Fitness profile: Marilyn Pounder Reading Eagle When and why you began to exercise: I started Pilates 3 1/2 years ago and strength training 2 1/2 years ago to lose weight and counter the effects of a little arthritis. Type you do: Pilates and strength training at the Mifflin Senior Center. …

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Fitness profile: Marilyn Pounder – Reading Eagle

PHOENIXVILLE — Deb Highley began teaching aerobics 25 years ago, when she was 18 years old. She was hired by QVC 15 years ago to be a part time Pilates reformer model and she fell in love with the machine.

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Fitness instructor Highley brings a ‘pilate’ program to area

Everday Athlete Honolulu Star-Advertiser The 1977 Kailua High graduate was introduced to Pilates by a client 13 years ago. She teaches the STOTT method, which emphasizes breathing, core conditioning and body awareness as mind-body exercising, and places more emphasis on scapular stabilization …

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Everday Athlete – Honolulu Star-Advertiser

In a sign of the changing times, balance training, which includes yoga, Pilates, tai chi and exercise balls, came in at number 10. Two years ago it did not make the top 20.

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Confused about fitness regimens? Poll tracks trends

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Young foreigners head here Straits Times Pilates instructor Morven Macleod, from Scotland, came to Singapore about three years ago. She has worked and lived in New Zealand, Australia, … and more »

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Young foreigners head here – Straits Times

Beth Gardner left the corporate world behind 19 years ago when she and her family made Big Bear Valley home. She’s headed back to the life Oct. 1.

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The O.C. beckons to Beth Gardner

Twenty years ago during an afternoon in Manhattan, Eddie Parker slouched in the showroom of his ladies’ handbag business, uninspired and unfulfilled.

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Classes at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard

Editor’s Note: One in a continuing series. When Kim Chandler Vaccaro graduated from high school in Barrington, R.I., some 34 years ago, she had no idea that it was possible to study dance in college.

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A career in a series of movements – Head of Rider University’s dance program has filled her life teaching — and …

Three Arrows, a co-op in Putnam Valley, N.Y., was started nearly 75 years ago by socialists who used this endearing pitch: Cooperative living at proletarian prices.

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An Upstate N.Y. Co-op That Feels Like a Shtetl

I’m a beautiful multi- millionaire actress with a Pilates-sculpted body, the most copied hairdo in the world and a much cuter nose than I had 20 years ago. So why can’t I hold onto a man?

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Jennifer Aniston’s photo casebook: I’m rich, beautiful with fabulous hair…so why can’t I keep a man?