Experience Momentum & Verdant Health Want to get you off the Couch and onto the Bridge...

Experience Momentum, Lynnwood’s unique holistic source for fitness, nutrition, physical therapy and more, is encouraging area citizens to get up and move! Today, Experience Momentum, in a joint venture with the Verdant Health Commission, announces its FREE eight-week ‘Couch to 8k’ training program.

Whether physically active or not, an active runner or just considering making exercise a part of your life, this program is designed to help everyone, at all fitness levels, to get off the couch and get active.

Led by Shanon Tysland, owner of Experience Momentum, this FREE program will focus on training – in a very doable, phased manner. The program will train and educate participants in order to get them ready for Seattle’s annual Beat the Bridge Walk/Run, May 17, 2015 benefiting diabetes research.

Open to the public, the Couch to 8K Training Program will include:

· Five Tuesday evening workshops covering the following topics:

o What to expect and how to design your walk/jog program (3/17)

o Nutrition to fuel your body (3/31)

o Injury prevention (4/14)

o Managing the mental aspect of it all (4/28)

o Making fitness a lifestyle (5/12)

· Saturday Group Walk/Run Training Sessions with physical therapist Shanon Tysland

· Participation with “Team Verdant” in the Beat the Bridge Walk/Run

· Celebration Party!!

The Tuesday Workshops will be at the Verdant Community Wellness Center, located at 4710 196th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036. The Saturday Group Run/Walk Training Sessions will be held at Experience Momentum, located at 4030 Alderwood Mall Blvd., Lynnwood, WA 98036. Participation in the Couch to 8K Training Program is free and registration is required. Additional details are available at verdanthealth.org/events/event/verdants-couch-to-8k-training-program.