Participation in group fitness classes at Westmoreland Athletic Club in Greensburg, was on the decline, according to executive director Laurie Corbett, and the club wanted to find a way to increase participation and introduce new people to its classes. Says Corbett, “We needed to add some variety, and introduce club members to the various formats of the classes we offer.”

What the club came up with is a monthly class called Tag Team. Corbett explains: The group fitness instructors get together and choose a theme for the class, including music and class content. The theme is then used as a backdrop for the class, which includes more than one instructor. The class typically starts out with a warm-up, then a hi/lo-impact segment, moves into kickboxing, thento step,then toa weight segment, and ends up with yoga or a Pilates mat class segment. (more…)

Remember, it was widely believed the world was flat and that a curveball was actually just an optical illusion (studies have shown conclusively that a curveball can break up to 19 inches!). Sorry, but just because dad says it is so doesn’t necessarily make it make it true. (more…)