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If you find yourself missing out on the latest health and fitness news, tips, and insight from the club - connect to the club's social media pages.
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Intro to BODYPUMP!
The BODYPUMP® classes are proving to become more and more popular! BODYPUMP® can increase your lean muscle mass by improving muscle strength and endurance. The results and rate of improvement depends on your initial fitness level, how often you do the class and of course how hard you work in the class. BODYPUMP® uses high repetitions which recruits mostly type 1 muscle fibers often known as slow twitch or slow oxidative fibers that are used during aerobic and endurance activities. This is the main reason why overall hypertrophy from BodyPump® is lower when compared to high-resistance, low repetition training. So in the end, you will achieve that lean tone muscle you’ve been desiring rather than bulk up!!
If you are interested in trying the class or want to make the most of your workout while in class, try our Intro to BODYPUMP® Techinuque classes. These classes will focus on teaching you the basic moves that are used in class and how to work to your potential in order to get your end results, that lean toned muscle!
Intro to BODYPUMP® Technique classes:
March 10th at 5:15pm
March 16th at 8:30am
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Diving Clinic
This specialty class is designed to introduce and/or improve a swimmers skill level with the use of starting blocks. If you are an avid swimmer looking to improve your race starts, or a swimmer who is just looking to explore more faucets of swimming - this is a great class to attend.
March 13th
6:30-7:30pm
$20 per person
Members and non-members are welcome. This class size requires a minimum of 10 participants, and a maximum of 30 participants.
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Need a Post Workout Boost?
Cool down and recharge your body after a hard workout with one of the SAC café’s delicious smoothies. You can choose from fresh fruit smoothies, protein packed smoothies, or one of our flavor packed dairy free Jet smoothies in assorted flavors.
ORIGINAL SMOOTHIE
A splash of apple juice, fresh ripe strawberries, banana, a scoop of yogurt, and a dab of honey (optional).
PEANUT BUTTER SMOOTHIE
Your choice of milk, peanut butter, banana, and a scoop of yogurt make this smoothie a great source of protein.
JET SMOOTHIE
A combination of green tea, real fruit puree, loaded with antioxidants and vitamin C. This fat free, preservative free, and dairy free smoothie is great for the health conscious customer. Flavors includes:
Wildberry Blast
Mango Mania
Strawberry/Banana
Need a little extra protein in your diet? Add a scoop of Protein Powder to any one our smoothies.
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Spring Break Kid’s Camp!
If your searching for a way to entertain the kids while they are on Spring Break look no further! The SAC is offering a 5-day camp that your children will be talking about for days to come. We will be visiting the Children’s Museum, Pacific Science Center, local swimming pool, movie theater, and more. You can bring your child’s friends along... they are welcome too. This is a can’t miss and space is sure to fill up so sign up at the front desk today!
March 29th-April 2nd
9:30am- 3:30pm
Members: $165+tax (per child)
Non-Members: $185+tax (per child)
This camp is for ages 4-12. Must have a minimum of 6 sign-ups to run this camp. Sign-up and cancellation deadline is March 22nd. If you fail to cancel by this date your account will be charged.
Contact Roni Olson for more information.
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Kid’s Court in March
Parent’s Night Out!
March 5th & 19th
6:00-10:00pm
Kid’s Movie Night!
March 12th & 26th
6:00-8:00pm
Mom/Dad’s Afternoon Out!
March 9th & 23rd
3:30-6:30pm
Mom/Dad’s Morning Out!
March 3rd & 17th
9:00am- 12:00pm
SAC to the Rescue
Monday-Friday
8:00am-8:00pm
Saturday & Sunday
8:00am-12:00pm
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UW Squash Team Challenges Northgate Players, But Comes Up Short
 The University of Washington undergraduate squash team, preparing for the heart of their season and upcoming trips to Cal and Yale, challenged some of the players at the Seattle Athletic Club Northgate to a Sunday scrimmage on January 31. The match gave the players at the club a chance to see how a college match works, with a formal pre-match lineup, introductions, and pleasantries. Match after match, the players from the club turned up the heat and took the match win from the Huskies by a score of 7-3 while family and friends of both groups cheered on the players.
The teams were remarkably well matched with three of the matches going to five games and two others going to four games. The battle for the number one spot pitted ever-improving junior Rob Young from Portland against veteran player Jeff Evans. Evans won, 3-1, but had to work hard for it. At the other end of the ladder, #10 for UW, junior Brandi Conforth, gave Charlie Carosella all he could handle before Carosella pulled out the win, 3-2. In a match that showed how squash accommodates a variety of styles, 5'5" freshman Eugene Chau forced lanky 6'3" Anton Bozian to retrieve all over the court with Chau eventually winning 3-1. The day's closest match came at #7 where Steve Stevenson, a former Seattle junior now at UW, took the match over Greg Maass with a 12-10 victory in the fifth. Michael Greenleaf demonstrated that many years of play and cunning strategy can overcome incredible athleticism as he defeated swift and strong Husky Ryan Tyler, 3-1.
Everyone who played from the club wishes the best luck to the Husky team and welcomes them back anytime. Go Huskies!
If you are interested in playing Squash, contact Bruce Vinsonhaler to answer any questions you have.
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Stay Safe in the Water with Your Infant
Each Spring and Summer too many adults rush to save infants from drowning in backyard pools or bath tubs. Typically these traumatizing events increase when the weather gets warmer outside and activities in and around the water arise. Do not let this happen to you, your friends, or your family! Now is the time to prepare and prevent future water related accidents.
Early childhood water education is an important step to take when you have access to pools or family vacations that involve swimming. Our Parent-Tot classes are aimed to educate both parents and children while providing a comfortable, nurturing environment that accommodates learning water safety skills such as knowing how to roll over, float, glide, kick and reaching for safety or assistance.
Please join Brad Kickert, our new parent-tot instructor, each Saturday from 9:30-10:00am. For more information on Parent-Tot classes, or questions you may have about our swimming program, please contact Aquatics Director, Dan Lavin at 206-522-9400.
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Adding Power Moves to Your Workout
By Paul Nelson, Personal Trainer
As the new year resolutions slowly fade and your workouts don’t seem as relevent as when you started in January, it is time to ramp it up and try something new. Power equals strength multiplied by time. Therefore if we increase the speed of our lifts we increase our power output. This has many applications for life and when done correctly, can give you more benefit than any other exercise. These are advanced moves that incorporate muscular and cardiovascular strength and endurance into one activity. In essence this is exactly what is required to perform well in sports, and power moves connect that last piece of the puzzle between building strength and applying it in a real life situation.
This is great for those of you who want to look great and burn calories.
READ PAUL'S BLOG POST
If you need extra support incorporating these exercises into your routine, contact Paul Nelson to schedule a session.
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The Perfect Lunge
By Dana Hansen, Fitness Director
The lunge, is a common exercise to tone and build your legs and glutes, but are you doing it as effectively and as safely as you can? There are so many versions of a lunge, so let us talk about the basic stationary lunge. The stationary lunge exercise is a multi-joint functional exercise and should be performed that way. What I mean by a multi-joint functional exercise is that there is more than one joint moving at a time. With this particular exercise the hip, knee and ankle joints are all involved.
READ DANA'S BLOG POST ON THE PERFECT LUNGE
Any member of our excellent training staff can help you develop the perfect lunge, contact Dana Hansen to select the best trainer for you.
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Does Your Yoga Practice "Awaken" You?
By Shannon McCall, Yoga Instructor
The classical Yoga of Patanjali, an Indian sage who lived more than 2,000 years ago, has eight limbs, or aspects to the path:
Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama
Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi
The idea is that for yoga students to transform and reach their full potential, the need to practice all eight limbs is required. Additionally, each limb can contain all the other limbs, so students can practice all eight limbs within any one limb. It’s holographic.
READ MORE ABOUT THE YAMA LIMB
If you are interested in taking a Yoga class taught by Shannon, please review the Mind Body schedule to find a class that suites you.
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Paint 'N' Play Day
School’s Out for the day and we at Kid’s Court have declared it Paint 'N' Play Day. Drop your children off for a fun-filled afternoon of activites with other SAC kids. They’ll create bright and colorful art projects, play games, have a snack and swim with the staff. You can stay and work out or leave to have an afternoon to yourself. Childcare is available before and after the program for an additional charge. Don’t let your kids miss out on this fun day! Sign-up at the sports desk.
Friday, March 19th
1:00-5:00pm
Members: $38+tax (Sibling Discount $25+tax)
Non-Members: $55+tax
Contact Roni Olson with questions or for more information at 206-526-7664.
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New Hours! Parent’s Night Out
We have decided that we can’t fit all the fun of Parent’s Night Out in just 3 hours so we are extending the night to 4 hours starting March 5th! Your children will enjoy the same excellent care, exciting games, delicious dinner and fun filled night they’ve come accustomed to with a bonus hour at no additional charge.
New Hours: 6:00-10:00pm
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Parking at the Club
As a reminder, your membership to the club includes the use of the secured Delta Dental parking garage (located at the east end of the club). As club usage increases, it is more likely to guarantee a parking space in the garage than on the street. Members are allowed to park on the fifth and sixth floors, just be sure to get the weekly access code from the sports desk to enter the stairwell, elevator and raise the exit gate.
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