Pewaukee company wins Fittest Execs Corporate Wellness Award (Small Business Times)

The workout routines used by the winners of the 2008 Small Business Times Fittest Execs competition run the gamut, ranging from spinning, weightlifting, walking, power-walking, swimming, biking, skiing, Pilates, aerobics, running, jogging, ballroom dancing, stretching, tennis, yoga, martial arts, volleyball, calisthenics, boxing, kickboxing and stair climbing to basketball.

Cut the cardio -- and drop more weight? (Orlando Sentinel)

Some health experts think strength training could have more benefits than cardio work. Amy Jones used to think of a strenuous workout as a long run on the treadmill. Then she joined her husband at CrossFit, a gym he belongs to that stresses Olympic-style weightlifting and other strength moves over cardio.

Former Minnesota Viking Mike Morris building a business from his passion: weightlifting (Pioneer Press)

Mike Morris doesn't take much seriously.

Bolingbrook cop sets weightlifting record (The Bolingbrook Sun)

Thursdays are light workouts for Dale Szymanski. He won't bench press more than 330 pounds.

Illinois recruit Griffey jumps off AAU carousel (The State Journal-Register)

Tyler Griffey charted his summer and decided early “that there’s just no way I can do it all.”

Coach injects new intensity into women's soccer program (The Ann Arbor News)

When the new University of Michigan women's soccer coach met his team for the first time, he introduced himself, joking that he was the guy who lost one game with the national team and got fired.

Another bad break for Hardies (Daily Herald)

There's snakebit and then there's snakebit times three. The Hardie triplets at Crystal Lake South definitely qualify for the latter.

IN BRIEF (The Providence Journal)

ADD play heads for Off-Broadway

Chara undergoes surgery on shoulder (Boston Globe)

Zdeno Chara had hoped his barking left shoulder would heal on its own. But because of concern the injury might flare up next season, the Bruins' captain underwent surgery Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital to repair a torn labrum. Team orthopedist Thomas Gill performed the procedure, which was deemed successful.

24 Hour Fitness Announces Partnership with Six U.S. Olympic Hopefuls for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)

24 Hour Fitness, the largest privately-owned U.S. fitness chain and the Official Fitness Center Sponsor of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, today announced that U.S. Olympians Kerri Walsh, Jeremy Wariner, Adam Wheeler and Brian Olson and U.S. Olympic hopefuls Alicia Sacramone and Adler Volmar have joined Team 24 Hour Fitness as they strive toward making the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team and medaling this ...

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