| Race-walking clinic scheduled Friday | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:56:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | Augie Hirt, a 1973 McPherson College graduate and a 2004 inductee into the McPherson College Athletic Hall of Fame, will be offering a free clinic on race walking for fitness on Friday.The clinic is from 4 to 5:10 p.m. on the track at McPherson Stadium.Hirt is the world's leading instructor in teaching the art of fitness through race-walking technique. He has taught more than 70,000 people, including clinics for the Kenneth Cooper Aerobic Institute, Reebok and Nike, and how to lose weight and tone muscles through a low-impact fitness activity.According to Hirt, one does not need to walk faster or longer than they already walk, just incorporate the race-walk technique.On Saturday, Hirt will be offering a second short clinic at 7:50 a.m. prior to the start of the annual homecoming walk/run. He will race walk the 5K, working with everyone that is attempting to race walk.... | |
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| | | My workout From starting fitness class to teaching it | | Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:44:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Private life: McKinney was born and raised outside Philadelphia. She taught Earth Science to junior high and high school students in Texas for 26 years. She and her husband of 46 years, John, moved to Sherwood in 2004. They have two children and four grandchildren. Fitness history: McKinney grew up surrounded by open space, playing softball and soccer with the other neighborhood kids. She was a cheerleader in high school and played field hockey, basketball, softball and tennis. In college she played intramural sports with pick-up teams. After that, she says, "it depended on where we were and how old the kids were." Her husband was career Army, and the family moved around for 20 years. She swam regularly for 15 years before moving to Oregon. A few weeks after moving to Sherwood the McKinneys joined the Sherwood Family YMCA and enrolled in the 12-Weeks to Fitness program.... | |
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| | | National women's fitness challenge proves popular for hundreds of Illinois participants | | Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:02:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | DECATUR - They may not have walked 500 miles and then walked 500 more, but participants in this year's Women On the Move Across the Nation, or WOMAN, Challenge were closing in.The eight-week walking and physical activity challenge encouraged women to get 10,000 steps or 30 minutes of physical activity each day. Illinois was one of the top five states?;for participation with 964 women enrolled."Physical activity is one of the best ways to keep healthy," said Michelle Hoersch, regional women's health coordinator for the Office on Women's Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Obesity is the key leading indicator for who is going to develop a chronic disease. Activity increases your overall health, resistance and immunity."The program is in its third year, with the first two years being only regionally focused around the Great Lakes states.... | |
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| | | Happy Trails to You | | Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 12:59:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you find doing laps on the high school track boring, you now have an alternative! A fitness trail has been developed surrounding the high school grounds. The fitness trail is .74 of a mile in length and it is interspersed with six fitness stations. Pictured above is the station for arm strength and upper body flexibility. The students in Ms. Nancy Kloss' fitness class devoted several class sessions to working out on the "Walk for Port Fitness Trail." The trail was funded by The Port Washington Education Foundation. Ms. Koss, physical education teacher, said, "The fitness trail is great in keeping one motivated throughout the workout. Moving quickly from one exercise to the next combines cardio and strength moves. Running or walking the track is cardio only whereas, the fitness trail combines strength training for upper and lower body and flexibility.... | |
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