There’s no scarcity of activities on Go Red for Women day – a nationwide heart health call-to-arms. Programs throughout the Triad on Friday, Feb. 7 offered opportunities to get moving, motivated and educated.
For the fifth straight year, Cheryl Lindsay played host to arguably the area’s signature Go Red event, and this year it was grander than ever. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., the gymnasium at the Gateway YWCA was an emporium of heart health. Nursing students and health and beauty professionals offering screenings, tips and information flanked a sea of enthusiastic exercisers taking part in marathon Zumba sessions. Dining tables – with bright red tablecloths, of course – provided a place to enjoy fruit and other fresh, brightly-colored vittles.
On previous Go Red days, Lindsay’s Red H.E.A.R.R.T (Help Educate And Reduce Risk Today) health initiative has staged everything from fitness flash mobs at Hanes Mall to a Guinness World Records-setting exercise session with hundreds of school kids. Red H.E.A.R.R.T activities specifically for senior citizens were held for the first time this year. Dozens of them kicked off the day with line dancing and water aerobics. Specialty activities for kids and teens followed. The event culminated with an evening collage of activities for families and men and women of all ages.
“It is important to keep moving,” said Lindsay, who tries to avoid using the word exercise, as so many dread that verb.
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