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gym
Aly Raisman loses bronze in tie-breaker, Gabby Douglas wins gold
Jewish Journal
August 2, 2012
Smiling 16-year-old Gabby Douglas took the Olympic Games by storm on Thursday when she won the all-around gold medal ahead of Russian Victoria Komova.
02Max puts a youthful spin on the gym scene
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2008
\”Our goal is that by the time you graduate college you know how to eat properly, you know how to put an exercise program together,\” Jashinsky said.
Federation drops security grants for shuls; Farmar shoots, scores for Chabad
Jewish Journal
September 18, 2008
Concern about security at services and how to fund it persists among at least some of the small synagogues, which will now need to reallocate resources or decide to go without.
After 40, it’s all maintenance
Judy Gruen
February 15, 2007
The other day at the gym, the teacher sent us to the wall for a set of standing push-ups.
\”Place your hands on the wall at breast level,\” she instructed.
I placed my hands on the wall at breast level. I saw that my hands were headed for the Gulf of Mexico.
‘Sex and the City’ Workout
Julie M. Brown
July 19, 2006
I joined my first gym while in college. My friends and I signed up for a three-month trial together, intending to rid ourselves of the proverbial freshman 10 — the end result of late-night doughnut runs.
Senior Moments – And in This Corner, Stella Goren
Ellie Kahn, Oral Historian
August 4, 2005
Stella Goren is only about 4-foot-10, but she packs a strong punch.
It all started when she was turning 79, and her husband asked what she wanted for her birthday.
\”I\’d like to work out at a gym with a personal trainer,\” Goren told him.
In spite of thinking she was meshugge and assuming this wouldn\’t last, her husband gave his wife of 45 years what she wanted.
\”I was very happy,\” Sam Goren recalled. \”I didn\’t have to go out and buy her a present.\”
It turned out to be the perfect gift. Goren has been working out at the In Training Fitness Center in Hollywood, and loving it, for the past five years.
Fit From N.Y. to L.A.
Batsheva Dreisinger
January 24, 2002
When I first moved to Los Angeles several months ago, I went to the gym every day. So, I discovered, does everyone else here.
The Novice
Amanda Hesser
October 26, 2000
It is called Pilates, and I had been hearing about it for some time but dismissed it as a faddish \’90s workout. It fit the mold perfectly: It had the requisite exotic name (pronounced puh-LAH-tees), you had to go to a gym to do it, and celebrities hailed it as a miracle workout that managed, with perfect \’90s perversity, to give shapely women the bodies of 12-year-old boys.
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