Tag: health and fitness
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Colorado Springs man becomes first to do 4,000 F45 classes
Vince Provencio is a one-man cheerleading squad. The sun is just starting to warm the pavement outside F45 Training at University Village in Colorado Springs, where the global workout chain offers 45-minute functional exercise classes. Inside the large, mirrored room, more than two dozen exercisers are doing knee circles and hamstring stretches, as they prep…
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When hikes go wrong in Colorado Springs | Live Well
The cheery woman and her husband overtook my lackadaisical pace at the top of Section 16 in Bear Creek Park. “I like your bucket hat,” she called out as they gamboled by. I admired her sunny vibe. About 45 minutes later I came upon them again, only now she was curled up like a shrimp…
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Live Well: Colorado Springs instructor offers new twist on classical yoga
Yoga looks different here in this bright and cheery space on the west side. On a Friday morning at Westside Community Center, more than a dozen students unfurl their mats on the hardwood floors of Modern Yoga Colorado’s second-floor studio that looks out on Pikes Peak. They’re here for instructor Brooke Sakharia, who has changed…
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Got back pain? Try some practitioner-assisted stretching | Live Well
My vision: laying on mats and someone guiding me through stretches. The reality: getting strapped onto a table and having someone else stretch me. Walk into the Colorado Springs location of Stretch Zone, which opened a year ago, and you’ll see five tables with dangling straps, all to hold your body in place while a…
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Live Well: Swedish musician to perform ambient pop for sound healings in Skyspace near Colorado Springs
For Gaeya, making her ambient pop music blooms from first listening to the land. The Swedish musician takes herself into the wilderness with only a recording device and her voice as an instrument. As she patiently waits for the land to speak to her and inspire her vocals, she also captures the natural sounds of…
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SoulCore classes combine prayer, strengthening in Colorado Springs
Prayer does not always have to be on bent knee, hands clasped at your heart. Prayer can also look like pushups. Soft music plays as half a dozen women gather inside the parish office building at Divine Redeemer Catholic Church. They remove their shoes and unfurl their yoga mats in a circle around a few…
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Live Well: Colorado Springs dance school offers east Indian classical dance, more
With their painstaking, precise movements, the women look like Hindu statues of goddesses come to life. Barefoot and clad in yoga gear and flowery, flowing pants, five women and one child assemble in one corner of the warm, bright studio in Red Crags Arts and Architectural House in Manitou Springs. Dance instructor AuroTejas Hemsell settles…
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Two Colorado Springs brothers behind city’s only floorball game
The sound of clicks and clacks echoes off the field house walls at Colorado Springs Christian Schools. Ten players and two goalies are busily chasing around a blueberry-colored ball, scooping and flinging it along the gym floor with their sticks, as they aim to shoot their shot past the protectively clad goalies. It’s late on…
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One surefire way to combat aging | Live Well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We can lift heavy things, ladies. This is me, encouraging you, to throw on some weightlifting gloves and prance yourself into the weight room. Lifting weights can do wonders for not only your physical health, but your mental well-being, too. Yes, you’ll have to sidestep…
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One surefire way to combat aging | Live Well
We can lift heavy things, ladies. This is me, encouraging you, to throw on some weightlifting gloves and prance yourself into the weight room. Lifting weights can do wonders for not only your physical health, but your mental well-being, too. Yes, you’ll have to sidestep the bulky Hulk wannabes flexing in the mirrors, but it’s…