Is RICE part of your fitness routine?

If you are physically active chances are pretty high that you have had an injury of sorts. While we hate to be sidelined or have interruptions in our routine when we're on a roll or have goals to meet, we often underestimate the real amount of time and care our bodies need for adequate repair. Even if the pain subsides and other signs of injury aren't present, continuing on with your routine without consideration could come back and bite you down the road.

A recent New York Times article on anke health gives an overview of the steps you should take when an injury occurs and why swift action is important. Included is an indispensible recipe for RICE. Follow the instructions and you'll be feeling better in no time!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/28brod.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Looking for Six-Pack Abs?

Have you been focusing on getting the much-heralded "six-pack abs"? You may be focusing on the eye candy and missing out on the real work required for a strong, healthy body. Check out an enlightening article The New York Times published http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/magazine/21FOB-physed-t.html) on the crunch-focused fitness trend that has developed in the last twenty years. Your Fluid Fitness family has always emphasized training that gives you a strong, stable and flexible body with healthy joints. That's the real treat we've been craving.

Big News from Fluid Fitness Clients

We are happy to announce that two of our youngest clients have joined ABT II! Dancers for this company are hand picked by American Ballet Theatre's artistic staff and will perform on stages all over the US. The training and experience they receive at the company will give them a huge head start in their artistic careers.

Fluid Fitness is proud to congratulate Katie Boren and Skylar Brandt on this impressive feat. We look forward to continuing to support their training here at our studio as well as their endeavors on the stage. Way to go, Ladies!

Fluid Fitness Sighting

Fluid Fitness is featured in the June issue of Elle magazine! Check us out in the "Elle Extra" on page 104. Tell your friends and help spread the word about Gyrotonic®. Do you have ideas for other places you'd like to see us? Let us know. See you at the studio!

Giving Back to Our Community

The staff at Fluid Fitness were busy this week working hard to give back to their New York City neighborhood, while also building stonger ties to the community of theater artists and performers that live here as well.

The Barrow Group, a small theater company in our neighborhood, held its 15th Annual Celebrity Doodles Auction & Gala on Monday night May 4, 2009. Fluid Fitness donated 10 Gyrotonic sessions, two Migun massage-bed sessions, a one-hour massage session, and a one-hour reflexology session to the Gala's health and wellness table for the evening's silent auction.

Staff members had a wonderful time representing Fluid Fitness. They also stayed busy watching for stars from the Broadway stage. The Barrow Group and all of it's contributors to the gala honored Nathan Lane, Judith Ivey, and Jeff Dine for their tireless commitment to excellence in NYC theater.

Fluid Fitness is proud that its package of services spurred a bidding war and was the highest grossing item for the auction from the health and wellness table.

Visit our website at http://www.fluidfitnessny.com/, or better yet, drop by the studio for a quick tour. We are located at 1026 Sixth Avenue on the 5th Floor between 38th and 39th Streets. We look forward to seeing you.

Healthy Toes Rock!

When I first started working out at the studio in 2007, I kept seeing trainers and clients with these odd, pretty colored contraptions nestled between their toes. They looked a bit like medieval toe torturing devices. People worked out with them on. Trainers wore them while teaching and when I inquired about them to Lisa, Fluid Fitness’ owner, she told me they were called Healthy Toes and began touting all their benefits, such as helping with foot pain, helping change the way you walk and all around increasing the health of your toes.

And of course I was skeptical that two little pieces of rubber could do all that. I mean the appealing to me was that they were available in these cute colors that reminded me of the jelly sandals that I wore as a kid. Finally, after months of staring at them in the studio sales display and admiring the effortlessness in which people wore them as they did their arch and curls and leg work on the Gyrotonic, I decided to join the hip kid’s club and bought myself a beautiful, shiny peach pair.

Alas with most “accessories” for our life that we buy, we use it a few times and then we forget about them and I could never get my act together to bring them into the studio and so I would just leave them on my feet while watching TV which is also an effective way for them to work. But, lo and behold, they DO work I have flat feet and this winter I was really bad about wearing my orthodics in my snow boots and I started to wake up with to an ache on my left foot which ignored. Finally one day, I said ya know I don’t want to end up in physical therapy again and so I whipped out my Healthy Toes and slipped them on and OMG its like they WOKE my feet up and stretched them out and I immediately noticed the difference and after about 4 days of repeat wearing them in the morning, my feet were ok again.

So grab yourself a pair at the studio and join the Healthy feet Gang!

Gyrotonic in the News!

Check out the link for a great article (also pasted below) on Gyrotonic® that was recently published by Reuters. We are enjoying some hard earned recognition as Gyrotonic® continues to make headway into the mainstream of the fitness and wellness community. Share this link with all of your friends, and don't forget to ask us about our Referral Rewards Program. Let's see who can bring in the most referrals and rack up the most rewards!

Gyrotonic: It's not torture, it's good for you

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5351T920090406?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

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