Tag: fitness
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New downtown gym opens with owners hoping to provide fresh take on workout space
Residents and workers in downtown Colorado Springs have a fresh workout option. Iron Wild Fitness, 324 E. Pikes Peak Ave., officially opened on May 4 during the city’s Small Business Week. The gym features U.S.-made free weights, cardio machines and weight machines and a free movement space that founders Aaron Kaufman and Bonnie Rivera want to…
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Pikes Pick: Spend your Sunday on a mat, not the couch
If your Sundays are starting to feel like a never-ending loop of scrolling, snacking and promising yourself you’ll “do something productive later,” CorePower Yoga offers an easy reset. Every Sunday, the studio at 623 N. Nevada Ave. hosts a free heated yoga class designed to help locals stretch, sweat and mentally reset before the week…
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Manitou Springs Pool and Fitness Center to reopen soon
Officials in Manitou Springs are planning a ribbon-cutting next week for the city’s pool and fitness center, which has been closed for months due to repairs. “We’re thrilled to reopen the Manitou Springs Pool and Fitness Center and welcome the community back after these vital repairs and improvements,” said Gillian Rossi, Manitou Springs Parks and…
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Balancing the law of specificity and the law of adaptation | Fit & Healthy
There are two polarized concepts to fitness and your fitness goals known as the law of specificity and the law of adaptation. A successful fitness program of any sort will have to balance these two concepts. The law of specificity states that your fitness program will need to contour very closely to what your ultimate…
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Balancing the law of specificity and the law of adaptation | Fit & Healthy
There are two polarized concepts to fitness and your fitness goals known as the law of specificity and the law of adaptation. A successful fitness program of any sort will have to balance these two concepts. The law of specificity states that your fitness program will need to contour very closely to what your ultimate…
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Holiday fitness protocol | Fit and Healthy
It’s that time again! The holidays are in full swing. I’ve already heard a few people say “Diet is on hold for two months!” Or “I don’t know how I’m going to stay lean for the holidays.” It is common for most of the American population to ditch healthy nutrition habits from Thanksgiving until January…
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Holiday fitness protocol | Fit and Healthy
It’s that time again! The holidays are in full swing. I’ve already heard a few people say “Diet is on hold for two months!” Or “I don’t know how I’m going to stay lean for the holidays.” It is common for most of the American population to ditch healthy nutrition habits from Thanksgiving until January…
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VASA Fitness opens fourth gym in Colorado Springs, 15th in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado-based gym chain opened its newest location in Colorado Springs on Thursday. VASA Fitness officially began operations at Briargate and North Union Boulevards, its fourth location in the Springs. The newest location, at 7655 N. Union Blvd., was formerly the site of a Gold’s…
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Space Force guardians overwhelmingly accepting of new fitness tracking in study
Thousands of Space Force guardians have traded out fitness tests for continuous tracking of their workouts. The two-year study expected to wrap up in 2025 has attracted about 7,500 guardians, nearly 80% of the force, with most of those participants in Colorado, explained Adam Strang, a psychologist with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human…
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World’s oldest tennis player? Meet 99-year-old Phil Allman
Phillip Allman Jr. is the most senior, and dedicated, of the “super” senior tennis group that meets Mondays and Fridays at Life Time fitness center in Colorado Springs. Whether Phil Allman is the oldest tennis player in the world? Cool to consider. Impossible to call. (Video by Skyler Ballard/The Gazette)