With a new Healthy U class now under way, the Healthy Living Action Group is looking to its “Couch to 5K” program to encourage people to become more fit and active.
An offshoot of Healthy U, the Couch to 5K (C25K) program is a three-tiered, eight-week training course “designed to prepare participants to walk, jog or run a 5K, or 3.1 miles,” according to Sarah Nail, community outreach coordinator at Bothwell Regional Health Center and chairwoman of HLAG, which is responsible for Healthy U.
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