This workshop will not encourage you to eat exactly like a pre-show figure competitor. However, it will help you think like a figure competitor when making food choices. Our plan is not about deprivation, but about creating a set of self-imposed guidelines that will make eating well more convenient, more manageable and less complicated.

Wednesday, August 27th, 7pm tp 9pm (light dinner included) $45

Topics Include:

• Clean Eating Basics
• Meal Planning
• Meal Timing
• Portion Sizes
• Keys to Boosting Metabolism
• Science of Appetite
• Eating Out
• And More

You will leave the workshop with a clean eating binder that includes all of the information covered in the workshop, as well as recipes, menu samples and an individual meal- planning chart. Send me an email, give me a call or post on the forum if you’re interested!

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SATURDAY, JULY 19TH, 10AM TO 4PM

CHECK OUT MEBANE’S NEWEST ALTERNATIVE FITNESS FACILITY

• FREE MINI-CLASSES : BOOTCAMP, KID’S BOOTCAMP, CARDIOFIT, STRENGTH, POWER PLAY
  • All classes will be roughly 25 minutes and modified for all fitness levels
  • 10am: Bootcamp
  • 10:30am: Power Play
  • 11am: Cardio FIT
  • 11:30am: Strength & Conditioning
  • 1pm: Kid’s Bootcamp
  • 1:30pm: Power Play
  • 2pm: Cardio FIT
  • 2:30pm: Strength & Conditioning

• RAFFLE TO BENEFIT LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
• You Could Win:
  • iPod Nano with Nike Sport Package & iTunes Certificate
  • Massages
  • Free Month Memberships to Fitness Playground
  • Bootcamp Bucks
  • Free Personal Training
  • Gift Certificate to the Hair Gallery
  • Nutrition Consultation with Linda Rocafort, Access Nutrition

• FITNESS PLAYGROUND BBQ: 11:30AM TO 1:30PM
  • Turkey Dogs, Fruit Salad, Refreshments and more

• Kid’s Activities

• • Obstacle Course,
  • Fitness Games
  • Relays - Sack Race, Three Legged Race, etc

The project will generate a genome sequence database that will be used as an Internet resource for plant biologists throughout the world.

The research comes at a time when farmland across the globe normally used for growing food such as rice and wheat is being taken over by bio-fuel crops used for bioethanol production as a petrol substitute. Scientists believe that the novel genes found in Kalanchoe could provide a model of how bio-fuel plants could be grown on un-utilised desert and semi-arid lands, rather than on fertile farmland needed for producing food.

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What do scorpions, wheelbarrows, Alcatraz and Queen of Spades have in common?

They’re all exercises at boot camp, an exercise program for ages 12 through adults offered at Fitness Playground, 204 N. Fifth St., Mebane.

Annie Luxmore, owner of Fitness Playground, described it as a six-week program which approaches exercise as a team activity.

“Boot Camp provides a team atmosphere and accountability. It’s a want-to- be-involved type class,” Annie said in a recent interview.
Annie got her inspiration from John Hinds at the Monkey Bar Gymnasium in Madison, Wis. She likes the boot camp atmosphere because it is not repetitive and she “hates the thought of being stuck in a gym.”

Classes are held three times a week for six weeks. Campers do a lot of different workouts. The Animal Workout involves scorpion push-ups, duck lunges, bear crawl and frog hops. The Farmer Workout requires wheelbarrows with weights that get heavy fast and carrying sandbags, which gets harder with every step. Escape from Alcatraz challenges campers to dig, crawl, run, swim and “escape” from the hour-long workout. In the Card Deck Workout, each suit stands for an exercise and when a card is drawn you must complete that exercise.

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Instructor: Chris Walker

Power Play is an extremely unique class that combines sports conditioning with the feel of an adult PE class. Chris’s enthusiastic personality and innovative teaching style makes you feel like you’re a kid again, while also challenging you to improve your athletic skill, strength and endurance.

Throughout the 60 minutes of non-stop fun, you will perform sports conditioning drills to improve speed, agility and running form, as well as basic plyometrics, strength training, rubber chicken tosses and much more. And the music will keep you moving and bring up fond memories of running in the school yard trying not to get cooties.  J

Come on out and get ready to sweat and have some fun!

You are not on your own! The instructor will help keep you motivated, illustrate proper form, watch out for potential injuries, modify every exercise for each individual, and put you on the best path for true functional strength. It is like having a Personal Trainer every time you come to the gym. In addition, you will have a team in every class who will keep a watchful eye on each other as well as give feedback and encouragement.

If you are worried that you won’t be able to keep up in a class full of people who have been working out for a long time, don’t be. Every single exercise at the Fitness Playground will challenge your functional strength regardless of whether you are a seasoned athlete or have never worked out. Each movement has a progression focusing on building stability, functional strength, and power. The Fitness Playground is a fun place to be where making new friends is easy, social interaction is normal, and the environment is healthy. The variety of exercises and positive atmosphere will make you forget you are working out!

June 6, 2008

The local food movement typically has been about improving the health of the planet. Buying locally means less fuel burned to transport food, which means less pollution.

But now researchers are trying to find out if eating locally farmed food is also better for your health.

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a grant to study the public health impact of moving toward a local, sustainable food system. An increasingly vocal local food movement calls for consumers to try to buy and eat foods produced within 100 miles of their homes.

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Published June 5, 2008

DR. MARK TARNOPOLSKY, a muscle physiology researcher at McMaster University in Canada and a physician, knows all about the exhortations by supplement makers and many nutritionists on what to eat and when to eat it for optimal performance.

The idea is that you are supposed to consume carbohydrates and proteins in a magical four-to-one ratio during endurance events like a long run or bike ride, and right after. The belief is that such nutritional diligence will improve your performance and speed your recovery.

Dr. Tarnopolsky, a 45-year-old trail runner and adventure racer, might be expected to seize upon the nutritional advice. (He won the Ontario trail running series in 2004, 2005 and 2006.)

So might his colleague, Stuart Phillips, a 41-year-old associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster who played rugby for Canada’s national team and now plays it for fun. He also runs, lifts weights and studies nutrition and performance.

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Congratulations, Kim!

You should be very proud!

The ladies celebrating after Kim’s first meal.