It’s that time again! With summer on the horizon, it is time to get in shape, and stay in shape all summer long! Stop by our Summer Rewards booth at this years Health and Wellness Expo on Monday, May 24th from 5:00 - 8:00pm to pick up your Summer Rewards stamp card. The first 50 members to pick up their cards receive a Summer Rewards T-shirt! If you are unable to make the Expo simply pick up your stamp card at the Sports Desk beginning June 1st and receive a stamp every time you workout!

You can also receive bonus stamps by attending some of our fabulous classes, programs, and events happening in the Club - these bonus points will pop up weekly... so stay tuned for details!

WIN GREAT PRIZES!
The first 50 members to obtain 50 stamps will receive one of the following prizes:
30-minute Massage
40-minute Personal Training Session
40-minute Private Pilates Session

All members who obtain 50 stamps by August 31st will be entered into our Grand Prize Drawing to win 1 of 5 fabulous Grand Prizes! Prizes include a Tandem Paragliding trip for 2, a Cooking Class for 2 at Restaurant Volterra and more!

Enroll your kids today in the Seattle Athletic Club/Sounders FC soccer day camp! Each child will receive instruction from Sounders players on the basics of the game; shooting, passing, trapping, and dribbling. Afterwards, they will have time to mix with six players from the Sounders FC for autographs and a question and answer session.

The Seattle Athletic Club is proud to be the preferred training location for players from the Sounders FC!

June 6th, 3:00pm
Cost is only $20 per child.
Ages: 5-15

To sign up please talk to a member of our Front Desk team, or for more information please contact Special Events Director, Sara Krentzman or 206-443-1111.

Sounders FC game schedule.

Exercise video "Punch Kick Combination" demonstrated by Si-bok, Jodie Garcia.

Complimentary Self Defense Seminar
June 2nd from 1:00 - 2:30pm.

Gain exposure to the exciting world of martial arts, and it's deeply rooted styles of soft and hard movements.

The seminar will provide opportunities to learn different disciplines of self defense, qiqong, kempo karate, freestyle kickboxing, warrior training, and work with padded weapons. All arts are taught at an intro level and require no experience.

Research shows the golf swing involves very powerful movements of the legs, trunk, and arms. Each of these movements requires an “engine” to accelerate the different body parts. These “engines” are of course muscles — and just like the engine in a car, they require a warm-up before they can operate efficiently. An appropriate warm-up not only permits peak performance right from the first tee, but also helps protect the body from injury.

Over the last several months we have included a collection of warm-up tips in each newsletter for our members who play golf. Now it's time to put them all together to use as reference when you are getting ready to warm up your body before driving from the first tee box. REMEMBER: one cold swing could produce a serious injury with life-long implications.

COMPONENTS OF THE WARM-UP
The ideal warm-up 20-30 minutes and can be broken down into four sections.

GENERAL BODY WARM-UP
The best way to warm-up the body is by low intensity activity that uses as many of the large muscle groups as possible. Examples of good warm-up exercises are; brisk walking, climbing a flight of stairs, or simply placing a club behind your back and carefully rotating from side-to-side for several minutes. This portion of the warm-up should take a total of 5-10 minutes.

STRETCHING
Stretching the key muscles used in the golf swing should follow the warm-up. Each stretch should be gently held for about 20 seconds. Pain should not be experienced. A series of 1st-tee stretching exercises are shown in with the golf tips.

GOLF SPECIFIC DRILLS
After stretching, gently swing a short iron (e.g. 9 iron) back and forth several times while slowly building up the tempo. Perform these practice swings both left and right handed. Once you feel loose, add resistance by gently swinging two clubs at once.

PRACTICE
If a driving range or hitting area is available; take time to practice your shots. This further helps warm-up the golf muscles plus helps improve timing and consistency. Practice your putting as well and remember... practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

THIS MONTH'S WARM UP TIPS

OUR NEWEST PARTNER... KAYAK POINT GOLF COURSE
We are proud to announce Kayak Point Golf Course as our newest partner in the SAC Elite Golf. PGA Professional Dave Boivin will be offering lessons on this immaculately manicured golf course with unmatched views of the Puget Sound. Dave will challenge and coach every aspect of your golf game with his elite training facility. Kayak Point was rated as one of America’s Top 50 Public Golf Courses by Golf Digest, Awarded a 4 Star Rating in 2000-2001 by Golf Digest, and rated a “Must Play” course by the Seattle Times. The 260 acres of rolling forest land will challenge any level of golf enthusiast. So throw the clubs in the trunk, and enjoy the peaceful, natural beauty that makes Kayak Point so reknowned.

SAC ELITE GOLF – WITH PGA PROFESSIONAL DAVE BOIVIN
Sign-up today for SAC Elite Golf and begin taking your golf game to the next level on your own schedule. Enjoy the benefits of having your own personal team working with you to improve your swing, lower your handicap, and increase your accuracy.

3 – Private 1 hour sessions with PGA Professional Dave Boivin
2 – Video Swing Analysis with Dave
4 – Private 1 hour sessions with SAC’s Personal Fitness Trainer
2 – Fitness Assessments with PFT

Based on the assessment and analysis you receive Dave and your trainer will work with you to create a program to bring you to your best game this season.

MONTHLY GOLF SCHOOLS WITH PGA PROFESSIONAL DAVE BOIVIN

Step it up a notch and take your golf to a whole new level in our schools offered the last Friday of each month with PGA Professional Dave Boivin.

Short Game School - July 30 and September 24
The Red Zone scoring clubs. Pitching, lob, chipping, putting, bunker and specialty shots around the green.

Drive Fore Show... Putt fore Dough! - June 25 and August 27
We will spend about 1/3 time working in each of these areas: the driver, chipping & putting.

For more information on our golf events, please contact Katrina Yniguez at 206-443-1111 x281.

The amazing and always bright and shiny Jennifer Blue is this month's member spotlight. "Blue" as I like to call her is one of the most positive, fun spirited, and dedicated clients I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Blue came to me as a friend of another Boot Camp participant, Susie. Susie and Blue joined me for one session to see if Blue would like to join the club. After that session she signed up and started attending our Boot Camp religiously. She may have been a little intimidated at first (most of the Boot Camp participants have been in class for a year or more and are some super strong people!) but that didn't stop her from coming and trying her best every session. After about 5 months she decided she wanted to improve even more and started working one on one with me two other times during the week. Blue now works out 4 times a week (two training sessions and two Boot Camp sessions) and man oh man has she improved. When she started 5 push-ups from her knees was work... now that kid can pump out at least 5 if not 10 perfect push-ups, chest to floor! Not only that but she started learning how to use her body explosively, which is no easy task! She started out jumping on the small plyo box and now can jump on the one that is practically half her height! She has improved her strength in leaps and bounds in thanks to incorporating kettlebells, plyometrics, and explosive movements in her routine. Her next venture is to conquer a pull-up. I have no doubt in my mind that with her mental drive, her willingness to try, her determination, and her increase in strength, that pull up is just around the corner. With her kind of attitude the possibilities are endless. She has already crossed off many of her goals and I hope to get her to many many more. I would like to thank "Blue" for all her hard work and for making my job so rewarding!

Adien Yniguez would like to thank everyone who supported her in her HOP-A-THON Tuesday, April 20th. She had a lot of fun and did 172 hops in 2 minutes. She was very excited and said "I helped a lot of kids today". Adien raised $731.20, 87% of that goes directly to patient services and all money raised stays in the North Sound area. There are over 500 families that MDA serves in our area alone, so thank you again for all your donations, providing help and hope to children with muscles that are not strong. All of your support is greatly appreciated!