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Lisa Shall found herself in the middle of a tug-of-war two weeks back, before the first round of the NCAA mens basketball tournament.

She started her career as a strength and conditioning coach, first at Princeton University, then at Notre Dame.

Teams from the two schools squared off on a Thursday at KeyBank Center in Buffalo.

I was torn. I had to stay neutral, said Shall, supervisor of health promotions at Fisher-Price in East Aurora. Before the game, I was on the phone with both my former bosses. They were both harassing me about who I wanted to win. I told them, Im going to be happy for whoever wins and sad for whoever loses.

Notre Dame eked out a win, 60-58, then lost two days later to West Virginia, 83-71. She attended the second-round game, which she characterized as depressing.

Still, Shall has lots to crow about when it comes to her career. During and after college, should helped prepare athletes for mens and womens sports teams at several schools, including the national champion Princeton womens lacrosse team in 2003 and the Notre Dame champion womens soccer team a year later.

The Warren, Pa. native who holds a bachelors in exercise science from Slippery Rock University and a masters in curriculum and teaching from Columbia University landed in Buffalo when she decided to shift gears and enter corporate wellness.

I was struggling with the work-life balance, she said. In college athletics, youre putting in 10-hour days six, seven days a week.

Shall, 40, joined the Fisher-Price wellness team in 2006. She began to run it 18 months ago, after longtime supervisor Sherrill Quinn retired.

Shall married Carol Klein, a district sales manager for Coca-Cola, last year. She leads a staff that includes fitness associates Rachel Thorlakson and Jeremy Delgado.

The trio provide personal training sessions and lead most of the 19 weekly group exercise classes for about 55 percent of the toy-makers 650-worker staff who choose to participate.

They work weekdays in the 3,500-square-foot Fisher-Price Fitness Place, which includes Hammer Strength circuit training machines, free weights and resistance bands, and this year will get new spinning bikes, rowing machines and a squat rack. Monthly membership costs $10 and is open to employees, their spouses or domestic partners and, since last year, retirees.

We try to have a very well-rounded gym, Shall said.

Q. Talk about your job? What is a typical week or month like?

Lisa Shall leads a High Intensity Interval Training power lunch workout at the facility in East Aurora.

Every weekday, we offer morning, lunchtime and evening classes. Because we've been around for 25 years, we're part of the culture. Fisher-Price understood a long time ago that a healthy lifestyle doesn't just start after 5 o'clock. They've given employees the benefit of a work-life balance.

Q. How does this job differ from the jobs you've had on college campuses?

There was a little bit of an adjustment period. In a college setting, you're generally working with teams. I feel it's not much different teaching group exercise classes. You're looking to team people up and build that team environment in the college setting. It's kind of the same thing here. We're trying to build company camaraderie. The more people have a buddy to come down to the gym with, the more they seem to be consistent.

Q. What does the nutrition side, that is different, look like?

Unless you have a dietetics degree, you're not able to prescribe diets per se, so we've worked with local dietitians in the area that come in and provide presentations on a variety of things.

Q. What kinds of wellness programs are available here, and have you added any since youve become supervisor?

Well have about three stress-related presentations a year, and Rachel teaches a weekly meditation class throughout the year. One of the programs Ive started is called Healthy U. Its a comprehensive exercise and nutrition program. This includes an exercise program where people commit to coming in four days a week for 45 minutes to an hour, which, guideline-wise, is recommended for those who want to lose weight. Then we have dietitians come in and talk about what program participants want. It might be about making healthy breakfasts, for instance. Weve had people lose 20 to 30 pounds with the program.

We focus on exercise, nutrition, stress reduction and health. We do a health expo every year. Well do biometric screenings on campus. We do the typical flu shots and blood drives. FitWorks is the newest element for 2017 and it ties in well with what were doing here. The financial incentives have provided a good motivation.

Q. Talk about FitWorks.

Independent Health grouped up with a company that has an online wellness tool that Independent Health uses itself. Theyve started to reach out to other companies to use this tool and its a way for employees to track the healthy things theyre doing for themselves. They earn points for preventative services like seeing their primary doctor, getting their blood work done, going to the dentist. We were able to tie in some of the stuff we were already doing. We do monthly exercise programs for our members, to keep them challenged. We tie in the presentations with the stress-reduction and the nutrition and wrap them all together. I mapped out what you need to do to hit different levels and earn $50, $100 or $200.

I also have a schedule that shows what you can do to earn FitWorks points. It allows us to focus in on the things we know will work well with our population.

Q. What has been the FitWorks experience so far?

Mattel has another wellness site at its headquarters in El Segundo, Calif. The company (which owns Fisher-Price) is looking at FitWorks as a pilot program. If it goes over well here its something that could be easily expanded throughout the rest of Mattel.

Q. What have you seen in the first three months?

Its been great. We had 55 people participate in our exercise program the first month and 60 the second month. Last year, we maybe had 50 total between the two months, so its driven participation rates, for sure.

Q. What advice would you give to a company looking to kindle a meaningful wellness program for its workers?

The first place you've got to start is with your employee base and what your company goals are. Are you trying to get a return on investment? Is it to improve your company health care costs? Is if for company morale? A lot of companies now are focused on retention. Look at your employee population. What is it that they need and want to keep motivated, getting them to want to learn to live a healthy lifestyle.

Q. What do you see as the main benefit to Fisher-Price employees.

We have a wide range of people: new employees just out of college to people who have been here 20-plus years. Fisher-Price is 650 employees, a medium-sized company but the fitness center still draws people together who normally wouldn't get to meet each other. It shows that the company really cares about their health and wellness. We always joke that we're the happy place. It's not uncommon to find us dancing around. We're trying to provide that sanctuary around their everyday stress.

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Fitness has always had a high priority for Judith Haase, 76, of Sandy Springs. And swimming has always been her go-to exercise. She loves the solitude and the good feeling she has after an hour in the pool.

So when the retired nurse was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer in 2013, her fitness routine helped get her through the physical and mental challenges of treatment and recovery.

I swam all through chemo, she said.

Exercise is another weapon in the fight against cancer, and thats why no matter their age, survivors are sure to get a doctors prescription to get moving. Being physically active is linked to better outcomes for cancer survivors, helping in fitness, weight control, fatigue, anxiety and a multitude of other quality of life measures, according to theAmerican Cancer Society.

As Survivorship Program director for theWinship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Joan Giblin has always advised clients to get moving post-treatment. But when they would ask where to go for help, she had no central place to send them.

A few years ago, armed with a financial gift, Giblin met with theYMCA of Metro Atlanta in the hopes of forming a partnership program that would help cancer patients with their recovery. The outcome has been the successfulWinship at the Y cancer support program. Using the Ys coach approach system, clients receive one-on-one help from a wellness coach trained by Winship in cancer recovery.

Its been the perfect partnership, Giblin said.

Clients meet with their coaches monthly for six months, and set long-term and short-term goals for fitness and nutrition. Together, they come up with a plan of action for the month, which can involve working out at the Y, joining fitness classes, or even doing something at home on their own. The Y offers multiple fitness classes specific for senior adults.

The cancer support program was recently expanded to include patients from Gwinnett Medical Center and is offered at all 18 metro area YMCAs. And any adult cancer survivor can join Winship at the Y and receive a 20 percent reduction in their YMCA membership.

The real goal is to get cancer survivors exercising, said Jennifer Rewkowski, director of program management for the YMCA of Metro Atlanta.

Many survivors try to get back to their normal activity level immediately, and that isnt a reality, Giblin said. Others are hesitant to do anything physical because of what theyve been through.

The coaches help with this. They get it, Giblin said.

Thousands run to fight cancer

Wellness coach Bill Fallin of the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA at Buckhead said coaches build rapport and trust to help their clients build the exercise habit.

We already know that a large percentage of new and returning exercisers (65 percent) drop out within the first 3 to 6 months without assessments and guidance designed specifically for them. How much more so a senior cancer survivor with the added stress of the battle with cancer, he said.

Finding an activity that you enjoy is key to recovering fitness levels and going beyond. Those who get hooked are the ones who stick with it, Giblin said.

Haase, who was a swimmer well before her diagnosis, joined Winship at the Y during her treatment, but now swims regularly at the Dunwoody Baptist Church fitness center. She also participates in U.S. Masters swim meets and has qualified for the2017 National Senior Games this summer in Birmingham, Ala.

Haase said after battling through surgery, chemo, radiation and reconstruction, she also had to fend off anxiety and depression. You worry about it coming back and how youre going to handle it, she said.

Thats when the pool looks especially inviting and washes away the worry.

Exercise helps a lot, she said. When Im in the pool, its a Zen-like thing. I just keep my eyes on the line at the bottom of the pool.

CANCER SUPPORT FOR RECOVERY

Winship at the Y

GMC at the Y

Special exercise program for cancer survivors to help maintain and improve wellness during and after treatment. The goal is to help survivors lower the risk of recurrence.

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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONS

If you were not active before a cancer diagnosis, start with low-intensity activities and then slowly increase your activity level.

Aim to exercise at least 150 minutes per week.

Include strength training exercises at least two days a week.

Certain people should use extra caution to reduce their risk of falls and injuries:

Older people

Those with bone disease (cancer in the bones or thinning bones, such as osteoporosis)

People with arthritis

Anyone with nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy)

Source:American Cancer Society

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By Kendra Penningroth | Cronkite News Wednesday, March 29, 2017

WASHINGTON Alton Villegas offered an unusual call to action Wednesday for an 11-year-old boy: Destroy the ice cream man.

Alton is a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community where nearly 10 percent of tribal members have Type 2 diabetes, including members of his family.

My mom and my grandma have diabetes, a lot of people in Salt River have diabetes, sadly, said Alton, who has been diagnosed as pre-diabetic. I think a lot of people have diabetes because they dont eat healthy and they dont exercise.

Thats what brought Alton to Washington Wednesday, where he was the youngest of six witnesses urging the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program for Indians.

The program grants $150 million a year to about 300 programs that push diabetes prevention to tribes in 35 states, said Rear Adm. Chris Buchanan, acting director of the Indian Health Service. The program will end after September if it is not reauthorized.

Since the program began in 1997, tribal obesity rates have remained stubbornly high, said Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota. He said Native Americans still have a greater chance of being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes than any other group in America, and that diabetes is their fifth-leading cause of death.

But Hoeven, the committee chairman, also acknowledged at the hearing that the grants have helped lower diabetes and its complications, such as limb amputations, heart disease and kidney failure. But theres still more work to be done.

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, like other grantees, uses its grant to educate families on the benefits of exercise and balanced diets, offering free family-oriented exercise classes and programs that promote healthy lifestyles.

After a 6-year-old on the reservation was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about three years ago, the tribal council began more screening at schools and found 52 percent of students were above the 95th percentile for weight.

When a screening showed that Alton was at risk for Type 2 diabetes, his family learned that he qualified for the Youth Wellness Camp in Prescott. Grant money from the federal program lets the tribe send at-risk youth to the camp.

I wanted to be healthier, so I went to camp, Alton said. I wanted to be able to help my mom and my grandma be healthier.

The healthy eating and daily exercise at camp helped Alton lose almost 16 pounds. His mother, Felicia Jimerson, said that Altons new outlook on eating healthy and exercising is rubbing off on her three other kids.

Alton said that he tries to help his family and friends make healthier decisions, but they do not always listen.

I tell them all the time but not a lot of people care, cause that means they have to give up Hot Cheetos, said Alton, who has seen his friends buy at least four bags of the snack a day from the ice cream man.

We must destroy the ice cream man! Alton told the committee, to laughter.

Rachel Seepie, another member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community who testified Wednesday, credits some of her success against her Type 2 diabetes to educational programs funded by the grant program.

After initially managing her condition with medication, she decided to turn instead to exercise and eating well. That has helped her lose weight, lower her blood sugar, decrease her average heart rate and complete two Iron Man triathlons, Seepie said.

Now, she is a senior fitness specialist with the Diabetes Service Program and teaches group exercise classes on the reservation.

My vision is that the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and our members will learn how to become healthier, and they will have long full lives without Type 2 diabetes, Seepie told the committee.

Jimerson said after the hearing that can only happen if the gran program is reauthorized.

I think if they can continue that funding, its definitely going to make a change, she said. If that funding goes away, were in huge trouble.

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A new study that is being heralded as Earth Shattering has lifted the lid on the exercise regime that can really turn back the clock.

According to the study undertaking by the Mayo Clinic in the UShigh-intensity interval training (HIIT) can not onlystop cellular ageing in its tracks but it could alsorepair damage in the body.

The study was conducting with men and women from the age of 18 to 80 as they were put through various medical tests and exercise programs. While the health benefits of an HIIT workout has been well documented, this study aimed to find out why. The findings indicate that HIIT exercise rejuvenates theMitochondria cells that are responsible for more than90 per cent of the energy needed in the body for life and to support organ function.

An interview bylead researcher Sreekumaran Nair in the medical magazineCell he stated,Based on everything we know, theres no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the ageing process. He added,If people have to pick one exercise, I would recommend high-intensity interval training, but I think it would be more beneficial if they could do three to four days of interval training and then a couple days of strength training.

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PLYMOUTH Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth has started incorporating new exercise options to their Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation programs, including Chair Zumba. Chair Zumba is an aerobic fitness program featuring movements of the arms and legs while remaining seated. When they do something they enjoy, they work harder at it, said Ashley Berry, clinical exercise physiologist at BID-Plymouth. Not everyone likes getting on a treadmill or lifting weights but with different programs like Chair Zumba, Im hoping to open their eyes to enjoyable forms of exercise. The hour-long session is held weekly and is an alternative to standard exercise routines. Berry choreographed the music by surveying the patients on their favorite music. The exercise programs at BID-Plymouths Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation are designed for people who are limited by shortness of breath and deconditioning. This includes patients who are recovering from cardiac events such as a heart attack, bypass surgery, or COPD, helping them reach their maximum physical and emotional potential.

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Lace up those sneakers. Exercise specifically high-intensity interval training slows down the aging process.

A new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism noted that any kind of exercise is better than none, but its the high-intensity interval training that does best in reversing age-related changes at the cellular level. Though this works for people of all ages, it seems to offer more benefits to older people.

HIIT, as it is commonly known, requires short bursts of intense aerobic activity, intermixed with longer stretch of moderate exercise. Participating in this kind of training encourages cells to make more proteins to fuel the energy producing cellular mechanism. This, in turn, arrests the aging process.

The study found that younger people participating in HIIT showed a 49 percent increase in mitochondrial capacity and the older group saw a 69 percent. (Mitochondria are the cells powerhouses, responsible for producing the molecule that transports chemical energy within cells.)

Based on everything we know, theres no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process, Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, senior author of the study and a diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Medical News. These things we are seeing cannot be done by any medicine.

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, used two sets of volunteers: the younger set ranged in age from 18 to 30 and the older ranged in age between 65 and 80. Those studied were then divided into three different supervised exercise training programs that lasted three months. The mixed-age HIIT group did three days a week of cycling, with high-intensity bouts alternating with low-intensity pedaling, and two days a week of moderately difficult treadmill walking.

A strength training group did weights for lower and upper body muscles two days each week, while a third group cycled and lifted weight five days a week, but always less strenuously than the two other groups.

Not surprisingly, the researchers found that strength training was most effective for building muscle mass and for improving strength important because both qualities decline with age but the group that participated in HIIT earned the best results at the cellular level. HIIT seemed to reverse the age-related decline in both mitochondrial function and muscle-building proteins.

So how should you plan for your exercise week? If people have to pick one exercise, Nair said, I would recommend high-intensity interval training, but I think it would be more beneficial if they could do 3 to 4 days of interval training and then a couple of days of strength training.

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On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we learn about the newly renovated Tandy Family YMCA (at 5005 S. Darlington Avenue). This impressive new facility, per the YMCA of Greater Tulsa website, "is a YMCA for the next generation. More than 110,000 square feet dedicated to the pursuit of healthy living and community-building [comprise] this state-of-the-art facility...[which was] built on the grounds of the 50-year-old Thornton Family YMCA, one of the anchors of midtown Tulsa. In collaboration with the OU Physicians Center for Exercise and Sports Medicine, and with OU Physical Therapy, the Tandy Family YMCA features Studio A -- The Mind and Body Yoga Studio; a brand-new Play & Learn, with separate areas for infants and older children; the Healthy Table, a hands-on nutrition-education kitchen for classes and demonstrations with five cooking stations; the Y Family Room, for our members' families of all ages; new Classrooms D (for programs like Iron Girls) and E (for Dance and Enhance Fitness classes); and an enormous Strength and Conditioning area, with brand-new equipment and more than 4,000 square feet of space." Our guests on the show today elaborate on all of the above; we are joined by Susan Plank, the CEO of the YMCA of Greater Tulsa, and Dr. Monty Cavanagh, the Director of the Center for Exercise and Sports Medicine at OU Physicians-Tulsa, which is now based at the Tandy Family YMCA.

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Lace up those sneakers. Exercise specifically high-intensity interval training slows down the aging process.

A new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism noted that any kind of exercise is better than none, but its the high-intensity interval training that does best in reversing age-related changes at the cellular level. Though this works for people of all ages, it seems to offer more benefits to older people.

HIIT, as it is commonly known, requires short bursts of intense aerobic activity, intermixed with longer stretches of moderate exercise. Participating in this kind of training encourages cells to make more proteins to fuel the energy producing cellular mechanism. This, in turn, arrests the aging process.

The study found that younger people participating in HIIT showed a 49 percent increase in mitochondrial capacity and the older group saw a 69 percent increase. (Mitochondria are the cells powerhouses, responsible for producing the molecule that transports chemical energy within cells.)

Based on everything we know, theres no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process, Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, senior author of the study and a diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., told Medical News. These things we are seeing cannot be done by any medicine.

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, used two sets of volunteers: the younger set ranged in age from 18 to 30 and the older ranged in age between 65 and 80. Those studied were then divided into three different supervised exercise training programs that lasted three months. The mixed-age HIIT group did three days a week of cycling, with high-intensity bouts alternating with low-intensity pedaling, and two days a week of moderately difficult treadmill walking.

A strength training group did weights for lower and upper body muscles two days each week, while a third group cycled and lifted weight five days a week, but always less strenuously than the two other groups.

Not surprisingly, the researchers found that strength training was most effective for building muscle mass and for improving strength important because both qualities decline with age but the group that participated in HIIT earned the best results at the cellular level. HIIT seemed to reverse the age-related decline in both mitochondrial function and muscle-building proteins.

So how should you plan for your exercise week? If people have to pick one exercise, Nair said, I would recommend high-intensity interval training, but I think it would be more beneficial if they could do 3 to 4 days of interval training and then a couple of days of strength training.

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Lace up those sneakers. Exercise - specifically high-intensity interval training - slows down the aging process.

A new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism noted that any kind of exercise is better than none, but it's the high-intensity interval training that does best in reversing age-related changes at the cellular level. Though this works for people of all ages, it seems to offer more benefits to older people.

HIIT, as it is commonly known, requires short bursts of intense aerobic activity, intermixed with longer stretch of moderate exercise. Participating in this kind of training encourages cells to make more proteins to fuel the energy producing cellular mechanism. This, in turn, arrests the aging process.

The study found that younger people participating in HIIT showed a 49 percent increase in mitochondrial capacity and the older group saw a 69 percent. (Mitochondria are the cells' powerhouses, responsible for producing the molecule that transports chemical energy within cells.)

"Based on everything we know, there's no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process," Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, senior author of the study and a diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Medical News. "These things we are seeing cannot be done by any medicine."

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, used two sets of volunteers: the younger set ranged in age from 18 to 30 and the older ranged in age between 65 and 80.

The researchers found that strength training was most effective for building muscle mass and for improving strength - important because both qualities decline with age - but the group that participated in HIIT earned the best results at the cellular level. HIIT seemed to reverse the age-related decline in both mitochondrial function and muscle-building proteins.

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