Health Club News

Here are five tidbits of news and information we hope you'll find useful or entertaining.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and the city's Public Health Commission are launching a series of free summer fitness programs, as part of the Boston Moves for Health initiative.

But working out wearing high heels may even be a step too far for the fitness fanatic as she strode along on a treadmill wearing stilettos.

Drumlines from Manassas Park and Osbourn Park high schools met for a contest Saturday at the grand opening of Anytime Fitness in Manassas Park.

Ginger Swaim and Mindy Tomlin, newly certified Jazzercise instructors, will begin offering classes in Tyler Monday.

As part of its effort to help combat the obesity epidemic in our community, the Mayor's Fitness Council is hosting screenings of the four-part HBO documentary THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION.

This is the first year the Genesys Regional Medical Center has offered the screenings at the Genesys Athletic Club in Grand Blanc Township, and Kim Bonzheim, Director of Cardiovascular Services at Genesys, said they have another screening planned in the fall and hope to continue for more years to come.

Claiming gym members were charged at least $100,000 in dues and fees even after their fitness centers closed down, Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit against several World Gym franchises, including one in Elgin, and a payment processing company.

By now the paleo diet and lifestyle has inched from the fringe a little closer to the mainstream, thanks to some very passionate followers sold on the notion that our Paleolithic hunter-gatherer ancestors avoided modern day ailments like obesity and diabetes because they ate what some consider an "ideal" diet of meat, fruit and vegetables.

The Early Childhood Network would like to thank the community, sponsors and volunteers for their great support of our Casino Night fundraiser held Saturday, May 19, at the Aspen Glen Club.

AMHERST, N.Y. Robbie Raugh from the Buffalo Athletic Club gets us into shape for the summer on "Eyewitness News This Morning!" Robbie is one of Western New York's premiere trainers.

Atlantic Highlands Mayor Fred Rast cutting the ribbon with Paul Mazzella, owner of Eastpointe Health and Fitness at the grand opening celebration for Shore Results, a fitness-training studio and Shore Shakes, a shake bar for post-workout recovery shakes.

Patch readers have spoken and selectedA Jim Smith Karate A in Yorktown as their favoriteA place for martial arts.

A registered sex offender has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for exposing himself to a 15-year-old boy at a Southern California gym.

First Friday of June is here and that means a party on Lansdale's Main Street from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The sponsors this evening are nonprofit Discover Lansdale , Milestones in Music, Chantilly Floral and Green Street Luxuries.

Get ready to train like a soldier.A Firebase gym specializes in cross fit routines designed after programs used by America's elite military groups.A Owner Danny P , aka JetLag, started the gym after returning from deployment in Afghanistan.

Still in high school, the highly touted 18-year-old southpaw pitcher was invited to Dodger Stadium , Cushman told me last year as I admired the artwork in his Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce office in downtown Santa Barbara.

A Gainesville woman reported her iPad missing after a recent visit to the Hamilton Mill 14 movie theater.

The owners of Prime Time Fitness in Belleville are offering free workout classes for teens this summer in hopes of keeping them healthy and out of trouble.

Sugar Land police said the pair made their first move at a 24 Hour Fitness in Sugar Land about 9:30 p.m. on May 8. Working as a team, officials said one of the suspects distracted the clerk at the front desk while the other walked to the locker rooms.