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Health
Spring 2015
A Special Supplement To:
ealthealthealth&&&Wellness“Get Moving ... Have Fun!”
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The popular Zumba exercise class is available at many gyms, including the new PA Fitness in Marysville.
A gym can help you get movingBy STEVE [email protected]
There’s nothing better than exercise to keep moving.
But having fun while exercising is a matter of preference.
The Arlington-Marysville areas have a number of gyms where people can work out and get the exercise they need to be healthy.
They all offer differ-ent things in an effort to find their niche and stand out. But many of the offer-ings are the same. So location is key in picking one. Do you want it closer to your
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Health&
WellnessSpring2015
PublisherPaul Brown
EditorSteve Powell
ReportersKirk BoxleitnerBrandon Adam
Ad SalesJody Knoblich
(Marysville/Everett) Nancy Anderson
(Inside)
Graphic DesignSound Publishing
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work, or your home or do you want to go to one where your friend works out.
Most offer free weights and cardio machines. A few have saunas, pools, personal trainers and racquetball and basketball courts. Many offer dif-ferent types of classes to provide variety in your workout. Others offer juice bars and sell workout clothes at pro shops. A few even offer tanning, massage and child care. Some even offer low rates.
So, there is something for every-one. The key is picking one and get-ting started.
The Marysville area has a couple of newcomers right near downtown to give people even more choices. Both just opened up in the past few months.
Mike and Rick Jellison and Lenny Moskowitz opened their third PA Fitness in the area at the start of this year.
Having three places to work out is
a big advantage for them, Moskowitz said.
“You can bounce around and not get stale,” he said, adding clients can go to four yoga classes a week if they like with all of their gyms.
Moskowitz said they had been looking at the 1052 State Ave. site for a couple of years. Because it had been a Gold’s Gym, it was an easy build out, he said, as they opened within 30 days.
“We wanted to be in this part of town,” he said, as the other locations are 13315 38th Ave. NE in Marysville and 3131 Smokey Point Drive in Arlington.
He said another advantage they have is child care. It also offers class-es such as zumba, yoga, Insanity, all free with the membership. Clients range in age from 13 to seniors, with a number of classes for older partici-pants.
There are also free weights and 50 pieces of cardio equipment. He said the equipment is never down long as the other owners have another
Steve Powell/Staff Photo
Group exercising is fun for some and can get people into a regular routine.
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Health&
WellnessSpring2015
PublisherPaul Brown
EditorSteve Powell
ReportersKirk BoxleitnerBrandon Adam
Ad SalesJody Knoblich
(Marysville/Everett) Nancy Anderson
(Inside)
Graphic DesignSound Publishing
Creative Design Team
Published by Marysville Globe© 2015 Sound Publishing
work, or your home or do you want to go to one where your friend works out?
Most offer free weights and cardio machines. A few have saunas, pools, personal trainers and racquetball and basketball courts. Many offer dif-ferent types of classes to provide variety in your workout. Others offer juice bars and sell workout clothes at pro shops. A few even offer tanning, massage and child care. Some even offer low rates.
So, there is something for every-one. The key is picking one and get-ting started.
The Marysville area has a couple of newcomers right near downtown to give people even more choices. Both just opened up in the past few months.
Mike and Rick Jellison and Lenny Moskowitz opened their third PA Fitness in the area at the start of this year.
Having three places to work out is
a big advantage for them, Moskowitz said.
“You can bounce around and not get stale,” he said, adding clients can go to four yoga classes a week if they like with all of their gyms.
Moskowitz said they had been looking at the 1052 State Ave. site for a couple of years. Because it had been a Gold’s Gym, it was an easy build out, he said, as they opened within 30 days.
“We wanted to be in this part of town,” he said, as the other locations are 13315 38th Ave. NE in Marysville and 3131 Smokey Point Drive in Arlington.
He said another advantage they have is child care. It also offers class-es such as zumba, yoga, insanity, all free with the membership. Clients range in age from 13 to seniors, with a number of classes for older partici-pants.
There are also free weights and 50 pieces of cardio equipment. He said the equipment is never down long as the other owners have another
Steve Powell/Staff Photo
Group exercising is fun for some and can get people into a regular routine.
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business with seven technicians that repairs such equipment.
The gym also offers dry saunas, showers, tanning, lockers and more. It has a Smoothie Bar and a pro shop that can help with nutrition. It also offers mas-sage therapy
The middle PA Fitness
gym is different than the other two. It functions more like a cross-training facility.
The other newcomer to downtown is Planet Fitness at 1346 State Avenue.
If you haven’t worked out since high school or just don’t like the high-tes-tosterone he-man attitude at many gyms, this one may be for you with its
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Planet Fitness, another new club in Marysville, offers big-screen TVs, lots of cardio equipment and low introductory rates.
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Judgment Free Zone.“It sets us apart,” club manager
James Hessen said, adding many of their clients are “first-time gym users.”
Signs all around the facility stress that there is no gym intimidation. The gym is set up more for general fit-ness than for big, muscular men and women. There are plenty of cardio machines and weights, but not the huge barbells and free weights.
Another part of the gym is a 30-minute workout routine area. A green light goes on for a minute as you go to each of 20 stations. The red light goes on for your 30-second resting period in-between.
Since the business is new, it is offering special rates. For details, call Hessen at 360-386-9986.
For kids, one of the most popular places to work out is at Kung Fu 4 Kids.
It is a special place because it works out both the mind and body, chief instructor Sifu Carlton Doup
said. Along with working out the entire body for strength and flexibil-ity, diet and the participant’s mental state also are emphasized.
“It’s health in general, not just physical activity,” he said.
Character development is just important, too. An entire curriculum developed by Robyn Silverman is taught there. Scientific, meticulous lesson plans are taught through proj-ects and speaking.
“It helps them learn better inter-personal skills,” Doup said.
Following is a list of local health clubs.
ARLINGTON
• Absolute Air Park, 18802 67th Ave. NE, Arlington. 1-855-788-JUMP. Dodgeball, aerobics, boot camp.
• Crossfit, 6105 192nd St. NE, Arlington. 206-920-4102. Core strength, conditioning program. Track, gymnastics, weightlift. Short, intense group workouts with trainer. No machines.
• Curves, 16201 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington; 20265 74th Ave. NE, Arlington. Total body workout. Circuit style resistance machine. Strength and cardio. Zumba. Customized meal planning. Coaching 1 on 1. Weekly meetings. 30-minute Jullian Michaels workouts.
• Pilchuck Crossfit, 6105 192nd St. NE, Arlington. Intense workouts.
• Power Alley Fitness, 3131 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington; 38th Ave. NE, Marysville; 1052 State, Marysville. 360-657-FITT. Cycle, Step, Zumba, spin, yoga, dance, insanity, fit camp, kickboxing, tread-mills, elliptical trainers, upright and semi-reclined bicycles, steppers, ARC trainers, free weights, resistive equipment, tanning. Center at 38th Ave. NE offers lower, upper, total body and abs fit classes instead. • Sea Mar Community Health Center, 9710 State Ave., Marysville. 360-657-3067. Free exercise classes in yoga, pilates, Zumba.
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• Stillaguamish Athletic Club, 4417 172nd St. NE, Arlington. 360-435-9404. Zumba, total body, core, yoga, butt n gutt, step, muscle conditioning, kids, fit, insanity, fit for life, cardio kick, step circuit, energizer zone, personal trainers. Swim: laps, lessons, aqua fitness, family. Physical therapy, hot tub, child care.
MARYSVILLE
• Anytime Fitness 11515 State Ave. Marysville. 360-659-2348. Free weights, stair climbers, cycles, ellip-tical, treadmills, tanning, trainers, cardio TVs, wellness programs.
• Crossfit, 1528 3rd St. Marysville. 425-280-4629. Core strength, con-ditioning program. Track, gymnas-
tics, weightlift. Short, intense group workouts with trainer. No machines.
• Curves, 1522 3rd St. Marysville, 360-657-5525. Total body work-out. Circuit style resistance machine. Strength and cardio. Zumba. Customized meal planning. Coaching 1 on 1. Weekly meetings. 30-minute Jullian Michaels work-outs.
• H2O Fitness and Therapy. 6501 23rd Ave. NE, Marysville. 653-8331. Exercise, yoga, kickbox, swim, sauna, pool, weights, training.
• Kung Fu for Kids, 804 Cedar Ave., Marysville. 360-653-2820. Offers group classes and private lessons for children, teens and adults. Chinese (Northern Long Fist Kung Fu, Traditional Wushu, Tai Chi) and Korean (Jungyae Moosul, Taekwondo) martial arts.
• Planet Fitness, 1346 State Ave.,
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• Rising Stars Gymnastics and Sports Center, 3707 124th St. NE, Marysville. 360-653-7827. Exercise, yoga, kickbox, swim, sauna, pool, weights, training.
• Tracie Mackie Fitness, 9623 55th Ave. NE, Marysville.
• 26/25 Fitness, 1052 State Ave., Marysville. 658-4653. Exercise, yoga, kickbox, swim, sauna, pool, weights, training.
• YMCA in Marysville, 6420, 60th Drive NE. 360-653-922. Swim les-sons, soccer martial arts, gymnas-tics, flag football, basketball, base-ball, dance. Diabetes prevention. Cycling, kickboxing, yoga, Zumba, water fitness, circuit training, pilates, TRX.
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Lots for kids come summer
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Cheerleading class is one fun way that kids can be active.
By BRANDON [email protected] — As the weather
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Allen Creek Elementary hosts the seventh annual Healthy Communities Challenge Day Saturday, June 4, starting at 10 a.m.
Participants will learn about healthy living, nutrition, gardening and fitness through demonstrations.
“This has become an annual event that families look forward to,” recreation coor-dinator Andrea Kingsford said. “There is lots of energy, fun activities and is a great way to connect with and learn about orga-nizations that support healthy living in our community.”
Free Fit Saturdays will start every week from July 11 to Aug. 15 at the Totem Middle School track.
Each week will have a different style of
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“We are pleased to be able to partner will local fitness organizations to provide this unique oppor-tunity for the community to come out, get active and perhaps try a new type of fitness that they will be able to incorporate into their everyday lives,” Kingsford said.
Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to noon. will be Geocaching for Beginners where participants can
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Dochel Park hosts the Tree Climb Experience April through August with Tree Climb founder Katie Oakley. Participants will climb up into tree canopies via a rope system, learning about the ecosystem. All tree-climbing equipment will be provided. There is a $30 fee.
You can also get into jog-ging Saturdays throughout the summer at Jennings Park with certified personal trainer Tory Klementsen.
Cardio bootcamp is offered Mondays and Wednesdays, April 13 to
Aug. 26 at 5:30 p.m. at Jennings Park to improve cardio and muscular endurance. Classes will all be outdoors and will vary day to day. There will be a $50 fee to attend all 10 days.
You can also get into shape while improving your tennis skills with pro-fessional tennis registry instructor Arnie Moreno
at Totem Middle School Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through June 30 to Aug. 13.
Youth sports Ultimate Sports will put
on three sports clinics for youth at Lakewood High School.
Soccer camp, ages 7-24,
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fitness. July 11 – Journey FitnessJuly 18 – PA FitnessJuly 25 – Anytime FitnessAug 1 – Marysville Parks
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School District Fun Run at Jennings Park
“We are pleased to be able to partner with local fitness organizations to provide this unique oppor-tunity for the community to come out, get active and perhaps try a new type of fitness that they will be able to incorporate into their everyday lives,” Kingsford said.
Saturday, May 30, from 9 a.m. to noon. will be Geocaching for Beginners where participants can
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Dochel Park hosts the Tree Climb Experience April through August with Tree Climb founder Katie Oakley. Participants will climb up into tree canopies via a rope system, learning about the ecosystem. All tree-climbing equipment will be provided. There is a $30 fee.
You can also get into jog-ging Saturdays throughout the summer at Jennings Park with certified personal trainer Tory Klementsen.
Cardio bootcamp is offered Mondays and Wednesdays, April 13 to
Aug. 26 at 5:30 p.m. at Jennings Park to improve cardio and muscular endurance. Classes will all be outdoors and will vary day to day. There will be a $50 fee to attend all 10 days.
You can also get into shape while improving your tennis skills with pro-fessional tennis registry instructor Arnie Moreno
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Youth sports Ultimate Sports will put
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Soccer camp, ages 7-24,
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will begin June 16-19; volleyball camp, ages 8-14, starts June 22-25; track, ages 7-14, starts June 29-July 2.
Each clinic will cost $95.
Kids Love Soccer will be held at Jennings Park ball-field Friday after-noons from April 24 to June 12 and July 10 to Aug. 28. It is aimed at 2-to 10-year-olds to teach soccer fundamen-tals. It costs $92.
ARLINGTON — Folks in Arlington can get into shape this summer with these upcoming activities.
Outdoor boot-camps will be held at the Stillaguamish Athletic Club, where participants will use kettlebells, bat-tleropes and tires to get in shape every Saturday at 7:15 a.m.
Adult coed softball sing-ups begin June 16. The games will be played Wednesdays, July 8 to Aug. 11, at Twin Rivers Park.
There is also an adult men’s baseball team with tryouts Wednesday June 11, 18 and 25 at 6 p.m. The eight-week league will be played Wednesday nights July 9 and Aug. 27 at Evans Feild. Fee is $80.
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The Arlington Art Walk will take place on Centennial Trail, starting on Olympic Avenue to the Stillaguamish River, where participants can learn about the city through local art.
You can learn the trails of the Mountain Loop Scenic Highway with classes that cover the basics of hiking, mapping and safety with specialist Edith Farrell April 26 at 1 p.m.
Cost is $10 for each class.
To sign up visit the Stillaguamish confer-ence room at the city of Arlington utilities office.
Young athletes can hone their skills at various Skyhawks sports camps.
The Multisport camp Aug. 10 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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BY KIRK [email protected] there’s one trend of
healthy eating that Sheli Fisher and Roger Smith can agree on, it’s going natural.
Fisher owns “Just for the Health of It” at 9214 State Ave. in Marysville, while Smith owns Arlington Health Foods at 317 N. Olympic Ave. in Arlington.
Each one promotes diets designed to cut out a lot of what they believe modern industry has done to dam-age foods and drugs.
Sheli and her daughter, Courteney, offer a variety of gluten-free foods.
But another recent culinary movement that they’ve tested out for themselves is the “paleo-lithic diet,” also known as the “caveman diet” for its emulation of a more hunt-er-gatherer menu.
“It’s insanely popular,” said Courteney, who works as manager of her moth-er’s store.
“You basically eliminate all sugar, all grains, all dairy and all legumes — that means no peanuts.”
“It’s a gluten-free diet by default,” Sheli said. “You’re pretty much sticking to
fruit, vegetables, meat, nuts and seeds.”
The Fishers stock paleo bread that’s made from almonds and coconuts. The Walden Farms line is paleo-friendly, except for their peanut butter.
“Pretty much everyone I’ve seen who’s doing
CrossFit is on the paleo diet,” Sheli said.
“I did it for just three weeks before my other daughter’s wedding, and I lost thirteen pounds that have never come back.”
At the same time, the Fishers have seen a steady increase in their number
of gluten-free customers, which Sheli attributed to a corresponding increase in awareness about gluten sensitivity.
“The problem is that it can be difficult to recog-nize the symptoms, since
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they range across the board,” said Sheli, who touted egg rolls, pot stick-ers, Bavarian pretzel rolls, taquitos, and even Ramen and Vermicelli as among the foods that now have gluten-free versions.
“A good rule of thumb is, if a food product doesn’t say ‘gluten-free’ on the label, you shouldn’t risk it,” she added. “It’s just as simple with your diet. If you’re reading the label of a food product and you don’t know or can’t pro-nounce the ingredients, just set it back on the shelf. If you listen to your body and how it’s feeling, it’ll tell you if your diet is wrong.”
The Fishers’ warnings against genetically modi-fied foods were echoed
by Smith, who sees the increasing numbers of diagnoses of allergies to gluten and pollen as pos-sibly being caused by the numbers of chemicals in our foods and drugs.
“An allergy is when your immune system responds to a perfectly normal sub-stance as an invader and attacks it,” Smith said. “Our immune systems are weakened when our bod-ies have to deal with things like food additives, and even when you take drugs to deal with the symptoms of allergies, you’re still put-ting chemicals into your
system that way.”Smith advocates cut-
ting processed foods out of one’s diet as much as possible, on up to sticking mainly with “raw foods” that are not only unpro-cessed, but also uncooked and organically grown.
“When foods are genetically modified, they become unrecognizable to the body,” Smith said. “We’re introducing babies to certain foods too soon, which is how allergies can start. Even pasteurization and homogenization can kill the good bacteria in milk. I’m a big believer in
getting the milk straight from the animal. Without pasteurization, there can be issues with bad bac-teria, but I was raised that way and didn’t have any problems.”
Smith describes raw goat’s milk as healthier and easier to digest than cow’s milk. He noted that stores such as his carry entire lines of natural anti-histamines, designed to alleviate the symptoms of allergies without intro-ducing the body to further chemicals.
“And I’m still carrying the omega oils,” Smith said. “Our cells work off omega oils, but we don’t eat enough wild game and grass-fed animals to obtain those oils anymore. Even a lot of farm-raised animals are still fed chemi-cals that deplete the prop-er content of those oils.”
EAT FROM Page 13 “Our cells work of omega oils, but we don’t eat enough wild game and grass-fed animals to
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