Tag: Exercise
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Mid-City YMCA Triathlon Welcomes All
People in the Mid-City area are busy, but they still made time to participate in the Price-Copely YMCA’s 2018 Halloweeen Triathlon. Now on its third year, the growing triathlon incorporates family-friendly activities for all ages. Staff, board members and community members alike participate in triathlon activities onsite. Alicia Branam, Associate Assistant Director at the Price-Copley…
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A Circus Has Youth Flipping – and Exercising – at Mid City Gym
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers An after school program in City Heights gets youth juggling, flipping and sitting on invisible chairs. Fern Street Circus started in 1990 around the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego. The professional circus performed in local parks and taught clowning and acrobatics at…
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‘Black Girls Run’ Act as Exercise Ambassadors
and Megan Burks In San Diego County, 65 percent of African American women are overweight or obese, according to Lakeysha Sowunmi of the Network for a Healthy California. That’s in part because of poor nutrition–African Americans eat 35 percent more fried foods than any other ethnicity, Sowunmi said. But another factor is often overlooked. Many…