The Insider: Exercise equipment that won't bore you to tears
It's time to take action on that New Year's resolution to get fit or shift a few pounds, and the gym seems the obvious choice. But the idea of collective exercise leaves many of us in a sweat before we've lifted a finger. And it's expensive.

For Your Health: Getting Exercise At A Library? You Bet
If getting in better shape is your New Year's resolution, there's help available in a place you probably never would expect. In this weeks For Your Health, 7 News reporter Cindy Habeeb tells where you can find some exercise equipment that you can borrow and try before you buy.

Township FD to receive new equipment
By CRYSTAL NELSON News Staff Writer The Alpena Township Fire Department will be purchasing a variety of equipment as approved by the township board Monday. Items purchased include equipment to aid the department in ice rescues and excersize equipment for department members to stay fit. The board unanimously approved up to $3,000 in equipment to aid the department in ice rescues.

Subway contest to award local school with exercise equipment
EL PASO -- Subway restaurants in the El Paso-Las Cruces area have united to combat child obesity with a new contest, chain officials said in a news release. The Subway Restaurants' Fitness Challenge will

Focus on the Masters art to go on sale Saturday in Ventura
Donna Granata looks like a woman organizing a garage sale until you take a closer look and realize that, instead of exercise equipment and baby clothes, she is digging through wares that include a framed landscape by Ojai painter Richard Rackus that is easily worth more than $4,000.

Redford firm fuels the burn with new exercise equipment
A new weight-training system with an international reach has its roots in Redford Township.

JTF2 to build west coast equipment drop
The Defence Department is building an equipment depot in British Columbia to improve how the Ottawa-based Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorism unit responds to threats on the west coast.

Area firefighters rescue 5 'people' with high-tech tools
A vacant house on Center Street became a classroom Friday during a training exercise that gave firefighters experience in rescuing people from a collapsed building.   Seven firefighters from East Peoria and seven from Pekin used some high-tech rescue tools to locate the mannequins.

Sweat: The new wave of 'functional' fitness equipment
If you haven't set foot in a gym for the past few years, you might be puzzled by some of the contraptions you'd find there. Sure, the weights are still there, as are the familiar strength training and cardio machines, but now there is a plethora of new equipment designed to improve one's balance and replicate real-life movements such as shoveling snow, carrying groceries or, of course, playing a ...

Morrison YMCA opens its new addition today
Morrison at Ballantyne YMCA's new 27,500-square-foot addition opens for its first full day today, part of a $7 million expansion project. The two-floor building includes a new entrance, fitness center with more than 120 pieces of cardio equipment, group exercise space, a community room with kitchen for healthy cooking demos, chapel, health center and two new locker rooms. The Y's existing ...

New year, new equipment at YMCA
The Grand River Area Family YMCA?s $1 million capital improvement project is now complete and officials there say many people are taking advantage of the new amenities. ?People really like the new adult equipment ? they especially like the new weights and that they can watch television on the individual cardio equipment,? executive director Dave Rogers said today (Wednesday). Rogers ...

USA Fitness shapes up
To accomplish a fitness or exercise goal, many turn to local fitness centers to get motivated and moving toward their goal(s).  

Tropicalia boating: Be a greener boater, watch your carbon wake
It's only the first Sunday of the New Year and already your resolve to budget better, quit smoking, lose weight and exercise more feels - well you...

What one piece of home exercise equipment should you have?
Prices for home health equipment can be high - especially for cardio equipment such as treadmills and elliptical trainers. But if you are looking for one piece of fitness equipment for your home, you may want to consider it an investment in your health. | GO... ? Get more health and fitness news

Our Nipomo: Focus on improving health in new year
How do we improve ourselves in the new year? One way is to improve your health is through exercise. A medical practitioner told me that the No. 1 thing someone can do to improve health is vigorous exercise. The body is designed for movement, and lacking movement, it begins to degenerate faster.

Chris Maclean: Why I'm proud of pubs
Is a 40 per cent GP on £10,000 takings better than a 60 per cent GP on £5,000? I ask this, not as an exercise in accounting, but as a genuine question about what we are doing.

Sturdy folks who embrace snow find fun, not drudgery, amid drifts
Even Devon O'Hern admits it's hard to run and walk in the snow. But she and her twin sister, Kristin, 20, of Erie, have found another way to get their exercise in the winter: skate skis, which allow them to sustain speeds of 12 to 15 mph.

Exercise your gym-membership options
Try them out, consider pay-as-you-go, experts say By now, you're probably a few days into that resolution to lose weight, munching on celery sticks and low-fat yogurt, wondering how best to follow through on the exercise portion of your pledge to improve your health. But before you sign up for some pricey gym membership, ask yourself a question: Are you really going to go? ...

Take a few seconds to show a little compassion at the gym
The year is new. Many of us are or will be new to the nation's exercise facilities. Some of us are just getting back into training and exercise, trying our best ...

Rec center offers new fitness classes for students
Students searching for a new way to exercise are in luck this semester. The Robert H. Ewalt Recreation Center will offer new classes during the spring semester to get students out of their work-out rut, and the classes will cost nothing during the trial week.