Embracing alternative sports key to girls’ fitness  The Telegraph

A rise in women taking up non-traditional sports will place further pressure on the Government to modernise and prioritise physical education in the school …

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AMY OLIVER: Is pole dancing the new Pilates? | Daily Mail Online
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It is 3.30pm on a grey, weekday. Other mums are gathering at the school gate or scoping the freezer aisle, but AMY OLIVER is halfway up a 10ft metal pole, …

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Is pole dancing the new Pilates? Celebrity fitness fans swear by it, even middle class mums are giving it a whirl
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It is 3.30pm on a grey, weekday. Other mums are gathering at the school gate or scoping the freezer aisle, but I am halfway up a 10ft metal pole, clinging on for grim life. Every sinew is screaming 'stop', my hands are burning and other parts of me are

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Abigail Memmesheimer, foreground, a student at Our Lady Queen of Peace School, New Dorp, warms up with a stretch before her Pilates class in the school gym.Marylee Montalvo STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Second-graders at Our Lady Queen of Peace School have…

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Pilates offered Wednesdays

DANBURY TOWNSHIP — Danbury Local Schools, through its Community Education program, will offer Pilates at 6 p.m. Wednesdays in Room 21 beginning today. This class was held Thursday evenings for a few weeks in March, but has returned to Wednesdays for the remainder of the school year.

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Try new fitness classes for free at GetFit! 2012
Austin 360 (blog)
15, you can try an array of fitness and Pilates classes offered at Ballet Austin's Butler Community School — for free. GetFit! 2012 is scheduled for 3-6:30 pm at the school, 501 West Third Street. And don't worry. Dancing isn't required.

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McEntire Pilates' Giving Back Program Meets the Needs of McGregor Students
PR.com (press release)
Rochester, MI, March 18, 2011 –(PR.com)– The students of Rochester's McGregor Elementary School can focus on learning while the thoughtful donors of McEntire Pilates tend to their many needs throughout the school year.

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Sandburg expands fitness center

Starting this school year, Sandburg Middle School students will have a new, larger fitness center to use. Sandburg expanded its fitness center on the lower level of the school and purchased three new treadmills, eight stationary bicycles, an elliptical machine and a stair stepper. Combined with the existing equipment, the school has a total of 37 pieces of exercise equipment.

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Patriot Day: The Lewisburg High Band Boosters are sponsoring Patriot Day today at the school, 1755 Craft Road in Olive Branch.

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DeSoto County Bulletin board for May 15, 2010

RIDGEWOOD Twenty-first century health and wellness is essential to a proper education, say instructors in the school district who are bucking a possible move by Governor Christie’s administration to relax physical education requirements.

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