Join the Bellingham Athletic Club team this summer for the Adventure Zone Summer Camp. It will include a day at the Birch Bay Waterslides, bowling over at Park Bowl, a trip to Trampoline Zone, and getting active around the BAC!
When: July 16th – 20th
Time: 10:30AM – 3:30PM
Cost* : $130 for members – $140 for Child-of-member – $150 for Non-members
* pricing does not include the extra activities. The cost of Birch Bay Waterslides, bowling, and Trampoline Zone will be added to the total if the child wishes to participate in these activities If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the front desk at (360) 676-1800. You are welcome to register over the phone or in person. We’ll see you this summer, enjoy the wonderful weather out there!
For more information, contact Brenna Guthrie, Kid’s Club Supervisor.
Check out Pickleball!
Looking for a Court Sport to try in the Summertime? Check out Pickleball!
When: Monday – Friday from 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. or Sunday from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Where: Cordata Club, located in the Basketball Gym
Cost: Nothing! Just come prepared with “court shoes” AKA non-scuffing athletic shoes
Please contact our Club Pro Wanda Collins with any questions or concerns!
Meet Jennifer Dyrland
For the last 12 years I have enjoyed teaching Pilates at the Bellingham Athletic Club. Maintaining my Pilates certification through Power Pilates over the years has helped me fine-tune workouts and keep members challenged. Following several foot and ankle injuries, I needed a non-impact method to build and increase my core strength. I quickly became enamored with Pilates. Working with members to strengthen their abs, back, and increase flexibility has been great fun! Come check out a class! This year I will celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary- I meet my husband Erik while attending graduate school at WWU. We have two amazing kids and have recently become empty-nesters. Outside of the BAC I enjoy baking, hiking, snowshoeing, traveling, gardening, spending time with friends and volunteering.
Meet Heather Calloway
Heather has been a certified group fitness instructor at BAC since 1998. She teaches a variety of classes including Insanity, Total Body Conditioning, Power Pump and RIPPED. When not teaching, Heather is full-time paralegal and her and her husband Lance try their best to keep up with their very busy 9-year-old son, Hunter. She also enjoys running, hiking, working in her yard and spending time with friends and family. Come and check out one of Heather’s early morning classes at the Cordata club!
Rethink the Pool!
What do you normally think of when you hear of resistance training? Maybe using Dumbbells, Barbells, Medicine Balls, Kettlebells, or Weight Stack Machines? What about water? Water can also be used as a form of resistance training! Just ask people who have done Aqua Exercise and Hydro Therapy.
So what type of benefit can you achieve from doing resistance exercise in the water? For starters, water affords you smaller increments of resistance due to the negating of gravity and by the amount of force you put against the water. The slower you move thru the water the less drag and thus the lower amount of resistance. Whereas the faster you move thru the water the more drag and resistance you receive. This allows you to incremental increase or decrease the amount of resistance you receive in any given movement.
Performing movements in the water tend to be smoother and easier on the joints. You also have the benefit of the pressure of the water and the temperature which gives assistance to your lymphatic and circulatory system as well as helping with any inflammation.
Think of a movement that you can perform with one of the standard resistance training tools and you can just about do every single one in the water. Here at BAC, we have a variety of water resistance pieces of equipment that you can utilize in the water. From dumbbells to kickboards, to noodles. Not only can we do traditional type formats that you may be used to with traditional resistance equipment but we can also do the popular HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) workouts in the water!
Speedo, with its’ long history of swimwear, is now merchandising their Speedo Fit line of equipment and are teaming up with the professionals at EXOS, a nationally renowned sports performance facility in Tempe AZ, to put together an entire program in the water. YouTube has a number of videos using their products.
If you are interested in seeing how water can fit into your resistance routine please contact one of our personal training staff or check out one of our popular Aqua Aerobics Classes.
Meet Celine Mauger
Celine Mauger teaches Zumba® Fitness classes at the Cordata location every Wednesday and Friday. She strongly believes that exercising can and should be fun and enjoyable and always strives to make every class a party. Her goal is to make her routines easy to follow so that everyone moves the whole time and gets a great cardio workout. She also shows modifications throughout the class for lower impact steps. Celine holds her Group Exercise Instructor Certification through the Athletics and Fitness Association of America. Only three rules apply in Celine’s Zumba® classes: Keep moving, have fun, and smile!
In her personal life, she likes to spend time with her family: her husband Michael, with whom she moved from France 12 years ago, and their three children.
Shoulder and Neck Care Workshop
Shoulder and Neck Care Workshop: Movements for Mobility and Strength
Where: Cordata Studio, BAC
When: June 16, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Cost: $25 for members – $35 for non-members
Instructor: Michal Retter
We often limit ourselves to repetitive common patterns rather than going through the full range of available motion in our neck and shoulders. Poor movement patterns can cause repetitive damage to the tissues in our shoulders even from simply using it in normal everyday activities (desk work, computer work, gardening work, construction work to name a few).
Particular causes of injuries can range from the obvious (trauma from a fall) to the more intricate (nerve irritation decreasing muscle strength, leading to improper joint positioning). Whether it is specific muscle weakness, or flexibility problems (both too much and too little) at muscles, ligaments, and within the joint itself, these all lead to impaired movement patterns (and pain).
In this mini-workshop we will explore tips and tactics for improving our shoulder flexibility, motion and strength.
The intention is to open our shoulders into new positions that allow a freer movement pattern. These improved motions can decrease stress to irritated tissues and also make our chosen recreational activities/exercise smoother and easier to perform.
Bring a notepad to jot down ideas and create your own shoulder recovery routine!
We will also engage in neck exercises that will make our neck muscles stronger. In this way, we are less likely to suffer a cervical sprain/strain. These exercises can prevent arthritis in the neck and degeneration in the neck joints from progressing.
You will learn: Neck Pain Relief, to Stretch the neck muscles, to restore the full range of motion in the neck and or maintain mobility if you have arthritis/ degeneration of the cervical spine, decrease neck stiffness, and prevent neck pain and upper back pain at the end of the day when you engage the computer all day, or garden or any other repetitive activity.
Rollga foam rolling hip, back, neck
Rollga foam rolling hip, back, neck series:
Hip bridge for tissue around sacral spine.
Piriformis for tissue release in the hip rotators.
Mid-back for tissue release between the shoulder blades.
Neck for tissue release for the cervical spine.
10 to 20 rolls of each position. Pain should be less than a 4 on a scale of 1-10 (1 being no pain 10 being intense pain). These exercises can be performed on a daily basis.
The Matrix S-Drive Treadmill
“A Different Kind of Push-Pull!”
– Self-Powered
– 7% fixed grade
– Front push bar for sled push
– Sled brake with eight settings provides a true-to-life weighted sled pushing experience
– Parachute brake with 11 settings gives users the feel of real parachute resistance
– Both BAC locations
Stop by both clubs to give it a try! For instruction and demonstration please talk to one of the BAC Training Staff!
Meet Lynnette Reilly
I am Lynnette Reilly and have a passion for personal training, health and wellness. I am excited to inspire and motivate you to reach whatever fitness goals you are looking to achieve. I want to enable you to move more freely through mobility, stability, strength, and flexibility.
As a youth I was on many different athletic teams, but truly began my own fitness journey after the birth of my three daughters. I felt empowered as a woman and realized how much my body was physically capable of. I found great enjoyment and a feeling of success as I began to lift weights, grow my strength, and be able to both push and pull my own body weight. Watching my own body physically change and being able to perform physical tasks with more ease was such a great feeling of achievement. Fitness has provided a sense of great accomplishment and I love helping others find that same connection with strength. It has also been an amazing outlet in giving me the energy and endurance I have needed in my daily life. I have since completed multiple races and events such as the Spartan, the Tough Mudder and the Warrior Dash. I continue to strive toward becoming a more fit individual each year.
I love to make the gym everyone’s playground. As a Functional Movement Specialist, I take my clients through a series of assessments. This allows me to prescribe the exercises that will help you move more efficiently doing the things you love the most. Whether your goals involve weight loss, strengthening, endurance or pain management. I can find the solution to meet your need. No matter what age or gender, no matter what weaknesses or inhibitions you have, I can help. Let’s begin this journey together.