Treadmill workout raises heart rates and money for Y's Strong Kids (Herald & Review)

DECATUR - It takes a generous community to help raise strong kids. That is why Jeana Shroyer volunteered to run on a treadmill Friday morning. Shroyer, a board member at the Decatur Family YMCA, reeled off five miles in one hour.

China's new prosperity fuels fitness craze (AP via Yahoo! News)

Several days a week, Wu Ruiyao hits the gym, where she sweats on a treadmill, tones her abs in a group exercise or stretches under the guidance of a personal trainer.

China's new prosperity fuels fitness craze (San Francisco Chronicle)

Several days a week, Wu Ruiyao hits the gym, where she sweats on a treadmill, tones her abs in a group exercise or stretches under the guidance of a personal trainer. The 90-minute workout is routine to Wu, a 36-year-old ad sales representative. But the...

China's new prosperity fuels fitness craze (The Charlotte Observer)

Several days a week, Wu Ruiyao hits the gym, where she sweats on a treadmill, tones her abs in a group exercise or stretches under the guidance of a personal trainer. The 90-minute workout is routine to Wu, a 36-year-old ad sales representative. But the surroundings - a four-story fitness club catering to different fitness levels and needs - would have been unimaginable just a decade ago. "When ...

Economic growth in China brings middle-class fitness concerns (International Herald Tribune)

Their lives transformed by strong economic growth, many Chinese are embracing creature comforts and lifestyle changes that once would have been denounced by Communists as bourgeois indulgences.