This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. The rain held off on an overcast fall day for runners and riders to explore a popular trail in downtown Knoxville. It was the inaugural Rollin’ On Rocky Top 5K for Ainsley’s Angels of East Tennessee. Ambassador Angie Lanciano had spent months […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. How do you enjoy making a splash? As summer draws to an end and we find less time to spend in the sunny outdoors, the indoor pools give our family more ways to keep moving together. Here are 5 reasons my family […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. Don’t Zumba? Don’t dance? Not coordinated? No problem. Just start moving to the beat and this Friday night party will make you want to Zumba for life. It’s time for the annual Zumbathon on August 24 at the National Fitness Center Signature […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. How does your family enjoy playing together in the summer? What would your kids do for fun if they weren’t on the couch or on their phones? Seems like all of our families struggle sometimes to keep our kids active enough. This […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. Is working out more work or play for you? Come on in and make yourself at home at the newly renovated National Fitness Center in Morristown! This part of East Tennessee has some of the most beautiful outdoor venues around. Now it […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. No homework, late bedtimes, lots of swimming…just a few of the things kids look forward to each summer. But summer break for kids is anything but a break for busy parents. It can mean major adjustments for childcare. It can also be […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. A chandelier in the dressing room, and other ways the ladies’ VIP area makes you feel special: An hour or so of sweating to instructions by someone who tells me “just one more time,” will be good for me can sometimes make […]
Meet my newest superhero friends! They are living the fitness ideal – and they each have their own way of encouraging the rest of us to be our best superhero selves. If that sounds incredibly cheesy, it’s because it is. Yet, I’ll take a cheesy, superhero-idealized bit of motivation over he drudgery of a checklist […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. I haven’t owned a proper bike in years. Yet I’ve cycled for miles and miles, climbing mountains, exploring European villages, and even biking along the ocean! It’s because of the big screen experience at National Fitness Center’s West Signature Club. For an […]
This post is in cooperation with the #teamNFC program at National Fitness Center. Male power lifters bench pressing over 1,100 pounds paint a picture about weight lifting that can intimidate the rest of us. Yet, the real power of lifting that does the most good for the most of us is the sort of thing […]
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