Tag: fitness

Common Health 1/15/14

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Winter Recreation and Fitness

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is Teens to Trails hoping to accomplish?
b) What activities does the Bureau of Parks and Lands offer for getting outdoor’s in the winter?
c) Why is it important to get outdoors in the winter?
d) What does it take to get young people to do outdoor physical activity in the winter?

Guests:
Mike Leighton, Manager Northern Region Parks
Bureau of Parks and Lands
106 Hogan Road, Suite 7 Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 941-4014 mike.leighton@maine.gov
Mckenzie Smith, Partnerships Coordinator Teens to Trails
98 Maine Street Brunswick ME 04011
( 207) 725-0800 mckenzie@teenstotrails.org www.teenstotrails.org

Common Health 5/15/13

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: Amy Browne & Joel Mann

Program Topic: Spring Fitness and Community Transformation

Key Discussion Points:
A) What is fitness?
B) What persona and community barriers are blocking us from being fit?
C) How does the Community Transformation Grant program address fitness?

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Donna Weigle, Director Mill Pond Health Clinic Swans Island, ME donna@swansisland.org
B) Sandie Dubay, Director Community Transformation Grant Healthy Acadia sandie@healthyacadia.org
C) Dawn Littlefield-Gordon, Community Transformation Grant Program Manager, Project Specialist, Priority Populations Maine Physical Activity & Nutrition Program dawn.littlefield@maine.gov

Common Health 12/15/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Winter Fitness

What is fit? How do we measure fitness? What indoors (and outdoors) activities help us stay fit?

Guests: Brittany Proulx, Personal Fitness Trainer & Sales Rep. at Cadillac Mountain Sports; Kim Crane, Zumba instructor, Ellsworth YMCA; Ben Pearson, active with “Take It Outside” and advocate for outdoor recreation.

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