<p> More than one third of all Americans are obese, causing a myriad of health ailments that put excessive strains upon the U.S. healthcare system. It is estimated that medical costs attributed to these health complications such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes, are nearly $150 billion dollars. These statistics, along with the increasing amount of older adults due to the aging Baby Boomer generation, will only continue to increase these costs. Fitness initiatives are instrumental in lowering the rates of obesity and increasing overall health and wellness for these individuals. </p><p> Long Beach Mobile Fitness, LLC will provide on-site athletic training services to assisted living communities and business districts that provide adapted CrossFit techniques, along with other athletic training programming to clients within the City of Long Beach and the surrounding areas. Low start-up and monthly costs, along with the ease of transporting a mobile gym facility, allows Long Beach Mobile Fitness, LLC the flexibility to provide fitness programming to a wide range of clientele with ease.</p><p>

<p> The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between green environments and resilience in older adults. It had two aims: 1) to explore the effect of a reflective garden walking program on resilience and three of its related concepts&mdash; perceived stress, personal growth initiative, and quality of life&mdash;in older adults, and 2) to explore the resilience patterns of older adults engaging in the reflective garden walking intervention. A parallel mixed method design using a quasi-experimental quantitative and a descriptive exploratory qualitative approach was used. Participants engaged in a six week reflective garden walking program. By the end of the program, resilience levels exhibited a slight increase and perceived stress levels a decrease. The qualitative data supported some beneficial effects of the reflective garden walking program, but also indicated that much of the participants&rsquo; experience of resilience may have been related to the rich social and nature-filled environment in which already they lived. Patterns of resilience that appeared in the data were <i>maintaining a positive attitude, belief in one&rsquo;s self in the face of one&rsquo;s vulnerabilities, woven into the social fabric, purpose and meaning, personal strength, and communities for growing older</i></p>

<p> The level of encouragement provided to female African American breast cancer survivors post-diagnosis by their medical providers to engage in physical activity and the amount of their current physical activity levels was investigated. Six female San Francisco Bay Area breast cancer survivors were interviewed to determine their levels of physical activity pre and post diagnosis and the level of encouragement they received from their medical providers to engage in physical activity.</p>

<p> African American women have the highest obesity rate of all groups in the United States. An increase in physical activity is recommended to decrease the risk of obesity associated diseases and premature death. To combat these risks, workplace wellness programs are increasingly being used to increase the physical activity levels of employees. HealthyLife Gym, LLC is a workplace wellness program that collaborates with local small businesses in Inglewood, CA to provide their employees with discounted gym memberships. This women-only gym strives to increase the physical activity levels of African American obese employees between the ages of 35&ndash;64. Religion plays an important part in the lives of African American women so the unique collaboration between the gym and faith-based organizations provides an additional source of social support and motivation for the women to sustain increased levels of physical activity.</p><p>