West Virginia Home Fitness Takes Action to Improve Community Health
Charleston, WV-West Virginia Home Fitness will be opening its doors to launch a new program designed to guide its members to improved living for long term health. The 16 week programs features a goal setting system that enables individuals to create long term plans to combat West Virginias growing concerns of poor health.
Charleston, WV (PRWEB) June 1, 2006
West Virginia Home Fitness will be opening its doors to launch a new program designed to guide its members to improved living for long term health. The 16 week programs features a goal setting system that enables individuals to create long term plans to combat West Virginia's growing concerns of poor health.
The increase in the number of cases of Type 2 Diabetes, obesity and other illnesses combined with skyrocketing healthcare costs have precipitated scores of new diet programs and fad fitness equipment designed to take advantage of a growing sense of desperation on a national level. A recent article from USA Today noted that, ” Obesity could shorten the average lifespan of an entire generation — today's children — by two to five years, according to a controversial new life-expectancy analysis.” It goes on to say, “Life expectancy in the USA is now at a high of 77.6 years. If the researchers' predictions hold true in the next 50 years, it would be the first reversal in life expectancy since the government started keeping track in 1900.”
Andrew Burroughs, president of West Virginia Home Fitness, states, “We all have a perception of what good health and wellness is. However through mass marketing of products and services designed to promise the potential of a quick fix many of the truths have been filtered out and left us with a skeleton of healthy living habits.” He continues, “Many people have become so overwhelmed with so many options that they feel they can no longer make educated decisions on obtaining and maintaining healthy living. The fact is that we have lost grasp of how simple healthy living can be. Now have make changes and to get back to basics in order to regain the good habits that have become invisible to many.
The program's main focus is a systematic movement to subtle adjustments over an extended period of time to create a dramatic outcome. This will include guidance in lifestyle management, nutrition, stress management, exercise and physical activity. All focused around the lifestyle characteristics of the individual. Marsha Carte who is married with 2 daughters, works 50 plus hours a week and will be participating in the program states “I am excited about the idea of making changes that will not only help me and my family but also that it is not to be so dramatic that it becomes stressful to my family. It’s hard enough just raising a family and the idea that I can do something for my family that will last is exciting.”
Another feature of the program is that each member will receive personal training from the HIT Center located in Southridge in the Pied Piper building. This will prove to be an essential element to help all the participants make the necessary changes in their approach to physical activity and exercise.
Burroughs who is also the Logistics Chair for the American Heart Association’s “Healthy Life Challenge” closes with “I want people to know that this is an aggressive program because we want people to succeed. When I saw what was going on with the Healthy Life Challenge I was eager to see if I could get involved because I think that it too is based on a method that is functional and effective. It really didn’t take much for me to realize how much of an impact this could have on the community with the interest and support it is generating."
West Virginia Home Fitness has plans to keep the operation community based while expanding to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Enrollments are now being taken at www. wvhomefitness. com and will be limited to only 60 participants.
About West Virginia Home Fitness
West Virginia Home Fitness is a new company started in January 2006 that serves that Capital City area by providing guidance in nutrition and lifestyle goal setting to enhance both health and general well being. The focus is to create a system based on lifestyle and needs that best benefit the individual. West Virginia Home Fitness is not generic diet and exercise program. Areas of focus are nutrition, exercise and physical activity, rest habits, goal setting and more.
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