RISE FITNESS + WELLNESS

As many of you might know, one component of the RISE Challenge, an eight-week wellness and fitness challenge, is Feed a Friend week. Normally this means cooking for your Challenge teammate over the course of a week. This year though, with precautions in place as well as a greater community need due to Covid, Challengers got creative. Instead of cooking for teammates, Challengers were encouraged to donate to the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry that week. "An anonymous RISE client and h

Even though Kathy Cabral had always been too self conscious for group fitness, thinking she wasn't in good enough shape, when she saw a friend post about RISE on social media in 2014, she decided to break out of her at-home workout routine and give it a try. Seven years later, Kathy is still finding the variety she needs at RISE. She has been attending in-person classes regularly since that first class 7 years ago and has done most of the RISE Challenges since 2016. "Starting

Avoiding a Spring Breakdown This year, maybe more than ever, many of us have been working hard to find a new normal and keep up the positive routines we've created - new and old. As many of us have also experienced, it can be easy to get sidetracked when life celebrations, holidays or even disappointments arise. With spring break approaching and a week filled with family fun ahead, whether in Glen Ellyn or on vacation, it would be easy to miss out on those healthy eating and

Hey RISERs! It's time again to congratulate one of our fellow RISERs, Kelley Weiss, as our March RISER of the Month. Intrigued by the variety of workouts and convenient early morning classes, Kelley decided to give RISE a try two and a half years ago when she moved to Glen Ellyn. Today, she continues to come to RISE, no longer just for workouts, but for so much more that it has brought to her daily life. "I love that the workouts continue to challenge me each week, but more i