{"id":332542,"date":"2026-07-08T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:59:12","slug":"the-jacksonville-community-is-getting-stronger-together-through-fitness-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332542\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville community is getting \u201cStronger Together\u201d through fitness | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fitness can take many different forms.<\/p>\n<p>For some its cardio, for others it\u2019s playing a sport.<\/p>\n<p>For one community in Jacksonville, Illinois, their fitness comes during a weekly session called \u201cStronger Together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stronger Together is a free one-hour program every Tuesday at Fitness World Health Club. It is designed for those living with special needs or disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more than just physical fitness. They&#8217;re coming out, and they&#8217;re feeling like they&#8217;re a part of the gym, which was really our goal from day one here at Fitness World,\u201d Fitness World Health Club Manager and Facilities Coordinator Ryne Turke said.<\/p>\n<p>The program has been going on for nearly a year now, with some sessions drawing as many as 75 participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitness can take many different forms. For some its cardio, for others it\u2019s playing a sport. For one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9389,9390,22334,137207,6340,137209,3131,9879,116,118,137208,117,10083,110,137206,137210],"class_list":["post-332542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-athletics-facility","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-world","tag-gym","tag-illinois","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-illinois","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-special-needs","tag-sports","tag-sports-reel","tag-stronger-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}