Hopkinsville, KY Health and Fitness

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The trainers at Life Fitness Academy act as motivating catalysts for muscle-pumping neophytes in one-on-one sessions that flatten flab and chisel chassis. In addition to fat burning, the sessions also focus on holistic training, stress reduction, and nutritional analysis. Prior to working out, clients undergo a comprehensive fitness analysis that will help formulate a plan of attack to keep muscles from bickering among themselves about the best way to squash calories. A constructed meal plan and training outline keep trainees on course and bodies in check even when outside the bounds of Life Fitness Academy's healthful gaze and beset on all sides by cheesecake.

Fit-Rx’s hot yoga classes are headed by happy, healthy instructors who will motivate you to do that extra downward dog, cobra pose, and other animal-themed postures in preparation for your inevitable fight with a rogue land otter. Participants will sweat through a sequence of 26 postures in a heated room of 100–105 degrees Fahrenheit and 50–60% humidity. Classes last 90 minutes and provide an excellent opportunity to sweat out toxins while engaging forgotten muscles that have turned cranky from underuse. After class, a cool cloth with essential oil is provided to wipe down salty sweat and soothe simmering skin. Customers also gain access to Fit-Rx's state-of-the-art facilities that include striking, oak-finished locker rooms and beautifully tiled bathrooms.

Zumba is a raging fitness megasaurus that unites Latin dance rhythms with high-energy movements—creating a fitness program that exiles calories, perks up listless muscles, and scandalizes dull exercise routines. Instructor Rebecca Hinton has been teaching Zumba since 2008; her classes have since grown so popular that she expanded into b.fab.fitness and formed a veritable coven of Zumba fanatics with four other instructors. Their dance-inspired routines work every major body muscle and keep hearts thumping to the beat, all without the monotonous drudgery of treadmills, stationary bikes, and boulder-stacking.

Next Level Fitness is a private personal-training studio with a battery of advanced body-sculpting equipment and a platoon of highly reputable trainers. After a comprehensive fitness consultation, trainers take each client through one hour of fitness guided by fundamental training philosophies and techniques that improve performance and make future workouts more profitable. Next Level's trainers motivate and inspire through positive reinforcement instead of insult comedy, helping clients achieve overall health and wellness without hours of power crying.

Sporting two distinct nine-hole layouts built more than 20 years apart, Ravenwood Country Club's 18-hole golf course boasts 6,264 yards of splendid fairways running alongside the stately grounds' cerulean ponds and misting fountains. The lengthier of the two, the front nine eases rusty swings and slow-to-wake irons into the round with a relatively open, gently undulating layout before clubbers must contend with the dramatic elevation changes, larger greens, and omnipresent water hazards that await in the course's second act. Before duffers return through the majestic double doors of the clubhouse, they must traverse the climactic 18th hole, a 385-yard par 4 with a stream stationed squarely in the landing zone of aggressive drives and local spacecraft.

Along with its picturesque par 72, Ravenwood Country Club encompasses a recently refurbished outdoor swimming pool and eight tennis courts flanked by covered spectator areas. Guests weary from days looping the course, lapping the pool, or combing the tennis courts for edible neon fuzz can retire to the club's dining facilities, which host everything from quiet dinner dates to lavish events and celebrations.

Course at a Glance:

• 18-hole, par 72 course
• Length of 6,264 yards from the farthest tees
• Course rating of 71.0 from the farthest tees
• Slope rating of 125 from the farthest tees
• Four tee options
• Link to scorecard