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Go Take a Long Walk….

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
Usually, when someone tells you to ‘go take a long walk…’, it’s a not friendly suggestion. But Bev DeLuise, an FT client for the past eight years, has given the phrase a whole new meaning. She has been inspiring her neighbors to take very long [...]

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Meet Our First Lady of Fitness!

A couple of months ago, our Fitness Together clients started out on The Cardio Race to the Capitol! The goal was to make it from Wilmington to the steps of the White House since Washington, D.C. is consider the fittest city in the United States!
45 cardio sessions later, Ann Burford was sworn in as the First [...]

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Cardio Race to the Capitol

Fitness Together in Wilmington, NC is excited to announce an FT Cardio Challenge:  Cardio Race to the Capitol!  Why are we headed to the Capitol?  Because Washington, D.C. is the fittest city in the United States, according to The American Fitness Index.  With an exercies rate of 80.1% and an obesity rate of just 22.6%, [...]

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Off to Battle a Bridge at the Battleship!

Four months ago,  a group of FT clients and friends gathered at Landfall for the annual 5K/10K race. For many of our clients this was the first race that they had ever completed. Just last week our clients, their friends, and some of the trainers reunited on a Sunday morning at the NC Battleship to [...]

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Kids Say the Darndest Things–About Fitness!

Recently, FT Client Tracey Glendenning was informed by her 8-year-old son that he wanted to make a “lifestyle change” (his words).  He wrote this promise to his parents:
Dear: Mom & Dad-
I am not going to watch T.V. ever again. I want to eat below 50 grams of sugar and no fat and low sodium. Besides [...]

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What a Difference a Year Makes

Have the FT trainers gone wild?  Why are we featuring a photo of a cupcake on our blog?  Cupcakes are allowed on special occasions, and this one is an occasion worth celebrating!  Read the letter we recently received from a former FT client:
 This week marks the one-year anniversary of when I first walked into your gym fat [...]

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Train Hard, Eat Well, and Party Hearty!

Recently, Fitness Together celebrated a client appreciation night for our clients, trainers, friends and family.  We all gathered at Ann’s house for an evening of fun, food, and laughter!  Ann has been working out with FT for over a year, and it was her idea to celebrate achieving her fitness goals with her trainers and [...]

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New Milestones – 5K/10K

After the last post I feel like I have to give my point of view on the race and the event. First I have to CONGRATULATE all of the FT clients and friends who finished the race and pushed themselves further than what they thought they could.
I thought it would be fun get clients and [...]

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Off To Battle: My First 5K

“Would you like to join the Fitness Together team in running a 5K?”, my trainer asked me just a few weeks after I had begun my personal training program.
Five kilometers is just 3.2 miles.  That didn’t seem so far to me.  I love to walk, and over those first initial weeks I had managed to [...]

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Top 100 Reasons to Exercise!

From a trainers point of view! Many people have said to me “I know exercise is good for me but it is just so hard to find time and energy to do it”. So what I have done was compiled a list of reasons that one should exercise and some of the benefits of putting [...]

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