Kim Olige
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Charlotte native Kim Olige believes exercise can be an outlet to help kids learn and grow.
Charlotte native Kim Olige launched the nonprofit Youth Style Fitness to offer the city’s youth more opportunities to stay fit while gaining important life skills like nutrition, mental wellness, conflict resolution and goal setting. Olige, who loves running on city trails, believes fitness can be a tool to help kids learn, grow and release trauma.
Ten to Try is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
The series was produced in partnership with the Great Trails State Coalition for the NC Year of the Trail and with generous support from the SECU Foundation.
Kim Olige
Clip: Special | 1m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlotte native Kim Olige launched the nonprofit Youth Style Fitness to offer the city’s youth more opportunities to stay fit while gaining important life skills like nutrition, mental wellness, conflict resolution and goal setting. Olige, who loves running on city trails, believes fitness can be a tool to help kids learn, grow and release trauma.
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[gentle music] [birds chirping] - My name is Kim Olige.
I'm the founder of Youth Style Fitness and we empower youth through healthy eating, exercise, and mental health.
Personally, I'd rather be running outside with nature 'cause it's good for my mental health.
I get to see nice scenery and I get to gain ground as I move versus running in a gym on a treadmill.
You just kinda staying in place and it's kinda stuffy so I'm not really a fan of that.
One thing about Little Sugar Creek Greenway it's unique because you're always gonna run into fellow joggers or walkers or bikers so everybody's just kinda staying active.
[gentle music] I chose to dive into the fitness profession because I realized it's a need, not only in the state of North Carolina but America as well, and especially for our youth.
They need to stay active and healthy so they can have a healthy mindset.
My non-profit, Youth Style Fitness, we believe in holistic wellness, so we do physical activity, nutritional activities, and mental health activities to try to fight the increasing obesity and mental health disparities here in America.
We work with the young men as, like, mentorship and we just try to teach them the things that they're gonna face in life, try to overcome some of the challenges they're currently going through so they can live a healthy life.
We're tryna provide them with positive opportunities, some that we may not have had when we were younger.
I want people to know that if they want nice outdoor space to run, North Carolina Greenways provide that because of the beautiful things you'll see along the way.
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Ten to Try is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
The series was produced in partnership with the Great Trails State Coalition for the NC Year of the Trail and with generous support from the SECU Foundation.