Go Fetch Fitness

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We are enjoying a great start to Go~Fetch~Fitness this year! Week one was absolutely packed with information for all of us - two legged and four!! On day one we calculated the daily energy requirement for each dog. This helped our owners determine the exact amount to feed their pets according to their body condition scores and their activity level. We will be increasing our walking time by five minutes each week. For the first week we started out at 20 minutes with about five minutes of warm up stretching before the walk.

On day 2 we special guest who volunteered to join us from Des Moines! Nicole Schumate is a representative from the Delta Society. She explained that the Delta Society helps prepare pets to become service dogs. These service dogs help in nursing homes, hospitals, physical therapy and in school reading programs. This is a national society and because of this status, when a pet becomes a Delta Society dog, the dog is insured with liability insurance through the Delta Society when they are performing their service activities.
Tyson Burton was our special guest on day 3 and continued to day 4. Tyson is the General Manager of our local Snap Fitness gym. Tyson has a Masters Degree in exercise science and has worked with athletes at all levels, from high school through the professional level! We are so lucky to have him with us as he and his associate calculated the body composition scores for all of our participants and took us step by step through a discussion of the Five Elements of Fitness: Nutrition, Cardiovascular Fitness, Supplementation, Resistance Training, and Personal Assistance.