Each Tuesday, The
Citizen features a health professional from the
Finger Lakes community
in The Banks:
This week, we spotlight Karen Kalinowski, a fitness instructor.
Q. What is the most rewarding part of your job?
A. The way I feel afterwards. I feel energized, refreshed and can move more freely. I also am rewarded with knowing that I helped people in my class feel the same way.
Q. What is the most challenging?
A. Getting up and getting here. Once you are here, it's the easiest and most enjoyable workout you'll ever experience. It's in the water so it's soothing.
Q. Describe your ideal workout.
A. Taking a water class three times a week. It would start with water walking for 15 minutes as a warm up. Then working and stretching the main body muscle groups for 25 minutes and finish with a 10 minute endurance and strengthening component with a “noodle.”
Q. What advice do you have to stay healthy?
A. Keep moving and exercise in some form for one hour a day and do it at your own pace. Enjoy what you are doing even if it is weeding a flower garden or vacuuming. Get plenty of water, rest, eat a healthy diet and keep doctor's appointments. Lastly, give your worries to God.
Q. What's the most common misconception you hear about your class?
A. That people with health problems can't exercise. The water is exercise friendly. The participants, led by trained personnel, go through a sense of specifically designed exercises, which, with the aid of the waters buoyancy and resistance, can improve joint flexibility and relieve pain.
Q. What would be your dream job, and in what part of the world would it be?
A. I think I found it. At 45 years of age, I was hit with a form of rheumatoid arthritis. To be able to get the exercise I need and to also lead a class is the best thing that could have happened to me. I like central New York's weather, the people and the rich history.
Q. What would people who think they know you be most surprised to find out about you?
A. I guess firstly, that I wasn't always this positive. Also, that I wasn't always as conservative as I am now. I attended “Woodstock” with my parents and the original Broadway production of “Hair.” And, Richard Hoffmann, of WSYR (now WSTM), is my late father.
Finger Lakes community
in The Banks:
This week, we spotlight Karen Kalinowski, a fitness instructor.
Q. What is the most rewarding part of your job?
A. The way I feel afterwards. I feel energized, refreshed and can move more freely. I also am rewarded with knowing that I helped people in my class feel the same way.
Q. What is the most challenging?
A. Getting up and getting here. Once you are here, it's the easiest and most enjoyable workout you'll ever experience. It's in the water so it's soothing.
Q. Describe your ideal workout.
A. Taking a water class three times a week. It would start with water walking for 15 minutes as a warm up. Then working and stretching the main body muscle groups for 25 minutes and finish with a 10 minute endurance and strengthening component with a “noodle.”
Q. What advice do you have to stay healthy?
A. Keep moving and exercise in some form for one hour a day and do it at your own pace. Enjoy what you are doing even if it is weeding a flower garden or vacuuming. Get plenty of water, rest, eat a healthy diet and keep doctor's appointments. Lastly, give your worries to God.
Q. What's the most common misconception you hear about your class?
A. That people with health problems can't exercise. The water is exercise friendly. The participants, led by trained personnel, go through a sense of specifically designed exercises, which, with the aid of the waters buoyancy and resistance, can improve joint flexibility and relieve pain.
Q. What would be your dream job, and in what part of the world would it be?
A. I think I found it. At 45 years of age, I was hit with a form of rheumatoid arthritis. To be able to get the exercise I need and to also lead a class is the best thing that could have happened to me. I like central New York's weather, the people and the rich history.
Q. What would people who think they know you be most surprised to find out about you?
A. I guess firstly, that I wasn't always this positive. Also, that I wasn't always as conservative as I am now. I attended “Woodstock” with my parents and the original Broadway production of “Hair.” And, Richard Hoffmann, of WSYR (now WSTM), is my late father.
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