Fitness-In-Town
The Junior League of Riverside, Inc. has launched a new community project to fight the childhood obesity epidemic in Riverside County. Known as fitRiverside, the project promises to address both fitness and nutrition by encouraging families to play, exercise and eat well together. Over the last decade, the community of Riverside has seen a substantial increase in children's Type II diabetes, high blood pressure and the numerous ailments related to high cholesterol. For the past five years, JLR has addressed children's health thorough our Kids in the Kitchen health event that focused on nutrition education. The ongoing success of the event and the growing needs of our community prompted us to focus our entire effort on children's health. But, healthy families and a fit community must support healthy children so JLR has developed fitRiverside to be a multigenerational approach to fitness.
There are three components to the fitRiverside program. The first component is the fall kickoff fitExpo which is a fun activity filled day. This years fitExpo will feature a family friendly triathalon.The 2011 fitExpo will take place on October 8, 2011 from 9:00 AM until 12:00 PM at Bordwell Park
The second component are fitDays which are free fitness, nutrition and health camps which meet for six consecutive Saturdays. The first session will begin on October 15, 2011 and will focus on cardiovascular health. Each Saturday session will have a health lecture related to heart health, a 50 minute Zumbatomics class and a nutrisious snack. Weekly prizes will be given to each fitDays partcipant and each participant that attends all six Saturday sessions will be eligible for the grand prize drawing. Additional fitDays camps will be held in January-February and April-May
The final component of the fitRiverside program a nutrition center at the Bobby Bonds spring health fair. The nutrition center features cooking and health lectures. At the Spring 2011 fitFair, 1000 health lunches were provided for the families that attended one of the many health lectures offered.