Have you reached a plateau with your current workout routine? This may be an indication that your exercise program needs more variety. Cross-training will spice up your workout while improving fitness and performance. What is cross-training? Cross-training combines 2 or more types of physical activity.

LEARN TWO BASIC APPROACHES TO CROSS-TRAINING

While cross-training is an easy way to add variety to your workout, you will also reap the benefits.

CROSS-TRAINING BENEFITS

The SAC Running Club hosted a waterstation at Seattle’s first annual Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon! Club members, staff, and family came together to support some of our very own:

MARATHON:
Rob Lauren - 3:44:29 - 1st marathon
Adriana Allison - 3:48:20

HALF-MARATHON:
Jack Read - 1:31:59
Brian Newman – 1:38:43
Natalie Komar - 1:50:04 - PR
Kirsten Wild - 1:52:36 - 1st half-marathon
Ethan Kelly – 1:54:28 – PR this decade
Linda Schetky - 1:55:02
Mark Dyce - 3:05:37 - 1st half-marathon
Laura Garbutt - 3:11:24

Congratulations on finishing the race! If you see these members and staff around the club be sure to congratulate them on their success! We had a blast cheering on our friends and family and can’t wait to be a part of it again next year!

To see more pictures from the event check out our Facebook Group page.

If you are a runner (or just want to get in on all the excitement) and would like to join the SAC Running Club please contact Teresa Nelson. As part of the Running Club you can get connected with other runners at the Club, receive updates on upcoming races, get support from our members and staff, and much more!

The highly-skilled Personal Fitness Trainers at our club are skilled in performing detailed fitness assessments, functional movement screens and programs designed for all levels of fitness. Schedule your Fundamental Movement Screen during the month of August at no additional charge.

FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SCREENING

A Personal Fitness Trainer will take you through two specially designed movement screens testing for various muscle imbalances in your body. This 30-minute screening will provide you with some basic tools to correct any detected imbalances ensuring peak performance, improved results, and optimal body function.

COMPLETE FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT SCREEN - $75
(90 minute session including corrective exercise program)

Three additional movement screens from the Fundamental Movement Screening will give you a complete look at your body’s performance! Five movement screens to measure muscular imbalances in the body will be used to create a personalized corrective exercise program to correct these imbalances.

Our Fitness Staff is here to make sure you get off on the right foot, stay motivated and enjoy your training. To schedule your Movement Screening please call 206-443-1111 ext. 269.

Take advantage of your monthly member benefits by joining our Team of Professionals every Tuesday evening at 5:30 pm for personal health consultations. Enhance your overall well being with tips from some of the best health minds in Seattle! Reservations are taken at the Sports Desk.

August 4th - Acupressure and Chinese Medicine with Dena Larsen, LAc., LMP

August 11th - Bone Density Scanning & Postural Assessment with Vitality Chiropractic

August 18th - Injury Screening with Dr. Shelley Cathrea-Roy, CCSP, CSCS

August 25th - Nutritional Counseling with Alison Wilson, in-house nutritionist

LEARN MORE

Prove that you have what it takes to be the next Tour de SAC champion. Channel your inner Lance Armstrong and compete against other SAC members for bragging rights of the fifth annual Tour de SAC challenge.

HOW IT WORKS:
The “Tour de SAC” is a race for time on the Espresso Fitness Bikes. There are 8 stages in this challenge that need to be completed by the 26th of July, marking the end of the Tour de France. Each day of the tour you’ll wind your way through the hills and valleys similar to the ones the cycling teams are facing. The cyclist to finish the tour the fastest will be crowned champion of the Tour de SAC and receive a prize bag of Sugoi Cycling Shorts, a GU Water Bottle accompanied by 8 GU, and Feetures socks.

Do you have what it takes to conquer the tour? Pick up your official time race record sheet at the Sports Desk today! (Time sheets must be returned to the Sports Desk by July 26th).

For questions regarding the Tour de SAC Challenge or the Espresso Bikes please call 206-443-1111.

After nine months of living with those in poverty in various parts of the world, I have returned to Seattle, at least temporarily. My first stop was New York, where I volunteered with a community based organization in Brooklyn. I worked day to day with emergency food supplies, public assistance and welfare counseling, and employment services, and even was able to experience homelessness for a weekend. The next stop was a small town in Southern Belize, where I spent each day working with struggling farming families in the surrounding rural villages. Also I was fortunate enough to have opportunities to spend time in Honduras and Guatemala doing further research on sustainable agriculture in the context rural Central America. Two of my favorite experiences from there were spending Christmas with a family in a small village in the mountains of Central Guatemala and living with an organic farming family in Southern Belize for a few days. The defining portion of my journey was the three months I spent in East Africa, mainly with a children’s home in Kenya. I lived as part of a large family with around 100 total orphans, almost all of whom had lost their parents to AIDS, and was able to connect with them in ways I never imagined. In many remote villages I visited in Kenya, I was the first “Mzungu” (white person) the people had ever seen. Also, I went to Uganda for about a week to spend time at the country U.N. headquarters to interview their employees and research their programs. On my way home from Kenya, I stopped in Europe for a short visit with some family and friends I have in various locations there, which gave me a much needed opportunity to unwind and process it all.

On June 18th, I returned to Seattle, where I hope to be able to settle long term. The next few months I will possibly be back at the SAC training and also will be working very hard on fundraising for an organization I cofounded last year, ERace Poverty. I would like to sincerely thank you all for your support as I embarked on this journey for the purpose of researching different poverty programs around the world and creating future partnerships. Please keep an eye out for information on another event coming up soon in the lobby of the club, which will include a presentation about my experiences the past nine months. We would greatly appreciate your support as we continue to work toward launching our programs to reach thousands, even millions of people in the US and many other countries around the world. For more information about my journey, please see my blog at eracepoverty.blogspot.com, and for more information about Erace Poverty, please visit our website at eracepoverty.org. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask me if you see me at the club, or simply email me at jbates@eracepoverty.org.