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Healthy Selfie 2019
Your healthy selfie could be worth a one-year YMCA family membership. Here's how it works!
Get Your Move On!
Our desk jobs, commuting, watching TV, and playing video games all conspire to keep us sedentary which takes a toll on our health.
Beary Healthy 5K Challenge
Are you ready to jump-start your health goals this fall? The Beary Healthy 5K Challenge is a three part walk/run series, with events from August to October. First up in this series: our Back
DID YOU KNOW?
Physical Fitness is broken into five components.
It’s true. Your level of physical fitness is measured through cardiorespiratory function, muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, and flexibility. Want to learn more? Check out the article below.
What does it mean to be physically fit?
Physical fitness is defined as the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist disease, and to react to emergency situations. Physical activity is just one aspect of fitness and it is just as important to your health as what you eat, but you don’t have to hit the gym or lift weights to be fit.
