Fitness Fun at Canfield's St. Michael's offers total body activities

CANFIELD

Fitness Fun lives up to its name as far as participants are concerned.

The total body workout class for women at St. Michael Church engages exercisers in warm-up, weight training, floor work, low-impact aerobics with s-t-r-e-t-c-h-ing and balancing and a cool-down period.

Marion Calpin, who leads the class, initiated the activity in the early 1990s at the church, where the group meets in the lower level of the parish center. Calpin, who retired as a guidance counselor in Boardman schools in 1993, said she became involved in exercises classes there and also taught them in the Boardman community education program.

Calpin said when she suggested it as an activity at the church, she had no idea it would be so successful. “I started out with a handful of people and it’s kept growing,” said Calpin, a member at St. Michael since 1990. Even Monday’s snowy weather conditions didn’t stop 18 participants from coming out. Attendance fluctuates between 20 and 25.

Sessions are at 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, year-round, and have a faithful following.

Read more about the program in Tuesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.