Welcome to Let’s Shape Up! with Jogging Joe Shafran

Welcome to our site. In it we delve into the why of exercise, fitness and good health, imparting the ancient, but still welcome theory that fitness should be a part of everyone’s life, providing a more satisfying and productive existence.

I’ve made fitness a part of my life these past 45 years, and I know I’ve benefited from it. In developing this site, I’m hoping to allow you to reap the benefit of my knowledge and experience. Let's Shape Up is also a newspaper column, and is on both television and radio. Use the links (buttons) at the top to read the columns and to see and hear the shows or to access the other sites.

On this site you will find links to both Amazon for your book and publication purchases and to both Sears and Net2Fitness where you can conveniently and securely purchase every form of exercise equipment and health related items that anyone would ever need, all designed to keep you on the leading edge of the wellness revolution. There’s no reason whatsoever that there should not be a treadmill, a rower , an elliptical trainer , an ab-conditioner or what have you in every household, on the days you can’t get to the gym. Browse, load your cart and check out. It’s so easy!

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I subscribe to the “Health on the Web Foundation”, and abide by a Code of Conduct. Portions of web proceeds, when applicable, go to the foundation and to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Another 6 foot six inch person who wants to be pictured with Jogging Joe... It's John Colmer, Maryland Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene with a reminder that his office is trying to get people in Maryland to quit smoking.

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Irv Srencer and Andy Lark with Jogging Joe

February 2008.
Two members of the Navy football team spotted Jogging Joe's shaved head at the Feb. 13th, 2008 Touchdown Club banquet in Annapolis and wanted to pose with all 5'6" of him . On Jogger's right is award winner, Irv Spencer , an inside linebacker and on his left is Andy Lark, a nose guard. The 54th annual banquet, honors the outstanding area high school and Naval Academy football players, and recognizes their coaches and other notables.
The University of Maryland football coach, Ralph Friedgen was a head table guest and a speaker. The main speaker was Joe Ehrmann, a lineman when the Colts played in Baltimore.

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Jogging Joe
is back at the sporting goods and fitness department at Sears

At Westfield Annapolis, (the Mall).
Saturday evenings from 5 to 9:30.

After several years there, he’s been on a leave of absence the past
7 months to begin two radio fitness shows in Baltimore and in Annapolis.

Come see him or e-mail him for a time more convenient.

He continues as the Capital’s running and exercise columnist,
and the host of “Let’s Shape Up!” on Comcast cable.

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Photo by Corrigan Sports of Baltimore, MD

October 2007.
Jogging Joe with Kip Bitok of Kenya two days before the October 13th Baltimore Running Festival. Kip is a previous Baltimore marathon winner and has won the big purse, but in this race, also with a purse in the thosuands of dollars, it was his turn to be the pacer for the winner. Kip as a pacer runs a 5 minute mile for about an hour and then drops off. He's in his twenties, about 6 feet tall and weighs very little.

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Photo by Donna Spiewak

June 2007.
That’s Jogging Joe standing on the running track on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday, June 21, 2007. He’s in street clothes wearing his security clearance tags.The temperature was in the 80’s, and quite humid, a bit too hot to run. It's a 5 foot wide quarter-mile track with a rubberized surface put down in 2002 for President George W. Bush but unused since about 2005 when the President said his knees began to give him trouble while running and he turned to bike riding.

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The Radio Show Let's Shape Up! hosted by Jogging Joe is now heard on WVIE 1370 Baltimore at 11 a.m., and on WBIS 1190 Baltimore/Annapolis at noon on Saturdays.

Let's Shape Up! promotes fitness, exercise, sports of all kinds and good health!

Jim and Deneen CO-host on WVIE. More recently, Jogging Joe teamed up with Joe Gross on the new WVIE radio program called the Joe and Joe Show. Joe Gross is the longtime sports editor of the Capital in Annapolis, now full time on radio and JG Media. The show is heard Saturday's, from 12 to 1 P.M. Joe Gross covers the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Nationals , the Redskins and the Ravens, the Naval Academy sports and still has his hand in area scholastic coverage. Jogging Joe, of course, reports on running and fitness on the Let's Shape Up segment of the show. Heard from Virginia Beach to Wilmington and powerful in Washington D.C., Annapolis and Baltimore, the show is broadcast from studios in Annapolis and is live on the internet at www.wbis1190.com on Saturdays and archived shows can be heard with commercials deleted by clicking here.

Jogging Joe on The Radio

Advertise your compatible business with one minute spots on the program. Also available for sponsorship on radio is Fitness By The Minute ,... Be in touch with Jogging Joe for information on both. Sample spots for Fitness By The Minute can be heard by clicking here.

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As you whiz by some of the Anne Arundel County Fire houses these days, you might see Jogging Joe's name and mention of the I.D tag. on their display signs, here's a bit of explanation. In cooperation with the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, and the County Departments of Health and also Recreation and Parks, Jogging Joe is helping launch a program to have runners especially, as well as anyone else, wear a visible Identification tag in case something happens and medical help is needed. The wrist-band type I.D. which provides vital personal information, a help to the Medics, is being given out free by the County Department of Health. You can call for one at 410.222.4144 (Kathleen Browning) or e-mail Jogging Joe.

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The limited second edition of the Jogging Joe T-Shirt available in select sizes.

Summer weather brings out the zany best in runners!
Jon Line, the manager of Gotta Run in Downtown Annapolis, tests out the jogging stroller he sells,
while Megan Cureton, of Easy Street also downtown, gives a push wearing the second edition
Jogging Joe tee with the tag still attached.

The limited second edition of the Jogging Joe T-shirt can now be purchased at
Gotta Run, 168 Main St. Annapolis. 410.263.0010
Price. $20.00. (men and women).
Online Flat Rate Includes Tax & Shipping $27.00
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Expect up to 4 weeks for delivery.
The shirt is made of an incredible fabric... you have to wear it to believe it!
IT'S NOT COTTON !
It's an engineered yarn. It's the official shirt of the Road Runners Clubs of America.

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May 12, 2007. The .05K bridge run in Annapolis

Photo: Jon Valentine

About a hundred people, dogs and people pushing kids in strollers took off at the Crack O' Noon, Sat May 12 in Annapolis to start the shortest sanctioned race in the world, the .05K ( that's point oh five kay) bridge run in Annapolis . The winner did it in 17 seconds. Jogging Joe is the one with the shaved head and shades somewhere in that mob. He stopped to hydrate at the water stop half way across the bridge, lingered a bit too long and finished in about a minute and a half, thirty seconds after they turned off the electronic timer at the finish line. Yes, the dogs and strollers are a hazard, but reportedly nobody tripped, just lost a lot of time.

Photo: Jon Valentine

That' s Jogging Joe jogging alongside the pace car. It's a brand new 2007 Mercedes convertible driven by Al Zayas of Mercedes-Benz of Annapolis. Yes, this prestigious race has a pace car that traverses the drawbridge in about 13 seconds. Proceeds of the race, put on by the Maritime Republic of Eastport go to the SPCA of Annapolis and to the Easport Elementary School. The Premier of Eastport claims the MRE is now a sovereign independent republic, about to gain one seat on the Security Council at the United Nations, according to its Premier Mark Travaglini. The SPCA becomes involved, because this race is supposedly the only one in the world that permits dogs to run. For verificaton, got to www.themre.org.

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Fondly known as Jogging Joe even in his Western Pennsylvania hometown, he ran a 5k there in memory of a young doctor, a prolific runner, who recently passed away of pancreatic cancer. It was the middle of April where in that section of the country, you may have to scrape ice off the windshield.

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Click here to read the entire revealing Examiner story on Jogging Joe

The results of Jogging's PET scan Monday Oct. 9th indicated that he is free of cancer.

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Jogging Joe Biggest Looser Losers become winners
By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer
Photo By Alison Harbaugh - The Capital

Published August 01, 2006, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.
Copyright © 2006 The Capital, Annapolis, Md.

“Jogging” Joe Shafran, a fitness personality and columnist for The Capital, congratulates Chris Coughlin as the “biggest loser” for the month of July in a local version of the hit NBC television show. Looking on is Gail Connaughton, who developed the fitness challenge for Premier Health & Fitness Clubs.

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Some interesting people who want their picture taken with Jogging Joe...

Anthony Catucci , who was the award winning 6'3" defensive end when he recently played for Archbishop Spalding in Anne Arundel County and is now a student at McDaniel College at Westminster Maryland has a hand big enough to easily hold a loaf of Italian bread and cover Jogging Joe's shaved head.

Jogging Joe, all 5’ 6" of him seems to attract tall sports figures, shown with three of the starting five for the Harlem Globe Trotters, (not in exact order) Sterling Forbes, Eugene "Killer" Edgerson and Herbert " Flight Time" Lang.

Former track star and a member of the U.S, Womens Sports Foundation, Lillian Greene Chamberlain, and fitness guru Denise Austin.

Joe with Josh Oates, Midshipman First Class at the U.S. Naval Academy , from Jasper, Indiana, the 6’3", 280 pound, Offensive Guard on the Navy football team.

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December 2005.

Jogging Joe jogged on down to the Maryland State House in Annapolis Monday December 5th and met with the Governor about fitness and exercise and was assured by the Governor, who appointed Jogger to his Council on Physical Fitness, that he works out in his gym, albeit at midnight, but never misses a day. In the summer, the Governor does hit the golf links once in a while. Jogger did his annual abs check and found that the Governor’s waist is the same as it was when he quarterbacked the Princeton University football team a few years back.

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Jogging Joe at QVC Studios.

September 2005.
Jogging Joe outside the mobile QVC Studio.

March 2005.
Jogging Joe does some arm stretches before his 5 K run around the vast QVC Studio Park at West Chester this past March.

Jogging Joe off camera in one of the 13 QVC Studios.

Jogging Joe jogging at the White House.

September 2004.
Jogging Joe tries out the President’s Personal White House Running Track...

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E-mail Joe at: joggingjoe@letsshapeup.com. You can reach Joe by phone by calling: 410.212.9593

The information provided by this service is intended to serve as recommendations for people who desire to learn more about health, fitness and taking care of the body. Before beginning any exercise program always consult your doctor to make sure you are able to begin exercising. Certain disabilities or conditions may restrict some activities, so be sure to clear things with your doctor.