WHY GROUP HEALTH? MEMBERS SAY IT BEST
Extending Fitness Routine at Home and on the Road

Rita Ihly
Member

Recently Group Health offered Group Health Clear Care® Medicare Advantage members access to Curves via its Silver Sneakers program. I am fortunate now to be able to combine my visits to Curves with my morning walk. Typically I walk 3 to 4 miles every morning and Curves in Bellingham is about a mile from where I live.

I can walk to Curves, do my routine, and then walk home via one of our parks and get 3 1/2 miles in the round trip. I go approximately 3 times a week (more in the spring and summer). I used to go to the "Y," but had to re-adjust the weights, and often wait for others to clear the machines.

At Curves, everyone keeps moving, no machine changes, and for me at 80 years old, it is challenging enough to add to my feeling of well-being. I have found that when I do exercises of this kind, I always get the benefit of feeling more energetic.

As an added benefit, I can get travel passes for Curves, so that when I took a week and a half trip to Anchorage to visit family, I was able to pick up my routine with my daughter-in-law Mary, who also is a Curves member. Just one more "bennie" of belonging to Curves, and no excuses when traveling!

While Group Health serves me so very well in my medical needs, I appreciate the opportunity to do my part to help keep my body in the best condition given the resources I have at my age. Thank you.

POSTED: 7/2/2009

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