Sun Lakes Gyms and Fitness

Valley Medical Weight Control's duo of doctors draw on decades of experience to help their clients reach and maintain a healthy weight. Through injections and FDA-approved supplements, they construct weight-loss programs that suppress the appetite and build up the body’s stores of beneficial nutrients and minerals. To track their progress, they use the BodyComp scale, which quickly reports on the body’s fat percentage, energy expenditure, water weight, and current number of bones.

Phoenix Cool Body founder and CEO Dr. Michael Carlton helps patients to shed inches by treating the biological, psychological, and social components of body contouring with Venus Freeze treatments. In addition to helping individuals to lead healthy lifestyles, he uses the Venus Freeze body-contouring system to reduce inches, alleviate stretch marks and cellulite, and tighten slack skin on faces and bodies. Magnetic pulses, along with radio-frequency waves harvested from discotheques, penetrate subsurface tissue as the instrument warms and massages. The combination of invisible energy heats fat cells—which encourages them to shed their contents—and promotes blood flow and collagen production to diminish wrinkles and tighten skin.

Every year, enterprising athletes across the nation line up with courage beyond reason for the Rugged Maniac 5K Obstacle Race. Fiery hurdles, 12-foot climbing walls, and barbed-wire-blanketed mud pits await those indomitable souls, who garb themselves in glory, grit, and sometimes banana costumes. Whether going it alone or collaborating as a team, finishing racers are rewarded with a banquet of hot food and cold beer, a commemorative T-shirt, and the ability to make muddy tires the world over cower in fear.