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Staying Fit Downtown
Staying fit downtown has to be one of the best advantages to living downtown because it’s so easy. For one thing you can walk most everywhere you need, either outside or through the skywalk and if you prefer to bike, we now even have bike rentals downtown. With the Principal Riverwalk coming, walking or biking downtown will be even better.
For downtown gyms we have basically two places, the Downtown YMCA and Gym F/X Fitness & Tanning. I belong to Gym F/X, it’s on the first and second floor of my building, the Liberty Building. I’m happy to say that since joining the gym and moving downtown where I’m way more active, I’ve lost 10 pounds and 8 percent body fat in the last six months.
When joining the gym, I signed up for their LivFit 10 Week Training Program. It’s basically a 5 component system that covers: food intake, cardiovascular training, taking supplements to eliminate nutritional deficiencies, resistance training and application of programming. With this program I was signed up for the BodyBugg and had a personal trainer, Jeff Zelenovich, to assist me through the program. I had done so well on the 10 week program, I’ve continued on using BodyBugg program for another year.
One the best ways to stay fit is to stay moving. So if my friends want to meet out for dinner on Court Avenue, I don’t allow them to pick me up, I tell them I will meet them there, so that I can walk there and burn some calories, especially for the walk back after eating and drinking too much. If’s it’s raining or too cold outside, I can take the skywalk to Court Avenue Brewery and only have to run across the street to reach most of the restaurants.
Sometimes, my friends Neal and Russ and I, just go for power walks in the skywalk. There’s even maps out with dedicated paths. Another hint I have for staying fit downtown if you live in a high-rise, is take the stairs. Climbing 9 floors can be a great cardio exercise. I try to take the stairs as often as I can.
In closing thoughts, I think I’m staying fit much more living downtown than I did in the suburbs, and saving gas at the same time.
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Posted under Living Downtown | Last modified on August 30th, 2008.
Tags: Biking | Fitness | Liberty Condos | Skywalk | Walking
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Chad on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 7:01 am
When is the Principal Riverwalk going to be finished enough that you can walk it up and down at least one side of the river? Is it supposed to be on both sides of the river or just one?
MulderDSM on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 8:07 am
Chad,
I’m not sure of the exact answer, but here’s a link to a recent discussion over at absolute.dsm and here’s one of the renderings that they have posted, courtsey of Substance Architecture.