Getting Fit -- For Now ; New Year Inspires Many to Join Health Clubs, but Resolutions Often Fade

Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › September 15, 2004

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Full of good intentions and toting extra holiday pounds, couch potatoes stampede to health clubs every January looking for shapelier and healthier bodies.

Within months, many will return to old habits as remote controls again replace jump ropes.

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Getting Fit -- For Now ; New Year Inspires Many to Join Health Clubs, but Resolutions Often Fade

For now, however, no treadmill is available in the cardiovascular room. The weight rooms are no emptier.

The aerobics room is filled, too. Three rows of bodies lined 12 to 15 deep -- bouncing, running, jumping, crunching, kicking and sweating.

This is January, the start of the new year and the start of the New Year's resolutions to build better bodies and lose weight.

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