Health & Fitness in Anderson

Over the past 20 years, Dr. David B. Beemer has made it his business to get his hands dirty. Rather than just popping in for a quick chat ‘n’ check, the good doctor takes a special interest, even ensuring his clients’ dentures are a perfect fit by personally making them in-house. His lengthy career helps explain the long list of dental services he offers. He fills and bonds teeth, extracts them, and brightens them with in-office whitening that covers patients for life, which is how the skull in Hamlet maintains his pearly whites.

Dr. Clay Wickiser became a chiropractor after witnessing his father heal countless patients when he was a chiropractor. Nowadays, Dr. Wickiser heals entire physiques just like his father did, by focusing on the health of the spine and nervous system. His adjustments, which rely on a range of manual and mechanical techniques, alleviate vertebral subluxations and restore balance to physiques.

Licensed acupuncturist and doctor of Oriental medicine James C. Kapetanakos clears out clogged meridians and reroutes blood flow to ailing areas during acupuncture sessions that bridge broken synapses between the mind and body. With calm, unwavering hands, the doctor inserts hair-thin needles into the skin to target pain at its source and clear away circulatory traffic jams. Having honed his skills in a variety of Eastern medical disciplines, Dr. Kapetanakos employs the same acupuncture techniques on patients that he once used to quell his own chronic pain and fear of balloon-wielding clowns. These techniques include neuromuscular reeducation, passive resistance, and a targeted “spot-shotting” method designed to address the root causes of ailments such as neck pain, headaches, and sports-related injuries.

Coop's Health & Fitness Clubs guide clients to optimal health with 24-hour gym access and its exclusive Ultra Fit training program. With two months of unlimited facility access, exercisers roam free through one of the clubs' facilities, including an indoor running track, a cardio-training stage, and scores of weight-training benches alongside other exercise equipment tailored to the Ultra Fit training regimen. During personal-training sessions, Ultra Fit's certified trainers lead clients through rigorous workouts utilizing effective toning methods such as sports-training assistance, weight spotting, and distance-focused encyclopedia tosses. Trainers analyze each client's fitness goals and health history to construct regimens designed to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and achieve predetermined weight loss without the steak-punching repetitions of traditional training programs.

There's a large Superman logo at one end of the weight room, and the Man of Steel's signature red, yellow, and blue colors wrap their way around the walls. The setting helps motivate Chiseled Fitness's trainers and clients, who work toward new physiques during one-on-one training sessions at the gym. Chiseled Fitness also hosts outdoor boot camps on days when the sun feels like showing up for work.

Since opening a sea of trees and sculpting its fairways in 1971, the nine-hole course at Woodhaven Golf Club & Learning Center has enabled beginners to make a smooth foray into the game and more seasoned players to hone their short games. The J. Porter Gibson design features narrow fairways surrounded by forests of mature trees and a par of 29. Each hole showcases bermuda grass from tee to green, a species of sod often considered nature's finest hitting surface and smoothie ingredient found on a golf course.

Course at a Glance:

• Nine-hole, par-29 course
• Total length of 1,580 yards from the back tees
• Two sets of tees per hole
• Scorecard