YMCA Partners with Alambria Springs Farm for CSA Pick-up
The Norwich YMCA will be a pick-up site this season for Alambria Spring Farm Community Supported Agriculture shareholders. There are a limited number of shares still available for the 2011 season for individuals and/or families who want to enjoy fresh local organic produce throughout the summer and support local agriculture.
Please visit www.alambriafarm.com for more information.
This month you’ll notice some changes to Healthy Family Home. We’re unveiling a new look, updated information and activity ideas to help you and your family build a healthier home environment. We’ve also added two new pillars to help form the foundation of a healthy home environment. Go to ymca.net to learn about the five pillars of a healthy home: Eat Healthy, Play Every Day, Get Together, Go Outside and Sleep Well. We hope you like the changes.
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Norwich, NY – The Norwich Family YMCA began hosting a Weight Watchers meeting on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM beginning Mid-April. Both organizations aim to create a long-term, healthy lifestyle relationship to benefit Chenango County residents. Starting in April, local Weight Watchers participants began utilizing the YMCA facilities for a weekly meeting. “We are extremely pleased to have the Weight Watchers community join us here at the YMCA,” said James Mullen, Executive Director of the Norwich Family YMCA.
For more than 45 years, Weight Watchers has been assisting individuals with weight-loss goals through teaching healthy eating habits, modifying behaviors, exercising and providing support. For its part, the Norwich Family YMCA has been promoting healthy lifestyles locally for over 145 years. “Separately, these two organizations have helped thousands of local residents achieve weight-loss and fitness goals. To provide what each has to offer will be a perfect combination,” said Shannon Gawronski, the Norwich Family YMCA’s Health and Fitness Director.
To pursue fitness goals without a solid nutritional and dietary plan often yields poor results over the long term, Gawronski explained. “Short-term weight-loss competitions provide some benefit, but once the incentives disappear, inches around the waistline can easily reappear,” said Gawronski. In order to sustain any weight loss achievement, or to maintain a healthy condition, individuals need a life plan that they can follow and enjoy year in and year out, Gawronski continued.
“Individuals will experience the benefits from Weight Watchers expertise and have the option of utilizing the variety of exceptional facilities here at the YMCA,” said Jamey Mullen. Ideally, participants who seek personal training at the Norwich Family YMCA will also have the option of joining Weight Watchers, which will complement their long-term fitness goals, Mullen explained.
“This is a win-win situation,” said Weight Watchers’ Norwich Leader Jo Anne Eppley-Wells. “By offering its group fitness rooms, gym, pool, indoor track, and courts for exercise, the Norwich Family YMCA offers Weight Watchers participants an option to enjoy meeting one of the critically important parts of our program- getting/staying more active,” Eppley-Wells continued.
The Weight Watchers meeting at the YMCA began in Mid-April, just about the time many people begin backsliding from their New Year’s resolutions, Mullen suggested. “This unique approach to healthy living is a fitting means of continuing the Norwich Family YMCA’s longstanding mission of helping Chenango County residents improve their quality of life,” said Mullen.
On Sunday, June 6th., Weight Watchers members will be walking in the 2nd. Annual Weight Watchers 5k Walk-It Challenge Day. Members have been training since April. Some will be walking a 5k for the 1st. time. Members will walk either at Wyler Park or on the indoor track at the Norwich Family YMCA, at 1:00 p.m.