Mary Klootwyk Square dancing is low-impact but still a great aerobic exercise. Mayo Clinic encourages square dancing: it burns a lot of calories, strengthens bones, and helps the cardiovascular system. A study comparing this type of dancing with walking and stretching suggests that the demands that dancing places on the mind and body make it…
Dr. Rose Bricker Are you feeling sad, dissatisfied, irritable, stressed, frustrated, and just “stuck” in life? We may not even know why we’re having these feelings. One thing that may be helpful to consider is the health of your nervous system. Are you trapped in the sympathetic nervous system (survival mode) that keeps you in…
Vera Shury Save the date of Jan. 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the SaddleBrooke One Arts and Crafts Center, Room 3. The speaker will be Dr. Michaela Gaither, physical therapist. The 4 by 4 is a jumpstart to a possibility of recovering years of muscle and strength. The plan is 4 weeks 4 times a…
Nancy McCluskey-Moore Each year, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) hosts the Walk for Kids. This year the Walk will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26. This signature SBCO event helps support our food, clothing, enrichment, and education programs benefiting youngsters along a 100+-mile corridor from Catalina to Globe. Annually, SBCO touches the lives…
Debbie McGeehan Marty looks as fit as a fiddle and definitely does not look or act his young age of 90! That’s probably because he has played tennis most of his life, starting at seven years old, and he makes a habit of going to the Fitness Center. Marty has been a member of the…
All summer long, the Swim Club will offer coached practices on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Two or three practices will be available on those days between the hours of 7 and 11 a.m. While all practices will offer a combination of technique and fitness work, the 7 a.m. session will place a slightly higher…
Mary Klootwyk We all know the benefits of physical exercise, including low-impact exercise, but what many don’t know are the cognitive benefits of square dancing. Square dancing requires active attention and quick physical responses, and because of this, it triggers several multiple brain functions at once, such as kinesthetic, rational, musical, and emotional, which have…
Pat Knepler Spring is the time of new beginnings. The SaddleBrooke Ballroom Dance Club is just that. We strive to keep our dances and activities varied enough so that everything seems new and fresh. April may be known as the time for showers in much of the world—“April showers bring May flowers”—but here, April brings…
Mary Klootwyk Dancing is a universal human experience. We dance to express joy, celebrate life events, and enact religious and cultural rituals. Dance also has physical and cognitive benefits that may exceed those of other forms of exercise. The evidence for the health benefits of exercise is indisputable. Physiologic studies have demonstrated that regular activity…
Rev. Suzanne Marlatt Stewart The cruel reality is that we’re not getting any younger, and with aging comes consequences, like losing our mental sharpness. Ever forget the names of people or places or what you had for breakfast today? Okay, I’ll speak for myself. I will go into a room for something and forget what…