HOOFit Stingray Bay Stop

Stingray Bay, presented by OhioHealth, is one of the coolest (or warmest) places at the Zoo!

Here, you get your chance to be up close and personal with stingrays, a kind of flat fish that are closely related to sharks. There is a lot of variation to stingrays – the smallest, short nosed electric rays, only weighs about 14 ounces while the largest, the oceanic manta ray, can weigh nearly 4500 pounds!

OhioHealth Tip: Leg day, arm day, ab day...the list goes on...but what about rest day?

You might be surprised that rest days should be included in your regular workout routine. And, while rest days might sound counterintuitive to working out, they’re actually an essential part of staying healthy.

Rest days are vitally important to allow our bodies to repair and recover, which is required if we want to build strength, endurance, and muscle. Resistance training creates small microtears, and recovery allows those microtears to repair and grow in recovery.

So don’t feel guilty about giving your body a break – you'll come back stronger!