With Governor Kate Brown and the State of Oregon’s Phase One reopening plans in effect in Deschutes county, some fitness centers and gyms will start welcoming people back as early as this weekend. How will they make it possible for people to workout safely in the age of COVID-19? Over the course of a few […]
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Got Fitness? Bend Tops Another List
Bend-Redmond metro area is the most fitness-friendly place in the U.S.
With New Year’s just around the corner, many Americans set goals to get in shape and maintain a healthier diet this time of year. But how accessible and affordable is it to achieve these resolutions? Here in the “Bend bubble” we’re surrounded by gyms, yoga studios, healthy restaurants and inspiring professional athletes. According to SmartAsset—a […]
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Vamos a Hacer Ejercicio!
Bilingual fitness classes reflect Bend’s growing diversity
(Leer la versión en español de este artículo abajo) Imagine being new to a facility or new to organized exercise and trying to figure it all out in a language that isn’t your native one. Those are barriers employees at Bend Park and Recreation District’s Juniper Swim & Fitness Center have been trying to break […]
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Fit to Fall
Falling on the ice can sideline winter fun. Here are tips to prep your body to withstand a fall
One of the key benefits of exercise for people in Central Oregon: being strong and supple enough to fall onto ice and get up uninjured. With that in mind, it’s crucial to make sure your exercise program gets you fit to fall. To do this, focus less on the glamor muscles you see in the […]
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Bend-Redmond Ranks No. 3 in Most Fitness-Friendly Places for 2019
La Crosse-Onalaska, Wisconsin-Minnesota beat out Missoula, Montana for this year’s top spot
According to SmartAsset.com, Bend ranks No. 3 for 2019 in the fifth-annual study of the most fitness-friendly places in the U.S. behind La Cross-Onalaska, Wis.-Minn. and Missoula, Mont. The study is based on data from five categories, according to SmartAsset: the percentage of people walking or biking to work; the density of fitness professionals; the […]
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Winter Wellness & Fit Guide
Natural Approaches to Health and Healing
With an overwhelming number of approaches to using food and healing modalities in the place of—or alongside— Western medicine, newbies to alternative medicine may struggle with where to begin. Throughout this guide we’ll explore popular alternative approaches to healing, commonly sought out and confused. Dr. Joshua Phillips, ND, the creative director of Hawthorn Healing Arts […]
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Put a Warrior on It
Gregg Swanson makes a career out of giving strength advice for others’ careers
Gregg Swanson didn’t start as a fitness coach. As a kid, he says he was “uncoordinated,” and asthma kept him away from many sports. But in the past 15 years, Swanson, who recently relocated to Bend, has fashioned a personal coaching style that bundles physical training, career advice and shifts in mentality, and trundles them […]
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The Modern Primal Foodie
Keeping fit with the paleo lifestyle
After realizing that a strictly gluten-free diet wasn’t the full solution to his celiac disease, Cain Credicott sought out other eating options that might sooth his dietary woes. Stumbling upon the paleo diet back in 2011, just before its rise to popularity, Credicott almost instantaneously started Paleo Magazine, a bimonthly lifestyle publication based out of […]
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Older, Wiser, Fitter
Fitness program targets Baby Boomers
Though Bend is home to some seriously fit seniors (which is either inspiring or depressing, depending on your own relative age and athleticism), until recently there was a gap in fitness services for the 50-plus set. Enter Cascade Boomer Fitness. Last year, David Adamson and his wife Cynda saw a need for exercise classes and […]
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Get Up, Get Out!
A guide to getting fit
According to various studies and trend observers, by the second week in January, nearly one-quarter of all New Year resolutions already have been laid aside, especially those that pertain to losing weight or getting in better shape. But we’re not going to let you off so easily! Nope! We are here to pump…you…up. Okay, actually, […]