We begin with fitness, if getting in shape and losing weight are among your new years resolutions, youre not alone. You may need help reaching the goals. We have some new ways to get fit. Its this weeks cover story, exercise your options. Reporter it seems like there is a new fitness trend every other minute from hightech fitness gaming to aerial yoga. But really the old is new again. Aerobic activity, cross training, hiit and good old stair climbing all saw the biggest growth last year that according to the Sports Fitness Industry Association which surveys core fitness enthusiasts annually, those that say they work out at least 50 times a year this benefits big gym brands like crunch fitness, planet fitness, and anytime fitness one surprise though, boot camp style workouts fell out of favor a bit. This as barrys boot camp embarked on a big expansion last year orangetheory which could also be considered boot camp style is also expanding aggressively, as for the high priced boutique tre
Beach haven 62. Philadelphia 67. Reading and allentown both checking in at 53. Numbers are 510 degrees warmer than they were yesterday. Its all thanks to a breeze that developed last night ahead of a band of moisture that swung through last night. Youll see a lot of greens and yellows and reds out to the west. That should be passing to the north. Ive drawn an air ra the direction of movement with the next batch of rain. Most of the immediate philadelphia area should stay dry. So the call from accuweather for today is cloudy with some leftover morning drizzle and very, very mild with a high of 66 degrees. If thats not warm enough for you, were all the way up into the 70s tomorrow. How warm it will get around here and another big cooldown as we head into next weekend. Guys . Developing this morning, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of young people in north philadelphia leaving a teenager dead and a 12yearold hospitalized. Police are looking for the begunman who took gunman who took off af
We are going to hear from ian heating, High School Senior suffered us of your head injury, across game in the sophomore year. Despite his impressive recovery, later identified as his third head injury, left him with a limited ability to enjoy the activities Many High School students and classmates take for granted. His story should serve as a reminder youth sports injuries could have a devastating and lasting consequences. And we will also hear on this panel from brianna scoury, an olympic soccer cup champion, goalie force from the field after a career and traumatic brain injury. Chris struggle to overcome the cognitive, physical and psychological injuries illustrate even our sports heroes are vulnerable to the worst sports injuries. They should be commended for their courage in their recoveries and their willingness to testify on this critical issue. Dave brewerson, a member of the Chicago Bears tragically committed suicide just over three years ago. In doing so he shot himself in the
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Coaches and parents and kids and officials and everybody to get on the same page to help kids. If youre an administrator in a high school, your being asked a question on how youre making this favor for my kids, and we can answer that now. Thank you. We appreciate you being here, your it recognized for five minutes. Thank you very much. I am 42 years old. I served as a starting goalkeeper for the United States Womens National soccer team for the years of 1994 to 2008. During that time i helped to lead the team and winning to 11 old metals, in 1996 atlanta games and 2004 athens games, and late 173 International Games over 15 years for the United States. That is a record among female goalkeepers. In the summer of 1999, my 20 amazing teammates and i captured the hearts of america by beating china in a healthy kick shootout alive in front of 90,000 screaming fans at the rose bowl in pasadena, california. I was the one that made the single safe save before she took off her shirt. I will that