by pulsepdx | Feb 7, 2023 | Members
What is your PulsePDX story? Growing up and into my 20s I was always that person who could eat an entire tub of ice cream and a full-size bag of Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles in one sitting (which I often did) and not gain a pound. Then I turned 30. The magic of...
by pulsepdx | Jan 17, 2023 | Members
Spotlight on Wendy L What Are Some Highlights of your Fitness Journey? As I reach a milestone birthday this year, I realize how very lucky I am to have been dancing at PulsePDX for 10 years! I wasn’t able to take dance lessons as a child as I was told my body...
by pulsepdx | Dec 18, 2022 | Members
Spotlight on Aisha What are some highlights of your fitness journey? Well, to start, I hate exercise. When I was 4 my mom put me in a ballet class that I stopped going to after a little boy made fun of me. In grade school I hated gym class. Growing up the only active...
by pulsepdx | Nov 7, 2022 | Members
Spotlight on Tiffany L PulsePDX has opened up an entire new world for me! Before Pulse I would hang around the surface, never really able to push myself out of my comfort zone. After going to Dance Fitness and Pop Pilates routinely for about a year, I feel as though I...
by Jennifer Nielson | Aug 18, 2022 | Members
I grew up near Los Angeles in Long Beach, California, where about half of the people had swimming pools. We happened to be one of those people, and because my mom is afraid of getting in water, she put me and my sister in swimming lessons every day of every summer....
by Jennifer Nielson | Jul 13, 2022 | Members
Journal Entry by Kelly Strider — May 19, 2022 The Last Normal Hour On September 28, 2021, I returned to Zumba at PulsePDX for the first time since well before Covid. Like many people over the preceding year and a half, I was experiencing a loss of fitness; I often...
