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15 Minute Workout
This program provides a quick workout that focuses on the entire body. The basis of this routine is functional, full-body exercises that build strength and intensity intervals that get the heart pumping and boost metabolism. Intensity intervals increase the amount of calories you burn during…
Bicycling: Bike Stores - PEDAL POWER - When It Comes To Biking Needs, You Don't Have To Go Far
In the last five years, biking has blossomed on Hilton Head Island. From tree-lined leisure paths to handy bike kiosks, it’s never been easier to get involved. Thanks to people like Frank Babel and the Squeaky Wheels and a city listening to bikers’ concerns, Hilton…
Bicycling: Cycling Around the Lowcountry - KICKIN' ASPHALT - Bicycle Club
It’s Saturday morning. Coffee’s brewing and the cobwebs are clearing. Skip the honey-do list. It’ll be there when you return. Instead, grab your bike and let Kickin’ Asphalt Bicycle Club take you for a ride. The fresh air will do you good. From its start in…
Brand New Year, Same Old Resolution? Make This The Last Year You Resolve To Lose Weight
At the stroke of midnight December 31, millions of people resolved to lose weight—again. The sad truth is that a great majority of those people will be making the same resolution next year. Why? Because they go about it in an unrealistic and/or incomplete way. As…
En Garde
Maybe for Una Jackson it should be touché. According to the USFA, she’s number one in the United States in her category. USFA? That would be the United States Fencing Association. Jackson, who measures in at a charming five feet even, is in first place…
Exercise Outside of the Ordinary
When we are young, we have more opportunity for exercise that is fun. Sports, and pick-up games, even playground adventures take us from crib through college. After college most people lose contact with their childhood friends and with the sports and activities that kept them…
FROM CHAOS TO CALM - Spring Cleaning for the Home and the Heart
Quick! Shove that stack of magazines under the bed. Plow a path through the toys on the living room floor, and swipe your sleeve across the coffee table. Is your mother-in-law ringing your doorbell? Or are you just sick and tired of the mess? If…
From Resolution to Reality - The Weight Loss Solution that Lasts
At the stroke of midnight on December 31, over half of all Americans resolved to lose weight. While a few will succeed, statistics show that as many as 95 percent will be wearing the same pounds plus a few more this time next year. Why?…
Get Fit at Palmetto Athletic Club
Everyone who joins a gym does so for a specific reason. They have a particular goal in mind, and something (or someone) has propelled them to take the necessary steps to make a positive change in their life. It could be that their doctor suggested…
Golf Tips From A Pro: Pete Popovich - GOLF INSTRUCTION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
If you look in any golf shop, regardless of location, nearly all equipment and instruction is geared towards men. This is unfortunate, because golf is a game that can be enjoyed by the entire family, including women and children. Years of teaching have allowed me to…
How to Choose the Right Personal Trainer - with Information from The American Council on Excercise (ACE)
As an owner of a health club that provides personal training as a service, I have to be even more selective about hiring personal trainers as employees than the average person seeking a trainer for personal fitness. So here are some of the criteria I…
Is Your Fitness Program Constantly Varied?
Change. We all fear it and yet it’s rarely as bad as we thought it was going to be. Why we fear change is a separate can of worms, but the simple truth is this: If we are to grow, we must change, even if…
It's Better in Groups!
January first… It’s a New Year accompanied by New Year’s resolutions. What is the best way to achieve your fitness goals this year? Have you ever considered group fitness? Group fitness offers many more benefits than working out alone. Research shows that people are more…
Neighborhood Outreach Connection: Turning Hope into Reality
Nowadays, people can hardly get a good night’s sleep. Just try to find a few moments of free time, let alone a way to shake off the stress of work and family life. But slow down on your next drive past the Oaks Apartments. You…
October 2010: GOLF TIPS FROM A PRO - Exercising and Golf Part 1: Neuromuscular Isolation Exercises
In the past 10 years, golf and exercise have become best friends. (Prior to that, a golfer did not dare go anywhere near a dumbbell or weight room.) Today, if you aren’t doing some type of exercising to enhance your golf game, you are going…
Qigong: Good for What Ails You
Head to Jarvis Creek Park at 9 a.m. on a Monday or Thursday, and you are likely to see a large group of people patting themselves from head to toe, waving their arms in synchronized patterns, breathing heavily and smiling at themselves. Don’t be afraid!…
The Truth about Your Health
Lose weight, live longer, look younger. Eat this. Don’t eat that. Pop a pill. Get tested… Each day, we are bombarded with health messages from newspapers, magazines, television commercials, Web sites, billboards and even bus signs. Yet, with all this information at our disposal, the…
The Why and How of Exercise
Throughout my career as an exercise physiologist and fitness trainer, I have had numerous conversations with people about their desire to start an exercise program. Typically, an event such as a high school reunion or a wedding date inspires people to hit the gym. However,…
Transform Your Body, and Your Life: Esmeralda’s Massage Therapy & Pilates Center can teach you how
According to Esmeralda Flores, co-owner of Esmeralda’s Massage Therapy & Pilates Center with Luis, her husband of 30 years, “If you are strong and healthy, you can give more to others.” Flores should know. With more than 25 years experience in massage and fitness, the…
Work that body to the core at Core Pilates & Yoga
Core (kohr) noun: the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything. When Katie Finger Girardi and Lynne Anderson decided to create a fitness studio that would employ the methods of Joseph Pilates, they searched for a name that would reflect his philosophy—that the body and…
You Can Do It - Keep Your New Year's Resolution at the Best Health Club in the Lowcountry
It’s that time of year again—time when we take that post-holiday look in the mirror and say, “Yup, It’s time for a change!” So you set that classic New Year’s Resolution and think, “This is it. This is the year that I am sticking to…
This program provides a quick workout that focuses on the entire body. The basis of this routine is functional, full-body exercises that build strength and intensity intervals that get the heart pumping and boost metabolism. Intensity intervals increase the amount of calories you burn during…
Bicycling: Bike Stores - PEDAL POWER - When It Comes To Biking Needs, You Don't Have To Go Far
In the last five years, biking has blossomed on Hilton Head Island. From tree-lined leisure paths to handy bike kiosks, it’s never been easier to get involved. Thanks to people like Frank Babel and the Squeaky Wheels and a city listening to bikers’ concerns, Hilton…
Bicycling: Cycling Around the Lowcountry - KICKIN' ASPHALT - Bicycle Club
It’s Saturday morning. Coffee’s brewing and the cobwebs are clearing. Skip the honey-do list. It’ll be there when you return. Instead, grab your bike and let Kickin’ Asphalt Bicycle Club take you for a ride. The fresh air will do you good. From its start in…
Brand New Year, Same Old Resolution? Make This The Last Year You Resolve To Lose Weight
At the stroke of midnight December 31, millions of people resolved to lose weight—again. The sad truth is that a great majority of those people will be making the same resolution next year. Why? Because they go about it in an unrealistic and/or incomplete way. As…
En Garde
Maybe for Una Jackson it should be touché. According to the USFA, she’s number one in the United States in her category. USFA? That would be the United States Fencing Association. Jackson, who measures in at a charming five feet even, is in first place…
Exercise Outside of the Ordinary
When we are young, we have more opportunity for exercise that is fun. Sports, and pick-up games, even playground adventures take us from crib through college. After college most people lose contact with their childhood friends and with the sports and activities that kept them…
FROM CHAOS TO CALM - Spring Cleaning for the Home and the Heart
Quick! Shove that stack of magazines under the bed. Plow a path through the toys on the living room floor, and swipe your sleeve across the coffee table. Is your mother-in-law ringing your doorbell? Or are you just sick and tired of the mess? If…
From Resolution to Reality - The Weight Loss Solution that Lasts
At the stroke of midnight on December 31, over half of all Americans resolved to lose weight. While a few will succeed, statistics show that as many as 95 percent will be wearing the same pounds plus a few more this time next year. Why?…
Get Fit at Palmetto Athletic Club
Everyone who joins a gym does so for a specific reason. They have a particular goal in mind, and something (or someone) has propelled them to take the necessary steps to make a positive change in their life. It could be that their doctor suggested…
Golf Tips From A Pro: Pete Popovich - GOLF INSTRUCTION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN
If you look in any golf shop, regardless of location, nearly all equipment and instruction is geared towards men. This is unfortunate, because golf is a game that can be enjoyed by the entire family, including women and children. Years of teaching have allowed me to…
How to Choose the Right Personal Trainer - with Information from The American Council on Excercise (ACE)
As an owner of a health club that provides personal training as a service, I have to be even more selective about hiring personal trainers as employees than the average person seeking a trainer for personal fitness. So here are some of the criteria I…
Is Your Fitness Program Constantly Varied?
Change. We all fear it and yet it’s rarely as bad as we thought it was going to be. Why we fear change is a separate can of worms, but the simple truth is this: If we are to grow, we must change, even if…
It's Better in Groups!
January first… It’s a New Year accompanied by New Year’s resolutions. What is the best way to achieve your fitness goals this year? Have you ever considered group fitness? Group fitness offers many more benefits than working out alone. Research shows that people are more…
Neighborhood Outreach Connection: Turning Hope into Reality
Nowadays, people can hardly get a good night’s sleep. Just try to find a few moments of free time, let alone a way to shake off the stress of work and family life. But slow down on your next drive past the Oaks Apartments. You…
October 2010: GOLF TIPS FROM A PRO - Exercising and Golf Part 1: Neuromuscular Isolation Exercises
In the past 10 years, golf and exercise have become best friends. (Prior to that, a golfer did not dare go anywhere near a dumbbell or weight room.) Today, if you aren’t doing some type of exercising to enhance your golf game, you are going…
Qigong: Good for What Ails You
Head to Jarvis Creek Park at 9 a.m. on a Monday or Thursday, and you are likely to see a large group of people patting themselves from head to toe, waving their arms in synchronized patterns, breathing heavily and smiling at themselves. Don’t be afraid!…
The Truth about Your Health
Lose weight, live longer, look younger. Eat this. Don’t eat that. Pop a pill. Get tested… Each day, we are bombarded with health messages from newspapers, magazines, television commercials, Web sites, billboards and even bus signs. Yet, with all this information at our disposal, the…
The Why and How of Exercise
Throughout my career as an exercise physiologist and fitness trainer, I have had numerous conversations with people about their desire to start an exercise program. Typically, an event such as a high school reunion or a wedding date inspires people to hit the gym. However,…
Transform Your Body, and Your Life: Esmeralda’s Massage Therapy & Pilates Center can teach you how
According to Esmeralda Flores, co-owner of Esmeralda’s Massage Therapy & Pilates Center with Luis, her husband of 30 years, “If you are strong and healthy, you can give more to others.” Flores should know. With more than 25 years experience in massage and fitness, the…
Work that body to the core at Core Pilates & Yoga
Core (kohr) noun: the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything. When Katie Finger Girardi and Lynne Anderson decided to create a fitness studio that would employ the methods of Joseph Pilates, they searched for a name that would reflect his philosophy—that the body and…
You Can Do It - Keep Your New Year's Resolution at the Best Health Club in the Lowcountry
It’s that time of year again—time when we take that post-holiday look in the mirror and say, “Yup, It’s time for a change!” So you set that classic New Year’s Resolution and think, “This is it. This is the year that I am sticking to…
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