GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM)- After five weeks of taking on the fitness craze known as "Pure Barre,"

Healthy You reporter Valerie Lego and WZZM 13's Jennifer Pascua reflect on their experience.

Watch today's Get Fit segment.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM)- It's easy to make the decision to get fit, but doing what you need to do when you're working out is certainly the tough part.

Healthy You reporter Valerie Lego and WZZM 13's Jennifer Pascua signed up for the Pure Barre exercise experience.

Watch today's Get Fit segment.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM)- The largest annual fundraiser to benefit Friends & Families of Cystic Fibrosis happened Saturday night.

WZZM 13 Sports' Dan Harland was among more than three dozen bachelors and bachelorettes auctioned off Saturday night for the benefit. Dan's date package, which...more included tickets to the Griffins, Whitecaps, the Sprint Cup Race and a Tigers game in Chicago, went for about $1,400. The winning bidder will also get a one night stay at the Hotel Felix.

WZZM 13's Valerie Lego was an escort during the Bid for Bachelors and Bachelorettes event Saturday.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - Doesn't this winter weather just make you want to take a dip in the lake? No, you say?

They've been cold water swimming in eastern Europe and the Netherlands for a thousand years. What could they possibly find so alluring about ice cold water in the middle of...more winter?

Teri Harmon knows. "When I go in, literally the next day and the day after I don't have pain," she says.  "It's amazing."

Teri uses the cold water plunge at the MAC in Grand Rapids where she is a group fitness instructor. She's also well informed on the research behind cold water plunging.

"There are some actual chemical responses that happen," she says.  "Norepinephrine is increased, which is a natural painkiller. It does over time stimulate the immune system."

Which is why Harmon says it's recommended for anyone with arthritis or injuries.

"People experience sometimes two or three days of feeling better after just two or three minutes in

GRAND RAPIDS, (WZZM) -- WZZM 13'S Alana Nehring & Angela Cunningham talk about 2012, and taking down Christmas decorations.

Plus, Healthy You reporter Valerie Lego preview the next Get Fit Challenge at Pure Barre.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM)- WZZM 13's Jennifer Pascua & Alana Nehring show off the new morning news set.

Plus, they talk about a Get Fit Challenge that Healthy You's Valerie Lego and Jennifer will be attempting to do at Pure Barre.

And, there's a wedding expo featuring local vendors called GRUnveiled. Click HERE for more details.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - The Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center which opened in 2005 now includes the Frederick Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute.  It has become a landmark on the Medical Mile. For Fred Meijer creating that medical building was personal.

"Fred had some heart surgery...more and so I think that's why we spent a lot of time talking about how he could help us and how he could help us in his fight for heart disease," says Spectrum Health President Richard Breon.

But Breon says Fred Meijer's contributions didn't stop there, "He also looked at cancer. He was the lead gift in the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion. He was one of the lead gifts in the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. So he really was someone who was interested in health care on a broad array."

Fred Meijer also gave money to Saint Mary's Lacks Cancer Center for their fifth floor garden and conservatory. "We have had a really wonderful relationship with Fred Meijer and really the entire