Pace Fitness on 1st Street has closed its physical doors for the first time in 16 years.

 

However, owner Judy Larsén is not closing the business to her customers. She is just opening new doors.

 

“I felt this was the right time to move on and take the higher ground,” she said. “I have a daughter who has some health issues and I just need to focus my attention towards that right now.”

 

Her storefront will no longer exist, but Judy still plans to take care of her loyal customers and help others who are interested in becoming more healthy in their lives.

 

Pace Fitness has offered wellness programs, weight management and fitness since 2002. Larsén has also sold and marketed nutrients, natural products and essential oils. She will no longer be offering memberships  at her studio full of exercise machines, but will continue to offer sage advice on how to get and stay in the best health.

 

Larsén asks her current customers and future customers, “Who will you allow to be the CEO of your health? You, your doctor or a family member?   Could your health be related to  your lifestyle choices?

 

Larsén wants to encourage and challenge people to understand how sleep, stress, trauma, exercise, food & nutrients, emotions and gratitude contribute to ones healthy  (or unhealthy) lifestyle.

 

“Helping others, laughing, detoxifying, being outside — all these things have a big impact on how ones health is,” she says. “eat the foods God has made for us. Garden. Prepare your own foods as much as possible.”

 

She also stresses the importance of drinking clean water, eating organic foods, balancing Omega 6 and Omega 3’s, balancing the Gut flora and the pH in ones body.

 

When Larsén was a teenager, she’d watch Fitness Expert Jack LaLanne, who promoted exercise and nutrition on TV, in ads and in books. LaLanne was considered the Godfather of Fitness and the first fitness superhero to the world.

 

“Watching Jack, I realized that one needs to ‘move their body’ to be healthy,” Larsén says. “Years later as a mother of three children,  I struggled to stay in a routine of exercising.”  

 

Larsén said daily routine distractions got her out of the habit of exercising. 

 

“So, when I started PACE Fitness in 2002, I felt  exercise was my missing healthy puzzle piece,” she said. “It would be what I and every other person needed to be healthy.”

 

She said she opened PACE Fitness because she wanted to give women in the Becker area a wonderful opportunity to exercise in a fun environment.   

 

“As I continued learning more about ‘natural health’, I discovered that exercise is only one of the many pieces to the healthy puzzle. 

 

In Psalm 139:4, the verse says, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

 

Larsén likes to stress that one’s body is and always will be a temple of God, as mentioned in 1 Cor. 6:19.

 

“Do not wait until you have a health issue to start making healthy choices,” she adds. “We are well into the health issue by the time we have symptoms.  Every lifestyle choice is drawing you closer to life or death.”

 

Larsén will continue to promote her business and she is excited to continue to provide wellness seminars for all interested people. She plans to hold those seminars at venues such as churches or centers where she can help others invest in health.

 

“I am excited to be on a journey to learn more about natural health and help others,” she says. “I will be working with Zinzino, a Norwegian company. God wants me to be encouraging, helping and challenging people to be healthy, physically, emotionally and spiritually, as long as I am breathing!”

 

Larsén can be contacted at 612-219-5437 for more information.