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Functional training is here!

Participants exercise during a recent SilverSneakers class at the YMCA in Anniston. Ann Angell/Special to The Star If you are 65 or older and have not received your SilverSneakers “magic” card in the mail, then you are missing out on this nation’s leading fitness program for active older adults. The SilverSneakers program has been around a while, but is really sweeping through Alabama as more insurance companies offer packages that include the program. If you receive a SilverS...

Eligible deployed service members and their families will continue to receive memberships to their community YMCA, through the Military Outreach Initiative (MOI). In partnership with the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), the MOI offers no-cost YMCA memberships to eligible military service members and their families. The MOI is meant to give them extra support during periods of deployment, assignments to units geographically separated from a military inst...

The Personal Trainer: Fight fitness fatigue with interval training

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