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On Wednesday, May 30, an estimated 100,000 older adults will participate in local fitness activities throughout the country as part of the 19th annual National Senior Health and Fitness Day(NSHFD), the nation's largest health promotion event for older adults.

Older adults at all levels of physical fitness are encouraged to participate in National Senior Health and Fitness Day. The goal is to make exercise fun, increase awareness of the benefits of a regular exercise program for older adults, and to encourage all older adults to take advantage of health and fitness programs offered in theFlorencecommunity.

The McLeod Health and Fitness Center will host a special event to recognize the senior community on Wednesday, May 30. The event includes fitness walks, low-impact exercises, health screenings and information, and much more. National Senior Health and Fitness Day is open to both members and non-members of the McLeod Health andFitnessCenter.

Below is the McLeod Health & Fitness Center schedule of activities from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. May 30. (The schedule is subject to change.)

7:30 a.m. Registration Begins

7:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cholesterol Screenings

8 a.m. Rail Trail Walk (meet in the H&FC front lobby)

8:15 a.m. Working out H2O Style

8:30 a.m. Fit For Life Senior Fitness

8:45 a.m. Aqua Blast

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I'm one of those women who likes reading men's health and fitness magazines. Though they all promise bodies and sex lives that most of us will never have, I'm drawn to the funny, self-deprecating tone, the functional workout tips and the emphasis on sweat, competition and strength training.

Yes, women's magazines have these elements but on a vastly diminished scale. They're fluffier, in part because beauty products and clothes are considered health-related, but also because women are still plagued by the irrational fear of "bulking up." We won't get huge without added testosterone, but some magazines still perpetuate the notion that men should build insanely huge muscles and women need to lose fat.

A recent Muscle & Fitness magazine cover, for example, promised "75 of the Best Muscle Building Exercises." By contrast, Muscle & Fitness Hers, the female counterpart to the bodybuilder mag, featured thinspiration, including "The Skinny on Fat Loss" and "The Best Natural Appetite Suppressants." The majority of advertisements touted fat-burning supplements, stimulants and weight loss products.

Men's Health and Women's Health magazines have plenty of overlapping content. Both recognize that both genders compete in marathons and triathlons, want great abs in 15 minutes and need nutritional guidance. But the editors use considerably different voices to reach their male and female readers.

"For Women's Health, it's a confiding, challenging, sisterly thing equal parts encouragement, sympathy and advice. It comes from a place of 'just us girls,'" said David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health and editorial director of Women's Health.

"Guys tend to be a bit more bracing with their counsel, with a healthy dose of humor plus self-denigration thrown into the mix," Zinczenko added. "First we laugh at ourselves, then we laugh at you, then we deliver the goods straight up, with an expert chaser."

Women's Health also uses a larger typeface than Men's Health. Though it may be simply a design decision, larger fonts can elicit stronger emotional brain responses, according to a study by German researchers.

The direct "male" approach is what I find appealing. Men's workouts are usually cast as a way to build a stronger body. Women's exercises are given cute, superficial names, such as "The Wedding Dress Workout" or "The Bikini Body Booty routine." Rather than sending the message that exercise builds muscle, confidence and improves mental health, the emphasis is on looking good. If your workout goal is to fit into a swimsuit, you're using an unsustainable approach to fitness. But if your goal is to get healthy which means incorporating it as a lifestyle you'll have a body that you want to show off.

Still, some women and magazines are catching on. At Details, where 32 percent of the online readership is female, there's a growing recognition that "the gender boundaries in fitness studios and gyms have been blurred," said Details senior editor Sheila Monaghan, who edits the health, fitness and nutrition section. "Fitness has become this sort of equalizer between the sexes," she said. "Everyone wants the same results."

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Long commutes to work may be hazardous to your health. Longer daily drives are associated with decreased fitness and increased weight, a recent study from Washington University suggests.

While other studies have examined the amount of time spent in the car, this study looked specifically at driving distance, said Christine Hoehner, the study's lead investigator and an assistant professor in the division of public health sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

"It's an important part of people's daily routine and it affects a lot of people," she said. "Unlike TV viewing, which has gotten most of the attention when you think about sedentary behavior, commuting distance, or time you spend commuting in a car, isn't something you can change as easily as just turning off the TV."

Researchers looked at the commuting habits of nearly 4,300 residents in Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin, Texas. They used ArcGIS9 software (a geographic information system, rather than relying on self report) to calculate commuting distances, measuring the shortest route to work. They also compiled information on participants' CRF, body mass index (BMI), and metabolic factors including waist circumference, cholesterol levels and blood pressure.

The study determined that people who drove 10 or more miles to work were more likely to have higher blood pressure, while those with commutes of 15 miles or more were less likely to participate in physical activity and were linked to having a greater waist circumference and a higher BMI.

These outcomes were true even when researchers accounted for physical activity, which suggests that there may be something about the commute itself that leads to poorer health.

"We can hypothesize that if two people are equally active but one person has to commute a further distance than the other, they are perhaps burning fewer calories, so that might be over time, leading to higher weight," she said.

Hoehner pointed out that there may be other mechanisms at play that the study didn't measure, such as longer commutes may equate with getting less sleep, which has also been linked to increased weight gain, or they may be snacking more in the car.

Why the higher blood pressure? "People who commute longer distances might be faced with more daily stress, especially if they're faced with traffic congestion on a daily basis," Hoehner said.

Although these mechanisms - sleep, diet, stress - were not included in the study, Hoehner said it's still important to note that "longer commuting distances is associated with higher weight, lower fitness levels and higher blood pressure and all these are strong predictors of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some types of cancers."

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SAN DIEGO, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --CKO Kickboxing, one of the fastest-growing health fitness franchises, will open its first cardio kickboxing gym in California on June 1 at 7094 Miramar Road, Suites 115 and 116 in San Diego, to provide high-quality cross training in a friendly, comfortable home-like setting in the Mira Mesa area.

Grand Opening festivities are in the works for Saturday, June 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to CKO Kickboxing of San Diego owners Trisha Virga and Joe Virga.

"You can work up a sweat and burn calories without worrying about getting a black eye or breaking a bone with cardio kickboxing," Virga said of the cardio kickboxing gym that will serve residents of San Diego, Mira Mesa, Scripps Ranch and UTC. He and his wife, Trisha, who is certified in pre-natal training, will be the head trainers of CKO Kickboxing in San Diego. "We specialize in making everyday people reach their fitness goals and their full fitness potential through kickboxing."

The Virgas also own and operate a CKO Kickboxing franchise in Brooklyn, N.Y., but have relocated permanently to San Diego.

"We went on vacation to San Diego last December. I said to my wife, 'I want to live here. I would like for my kids to grow up in a place like this,'" he said.

"We're real excited about offering cardio boxing classes in San Diego. We were looking for a location a year ago in Los Angeles and I wasn't feeling it. Then we came to San Diego. I found a real estate broker. We negotiated the lease in an hour. It was unheard of. It usually takes months," he said.

CKO Kickboxing, whose franchisees include many former military members, is offering a 10 percent discount to current and former service personnel as well as police and fire personnel. Students and teachers also receive a 10 percent discount.

To make the gym stand out from competitors, members can work out by themselves at any time the club is open. Most kickboxing gyms are open only for classes or for private instruction, but not for drop-in workouts.

"People lead busy lives. We want to work around their schedules, not the other way around," he said. "We always strive to make CKO like your home, not like a gym."

"My goal is to put together a unique gym, a functional training gym, not just a gym with dumbbells," he added.

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --MapMyFITNESS, a health and fitness technology company powering the Internet's largest and fastest growing community of fitness enthusiasts, today announced the launch of a completely rebuilt platform with several new features for its portfolio of online fitness websites, including an innovative feature called Courses, advanced integration of Google Maps API for Business, and a fresh look and feel. Courses will span five primary categories of sports, including cycling, running, walking, hiking and winter sports, as well as hundreds of subcategory specialty activities like cross-country skiing and unicycling.

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Courses now provides both elite athletes and casual enthusiasts an unprecedented leaderboard and "check-in" technology, and will be available initially through a private beta test for the first 100,000 users who sign up at new.mapmyfitness.com/maps/courses. The new site, which provides fitness enthusiasts five-times-faster performance, is now available to everyone at new.mapmyfitness.com, and widespread access to Courses will be offered later this summer.

"As the largest online fitness social network community with more than 9 million users, we are excited to expand the functionality of our product portfolio to our rapidly growing base," said Richard Jalichandra, chief executive officer of MapMyFitness. "Our goal is to enable athletes in the 40-plus sports supported by MapMyFITNESS to benefit from this enhanced level of product capability and functionality."

In addition to the introduction of Courses, MapMyFITNESS' new features include the latest mapping technology from Google. MapMyFITNESS enables users to create new Courses directly from their iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile or iPad. The Google Maps API v 3 integration also provides route details like traffic patterns and temperature in real-time, which will help users better plan and experience activities.

"MapMyFITNESS is integrating their applications with Google Maps to help top athletes and beginners easily visualize their routes," said Dan Chu, Google product manager. "We're always excited to see people using Google Maps in new, innovative ways."

The Courses feature does real-time processing of MapMyFITNESS' database of over 50 million routes and 30,000 event courses to produce a fun, engaging and motivating experience that helps users plan activities, measure their fitness and track their progress in real-time and over time.

Specifically, Courses includes:

"The new MapMyFITNESS websites and applications were designed to support a user base that ranges from casual beginners to ultra-competitive athletes," said Robin Thurston, co-founder and chief product officer of MapMyFITNESS. "The Courses feature, powered by our integration with Google's latest mapping technology, is a big differentiator for us, and we think users are really going to enjoy tracking their workouts and competing against others."

MapMyFITNESS has been recognized by some of the world's most credible authorities as the premier fitness application, including TIME's "50 Best Apps list in 2012" (the only fitness app named this year), Runner's World UK's "Best Running App of 2012," About.com Reader's Choice "Best Running App" in 2012 and a consistent top five ranking in iTunes' Health and Fitness category. More than 200,000 health and fitness activities are logged each day by MapMyFITNESS users across 40 different sports not just running and cycling.

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The 12th Annual Womens Health and Fitness Expo is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Miller Middle School, 65 Fording Place Rd., Lake Katrine.

Doors open at 8 a.m. and the Expo will continue until 5 p.m.

This years event will focus on weight loss, the lifestyle changes that need to be put in place to maintain it and the impact a healthy lifestyle can have on preventing and eliminating illnesses like diabetes and heart disease.

In addition to presentations by several nationally-recognized authorities on weight control, the main stage speakers will address the benefits of maintaining an ideal weight for overall health and wellness. Two top Harvard Medical School physicians and noted authors, Dr. Marie Pasinski (neurologist) and Dr. Malissa Wood (cardiologist), will discuss the importance of a healthy lifestyle, including weight control, on heart and brain health. Experts will be available throughout the event for Q&A.

This years Expo will also spotlight events geared to men and children. Raffle prizes will include a NordicTrack AudioStrider 990 PRO valued at $1499, and a spin bike.

The annual Expo attracts well over 5,000 visitors, offering more than 20 free health screenings and over 75 interactive attractions, including expert speakers, workshops, fitness demos, chef demos, spa services and a healthy food court. Visitors receive complimentary bags filled with health and wellness products and information.

For more information, visit http://www.womenshealthexpo.com.

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The Freedom Valley YMCA at Pottstown, 724 North Adams Street, is inviting members of our community, ages 60 and older, to participate in the 2012 Y Senior Health and Fitness Week, May 21-27.

This free event offers older adults the opportunity to try scheduled classes in aquatics, weight training, yoga, Nordic Walking, aerobics and arthritis swim.

Guests can tour the Y facilities, join in a community swim, enter our raffle and visit with guest vendors.

For a listing of times and daily happenings, contact the Y at 610.323.7300 or visit our website at http://www.fvymca.org Whats Happening in the Branches.

Splash into summer at the Freedom Valley YMCA at Pottstown

Start your summer with healthy, fun activities for you and your whole family, close to home. Theres a lot to do at affordable prices.

Great facilities! The Pottstown Y, located at 724 North Adams Street, provides year round access to 2 indoor pools, 2 air conditioned gymnasiums, cardio vascular, free weight and Nautilus workout equipment, indoor track, racquetball courts, cycling studio, steamroom, saunas and whirlpool.

Outdoor pools! Three branches of the Freedom Valley YMCA offer cooling, refreshing, very reasonably priced outdoor pools and recreation complexes.

Special Summer College Membership! In addition to our regular membership programs, our Y offers to full time college students, home for the summer or preparing to attend college in the fall, a short term rate.

Wide Variety of Classes for all ages! Whether youre looking for the relaxing benefits of Yoqua (Yoga in the Pool) or the physical challenge provided in our Cycling exercise classes, our experienced, caring and knowledgeable staff is here for you! Swim lessons for ages 6 months and up, aquatic autism class and adaptive aquatics, swim teams, youth sports, personal training, massage, cardio, strength training, TRX, ZUMBA, Pilates, yoga, active older adult classes check our website for complete listing http://www.fvymca.org. Continued...

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