GORUCK, American Heart Association bring hot yoga to Jacksonville Beach to raise awareness for women’s heart health

It was more than a workout at Jacksonville Beach on Saturday.Fitness and equipment company GORUCK teamed up with the American Heart Association to host a yoga class and rucking exercise course at its Jacksonville Beach headquarters in support of Go Red for Women, a movement dedicated to raising awareness for women’s heart health and prevention.“This morning, we’re out here exercising together at a place called GORUCK. We’re doing a lot of functional fitness,” Amy Pollak, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, said. “We’re raising awareness for heart disease, for everyone living with heart disease and everyone who’s lost a loved one to heart disease.”GORUCK, a company that encourages people to walk with weight — a practice known as rucking — says the event was about more than fitness. It was about building community.“GORUCK is the rucking company. We encourage people to get out with others and walk with weight,” Emily McCarthy said. “Today, we are doing a fit party fundraiser in partnership