful he has barely advertised to build his brand. My clients are my billboard, he said.

Here is how it works: Dzafic asks new clients to provide information on their health, eating habits and goals. He assesses their fitness level on upper body, lower body and core through simple exercises they do very slowly 20 seconds per rep, to be exact. For a legs machine, he counts to 10 while the client pulls up the weight and then transitions them fluidly into resisting the weight as it falls back down for another 10 seconds. Without pausing, he keeps counting and the exercise goes on, forcing the client to work past their breaking point.

People will ask me if they can do this on their own, said Countdown Fitness trainer Madison Hughes. After they try it for the first time, they usually realize why you cant.

Dzafic said overcoming the mental barrier to get through the workout is so tough he needs Hughes to train with him because it is practically impossible to force yourself, he said.

Ive had an NFL athlete tell me this is the hardest workout theyve ever done, Dzafic said.

The personal trainer was drawn to this workout method largely because, even though it is difficult, it is extremely easy on your joints and anyone any age can do it, he said.

Watching how working out with Countdown Fitness has helped people reach their fitness and health goals is the most fulfilling aspect of his job, Dzafic said.

In the coming years, Dzafic hopes to own his own space for Countdown Fitness in Greenwich, hire more trainers and continue growing the business.

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We're now just a day away from the next quarterly report out ofPlanet Fitness (NYSE:PLNT), but the discount gym operator is already starting to bulk up. Shares of the 1,313-unit chain soared 11.6% last week.

There was no company-specific news fueling last week's surge. On Tuesday, it did confirm that it would be reporting its first-quarter numbers a week later -- after this Tuesday's market close -- but announcing an earnings date is rarely a cause for bullish celebration. Last week's rallywas enough to send the stock north of $20 for the first time in more than a month.

Image source: Planet Fitness.

We know where analysts stand ahead of Tuesday afternoon's report. Wall Street pros are holding out for $91.07 million in revenue through the first three months of 2017, 9.3% more than it served up a year earlier. Single-digit top-line growth may not seem so impressive, but Planet Fitness has already had two slower quarters in its brief publicly traded tenure.

Analysts are expecting a profit of $0.16 a share, well ahead of the $0.09 a share that it posted during last year's first quarter.

Planet Fitness already told investors about a meaty milestone that it hit earlier this year. The franchisee-fueled gym business announced in early April that it had topped 10 million active membersby the end of the first quarter. Planet Fitness had just 8.9 million members at the end of December and 8.3 million by the end March last year. The spike in accounts -- growing faster than the gym count -- makes it highly likely that Planet Fitness will post another period of positive same-store sales growth. Success on that front would extend that streak to an enviable 41 quarters of positive comps.

The first quarter is typically a good time to be a gym operator. It's when New Year's resolutions to get into shape translate into new sign-ups. A million of the 1.6 million net additions that Planet Fitness scored a year earlier occurred during the first three months of 2016.

The seasonality of the registrations doesn't make the first quarter Planet Fitness' strongest period. The first quarter has been the weakest or second weakest quarter in terms of revenue for Planet Fitness over the past couple of years. Folks sign up during the quarter, but the low $10-a-month rate of the basic membership plan keeps folks around long after that.

Planet Fitness is expanding quickly. It expects to go from 1,313 locations at the start of this year to more than 1,500 by year's end. It's making the most of the retail landscape, as superstores and other big-box concepts falter to give Planet Fitness leverage in negotiations with desperate landlords.Membership rates are growing even faster, making it easy to wonder if analysts are being too conservative in expecting single-digit top-line growth. The stock's big gains heading into Tuesday's report may suggest that a lot of the potential upside is already baked into the stock price, but clearly there is room for another positive surprise out of the gym industry disruptor.

Rick Munarriz has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Planet Fitness. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Visiting the Arctic might sound like an extreme way to change up your routine, but visiting Arlington-based ArCTIC could offer a cool breath of fresh air for your health and fitness regimen.

Sometimes maintaining personal wellness can seem like a hassle, which ultimately saps your motivation. For example, relying on one business to provide personal training, another for nutritional coaching and yet another for injury prevention and rehabilitation gets old quickly. Arlingtons Coaching-Training and Injury Center (ArCTIC) provides a whole-package solution to make staying healthy and fit easier.

The doctors at Schreffler Chiropractic launched ArCTIC, and they bring decades of combined experience to the new center. They provide individual client care to prevent both new injuries and flare-ups from existing problems. If an injury does occur, the doctors are fully equipped to assess, treat and manage the issue.

ArCTIC also has certified running, inline skating and personal training coaches, in addition to a registered dietician. Bringing together all of these professionals at one location creates a unique one-stop shop for sustaining a fit, healthy lifestyle through personal training and coaching.

Lets face it, our lives are busier than ever. That makes the temptation to resort to frozen or packaged foods really tempting. But what you eat has a huge impact on how your body performs daily, both physically and mentally. ArCTICs nutritional coach can help to improve your relationship with food through discussions of what, how and when to eat to maximize your personal performance. Plus, you can get ideas to simplify eating healthily and avoid the draw of unhealthy food when youre on the go.

Running is a high-profile activity that millions of people around the world enjoy, but only some know how to do properly. ArCTICS running coaches aim to help both beginner and seasoned runners reach their goals, but more importantly, they help to achieve such goals without injury.

Another calorie-burning yet sometimes overlooked exercise for which ArCTIC provides coaching is inline skating. The activitys lateral movements help to offset the repetitive, straight-ahead movements of many other exercises. Inline skating isnt quite as intuitive as running, though, so coaches can help you master proper moving, turning and stopping to optimize performance and avoid injuries.

Trying to figure out exactly which wellness plan is best for you can be overwhelming. But a fitness assessment using the state-of-the-art FitQuest determines exactly which exercises best suit your needs for improving personal weaknesses and imbalances.ArCTIC is the first and only business in the country to own this measurement tool, and the centers personal trainers use it to completely customize your training program.

Do you feel like solo wellness programs arent for you? Maybe being among peers during exercise boosts your motivation? Not a problem. To complement its one-on-one personal training and coaching, ArCTIC often provides group training sessions, such as before local races. Right now, for instance, the Master the Miles program helps clients train to run an upcoming summer 5K or 10K. Another option is the Fitness Inline Training (FIT) Program that helps inline skaters train for a half marathon.

ArCTIC also provides services to other fitness facilities, such as the recent partnership with OrangeTheory Fitness. The six-week weight loss challenge incorporated ArCTICs FitQuest testing, and it promoted improvements in participants overall fitness and wellness beyond just the numbers on a scale.

Conquering fitness challenges and keeping your wellness on track has never been easier than by taking an integrated approach with ArCTIC.

Contact the experienced doctors and coaches online or by calling 703-465-1213 to set up your first appointment.

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Fitness and weight loss trial to target breast cancer BBC News A 1m pilot scheme hopes to reduce the risk of women developing breast cancer by helping them lose weight and become more active. Women over 50 attending screening will be asked to take part in the trial ActWell in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and ... Drinking Boosts Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women, TooArizona Daily Star all 35 news articles »

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WESTBROOK -- If your daily workout is a bit mundane then you might want to see what they're doing in Westbrook.

The Fitness on the Water gym is trying to distinguish themselves by offering some alternative ways to burn off calories from stretch bands to surf boards.

"We just want to stay really cutting edge and stay on top of what's going on in the fitness industry," said fitness instructor and club manager Dana Brown.

Brown, a 20 year veteran of the fitness business, was teaching aPilates based Barefoot Band class where students pull colored bands down from the ceiling and integrate them into their workout. "When you pull the bands down you engage your entire core," she said.

Also popular in the upscale fitness space are Pound-Fit classes where the participants pickup drumsticks and use them to give their workout a bitmore tempo. "It's unique, it's different, you're not just sitting on a spin bike or getting on a treadmill,"saidDonna Scott, amanager at Fitness on the Water.

The most intriguing class is the newSurfSet workout whereyou hop atop an indoor surfboard and combine yoga and Pilates while trying to find a balance. Scott added, "working out needs to be fun, otherwise you won't go."

Saturday is National Pilates Day and, as part of their Westbrook fitness location'sgrandopening,Fitness on the Water will offer free classes and workshops for those who want to try it out.

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