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The Big Band Sound Orchestra will perform a free concert at Dogwood Park Sept. 5.
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Join us for a free Tai Chi class in Dogwood Park Sept. 6. We also have lunch and evening Tai Chi classes, as well as a new Chair Tai Chi offering.
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Cookeville's annual Main Street festival is Sept. 9 & 10, with a 5-mile race scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 10.
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Stroll through the tales of our town at the Cookeville Cemetery Walk on Sept. 17.
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The Mountain Bike Trail in Cane Creek Park is now open!
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Fitness Instructor Lisa Maxwell was selected as a 2016 Women's Health Action Hero.
Passion for fitness finds national audience
It is no secret. If you attend one of Lisa Maxwell’s Spin classes at the Cane Creek Recreation Center, it is easy to see that she has energy and passion to spare when it comes to health and fitness.
Women’s Health Magazine recognized Maxwell’s enthusiasm and selected her as a 2016 Women’s Health Action Hero.
“It is really all about being a community influencer and sharing the wealth of health with others,” she said.
Maxwell, who gets excited about all things related to healthy living, saw the call for Community Action Heroes in the magazine and decided to send in her information, describing all of the local fitness classes she teaches as well as the blog she shares with her daughter Salea (who also teaches fitness classes for Leisure Services).
“We share motivational quotes, nutrition information, our workouts and favorite exercises, just whatever we are up to,” she said. “Being an Action Hero will allow us to share that information with an even bigger audience.”
Her Action Hero status does come with some responsibility. Maxwell recently partnered with another local Action Hero, Jana Hare, to host a fun run benefitting Run 10 Feed 10, an organization that works to fight hunger.
“They are doing great work to help provide meals to families in communities all over,” Maxwell said.
She will be doing other work as an Action Hero too, trying out new health and fitness products, sharing ideas about healthy lifestyle choices and encouraging others.
“It is all about being healthy and being your best, fit self,” she said. “We are all in this together.”
She has no plans of slowing down her busy schedule either, which includes teaching classes not only with Leisure Services but also at the local YMCA and Absolute Fitness, as well as her physical education classes at Tennessee Tech.
“The people who come to my classes are my friends,” she said. “They inspire me and I hope I do the same for them.”
To learn more about the Women’s Health Action Hero program and to see Maxwell’s profile, visit http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/action-heroes.
Or, come see Lisa for one of her classes at the Recreation Center. She teaches Spin at 8:15 on Tuesday mornings!
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