District of Columbia Fitness News (United States)

Urban Adventures Companies Unveils VIDA’s Fifth Location Still in Time to Tackle New Year’s Fitness Resolutions

The Center for Integrative Acupuncture and Pain Management in Silver Spring, Maryland announces the grand opening of its Nutritional Therapy Institute serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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UCSD Professor James Fowler, PhD, and CLARK Security Products President Susan Kuruvilla join other prominent speakers at The Forum 11, the Care Continuum Alliance annual meeting, Sept. 7 to 9.

David von Storch's Urban Adventures Companies Unveils First Phase of Flagship Fitness and Lifestyle Complex

Washington DC – June 19, 2011: Over 20 members of the local running group, DC Capital Striders (DCCS), met downtown to volunteer their time at the DC Triathlon.

Trademarked method of Pilates workouts and fitness programs to be offered at five-story studio in Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

‘Fit for Duty’ Season 3 Debuts June 1st only on The Pentagon Channel!

Listen on April 26th at 9pm ET on www.party934.com to Kimberli Russell of VH1's Basketball Wives, Wife of Retired NBA Player Bryon Russell, Owner of Faith N Fitness, Board Member of the Non-profit WOVA

Fit Night Out™ - the ultimate evening of fitness, fellowship and FUN, designed especially for women – will make its debut on Thursday, April 14, 2011, from 7:00p.m. to 11:00p.m., at Love the Club, 1350 Okie Street, N.E. in Washington, D.C.

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Thanksgiving and Christmas are well behind us and, unfortunately that means that Food Banks and soup kitchens are once again low on food and volunteers. Additionally most of what gets donated to Food Banks is often the worst quality food.

Donna de Varona, Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Jessica Mendoza and Heather O’Reilly among athletes scheduled to appear, support achievements and participation of female athletes

The martial arts community is very active in the DC metro area. You can read about local news in DC at MMA in DC News. MMA in DC News covers local martial arts events such as MMA fights, BJJ tournaments, and Muay Thai events.

It’s January and most adults are thinking about getting in shape and/or losing weight. There’s a problem however: they’re trying to get a new body with the same old stuff that didn't work in 2010 (or 1999 for that matter).

December 20, 2010, 2010 (Washington, DC)—Holistic Health Coach Alexis Logan will hold a free teleseminar on the “Top 3 Weight Loss Myths Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals”.

Thanksgiving tips to cut typical net calories by two-thirds. Turn Thanksgiving from gut buster to great day to jump start family activities and fitness.

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Most people think that when it comes to losing weight a low calorie, lot fat diet is the way to, but new research in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that this kind of diet may not actually work very well for fat loss after all.

Haloween is just a few weeks away, and many women are wondering if their favorite skimpy costume will make them feel sexy or make them feel fat. This leaves women scrambling to find quick weight loss strategies.

In Washington, DC 10 women have decided that they will drop 1-2 jean sizes before Thanksgiving while everyone else’s jeans slowly get tighter. They’re throwing away the scale and only using their “thermometer jeans”.

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If you are trying to keep up with the fitness fad, or cannot cope with a hectic lifestyle then vitamins and supplements are necessary for you. Supplements have become a vital part of a hectic life. For more details log onto www.stayfitnutrition.com

Smokers who fast during Ramadan, and already refrain from food, drinks and cigarettes from dawn to dusk, are being urged to quit during the night and quit for life, reports Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

SponsorFit matches corporate sponsors to schools to provide twice-weekly fitness classes to teachers at each location, at no cost to the participants.

Author Ananda Leeke's kicks off her summer event series with a public library reading, yoga classes, radio interviews, and public speaking engagement.

EB Nutrition owner and Registered Dietitian – Elizabeth Blumberg offers employee wellness programs to corporations and small businesses.

EB Nutrition, a nutrition consulting company, has just announced the unveiling of their website and online consulting service – EB Nutraprint.

Call for presentations on wellness, prevention, chronic care continues through March 12 for The Forum 10, the annual meeting of DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, and Integrated Care Summit, hosted by DMAA and National Association of Manufacturers

Local personal trainer and author Josef Brandenburg was selected as the fitness expert for The PCOS Challenge TV Show.

Yesterday, at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting, First Lady Michelle Obama discussed the importance of healthy eating and physical activity initiatives to help combat childhood obesity in the U.S.

One thing that pregnant celebrities – Kourtney Kardashian, Heidi Klum – and the general public have in common this time of year is weight loss. But, will chasing a number on the scale necessarily mean that you will get back to your old body?

With the new economic climate one-on-one personal training, and the better body that people expect, is farther out of reach for more and more people. However, there is a new kind of personal training that lowers prices and enhances results.

IBar Wellness Center opens in Washington, DC on November 30, 2009 offering acupuncture, wellness seminars and a unique 7 step program developed by Dr. Nayo Wills to teach its patients how to tap into their own spirituality as they heal themselves.

New research suggests that doing exercise in your “fat burning zone” will actually reduce the amount of fat that your body burns for the rest of that day.

For most Americans the Holiday season – which really starts in October – is the engine that drives a vicious cycle of weight gain and frustration: getting really busy, eating even worse and getting even pudgier.

You can get fit, win FREE stuff and contribute to a worthy cause absolutely free on Saturday, August 29th with DC Fitness Advisor, Josef Brandenburg in Ft. Dupont Park.

Time magazine just ran “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin” by John Cloud. While most fitness professionals are incensed by Cloud’s piece, DC Fitness Advisor, Josef Brandenburg says, “Cloud’s piece was far more right than wrong.”

With the economy still looking to rebound, one local business person has done something that most people would consider business suicide: change his business model. “The days of 1-on-1 training are over,” says Josef Brandenburg

Summer is officially here. The clothes are coming off as we go to the beach or pool, and people want to look their best. So we had award winning Washington, DC personal trainer Josef Brandenburg compile 5 celebrity beach body secrets.

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance launches new Web site dedicated to the contributions of prevention, wellness and population health management to care quality and value and to promote population-based care as an essential component of system reform.

Washington, DC based award winning personal trainer Josef Brandenburg will be giving away $1 to a local charity for every person that participates in and completes his “20min Fat-Loss Solution”, and he wants your help in picking the charity.

A new study by Edward Melanson and team came out claiming to “bust myth that working out gives you a fat-burning boost.” However there are at least 9 other studies that show that smart exercise does!

Do you think that you need to jog for hours on end to start dropping body fat? Think again. Washington, DC based personal trainer, Josef Brandenburg will be sharing a unique 20min fat-burning program with the public for free.

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, a sponsor of the 2009 Almanac of Chronic Disease, participates in launch of document and calls for a national commitment to make chronic condition prevention, management essential elements of health care reform.

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance applauds recognition of care coordination, chronic disease prevention and management letter from leading health care organizations to President Obama.

Mothers (and wives) are so busy taking care of other people that they often forget about their own well being, and when health and fitness start to go its hard for them to give as much love as they’d like to. This Mother's Day help her get fitter.

Today on Oprah Kirstie Alley told us how and why she fell off the Jenny Craig diet wagon. The important thing for us watching is to learnto get on a path to lifetime leanness instead of on line for the yo-yo diet rollercoaster.

Initial studies show that this red wine ingredient has potent health effects, including life extension