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Summer is in full swing, and the beach is waiting for you! But if youre like many of us and may have fallen short of achieving the beach body you were yearning for, theres good news! Theres still time for you to get in shape and start living your best healthy life with The Openfit Fitness & Wellness App. Right now, you can get a 2-year premium subscription on sale for $99, but only for a limited time.

This isnt your regular boring fitness app. Openfit has tailored plans for any type of fitness goal, whether you want to lose weight, gain muscle, or improve your overall health and well-being. Openfit integrates fitness, nutrition, and wellness all in one app, making it easier to build healthier habits. You can stream these classes straight from your laptop or mobile device, or you can cast them to your TV with Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV, Apple TV, or Samsung Smart TV.

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Not only can you create a customized meal plan within the Openfit app, but you can also track your calories, browse thousands of healthy and easy recipes, and choose a structured program complete with monthly challenges all from the comforts of your own home.

There are also hundreds of live and on-demand workouts taught by top fitness trainers. You can pick and choose classes based on the type of fitness works that works best for you, including barre, Pilates, cardio, strength training, yoga, stretching, and more!

Given an impressive 4.9/5 stars on the App Store and 4.6/5 stars on the Google Play Store, Openfit is ready and waiting for you to take advantage of all it has to offer, and its currently on sale for only $99. Thats a savings of 48% off the regular price of $192, but only for a limited time.

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The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is back, and we weren't ready for all these epic deals. Top styles from brands you love like Zella, Alo Yoga, Nike, and Beyond Yoga will be discounted for the sale before they return to full price in the fall. There's nothing better than being able to shop new pieces at a discount, so get your wallet ready.

The sale officially starts on July 28, but those with a Nordstrom card can already shop. Not a cardholder? Not to worry, as today, you can preview all the epic deals available, so you can plan what you're buying. While others are reaching for dresses and handbags, we're eyeing leggings, bike shorts, and sports bras. Plus, there are some sneakers we've had on our radar for a while, and now that they're under $100, it may just be time to take the plunge. Keep on reading to shop our picks from the sale!

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The common mistake people tend to make (which can lead to injury), is to constantly pound the same path night after night when walking or running.

Heres an example. Lets say youre in training for something like the Lyke Wake Walk or the Great North Run (its only two months away!), and you walk or jog on the same hard surfaces night after night, steadily increasing your distance each time. Do that and theres a good chance you will suffer from common injuries such as Achilles tendon problems or shin splints, even though you think youre doing your health some good by doing it. And by the way, you will be helping your heart and lungs, just not your joints or muscles.

Likewise, if you spend hour after hour on the saddle of your bicycle, and you havent prepared by doing the right lower back strengthening exercises, then you should expect to suffer back pain. Why? Because if your lower back isnt strong enough to support you in the seat as you climb a few hills from time to time (even leaning forwards as you to try make it easier to get up a steep bank), then it will be stressed too much and eventually youll pay the price with pain and/or stiffness.

Even swimmers need to vary their training, otherwise shoulder aches and pains are inevitable. Its not possible to get into a swimming pool for an hour every day and use the same arm motion to propel you through the water without getting some kind of shoulder problem eventually. The swimming is fine, just change the stroke you do from one day to the next.

My BIG tip is to always vary the type of exercise you do. As youve just noticed from the mention of how to avoid swimming injuries, its possible to change an activity within an activity and it will help you keep active and healthy. Perhaps you could spend a little more time and effort putting together a plan that will work multiple muscle groups, improve balance, increase core muscle control (around your back), still improve cardio-vascular fitness (heart and lungs) and just as importantly, give vital joints a break. All you have to do is go along to a local gym and pay a personal trainer to set a programme up for you.

For more tips and advice, get in touch for a FREE copy of my book The Healthy Habit. It is essential reading people aged 50+ in the North-East, and for anyone that would like to improve their own healthy habits. Please call 01429 866771.

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Amazons fitness wearable/platform Halo may have had a quiet start, but the company is expanding its features. Its announced Movement Health, which aims to gauge and assess your functional fitness capabilities, which includes stretching, twisting pushing, pulling and more. In short, it's concerned with the kind of everyday movement and exertions that happen outside the gym and away from your yoga mat. (The Halo will still track your workouts, though.)

As Amazon puts it, good movement health can help reduce aches and pains in areas like your neck and shoulders, which are often affected by too much desk work and otherwise staying put for too long. It's notable as it attempts to focus on the daily movement of everyone, instead of fitness exercises.

The Halo app will guide users through a movement assessment first. This includes balancing on one leg, squats, reaches and lunges. The app will record your movement through your smartphone camera and Amazons machine learning and computer vision tech will evaluate your performance. Youll get a score out of 100, plus details on stability, posture and more. The breakdown also encompasses specific body parts: your core, hips, lower body, and shoulders. The company says this initial test takes under 10 minutes. Similar movement assessing apps and tech have appeared before, but Halo's best feature might be how it tries improve how you move.

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The app will show you how to improve your weaker areas and score through a personalized program of corrective exercises. Again, these shouldnt take long between 5 and 10 minutes. While you repeat these (Amazon recommends three times a week), you can subsequently reassess your movement score every few weeks and get new exercise recommendations. The exercises are guided by Dr. Kelly Starrett, a pro athlete coach and physical therapist, who worked with Amazon on this new Halo feature.

Movement Health will roll out to the Halo app for subscribers in the next few weeks.

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More than a year into the pandemic, indoor fitness classes remain risky.

While vaccine adoption, capacity limits, mask requirements and enhanced cleaning may make the activity safer, you cant get around the fact that people are exhaling rapidly in enclosed spaces, potentially spewing respiratory droplets all over the place.

The situation partially explains the accelerated adoption of at-home fitness tech, where digital leaderboards on mirrors and virtual high-fives on stationary bikes provide a proxy for actual group workouts. Digital fitness startup FitXR wants to push the boundaries further with a VR workout class designed to more closely feel like real life.

Imagine wearing a VR headset, and being transported into a glitzy wellness club with a sunroof and funky lighting. The class starts and you rapidly throw punches at virtual objects hurled your way to a synchronized tempo. Your heart rate climbs. The sweat is real. And you can see other people in your peripheral vision doing the same thing, only its their avatars.

Thats what the next level of FitXR is all about. On Thursday, the London-based company rolled out a slew of updates to its app on Facebooks Oculus headsets to make boxing and dancing in VR more engaging. The startup, formally BoxVR, says it wants to become the virtual fitness destination of the future, and unlocking new features might be one step toward getting it there.

Anyone whos attended a great group class knows that exercising with others, synchronously to the music in a nightclub environment with an instructor, is a powerfully motivating experience, said Sam Cole, cofounder at FitXR. Our entire vision is about delivering a virtual fitness club, and, and therefore providing people with the most fun way to workout at home.

Part of that mission requires optional monthly memberships, which is a new addition to the app. FitXR is among the first group of companies to embrace the payment structure, which Facebook enabled for Oculus games this week.

FitXR also added multiplayer mode, a highly-requested feature designed to allow people to talk to each other virtually as if theyre in an actual fitness class. Multiplayer allows up to seven members to exercise in a virtual room together in real-time. I tried it out, and its entertaining to experience. Theres still room for growth, however. All you see is your friends digital head and fists in the corner of your eye while you focus on burning calories.

Its also easy to work out by accident. You might sign on just to game, and find yourself drenched in sweat.

Be warned: The platform can be challenging if you dont select the right intensity.

A large leaderboard calculates points as you exercise. The more moves you perform correctly, the higher the score. Users can also choose to compete against leaderboards from past recorded sessions.

VR workouts arent for everyone. You need a $299 Oculus headset, cheap by virtual reality headset standards but still expensive if you arent convinced its worth it. You also need enough free space to move around if you want to play without bumping into things around the house.

FitXRs classes are $9.99 per month and give users access to an ever-evolving library of workouts.

Other new features include daily workouts, high-intensity interval training and additional environments to perform in. FitXR also promises a better soundtrack experience through a partnership with Warner Music. People paid $29.99 to sign up before the new rollout will still be able to use the old content they paid for. And theyll get all the new content including multiplayer capabilities for the next 90 days.

FitXR and other fitness apps got a big boost amid the ongoing coronavirus health crisis as gyms temporarily shuttered or curbed offerings while more people spent more time at home. Facebook says FiTXR was one of the top non-gaming apps on Oculus and has one of the highest retention rates.

The apps sales spiked 535 percent in the last quarter of 2020 compared to the same period around the holidays the year before, Oculus says.

Its unclear how prepared the world is to continue to work out at home, and how many more people will welcome sweating with a VR headset covering half their face. But with many spending big bucks for on-demand spinning classes and high-tech gym equipment, the trend seems poised to outlast the pandemic.

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A business coach is someone who can guide and assist a business owner with running their company by helping determine the vision and how it ties in with personal goals. While many of these professionals coach multiple industries, most lack formal training in the same industries in which they coach. However, for professionals like Lynette Marie, this is not true.

First A Fitness Coach

Lynettes journey began as an in-person trainer at Anytime Fitness in 2014. She loved the work but realized she wasnt earning much money with the job, so she also began to compete in bikini contests to help build up her social media following. While it may have started for fun, this is ultimately what helped her begin to build a brand.

It didnt take Lynette long, a year to be more specific, to realize that she loved training at a gym and began to wonder if she could coach others online. Sure, this is not a new concept today, but back in 2015, it was very new when she began.

Lynette decided that simply thinking about this was not going to make it happen, so she went for it. Within the first month, she earned between four and five thousand dollars, and it stayed this way until 2018 when the industry began to get more competitive. She felt like her techniques were no longer working and hired her own business coach.

Help From a Business Coach

At one time, Lynette Marie was very skeptical of business coaches because she felt they were a scam of sorts, and there was no need in her life for one. That is until she hired a business coach!

The coach helped scale her business from about $5,000 per month up to $20,000 per month in just 45-days! Through the coaching, she learned new strategies, increased her ratings, and positioned herself differently.

Lynette used this new-found information to continue growing her business. Throughout the next year, she would see her earnings keep rising and doubling.

A Shift in Focus

By 2019, Lynette Marie had succeeded in her original mission of becoming an online fitness coach while also spending a great deal of time listening to what others thought about the industry. In fact, many other fitness coaches would complain that consumers dont want their services, the industry is too crowded, and so on. However, she didnt agree and decided to shift the focus from fitness coaching to business coaching.

So, for the last two years, business coaching has been a part of her company but recently has become her main focus. Lynette has a passion for helping other fitness coaches succeed in the online world while making real money. She loves helping them build a business that will eventually allow them to quit their day job and become a six-figure business owner just like her!

What Value Can Lynette Marie Bring As A Business Coach?

Well, for starters, going from someone who doesnt trust business coaches to someone who is one is a big jump! So, if anyone can explain the value which comes from these professionals, its Lynette!

She uses her seven-plus-year career as an online fitness coach to successfully coach fitness coaches on how to market and grow their businesses properly. Lynette uses her complete understanding of social media and the online fitness industry in general to teach her customers the right way to use their platform and make it work for them!

So, where some coaches get their start in marketing or social media management, she gained hers as a fitness coach. Everything she advises her clients to do is the same things shes done in the past to build a brand thats worth over six figures. There is no lack of experience within the fitness industry for Lynette because its been her life for the past seven years.

The bottom line is if you are a fitness coach looking to expand your business, then look no further than Lynette Marie. She possesses all the knowledge and experience needed to help others succeed, just as she did.

For more information and valuable tips, join the discussion in Lynettes Facebook group. And remember, its about working smarter, not harder!

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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Madeleine Hasulak opened the doors of Tonic Method, Steamboat Springs newest fitness studio, last weekend, and she said she was excited to share her passion for health and wellness with local residents.

I have been wanting to bring Tonic Fitness to Steamboat for so long, because I believe this community is going to love it, said Hasulak, who was born and raised in Aspen. Everyones so active in Steamboat theyre so fit and so healthy.

Hasulak, who has been a certified Pilates instructor for 13 years, created Tonic Method as a mix of Pilates and high intensity interval training combined with slow and deliberate movement focused around breath.

Tonic Method is my own method that really combines all the aspects of my favorite modalities, Hasulak said.

Tonic Method uses customized machines that are based on the Pilates Reformer but that have been modified and enhanced.

Unlike traditional Pilates where youre lying on the machines for most all of the exercises, almost everything we do in Tonic is going to be standing or kneeling, which is really complementary to the way we live our lives, she said. There is a focus on core strengths and posture, a ton of focus on balance. Its a lot more lunging, squatting, planks, things like that.

Tonic workouts provide a completely unique experience that combines strength, cardio, endurance, balance and flexibility to burn fat and build lean muscle, Hasulak said. Exercises are done at a slow, deliberate pace, with both eccentric and concentric movements to work muscles to fatigue.

Ive done some Pilates in the past, and I would say that its very similar to that, so I had a little bit of knowledge of the moves, but it was harder and super intense, said Adrienne Stroock, who took a class Thursday. I loved how she changed the movements pretty quickly, so that just when you thought that you were ready to quit, she would move to another muscle group. I love that kind of intensity and change.

Stroock said the classes also fit into her busy schedule.

I liked the length of the class, Stroock added. Its good to get a hard workout and know that you will be done in 45 minutes.

Fellow participant Audrey Dwyer heard about the class from a friend in Aspen and decided to give Tonic Method a try.

I tore my ACL in February, and my doctor said this is a really good way to rehab it and get it back to where it was, Dwyer said. I lost a lot of muscle, and they took a graph out of my thigh, and this class gives me the ability to have more range of motion and strengthens muscles that I dont usually strengthen.

Dwyer said there is a learning curve but its pretty easy to pick up.

Honestly, it doesnt matter what age you are, Dwyer said. Its such a good workout.

Hasulak opened her first studio in Aspen in 2018. She added a second studio in the Vail Valley in January 2020 and was interested in opening in Steamboat prior to COVID-19.

I thought we would be in Steamboat a year ago, Hasulak said. We almost signed a lease in March of last year on Yampa (Street) right before COVID happened.

She said once COVID-19 started spreading, her studios in Aspen and Vail shut down, and she waited to sign a lease in Steamboat.

We didnt pull the trigger and sign the lease just because I had no idea what was going to happen, Hasulak said. We ended up losing the space and just decided to take our time, and wait.

That didnt stop Hasulak from opening her third studio in Breckenridge, and when the space opened up at 130 Ninth St., this spring she decided to move to Steamboat with her husband, Alex, and the familys 2-year-old son to open her fourth Tonic Method studio. Alexs mom also made the move to Steamboat to help out as the Hasulaks anticipate the arrival of their second child any day.

Tonic Method is the second business venture for the Hasulaks, who also founded the natural food company, Love Grown, which offers a line of all-natural breakfast foods. Today, the Denver-based company sells its products in more than 11,500 retailers in the U.S. and Canada, including City Market, King Soopers, Sprouts, Whole Foods, Fresh Market and Target.

Hasulak invites community members to experience Tonic Method by attending their first class for free. Classes are limited to seven people, and those who want to participate need to schedule a class time at https://tonicmethod.com/schedule.

More information can also be found at https://tonicmethod.com/steamboat-opening.

To reach John F. Russell, call 970-871-4209, email jrussell@SteamboatPilot.com or follow him on Twitter @Framp1966.

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FitXR is one of several VR apps on Oculus getting subscription upgrades. FitXR is also getting multiplayer modes.

I threw punches alongside a handful of other player-ghosts, all lined up around me. An animated trainer challenged us from the front of the room. I was playing with a bunch of people from FitXR, one of the most popular fitness apps on the Oculus Quest. Trying to keep up with and beat the others kept me motivated. We chatted with each other. I came in second place, and it felt like a mild victory.

I was trying a new mode of FitXR launching today, which adds live multiplayer sessions. But it also introduces a new monthly subscription model that points to where VR fitness, and maybe other VR services, might be heading.

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It's one of a number of Oculus apps that are adding subscriptions. A number of them, like FitXR, VZFit and TRIPP, are meditative- and wellness-focused. Rec Room, one of VR's most popular social spaces, is also getting a subscription option with added extras. So is a virtual monitor and work app, vSpatial.

Last year, another groundbreaking fitness app on Oculus Quest, Supernatural, also had a subscription model. A few others have dabbled. But Facebook's more direct Oculus support for subscriptions means FitXR's move to a monthly plan could be where other apps also head. Facebook's Andrew Bosworth acknowledged the interest in subscription models in a conversation with CNET earlier this year.

What multiplayer in FitXR looks like.

FitXR's new price at $10 a month is now cheaper than Supernatural, but that could annoy existing customers who bought the game and add-ons. The good news is that add-ons bought before the update can be used without a subscription, according to FitXR. But for future features and workouts, the subscription would still be needed.

FitXR is counting on new music tracks and workouts being enough of an incentive. Similar to subscription fitness services like Peloton, Apple Fitness Plus and Fitbit Premium, the idea is to have a micro gym subscription for your VR headset. I'm not sure how many I'd be comfortable adding -- my budget suggests maybe one at most. Part of me wonders: Will Beat Saber ever move to this model? What about other games?

I've started using VR as a go-to home exercise device, much like a growing number of other people I know. I was also enjoying immersive fitness in games like Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure, bikes like the Peloton and Apple's watch-connected workouts. A headset that can track your hands feels like another type of connected workout device. Maybe VR will eventually dovetail more with watches and other fitness equipment, too.

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) Since the start of the pandemic, many fitness lovers in the Las Vegas Valle have stopped making the commute to the gym. A lot of them are working out at home on their own or looking for more options.

The owner of Fit 2 You has a concept of bringing the gym to you! According to Robby Hedden, the CEO of Fit 2 You, the mobile gym offers fitness at your convenience, where ever you want.

[I] make it convenient for the client and make it a fun experience, Hedden said. Hedden started Fit 2 You right before the pandemic shut everything down, but unlike other businesses taking a hit, he says the pandemic has actually helped him grow his business.

It definitely helped for sure because a lot of people felt safe in a one-on-one setting whether it was at a park or a house; it was a little more controlled, according to Hedden.

Hededens mobile gym is packed with different equipment, and another perk is that those working out wont have to wait for equipment to free up like they would at a busy gym.

Hedden says Fit 2 You is also convenient for busy parents who need to keep a watchful eye on their kids while obtaining their fitness goals.

Those interested in Fit 2 can try it, but you have to sign up in advance.

They can check on their kids every few minutes. I have one lady where I train her and her husband, and she just puts a high chair for her baby, Hedden said.

One of Heddenms clients, John Freeman, says this erases his gym commute.

He would just go to my house; we would just train in my backyard or garage, Freeman said. The workouts are very short and fun and high intensity. They require a lot of thinking.

Its at your convenience wherever you want, but it comes at a hefty price: Training sessions start at $110 for each of the six sessions.

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Peloton is under pressure to conduct a safety recall.

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Consumer safety regulators issued an urgent warning on Saturday to people who own a Peloton Tread+, saying they should stop using the equipment after one child died and multiple others were injured after being sucked under the machine.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said the agency was aware of 39 incidents in which children and one pet got trapped under the machine.

In statement, it said: "CPSC staff believes the Peloton Tread+ poses serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death. In light of multiple reports of children becoming entrapped, pinned, and pulled under the rear roller of the product, CPSC urges consumers with children at home to stop using the product immediately."

On Friday, the Washington Post reported that federal regulators have been pressuring Peloton to conduct a safety recall of its $4,295 treadmill.

Peloton on Saturday refuted the CPSC claims in a statement. It said: "The company is troubled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's unilateral press release about the Peloton Tread+ because it is inaccurate and misleading."

It added: "There is no reason to stop using the Tread+, as long as all warnings and safety instructions are followed. Children under 16 should never use the Tread+, and Members should keep children, pets, and objects away from the Tread+ at all times."

The Peloton Tread+ went on sale earlier this year, promising to offer runners the same "private fitness studio" experience enjoyed by users of its indoor bicycle. The Peloton Tread+ is similar to most treadmill machines, with its main differentiator being the smart screen and content library of live and recorded workout classes.

In March, Peloton CEO John Foley emailed owners of the Tread+ to inform them of a "tragic accident involving a child" and the machine, "resulting in, unthinkably, a death."

To prevent future such accidents, he recommended adults removed the safety key after use, which would prevent the machine from operating.

"While we are aware of only a small handful of incidents involving the Tread+ where children have been hurt, each one is devastating to all of us at Peloton, and our hearts go out to the families involved," Foley said at the time.

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