JUNIPER SWIM & FITNESS CENTER
Monday, February 10 | Building Stronger Hearts Together: Our group fitness instructors will highlight the heart health benefits of their modality throughout their classes and celebrate with you your commitment to overall health and wellbeing.
Tuesday, February 11 | 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Heart Smart: Exercise Intensity Guidance with Joe Beckerly, BPRD Personal Trainer/Specialty Fitness Instructor | Pilates Studio | Exercise intensity plays a crucial role in achieving optimal health, as it directly impacts how the body adapts and improves over time. Heart rate training provides a personalized, science-based approach to guide exercise intensity, ensuring that workouts are effective, safe, and aligned with your individual fitness goals. Learn how to target your exercise intensities to help reduce risk of injury, support cardiovascular health, fat loss, and improved overall fitness.
Tuesday, February 11 – 13 | Multiple times available | Instructor Lead Heart Rate Training Protocol | Cycle | Discover your optimal heart rate training zones while enjoying a challenging and energizing workout to improve your fitness and health. Class dates and times for Heart Rate sessions: February 11 – 5:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.; February 12 – 5:30 p.m.; February 13 – 9:15 a.m.
LARKSPUR COMMUNITY CENTER
Wednesday, February 12 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Heart Health 101 presented by St. Charles Health System | Classroom A | Join Amy Reid from St. Charles Health System to learn how to improve your heart health while developing new coping skills to prevent or manage cardiovascular conditions. Gain basic knowledge on the heart – how it works (and when it doesn’t), fun heart facts, signs and symptoms of a heart attack, heart health nutrition and specific foods to enhance your cardiovascular health, tips on getting heart health foods into your diets, and learn everyday skills to enhance your cardiovascular health.
Thursday, February 13 | Heart Health & Aging presented by Dr. Bulkley of Mosaic Community Health | 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Multipurpose Room | Join Dr. Bulkley for a discussion on cardiovascular risk factors as well as the role of diet and exercise as it relates to cardiovascular health.
Thursday, February 13 | 5:45 – 6:45 p.m. | Calm Your Heart Guided Meditation and Breathwork | Community Room | Meditation is shown to activate the “rest and digest” functions in our body and reduce the “flight or fight” responses, and practicing slow, deep breathing for just a few minutes a day can help lower blood pressure, potentially reducing systolic blood pressure (the first number in your reading) by up to 10 points (Harvard Health Publishing. (2023, Sept. 1). Breathing Exercises to Lower Your Blood Pressure. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health)
Thursday, February 13 & Friday, February 14 | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Know Your Numbers & Reduce Risk of Developing Heart Disease: Blood Pressure Screenings with Partner in Care | Hallway next to Classroom A | Hypertension (aka high blood pressure) is often referred to as the “silent killer” because it has no warning signs and can lead to life-threatening conditions like a heart attack or stroke. Our friends from Partners in Care will be on hand to take your blood pressure and show you how easy self-monitoring can be.
Thursday, February 13 & Friday, February 14 | Body Composition Analysis | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Thursday: Classroom 2 | Friday: Classroom 3 |
Limited Spots available register online with Activity #115680 – Pre-Registration required. Knowing your body fat percentage can be helpful when assessing your over-all health. Too much body fat can increase your risk of developing certain types of cancers, diabetes, heart disease, and other health issues.
Friday, February 14| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Calm Your Heart Guided Meditation and Breathwork | Mind Body Room | Another opportunity to enjoy the heart health benefits of this meditative practice.