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Fox Fitness Center reopens for business
An exterior shot of the Fox Fitness Center at Weiss Pavilion, with groups of people running outside.

Fox Fitness Center reopens for business

The facility has been redesigned to create more space for individual, small group, and educational programming options, while still offering cardio and strength equipment for general use.

Penn Today Staff

An update on the reopening of Penn Rec facilities
An exterior view of the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, with the parking garage to the left.

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An update on the reopening of Penn Rec facilities

Scott Ward, chief operations officer at the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics, discusses the reopening of the Pottruck Center and when the campus fitness centers will return to normal operations.
Working the core without making a splash
Penn Campus Recreation offered a free floating yoga class as part of its Spring into Wellness Week.

For the second consecutive year, Penn Campus Recreation brought a company called Aqua Vida to Sheerr Pool to run an hour-long floating yoga class—posing and breathing atop paddle boards.

Working the core without making a splash

Yoga requires balance, an engaged core, contorting the body into unusual positions, calculated breathing. Now imagine doing that while floating on a paddle board. That’s what several participants did at Sheerr Pool as part of “Spring into Wellness Week.”