Fitness and exercise

The Lenexa Rec Center is offering free wellness assessments for members as part of efforts to help members' meet their fitness goals. Since the rec center opened in 2017, members have been able to receive a free 60-minute wellness assessment...

As the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City nears its fundraising goal for expansion, organization leaders this week celebrated breaking ground on a new family recreational facility. The Overland Park-based community center has raised $10.3 million of its $11.5...

Planet Fitness is adding a new gym in Overland Park, just south of I-435 near the Sprint campus. The new Planet Fitness will be located at 11411 Metcalf Avenue. The site was most recently occupied by The Tile Shop, which...

In the name of preventative care and holistic health and wellness, the Shawnee Mission School District is hosting its first Staff 5K Walk/Run & Wellbeing Expo. Tammie McCoy, a CBIZ staff member who the district hired to lead wellbeing services,...

Prairie Village residents will notice work getting underway in the coming weeks on a renovation and expansion project in the former Prairie Village Post Office building. The owners of 2020 Fitness, which has occupied the building since shortly after it...

When the Slyker family of Overland Park took a genetic test, it gave them extensive information on their heritage and geographic roots. But it also showed that all four members likely carry a gene that puts them at risk...

A personal fitness trainer in Prairie Village is opening his own studio in downtown Mission. Derek Welles, who operates another personal fitness studio on the Mall, is closing up that shop with plans to open WellFit at 6104 Johnson Drive....

The business couple who leads Cancer Wellness for Life has been guiding area cancer patients and survivors in best practices for exercise, wellness and nutrition. Yet for years, they didn’t have a way to track their patients’ and survivors’...

If you've set a fitness goal for yourself in the new year, perhaps a group of active Shawnee Mission area seniors can serve as an inspiration. Three times a week, a group of residents at Mission Chateau in Prairie Village...

Mission is allowing The Mission Project, a local nonprofit that helps adults with developmental disabilities, to host fitness classes in the Sylvester Powell Jr. Community Center. The Mission city council unanimously approved the terms of the contract during its Dec....

The latest addition to downtown Mission isn’t just a shop for runners. Kathy Gates, founder of the Running Well Store, says her new location on Johnson Drive is for anyone who wants to take good care of their feet, whether...

The owners of 2020 Fitness in Prairie Village took a significant step Tuesday toward a major renovation project that will help them expand offerings to clients at their growing health and wellness business. Founded six years ago in a garage,...