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Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Eighty-four year old stays active to preserve her mobility and independence

Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:37 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
In this month's Get Fit with 6 report, we go to an 84-year-old woman's home with a physical therapist to show the importance of exercises that help with strength and balance to remain independent in your senior years.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: March challenge

Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 7:59 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 March challenge can be done with or without ankle weights to work the inner and outer thighs, core, quads, and glutes

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Get Fit with 6: Stroke survivor shares his story to help others

Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 10:12 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Nick Kentrolis knows the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. For years he was a competitive bodybuilder, gym owner and personal trainer. Two years ago, he suffered a stroke and wasn’t sure he would survive let alone be around to talk about it.

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Get Fit with 6: February challenge

Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:27 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
The Get Fit with 6 February challenge consists of three exercises using a stability ball.

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Get Fit with 6: Make your New Year’s resolution a lifestyle change

Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 5:53 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: Tips to make your New Year's resolution a lifestyle change.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: January challenge

Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 6:02 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 January challenge using ankle weights

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Get Fit With 6: Tips to help you keep up your workout routine during the holidays

Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 4:19 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Tips from personal trainer LaMaine Williams on easy ways to stay fit during the holidays

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Get Fit with 6: December challenge

Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 3:47 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 December challenge uses resistance tubes to work your core, shoulders, quads and biceps

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Wilmington team competes in Carolinas Spartan race

Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 5:06 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
More than six thousand people signed up to take part in the Carolinas Spartan race at the Tryon Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, N.C. over the weekend.

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Get Fit with 6: Taking your workout up a notch, training for a Spartan race

Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 4:23 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
This month's Get Fit with 6 report is about challenging yourself physically and mentally. We train for a Spartan race.

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Get Fit with 6: November challenge

Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 3:43 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: November challenge, three exercises concentrating on core, hamstrings, glutes, and quads

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: paws4people introduces Cooki, discusses foundation’s mission

Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 10:37 AM EDT
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By WECT Staff
Cooki, a 5-month-old puppy in training, came into the studio with paws4people ahead of WECT’s Get Fit with 6 Race and Festival.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Getting kids interested in running, Without Limits Youth

Updated: Oct. 18, 2022 at 3:46 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: Running club Without Limits Youth helps get kids interested in running at an early age.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: October challenge

Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 4:00 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
The Get fit with 6 October challenge includes three push up exercises and two exercises using a bender ball

Events

Get Fit with 6 Race and Festival postponed due to weather risks on Saturday morning

Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT
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By WECT Staff
Due to the possibility for rain and flooding Saturday morning, WECT has chosen to postpone the Get Fit with 6 Race and Festival to a later date with the recommendation of our First Alert Weather Team.

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Get Fit with 6: September challenge

Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:58 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: September challenge features four exercises using a medicine ball working your core, quads and arms

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Back to school healthy lunch and snacks

Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 4:21 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6, a registered dietitian shares tips for packing a healthy lunch and snacks

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Get Fit with 6: August challenge

Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 3:31 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get fit with 6: August challenge offers exercises with bands working the inner thighs, core, quads, and hamstrings

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Starting your child’s fitness habits early

Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 6:45 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: Wilmington's Fit for Fun Center offers parents a safe place to bring young children for physical activity.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: July Challenge

Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 7:32 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
This month we’re using ankle weights for exercises that help strengthen your inner and outer thighs, core, glutes.

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Get Fit with 6: Keeping kids active thru the Summer

Updated: Jun. 21, 2022 at 7:03 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get fit with 6, Keeping kids active during the Summer months

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Get Fit with 6: June Challenge

Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 4:44 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 June Challenge working glutes, core, hamstrings, inner and outer thighs

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Special exercise program allows mothers to bring their children to class

Updated: May. 17, 2022 at 4:46 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get fit with 6: Fit4mom exercise program

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: May challenge

Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 5:14 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 May Challenge, pilates related exercises with resistance tubes.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Boxing helps Parkinson’s patients

Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 4:04 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: Parkinson's patients find physical and mental relief taking boxing classes at Rock Steady Boxing in Wilmington.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: April challenge

Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:20 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
The Get Fit with 6 April Challenge involves core, thigh and glute exercises using an exercise band

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: Healthy snack ideas

Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 7:15 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
March is National Nutrition Month. Many of us are trying to eat healthier meals so we don’t want to derail that by choosing unhealthy snacks.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: March Challenge

Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 4:39 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get fit with 6 March challenge. Core exercises to get you ready for Summer

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Brunswick county woman sticks to her New Year’s resolution and loses 100 pounds

Updated: Feb. 15, 2022 at 6:46 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Latrice Tatum set a New Year's resolution in 2021 to lose 100 pounds. She did and is still maintaining her new weight by changing her eating habits and exercising from home.

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Get Fit with 6: February challenge

Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 8:48 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get fit with 6 February challenge exercises using a stability ball

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: F3 Cape Fear combines faith, fitness, and fellowship to change lives and bring communities together

Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 4:45 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: F3 stands for fitness, faith, and fellowship, offering men a place for physical activity, support among like minded men and it focuses on diversity.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: January challenge

Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 9:12 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 January challenge

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Easy, inexpensive items to get you or someone you love on the path to a healthy new year

Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 at 4:41 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 detailing affordable exercise equipment for gift ideas or if you want to star a gym at home.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: December challenge

Updated: Dec. 7, 2021 at 3:40 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
The Get Fit with 6 December challenge includes exercises for several body parts

News

Get Fit with 6: Non-profit aims to bring the physical and mental benefits of yoga to more people

Updated: Nov. 16, 2021 at 3:54 AM EST
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By Kim Ratcliff
Yoga Village is a non-profit group that provides classes to community organizations and the general public.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6 November Challenge

Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 7:57 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Exercises for inner thighs also work the glutes and helps with balance, flexibility,

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: October is a great time to get a routine started before the holidays

Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 7:57 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get started on a workout routine now and get some momentum going before the holidays.

Sports

“I saw my family and turned on the jets”: WECT’s Colin Hackman finishes Boston Marathon three seconds under goal

Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 12:53 AM EDT
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By Frances Weller
Hackman finished the Marathon in 2 hours, 45 minutes and 56 seconds.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: October Challenge

Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 6:12 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
For Get Fit's October challenge, we are outdoors again to work on obliques, shoulders and glutes.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: Frances Weller talks about the physical and mental benefits of exercise

Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 4:43 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
WECT News anchor Frances Weller talks about why she thinks it's important to stay fit.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: September challenge

Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 4:59 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
The September Get Fit with 6 challenge helps strengthen your core and balance.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: Water aerobics offers exercises with less stress on the body

Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 4:46 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Water aerobics burns calories, improves flexibility, and reduces blood pressure.

News

Get Fit With 6 Race & Expo postponed due to potential for thunderstorms

Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 at 11:40 AM EDT
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By WECT Staff
WECT is working to reschedule the event for later in the year.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: Warm ups for the 5k and 1 mile walk

Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 5:29 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Meteorologist Colin Hackman shares warm up exercises for this weekend's Get Fit With 6 Race!

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: August Challenge

Updated: Aug. 3, 2021 at 4:58 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 August Challenge: inner and outer thighs, plus hip flexors to improve flexibility.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: shooting as an Olympic sport

Updated: Jul. 20, 2021 at 4:31 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
One of the 2020 Summer Olympic events is shooting air rifles. We head to Brunswick County where there's a new high tech, electronic rifle range and one of the best shooters in the county.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: July Challenge

Updated: Jul. 6, 2021 at 5:01 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6 July challenge centers around core and agility exercises Olympic athletes would do.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit

Updated: Jul. 1, 2021 at 4:16 PM EDT
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By Gray Media
The Get Fit With 6 Race & Expo will take place Saturday, Aug. 7, at Mayfaire!

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit with 6: Healthy Seniors

Updated: Jun. 15, 2021 at 3:50 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
Get Fit with 6: The New Hanover County Senior Resource Center offers exercise classes to help seniors strengthen their muscles, core, and mind.

Get Fit With 6

Get Fit With 6: June Challenge

Updated: Jun. 1, 2021 at 7:35 AM EDT
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By Kim Ratcliff
The June Challenge focuses on the lower body. Get ready to hit the floor!
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