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The fourteenth week of the Eighth Annual Greater Fall River Fitness Challenge  brought participants to Re-creation headquarters on April 18, 2015 for a workout led by Susan Eldridge of All Generations Fitness. Chef Jessica Williams of Creating Healthy Solutions started off the session by asking participants to write their answers to ten questions about their Challenge experience. Participants were then put through their paces both on their feet and on the mats.. Sponsored by Greater Fall River Re-creation, Partners for a Healthier Community, Saint Anne's Hospital, Southcoast Hospitals, the Challenge includes programs provided by All Generations Fitness, the Diabetes Association, Inc., Fitness Fusion, FitWorks, General Fitness. Greater Fall River Re-creation, TKO Fitness, and the Fall River YMCA. The Challenge offers low cost opportunities for those who live, work or attend school in the Greater Fall River Area. Click here for an 11-minute video of the Saturday event. Click here for photos of the Nutrition Challenge session that followed. Click here for photos of the thirteenth week of the Challenge. Call ReCreation at 508-679-0922 for more information or go to www.FallRiverFitnessChallenge.com

(Top row) Challenge participants are directed by  Chef Jessica Williams of Creating Healthy Solutions to get out the mats and to walk around the gym to ten different stations. (Row two) Participants write their answers to questions at each of the stations, including: 1) What is your favorite comfort food; 2) What will you do after the Challenge ends to maintain your healthy lifestyle?, and 3) What has changed most in you during this Challenge?. (Row three) Susan Eldridge of All Generations Fitness puts the group through a series of standing exercises. (Row four) Susan then has people hit the mats to do sit-ups and leg lifts. (Row five) Susan encourages high leg lifts while Jessica Garzulis hands out door prize tickets. (Bottom row) Participants go through a cool-down before finishing and listening to Jessica announce the prize winner.

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