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Join the Fun During May While Raising Breast Cancer Awareness

Help us to raise awareness about breast cancer while having a great time and helping others to feel good too!

Join us for the 2008 Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday, May 17, 2008 followed by our Annual Pancake Breakfast. You can choose to do a 5K walk or run. Not up to that distance? There is also a 1 mile fun walk and the sleep for the cure. Following the race will be our Annual Pancake Breakfast, again featuring Chris Cakes, the amazing pancake flippers! You've got to catch your breakfast as the pancakes go flying across the room. Invite your friends for this fun event that raises awareness about breast cancer. New this year is Team EQUIVITA. Although Team Registration officially closed on Friday, April 25, you can still register as an individual and participate in all our fun as a part of our team at www.komencolumbus.org. There will be lots of people with varying abilities participating, so no one will race alone. The race cost is $25.00. The race begins at 8:30 am. We will provide shuttle service to and from downtown for our participants beginning at 7:30 am. Breakfast will be served between 10:00 - 11:00 am. Breakfast is FREE!!! Special thanks to CBIZ for helping to cosponsor the breakfast. You will be entertained with the speed and flipping antics of Chris Cakes. Invite your friends to help make this our biggest race event!

Everyone is invited to the FREE post-race breakfast! Please let us know if you are attending so that we can prepare the pancake maker. Contact Adam Milligan at amilligan@equivita.com. We are looking forward to a fun morning with you supporting a great event.

Additional Donations to Komen Columbus through Mother's Day Massage Gift Certificates

For each Mother's Day gift certificate sold, EQUIVITA will donate 10% of the sales to Komen Columbus. Help raise money and awarenss for a worthy organization as well as provide the perfect gift. Contact EQUIVITA to purchase a gift certificate at 614.298.8781 or click here to send an email request.

The Joy of Wellness

Joy of Wellness

Our driving force is our desire to assist you to experience the Joy of Wellness. The joy of wellness is what you feel when you can do things you never thought possible. It happens when you gain an ability that you have only dreamed of. It happens when you regain an ability that you have lost. There is joy - great joy- in these feelings, and that is where our passion comes from. We want to assist you to find your state of happiness through a healthy lifestyle – to experience the joy of wellness.

Wellness.
What a funny word. It really should mean the state of being well or the state of being without illness. But for many, this state of being in good health means much more. It is the place where you are not only without illness, but you are feeling good. For some it is the ability to touch their toes without pain. For others it is the ability to run a marathon. Others just want to climb the steps at work without knee pain. Some want to play with their kids without back pain. All of these and so many others are examples of wellness.

Journey.
Wellness is not easily defined and is very different for every individual. The way to achieve it, though, is the same. First, accept where you are. Second, decide where you want to be. Third, design the plan to get there. Finally, act. This process is exactly the same with every client that we work with and enables us to develop very customized programs.

Assess.
With the knowledge from the assessment, you and your Transitional Fitness Trainer will develop an exercise plan that makes sense. Your plan will be designed for your goals and tailored to your life. The typical challenges to fitness will be addressed and by maintaining the focus on what is right for you, you will have a plan to better avoid these hindrances.

Heart.
At the heart of EQUIVITA is a professional staff of Transitional Fitness Trainers and Massage Therapists, each with specialized knowledge regarding the five keys to fitness and a desire to assist you in your personal journey to wellness. They are ready to listen to you, help you assess your needs, teach you, and maximize your ever-changing balance of body and mind. We can ensure you a customized workout regime personalized to your goals and body needs. Unlike most personal training, we have no goals or programs pre-set and ready to apply to you. However, we do have a process that teaches and supports. Our Transitional Fitness Training approach only works when you are involved.
Come experience the personalized attention and supportive atmosphere at EQUIVITA.

Experience the Joy of Wellness.

Exercise is Medicine Initiative

EQUIVITA Supports “Exercise is Medicine” Initiative
Adam Milligan

I am a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. As part of my membership, and my role in the professional health and fitness community, I’m committed to encouraging physical activity for the health benefits it has for all people.

I’m concerned, however, that people view exercise and its many benefits in the wrong light. Many might see physical activity as an optional activity, perhaps a “hobby” or something to do seasonally, like when they need to shape up for a high school reunion or take a stab at a New Year’s resolution.

This is simply not the case. Daily physical activity and exercise are absolutely essential to good health and weight maintenance, particularly important as we are facing an obesity epidemic in this country.

The need to be a more active nation is at the core of a new initiative launched by ACSM and the American Medical Association earlier this month called “Exercise is Medicine.” The goal of the Exercise is Medicine program is to encourage physicians to “prescribe” exercise during patient visits. Able patients will be advised to participate in at least 30 minutes of physical activity and 10 minutes of stretching and light muscle training five days a week.

If there were a drug that could prevent or treat numerous chronic conditions – such as hypertension, cardiac disease and diabetes – surely every doctor would be eager to prescribe it. After all, “prescribing” such an activity would be in patients’ best interests. This “drug” exists, but not in pill form; exercise can treat (or prevent) all these conditions and more, in only 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per day.

Even so, a recent survey conducted of the public by ACSM found that while four out of 10 physicians (41%) talk to their patients about the importance of exercise, they don’t always offer suggestions on the best ways to be physically active. But, nearly two-thirds of patients (65%) would be more interested in exercising to stay healthy if advised by their doctor and given additional resources.

My experience when I first began working at a facility that had rehabilitation services supports this. Patients had the time to do their rehabilitation exercises when it was prescribed by a physician, but did not continue to exercise once it was no longer prescribed for them, even though their bodies could continue to benefit. This was one of the reasons that I founded Transitional Fitness – to try to create a way to transition patients from a “prescriptive program” to one that would continue to benefit their bodies. Working closely with physicians has helped many of my clients have more successful exercise programs and enabled them to make fitness a part of their own healthy lifestyles

To learn more about how EQUIVITA’s Transitional Fitness Training and the 5Keys Fitness Assessment support Exercise is Medicine, please visit this part of our web site or contact Adam Milligan at 614.298.8781 x 13 or email amilligan@equivita.com. For a copy of the press release, please click here. To learn more about Exercise is Medicine please visit www.exerciseismedicine.org. This ACSM initiative can change lives.