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Five Ways to Make Fitness Fun for Kids
Aug 8th
Pilates for Kids with Mauro Pilates
By Chrissie Jarrell and Natalie Yerkovich
Austin Woman Magazine August 2012
The habits we learn as children shape our feelings toward fitness and wellness in to our adult lives. As a loved one in a child’s life, we have an amazing opportunity to encourage kids to default to a healthy lifestyle. Your influence through activity is so important and can be a fun way to connect with your children while showing them ways to be healthy and fit. Here are five ways to make fitness fun for your kids (and yourself).
1. MAKE IT SPECIAL
Build a routine based on fitness activities that goes beyond the activity itself. For instance, every Saturday morning, take the family for a run or walk around Lady Bird Lake, cool off at Barton Springs and wind down with a healthy lunch together at Whole Foods. A special and recurring ritual is something to look forward to each weekend.
2. MAKE A GAME OF IT
It’s easy to forget you’re working out when you’re having fun. Ask your child to teach you a game they play at school. Start a game of soccer or volleyball with the entire family. Build an obstacle course and have everyone compete.
3. TAKE A TRIP
Visit a beautiful river and go canoeing, take a bike ride around a new city’s hike-and-bike trails, go hiking to the top of Enchanted Rock. Allow a change of scenery to inspire movement and exploration.
4. TAKE A CLASS
Enrolling your kids in a fitness class gives them a good opportunity to be trained by professionals and meet kids outside of school. Plus, you may be able to do your own workout while the kids are in class. (See below for just a few of the many fitness classes for kids.)
5. MIX IT UP
Kids get bored just like we do. Vary their activities so they are trying different things and learning new ways to move.
CLASSES FOR KIDS
Yoga: Austin Kula Yoga, Yoga Yoga
Pilates: Mauro Pilates
Martial Arts: Castle Hill Fitness (Kajukenbo for Kids)
Triathlon: T3 Multisports
Running: Gilbert’s Gazelles
SHUTTLE FOR KIDS
New service provides safe and convenient trans portation to after-school activities.
When Lake Travis ISD school bus driver Raqcuel Ayala realized that budget cuts meant students were no longer dropped off at extracurricular activities, the idea for a new business was born. Lake Travis Shuttle for Kids started rolling in January 2012 and provides a service shuttling kids door to door between schools, to after-school activities and picking them up in case of sickness or emergency. The driver texts parents when the child arrives at their destination. Currently available only in the Lake Travis ISD area. For more information, visit ltshuttleforkids.com or call 512.263.5437. Raqcuel will be featured on YNN’s Local Wonders segment airing Tuesday, Aug. 21 on channels 8 and 1505 on Time Warner Cable.
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Chrissie Jarrell and Natalie Yerkovich, the gals who created myfitlist.com, do the grunt work for you. Well, the organizational grunt work, anyway. They work hard to connect people with the fitness groups, information and resources they need so they can grunt, sweat and tone to achieve their personal goals.
Read the fun and inspirational fitness articles by the creators of MyFitList, every month in Austin Woman Magazine. This article can be found in the August 2012 issue on stands and online now!
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MyFitList brings together the latest information on hundreds of local fitness businesses in Austin. We’re your resource for inspiration and information for getting and staying fit. Search hundreds of Austin fitness groups and services like running, triathlon, bootcamps, yoga studios, gyms and more all in one place! Check us out at www.myfitlist.com
Hit the Water
Jul 11th
Cool workouts for hot summer days / By Chrissie Jarrell and Natalie Yerkovich
Austin Woman Magazine July 2012
Summer is here and it’s heating up! Trade in your sneakers for a swimsuit and hit the water for cool workouts all summer long. Water activities are great exercise throughout the year because they give you a low-impact way to get core, strength and cardio workouts all at once. Here are a few of our favorite ways to splash around in Austin. Many of these places offer group or private lessons, so if you’re new to the water, they can help you get more comfortable. Then, with a little experience, you’ll love being active in and on the water.
STAND UP PADDLE BOARDING
Stand up paddle boarding (SUP) involves standing on an over-sized “surfboard” and paddling along calm water. It’s fun, relaxing and a great total-body workout, which might explain why it is currently the fastest-growing water sport in the world. Take it easy with smooth paddling or increase the intensity with moves you would do on land like squats, yoga poses, Pilates exercises or high-intensity interval exercises. Hot spots for stand up paddle boarding:
Rowing Dock: Located on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, offers stand up paddle board lessons and rentals. rowingdock.com
Texas Rowing Center: Located on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake near Austin High School, offering “paddling sampler” lessons teaching you the basics for stand up paddling, kayaking and canoeing. Rentals are available.
Paddle Zen: Located on the east side of Lady Bird Lake, offering rentals and Paddle Fit, Paddle Yoga and Paddle Pilates classes throughout the week.
Pure Austin Fitness at Quarry Lake: Paddle board rentals are free for members and available to gym guests for a daily drop-in fee, multiple “SUP Hard Core” and training classes offered throughout the week.
SWIMMING
Swimming is a great form of exercise because it not only builds your cardio, muscular strength and endurance, but it is also one of the lowest-impact methods of fitness. Swimming under the guidance of a coach and with a group is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to swim regularly. If you can’t join a group, swimming on your own is a good option too. Austin has many great public and membership pools throughout town that offer an amazing place to swim laps and beat the heat. Check out myfitlist.com for swim-workout ideas to help you get started on your own.
Coached swim groups:
Austin T3: Coached adult swim workouts. austint3.com
Pure Austin Fitness: at Quarry Lake Adult swim workouts, open lap swim and open water swimming.
JCC Austin: adult swim workouts, aqua-aerobics workouts and open lap swim.
Lifetime Fitness (North and South locations): Adult swim workouts and open lap swim.
Tough Cookie Fitness: Coached swim workouts in the pool or open water.
West Austin Athletic Club: Adult swim workouts and open lap swim.
YMCA of Austin: (various locations) Adult swim workouts and open lap swim.
Public Pools in Austin: enjoy pools all over Austin to swim laps, splash around, or just relax.
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Chrissie Jarrell and Natalie Yerkovich, the gals who created myfitlist.com, do the grunt work for you. Well, the organizational grunt work, anyway. They work hard to connect people with the fitness groups, information and resources they need so they can grunt, sweat and tone to achieve their personal goals.
Read the fun and inspirational fitness articles by the creators of MyFitList, every month in Austin Woman Magazine. This article can be found in the July 2012 issue on stands and online now!
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MyFitList brings together the latest information on hundreds of local fitness businesses in Austin. We’re your resource for inspiration and information for getting and staying fit. Search hundreds of Austin fitness groups and services like running, triathlon, bootcamps, yoga studios, gyms and more all in one place! Check us out at www.myfitlist.com
MyFitList Joins Austin Woman Magazine
Aug 30th
MyFitList is excited to announce that we have teamed up with Austin Woman Magazine as the featured Fitness Columnists. We’ll be contributing a monthly column where we explore different fitness groups, philosophies, businesses, and more – to help Austin women get and stay fit. We’re thrilled to be a part of this great magazine and contribute to the wealth of information online and in-print. Pick up the September issue on stands now all over Austin or view the digital version online. Here is an excerpt from the article about MyFitList in the September issue of Austin Woman Magazine!
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By Meg Haley / Photo by Rudy Arocha
Founders of MyFitList, Chrissie Jarrell and Natalie Yerkovich
Natalie Yerkovich and Chrissie Jarrell, the gals who created MyFitList, do the grunt work for you. Well, the organizational grunt work, anyway. They work hard to connect people with the fitness groups, information and resources they need so they can grunt, sweat and tone to achieve their personal goals.
Yerkovich, “a previously frustrated fitness seeker,” created MyFitList with Jarrell to resolve her struggle of finding new groups to join. Now she describes herself as having “a knack for helping connect people with their ideal fitness groups.” Jarrell brings her experience as a fitness guru to the business side of things, creating a strong partnership.
MyFitList makes it easy to search for the perfect fitness group for your schedule, neighborhood and activity of choice. Because Austin is proudly one of the fittest cities in the nation, the options can be overwhelming. MyFitList brings the best of yoga, boot camps, triathlon groups and more right to your fingertips. Jarrell and Yerkovich know that “if your fitness routine is too inconvenient or you don’t click with the trainer, you’re less likely to stick with it and see results.”
Run a fitness group? MyFitList can help your business thrive by giving you “an effective way to connect with potential clients who are looking for exactly what you offer.” MyFitList has no intention of getting stuck at a plateau here in Austin; Jarrell and Yerkovich plan to flex their muscles in other cities soon.
Austin Woman is pleased to partner with MyFitList to bring you the latest workouts and fitness information. In addition to their monthly column, Yerkovich and Jarrell will be contributing to Austin Woman with blog postings, and Facebook and Twitter connections.
Check out their blog, for tips, events, workout videos and giveaways. They feature a new fitness business every week to expand your horizons and keep you feeling the burn.
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MyFitList brings together the latest information on hundreds of local fitness businesses in Austin. We’re your resource for inspiration and information for getting and staying fit. Search hundreds of Austin fitness groups and services like running, triathlon, bootcamps, yoga studios, gyms and more all in one place! Check us out at www.myfitlist.com