{"id":463,"date":"2015-04-16T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=463"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:58:32","slug":"life-time-fitness-and-target-to-launch-exclusive-c9-challenge-group-fitness-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/chains\/life-time-fitness-and-target-to-launch-exclusive-c9-challenge-group-fitness-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Time Fitness and Target to Launch Exclusive \u201cC9 Challenge\u201d Group Fitness Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Life-Time-300x90.png\" alt=\"Life Time - The Healthy Way Of Life Company\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Life-Time-300x90.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Life-Time-200x60.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Life-Time.png 677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Life Time &#8211; The Healthy Way Of Life Company<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHANHASSEN, MN<\/strong> &#8211; Life Time \u2013 The Healthy Way of Life CompanySM (NYSE: LTM) and Target (NYSE: TGT) announced the launch of \u201cC9 Challenge,\u201d an innovative Group Fitness class that also highlights C9 Champion, Target\u2019s exclusive activewear line for men, women and kids.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in collaboration with Life Time experts and Target\u2019s C9 Champion brand ambassador Adam Rosante (author of \u201cThe 30-Second Body: Eat Clean. Train Dirty. Live Hard.\u201d), the class is designed to challenge nine core areas of the body in 39 minutes, and will be offered exclusively at Life Time destinations nationwide beginning in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe C9 Challenge class we\u2019ve developed with Target\u2019s C9 Champion ambassador Adam Rosante will be social and fun, with a broad appeal for women and men alike yet, and as Adam says, push them to realize they\u2019re stronger than they think they are,\u201d said Kimberly Spreen-Glick, Life Time national senior director of group fitness. \u201cLife Time is known for bringing our members effective, innovative and one-of-a-kind group fitness classes designed and taught by the industry\u2019s best instructors. We can\u2019t wait for members to experience C9 Challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each C9 Challenge class will begin with a dynamic warm up, followed by three fitness blocks focused on upper body (chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps), lower body (quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes) and core, followed by a one minute cardio burst to drive the heart up and ensure a metabolic after burn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new Life Time class smashes the notion that you need to spend lot of time at the club to get a solid workout,\u201d said Rosante. \u201cWe all want to look good and feel great in class, and Target\u2019s exclusive line of C9 Champion activewear can deliver that at a great price without sacrificing on performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the exclusive C9 Challenge class, C9 Champion will be integrated throughout Life Time destinations in a variety of ways including in-club video and signage, surprise and delight moments for those taking the class, and sneak peeks at new products.<\/p>\n<p>Life Time Group Fitness is the largest provider of Group Fitness programming in the country and engages members in more than one million workouts monthly cross its 114 clubs. For more information Life Time Group Fitness programming, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/lifetimefitness.com\/groupfitness\" title=\"lifetimefitness.com\/groupfitness\" target=\"_blank\">lifetimefitness.com\/groupfitness<\/a>. For more information on C9 Champion, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/target.com\" title=\"target.com\" target=\"_blank\">target.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHANHASSEN, MN<\/strong> &#8211; Life Time \u2013 The Healthy Way of Life CompanySM (NYSE: LTM) and Target (NYSE: TGT) announced the launch of \u201cC9 Challenge,\u201d an innovative Group Fitness class that also highlights C9 Champion, Target\u2019s exclusive activewear line for men, women and kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[97,15,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}