By Staff on July 2, 2010
By Kara Chamberlain
Cooper-Young is making news. The newly coined CY Jabberwocky is a list of events in or about CY that other media found interesting and buzzed about.
House of Mews stays
John Giannini, founder and CEO of Memphis-based information and technology firm Service Assurance, made a long-term financial agreement with the House of Mews. The nonprofit [...]
Posted in Business, Goings On!, Music | Tagged Business, CY 4-Miler, events, First Congo, fitness, neighbors, Otherlands
By Jonathan McCarver on April 7, 2010
It’s kind of a dreary day and I wanted to ride my bike to work today but the forecast calls for rain all afternoon. Hopefully I can bring it to work tomorrow but until then I want to share a video that has continued to inspire me since I first saw it a few years [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged bicycle, bike, fitness, fun, health, inspiration, sports
By Jonathan McCarver on March 12, 2010
This post is pretty much just for me. I doubt anyone reading here would know the word parkour to be asking about it but odds are if you work in an office then someone has sent you a video of people doing crazy climbing and stunts. These are often labeled with something like free running, russian climbing, urban climbing, freestyle walking, parkour or crazy indian monkey man . These amazing videos will feature things that nearly no one can do because the people in them are the best in the world.
Posted in Blog | Tagged exercise, fitness, free running, fun, health, parkour
By Patrick on February 28, 2010
By Leah Bray Nichols
I found out the hard way that trying to do everything all at once can come with a price. Living in a state of stress leads not only to short-term tension, but it can also create long-term pain.
My constant anxiety as a 32-year-old undergraduate student led to chronic pain that kept me [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged Education, fitness, health
By Patrick on February 28, 2010
By Scott Lebowitz
What’s so great about cardio?
First of all, aerobic exercise (meaning with oxygen) as defined by The Academy of Sports Medicine is “any activity that uses large muscle groups, can be maintained continuously, and is rhythmic in nature.” Simply put, large muscles, like your legs, require large amounts of energy to work. When you [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged Education, fitness, health
By Patrick on January 26, 2010
Trying to stay fit? Out with the old and in with the New Year’s Resolutions
By Star Ritchey
There’s nothing better than a new year. A new year means we can start over, right? Right! The starting over couldn’t come at a better time—after Thanksgiving and Christmas, when most of us have let our diet go a [...]
Posted in Health | Tagged fitness, food, health
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