{"id":230266,"date":"2016-06-20T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=230266"},"modified":"2016-06-20T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T20:05:48","slug":"personal-trainers-plant-seed-healthy-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/personal-trainers-plant-seed-healthy-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal trainers plant seed for healthy lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230267\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Golds-Gym-pix-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-230267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Golds-Gym-pix-copy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Gold&#039;s Gym Saipan&#039;s personal trainers Aaron Tomokane and Valerie De Mesa, center back, pose with participants of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library 10th Annual Summer Program last Thursday where they served as special guest presenters. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-230267\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan&#8217;s personal trainers Aaron Tomokane and Valerie De Mesa, center back, pose with participants of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library 10th Annual Summer Program last Thursday where they served as special guest presenters. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aaron Tomokane and Valerie De Mesa, Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan&#8217;s personal trainers, visited the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library as special guest presenters for the 10th Annual JKPL Summer Program this past Thursday, June 16. <\/p>\n<p>Seventy-four youngsters from 6 to 8 years old attended the morning session and 83 youth 9 to 12 years old attended the afternoon session. Tomokane and De Mesa shared information about health, fitness, and nutrition to the energetic youth who are attending the summer program.  <\/p>\n<p>Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan general manager Tyce Mister shared, &#8220;I hope that meeting our personal trainers plants a seed in all of the youth attending the summer program to maintain a healthy lifestyle of fitness and proper nutrition.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the participants were able to be active and participate in dynamic stretching, functional fitness, core stability and agility training. De Mesa stated, &#8220;This was my first time working with so many children; it was fun! The participants were excited to do the activities and I enjoyed their smiles and laughter.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Celina Foreman, JKPL Outreach coordinator, commented, &#8220;It was a great experience for the kids and volunteers.  It was both fun and very educational. The children enjoyed and loved the presentation, most especially the fitness and agility training.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Both personal trainers are certified under the National Academy of Sports Medicine and have regular clients as well as teach classes at Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan. If you would like more information about gym memberships and\/or personal training please contact Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan at (670) 233-4000 or visit them on Facebook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Tomokane and Valerie De Mesa, Gold&#8217;s Gym Saipan&#8217;s personal trainers, visited the Joeten-Kiyu Public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":230267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10279,12091,12092,12093],"class_list":["post-230266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-aaron-tomokane","tag-annual-summer-program","tag-de-mesa","tag-gold-gym-saipan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}