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YMCA workshop to explain heart rate monitors/healthy hearts

Celebrate Heart Health Month by making sure your heart is as healthy as it can be by attending a workshop at the Greater LaGrange YMCA at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the YMCA, 1100 E. 31st St., La Grange Park.Linda Wilkinson, a personal trainer and Commit-to-be-Fit coach at the YMCA, will discuss the importance of a healthy heart, how to exercise to hit your maximum heart rate and how exercise can improve your heart as an organ.She also will discuss and show participants how to use a heart rate monitor.Further information is available by calling the YMCA at 708-352-7600.

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