June 1, 2008
First Word
Get to Know Who Isn't Here
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Pamela Kufahl, editor Pam.Kufahl@penton.com
Recent conflicting fitness industry news has caused me to ask myself: What's going on? I'm a big believer that the health club industry, researchers and...
Club Industry
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
The Club Industry national conference will be here before you know it (Oct. 15-18). It's never too early to make your plans to go to Chicago and check...
Fitness Business News
New Fitness Test for Adults Launched
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Stuart Goldman
Washington, Dc The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports launched a new national fitness test for adults last month. The adult fitness test...
Wolverine World Wide Family YMCA Expands by 40 Percent
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Belmont, Mi Just two-and-a-half years after opening its doors, the Wolverine World Wide Family YMCA in Belmont, MI, has undergone a $2 million, 17,795-square-foot...
California High School Students Could Face More P.E. Classes
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Stuart Goldman
Sacramento, Ca A California state law requires high school freshmen in many California districts to pass five of six fitness tests or face the possibility...
Air Force Fitness Gets Runners In Training'
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Randolph Air Force Base, Tx There's a new source of information for airmen on the run. Air Force fitness recently created an online how-to running program...
Childhood Obesity Rate Levels Off
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Pamela Kufahl
Washington, Dc A recent finding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the childhood obesity rate leveled off isn't necessarily...
Snap Fitness Announces Minority Investment
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Stuart Goldman
Chanhassen, Mn Last Month, amid rumors that Snap Fitness was for sale, CEO and founder Peter Taunton said he had no desire to sell a majority share of...
More than $2 Million Awarded To Study Interactive Games
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Princeton, Nj Twelve research teams in California, Florida, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington were awarded...
IHRSA Moves on Washington, DC
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Pamela Kufahl
Washington, Dc Last month, more than 140 health and fitness industry leaders from 26 states gathered in Washington, DC, to speak with their respective...
Americans Lack Confidence to Administer CPR/AED, Survey Says
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Stuart Goldman
Dallas In Correlation with the inaugural National CPR/AED Awareness Week, which took place June 1-7, the American Heart Association released a survey...
Air Force Base Dedicates Fitness Center to WWWII Hero
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jenniper Shaver
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Az Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona recently held a dedication ceremony to name its fitness center after World War...
30
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Thirty Minutes of Brisk walking at 50 percent of maximum heart rate was recently shown to reduce blood pressure in obese exercisers for at least four...
In BRIEF
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Martin Stein is The New chief operating officer of Global Fitness Holdings, which owns and operates 29 Urban Active Health and Fitness Clubs in Kentucky,...
Inside Manufacturers
Fiserv Wins Best Employer Award
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Brookfield, Wi The National Business Group on Health (NBGH), a national non-profit organization of large employers, awarded Fiserv Inc., owner of Checkfree,...
Gerflor Taraflex Goes to Beijing
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Atlanta Through International Table Tennis Federation and International Volleyball Federation agreements, Gerflor Taraflex, Atlanta, will supply courts...
Expresso Fitness Gets Funding
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Sunnyvale, Ca Expresso Fitness has raised $12 million in a Series C-2 round of funding. The financing will be used to expand the company's product portfolio...
Titan Fitness Selects Retention Management
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Cornelius, Nc Titan Fitness selected Retention Management to provide services to all of its Gold's Gym locations in Minnesota and North Carolina. Retention...
SportsArt's Escape Ordinary Campaign Pays Off for Company
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Pamela Kufahl
Woodinville, Wa For club owners who think outside the box, Scott Logan has a proposition: Why not Escape Ordinary? Escape Ordinary is the theme of the...
Sales Growth Leads Paramount Fitness to Expand Facilities
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Los Angeles Growing pains at Paramount Fitness Corp. is causing the manufacturer to expand its manufacturing and warehouse facilities in Los Angeles to...
ELife Fitness Wins Awards
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Chicago Life Fitness, Chicago, received three awards in appliance DESIGN magazine's 21st annual Excellence in Design Competition. Taking home gold, the...
SCIFIT Launches New Site
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Tulsa, Ok In late May, SCIFIT launched an updated Web site (www.scifit.com), which features the company's full line of commercial cardio equipment. The...
True Fitness Outsources Production
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Pamela Kufahl
St. Louis, Mo TRUE Fitness is restructuring and consolidating its plant operations, the company announced last month. For the past 27 years, TRUE products...
Fort Bragg Gets Functional With Fitness Anywhere
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
Fort Bragg, Nc In late April, Fitness Anywhere Inc. (FAI) went to Fort Bragg, NC, for two days to teach more than 100 soldiers and unit fitness leaders...
Top News
Limited Access
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Stuart Goldman, managing editor
The meteoric rise of 24-hour key-card clubs has taken the industry by storm. Since 2001, the number of these clubs has grown by 400 percent, according...
Executive Insights
Interview with Kent Blumenthal, Executive Director of NIRSA
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
We’re about [two months] removed from the NIRSA Conference and Expo in Austin, TX...
Focus on Clubs
Make Your Club Stand Out In an Overcrowded Market
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Ed Tock
Two months ago, when I presented at the Club Industry East show in New York City, every club operator I spoke with was concerned about the volume of new...
Focus on Technology
When It Comes to Gaming, We All Benefit from Wii Fit
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Gregory Florez
If you are wondering if the gaming fitness trend is here to stay, simply do a Google search for Nintendo Wii Fit and read the top four to five links that...
Feature
The Wealth in Wellness
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jennipher Shaver, senior associate editor
When Margaret Moore, founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corp., explains what wellness coaching is, she says to visualize yourself on your life path. Above...
Trend Watches
Top Design Trends
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Amy Florence Fischbach, contributing writer
Interior design trends may be less fluid than fashion trends, which change with each season, but that doesn't mean club owners can stick with a 20-year-old...
Tots 'N Tennis
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Bright and early on a Saturday morning, adults took tennis lessons on two indoor courts at Woodside Health and Tennis Club, Westwood, KS. The third court,...
From the Lip
Instead of Fading, Fitness Separates from Wellness
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Michael Scott Scudder
Seven months ago, I wrote about how the word may be fading from our terminology. In that column, I spoke about early industry innovators going out and...
Pro Shop
Pro Shop
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Outdoor Lighting The PathMaster Composite LED Bollard is an outdoor architectural fixture designed to provide energy-efficient illumination of walkways,...
One Last Thought
Isn't It Time We Break the Silence?
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jennipher Shaver
One last thought about familiar faces. Now that it's warmer outside, I've been spending less time in the club's four walls and more time in good ol' Mother...
