Roller Skating & Inline Skating for Fitness
SkateFit Program The following information will explain an effort to use outdoor roller skating and inline skating to help youth achieve the level of fitness prescribed by Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger and the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
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The California Outdoor Rollersports Association is an organization dedicated to promoting outdoor roller skating and inline skating as a fun, healthy recreational sport and a viable means of alternative transportation. C.O.R.A. works to strongly raise awareness of the positive aspects outdoor skating can bring into the lives of youth and adults and to give people a fun, healthy outdoor skating experience they can enjoy. |
| Now in 2008 C.O.R.A. stands solidly behind that same
commitment. We also recognize there is a real need to expose people to the social and
physical benefits skating can bring into their lives. Obesity is an ever growing problem
that can be measured by the waistlines of youth and adults alike. All across the age
spectrum, people are getting fatter. Serious diseases like heart disease, high blood
pressure and type 2 diabetes are on the rise. We must come up with innovative ways to help
combat these growing trends. We must find ways to get people out to work that body and
live a healthier lifestyle. Outdoor skating is a fantastic way to get a great workout while having a great time. The California Outdoor Rollersports Association would like to present a program for youth and adults in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where they get fit while having fun skating in the park.
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The C.O.R.A. Skatefit Program is designed to introduce
new skaters to outdoor fitness and recreational skating and to provide a fitness challenge
to other skaters looking to practice, train, lose weight or just have fun. Earning the CORA SkateFit Award means that you have put in time and effort to meet the challenge of personal fitness through skating. To earn the award a participant must at least skate minimum 50 hours; no more than 1 1/2 hours credited daily. |
| The SkateFit Program is based on the Presidential Sports
Award Program developed by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports.
The challenge of the program is to make a commitment to physical fitness through active
and regular participation in outdoor skating activities More info at http://www.presidentschallenge.org/ |
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People can also use skates to participate in Governor
Schwartzenegger's call to fitness. They can skate at least 30 minutes a day, three times a
week for a month. Skaters can accumulate those hours through training sessions and other
weekly skating adventures on Sundays in Golden Gate Park, on Wednesdays in the Embarcadero
and on Friday nights on the San Francisco Friday Night Skate. We would like to give youth and adults alike an opportunity to experience what a great sport and fun, healthy activity inline skating and roller skating can be and promote the concept of "recreational asphalt". |
| REGESTER NOW!!! HOW TO JOIN: 1) Go to http://www.PresidentsChallenge.org/login/register_individual.aspx
The program is free, but it's membership that makes the program possible. The membership fee for the California Outdoor Rollersports Association is $35.00 per year for adults and $20.00 per year for youth 17 and under. This membership gives skaters a discount on entry fees in CORA inline races for the 2008. These races include:
E-mail the GodFather and let's get rollin'!!!
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