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USTA Fall Tournament Season Begins
The USTA fall season is upon us. The New Rochelle Racquet Club, Westchester’s premier indoor tennis facility, will be hosting a number of USTA Tournaments throughout the fall season (the fall schedule can be viewed here). If you’d like to participate in the tournament, you can contact brian@nrrc.us. As a courtesy, all required USTA entry fees…
Read MoreThe Rock Club’s New Head Route Setter
The Rock Club is proud to announce that we have a new head route setter, Brendan Chin. Brendan brings years of experience to rock climbing and route setting. Brendan spent time growing up in both Connecticut and Vermont, and has always loved the outdoors. It wasn’t until he moved to Colorado that he discovered climbing,…
Read MorePine Brook Fitness Named Best of Westchester 2016
Every year, the editors of Westchester Magazine scour the community to find the best businesses that Westchester has to offer to compile the highly-anticipated Best of Westchester issue. We are proud to announce that Pine Brook Fitness has been selected as the Best Multi-Sport Family Fitness Facility in Westchester for 2016! We are so proud…
Read MoreMusic and Exercise
The Magical Feel Good Elixir or a healthy PED Mankind has always been fascinated by music. From the first Neanderthal beating a drum (or another caveman’s head) to soldiers keeping time marching into battle or as a way to celebrate a blessed event, music is ingrained in our culture. We have all been moved by…
Read MoreTeam Rock – Regional Champs!
The Regional Championship held at The Rock Club last Saturday was a blast! 141 climbers, 7 to 18 years old from all over New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Western Massachusetts tried their hardest on three, nails-hard championship climbs. Athletes who qualified in the top ten in their categories earned an invitation to the New…
Read MoreWalking: Add Some Extra Steps to your Day
The City of New Rochelle will celebrate the City’s first Walk to Work Day, tomorrow, April 29th. Come by the pop-up expo on the corner of North and Huguenot from 7am-9:30am for a goody bag from local businesses including The Studios at Pine Brook Fitness! Some of our fitness experts will be there to share…
Read MoreSteel Strength Fitness Program
Steel Strength in an innovative training program developed by the fitness experts at Pine Brook Fitness that uses a combination of steel club and sledgehammer training. Steel Strength training improves coordination and challenges your core all while strengthening the body utilizing 3 dimensional movement patterns. Inspired by warriors, Steel Strength utilizes two distinct fitness tools,…
Read MoreIntroducing Aut To Be Fit
In honor of Autism Awareness Month, Pine Brook Fitness has partnered with Priscilla Bill, mom of two children with one on the spectrum, to launch a program dedicated to providing children with autism a structured fitness program. Aut To Be Fit is a 45-minute class for children with autism that will involve music, singing, obstacle…
Read MoreWeight Training: Get the Facts
There have always been stereotypes associated with weight training and everyone seems to have an opinion on the topic that it can be difficult to know what to believe. To break through the chatter and get down to the truth about weight lifting, our Fitness Director, Steve DiDio, shares his thoughts on the most commonly…
Read MoreBuild Your Base: Traversing
By Matt Raue Ever wonder what those monkey-children on TeamRock are doing when they climb from side to side on the walls before practice? Don’t we climb up in this weird activity, sport, meditation, effort we call climbing? Those gifted youngsters are Traversing. Put simply, traversing is the act of climbing across. Whether scratching on…
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