Parents can establish good exercise habits with their kids

It's more important now than ever to instill good exercise and nutrition habits into children at a young age, area health and fitness experts agree.

Review: 'Nike+ Kinect,' 'Your Shape' sweat it out

Why wait to work out, or even leave your living room, when you can get your heart rate up at home with these recently released fitness games?

Fitness video games offer grown-up workouts, family fun

With many new game system consoles and video games making their way into homes in the region over the holidays, you may have the makings of a good workout sitting right in your entertainment cabinet.

Cold Weather Fitness: How to stay active in the winter

The weather outside may have you running to hide under the covers, but exercising in the winter is necessary for good health. You can even have fun while doing it.

Trainer is proof a healthy lifestyle can extend life

Personal trainer Tryemoore Kiger-Yount enjoys helping clients get in shape and stay active.

Personal trainer aims to make clients fit and healthy

Chad Leader helps others to be fit and healthy at Leader 1 Fitness in Crown Point.

Clemens trial selecting jury; judge raps Hill

WASHINGTON | Roger Clemens' perjury trial opened Wednesday with both sides raising the prospect of calling a roster of former baseball stars as witnesses and the judge angrily criticizing Congress for withholding an audiotape of Clemens' deposition at the heart of the case.

How to talk with your trainer

Around the Waist

AROUND THE WAIST - - A pumpkin dressed as a physical trainer is one of the decorated pumpkins on display this week for Halloween at Fitness Pointe gym in Munster.

Former Merrillville and Northern Illinois basketball star T.J. Lux

T.J. Lux, former basketball star at Merrillville and Northern Illinois, stands in his training room at "dlux Evolutionary Personal Training" in Crown Point. He will be inducted into the Northern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday.