Lois Moncel, Director of Fitness & Wellness Boxing workouts include throwing punches at a bag or in the air for a fun total body workout. It’s a great workout for all ages but especially beneficial for the aging population. Boxing workouts combine speed training, strength training, and muscle memory, which requires you to think about…
Category: Sports
Sports, April 2021
What’s New at the Sports Club? Wednesday Wellness—That’s What Is New!
Lois Moncel, Director of Fitness & Wellness Are you new to the Community? The gym? Maybe you decided that it’s time to get back in the swing of exercising and need a refresher at the gym? Before COVID, the Sports Club offered orientations in the gym to new residents in a group setting. However, we…
Sports, April 2021
Another Great Golf Haul
Russ Stocek Each year for the past eleven years I think there can’t possibly be much golf equipment left to be donated by our Robson Ranch homeowners, but I continue to be amazed by the amount of equipment that is gathered. This year’s collection included 7,050 golf balls; 59 golf bags as well as two hard…
Sports, April 2021
Relishing Pickleball: 12 Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them (Mistakes 7 and 8)
David Zapatka This 12-common-mistakes column began after playing with some very excited, highly motivated, new pickleball players at our community courts recently. After playing a couple games, this question was posed to me, “What should we do to improve and become 3.5 players?” We reviewed the first six mistakes the past three months. This month…
Sports, April 2021
Softball Club News
Ken Muhlbeier With the winter softball season just completed, the Robson Softball Club is proud to say they were, once again, well represented in the Palm Creek League. With all teams and players participating under COVID protocols, the Robson softball teams played for the league championship at both the B and C levels. Although both…
Sports, April 2021
Softball Profile: Greg Schneider
Ken Muhlbeier Before he was honored as an Honorable Mention All American linebacker, and before he was named to the All-Century Team at the University of North Dakota, Greg Schneider was a concession boy carrying a cooler and selling ice cream sandwiches at his father’s softball games in Grand Rapids, N.D. “The problem was, I owed…