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In the LOOP

GET FIT
Fort Lauderdale

By Arianne Glassman

Enjoy Yoga On the Lawn with Lisa Pumper, Every Saturday during the Oceanside Park Market

ne of the cornerstone program initiatives Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to Youth), the new
identified for The LOOP early on was fitness. Fort Lauderdale LO/OP FIT initiative was launched.
OWith our near 250 average days of sunshine a "Creating new healthy habits is what
year, coupled with Mother Natures' refreshing ocean FLIPANY does, and not just physical,
breezes and her widely recognized beneficial boost of but mental health as well," stated Lynne
Vitamin D, working out outdoors has long been a favorite Kunins, President and CEO of the Fort
activity of Fort Lauderdale's locals and visitors. However, Lauderdale-based nonprofit. "By
coming out of the height of the pandemic, and as more partnering with LO/OP FIT, and in turn
fitness professionals moved their personal training and reaching out to engage our own
small group workouts into parks and on to our beaches, sponsors, we can collectively present a
the opportunity to expand the City of Fort Lauderdale variety of programs where the public
Parks & Recreation's fitness programs and coordinate can meet, engage, feel safe and find
Lynne Junins
individual efforts revealed itself. new ways to get out and get moving."
Following two-months of interviewing local fitness instructors Some of the initial supporters FLIPANY “looped in” to the
and forming a partnership with one of South Florida's LO/OP FIT program include American Express, Target, and
leading Health and Wellness nonprofits, FLIPANY (Florida Ocean Spray. Through their funding support, programming

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