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Whole Health Insights: How Wellness and Nutrition Coaching Can Help

Posted by Carolyn Kontos, Wellness and Nutrition Coach on September 19, 2024

How Wellness and Nutrition Coaching Can Help In my first post, What are These Feelings? I wrote about how many clients in their 40s and 50s ask why all the things that worked in the past suddenly seemed to fail. Now you’ve articulated your dismay, your “WTF what-are-these-feelings,” your frustration that maintaining your weight and feeling energized should not feel quite this hard. And you’ve resolved to do …

JCC Maccabi Games Returning to Pittsburgh in Summer 2025

Posted by Admin on July 23, 2024

First-of-Its-Kind College Campus Games: JCC Maccabi® Returns to Pittsburgh The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh (JCC) is proud to announce that Pittsburgh will host the inaugural JCC Maccabi® Campus Games in the summer of 2025 in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh and JCC Association of North America. The JCC Maccabi Games are the world’s largest in-person Jewish youth sporting event and has engaged more than …

JCC State of Mind – April 26, 2024

Posted by Admin on April 26, 2024

There are three things that I love most about Passover – the intentionality with which the food comes together, the unique ways each of us has in telling the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt and how the story is integrated with family traditions and gathering with loved ones around the table. But now with the holiday in full swing and the ceremonial meals behind …

JCC State of Mind – March 8, 2023

Posted by Admin on March 8, 2024

Why is this Big Night different from all other Big Nights? Of course, every Big Night is unique! Who can forget our inaugural Big Night in 2007 saluting the JCC’s rich history of basketball and the values of teamwork and sportsmanship? And what about the 2011 edition, Peace, Love and the IKCs, when the iconic Pittsburgh band Rusted Root helped take us down memory lane to …

JCC State of Mind – February 2, 2024

Posted by Admin on February 2, 2024

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” -Betty Friedan I’ve always had a very different perspective of aging than most of my peers growing up. As a young child, I gravitated towards my great uncle Jack, who was a writer, proofreader, and editor. When my friends were beginning to use the internet in the early 90’s, I would send him handwritten …

JCC State of Mind – January 12, 2024

Posted by Admin on January 12, 2024

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to join the JCC’s talented team of lifeguards for a mandatory training session at our South Hills pool. Organized and led by a number of key members of our aquatics staff – Carla Hartley, Sarah Grimm, Anna Rose Watterson, Lex Glickman, Tim Griffith and Emily Lawrence – we discussed general preparedness, proper surveillance and water rescue techniques, teamwork, communication …

JCC State of Mind – December 29, 2023

Posted by Rachael Speck on December 29, 2023

At the age of 16, I was hired for an amazing job. That job – titled “camp counselor” – is still, to this day, the best job I’ve ever had. It offered me invaluable skill-building such as leadership, responsibility and problem solving. More importantly, it’s where I discovered a sense of purpose, meaningful work, confidence and developed an affinity for working with children, young adults …

Healthy and Sweet – Recipes for Rosh Hashanah

Posted by JCC Pittsburgh on September 5, 2023

L'SHANA TOVA! Our recent Nutrition & Dietetics Graduate Interns shared their recipes for a sweet and healthy new year. Cinnamon Apple Noodle Kugel (Serves 12-15) Hayley Tyson Ingredients 1 pound whole grain wide noodles 5 large eggs, whisked 2 teaspoons cinnamon + more to sprinkle on top 1/2 cup sugar Pinch of salt 3 cups unsweetened applesauce 2 tablespoons vegetable oil Instructions Preheat oven to bake at 350° F. …

DEKA Strong at On Your Mark Fitness

Posted by Annie Schroeder on January 25, 2023

When we started the DEKA program at the ON YOUR MARK FITNESS at JCC South Hills, many of our members were curious or even hesitant to get involved. But as our community has continued to grow, our members, staff and even people from across the east coast have traveled to Pittsburgh to try out this new endeavor and test their fitness abilities. On Sunday, January 22, …

Why We Focus on Recovery

Posted by Jennifer Goldston on April 28, 2022

Recovery… to regain, rehab, repair, self-care: all fitness industry buzzwords. However, if you’ve taken Group Centergy at the JCC then you’ve heard the importance of Recovery countless times. The yoga, pilates-fusion based class ends with 5-10 minutes of guided meditation grounded in the philosophy that what you do after a workout, is as important as what you are doing during one. But what is Recovery? Is it only …

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