Wolverine World Wide Family YMCA Expands by 40 Percent
By: 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...
SportsArt's Escape Ordinary Campaign Pays Off for Company
By: 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...
ELife Fitness Wins Awards
By: Jennipher Shaver
Chicago Life Fitness, Chicago, received three awards in appliance DESIGN magazine's 21st annual Excellence in Design Competition. Taking home gold, the...
Sales Growth Leads Paramount Fitness to Expand Facilities
By: 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...
New Fitness Test for Adults Launched
By: 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...
SCIFIT Launches New Site
By: 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...
California High School Students Could Face More P.E. Classes
By: 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...
True Fitness Outsources Production
By: 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...
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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...
Fort Bragg Gets Functional With Fitness Anywhere
By: 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...
Air Force Fitness Gets Runners In Training'
By: 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...
The Wealth in Wellness
By: 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...
IHRSA Club Owners Converge on DC
WASHINGTON, DC -- More than 140 health and fitness industry leaders from 26 states gathered last week in Washington, DC, at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association’s Sixth Annual Legislative Summit. The IHRSA members mounted a coordinated effort to remove federal barriers to exercise and focus legislators’ attention on the need to transform the health care system from one that focuses on sick care to one that focuses on prevention and wellness, according to IHRSA. ...
California High School Students Could Face More P.E. Classes
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA -- High school freshmen in many California districts must pass five of six fitness exams or face the possibility of extra years in physical education classes, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune....
Childhood Obesity Rate Levels Off
WASHINGTON, DC -- The childhood obesity rate is leveling off, according to researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the rates are still high, with 16 percent of children classified as obese and 32 percent classified as overweight. ...
Active Games Burn Up to Three Times the Calories of Hand-Held Games
INDIANAPOLIS -- Three recent studies show that playing active video games burns more calories than playing sedentary hand-held games. The studies were presented this week at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Indianapolis....
Air Force Base Dedicates Fitness Center to WWII Hero
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ -- Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona recently held a dedication ceremony to name its fitness center after Tech. Sgt. Arthur J. Benko, a World War II veteran. Airmen and members of the Desert Lightning team attended the ceremony to show support and to pay respects to Benko, who was a turret gunner aboard a B-24 bomber aircraft during World War II. ...
Yakima Hosts First Kids Marathon
YAKIMA, WA -- More than 200 kids from the West Valley School District in Yakima, WA, participated in the first annual Fitness For Kids Marathon on Sunday. The Yakima Hardcore Runners Club hosted the event, which is aimed at getting elementary students more involved in physical fitness....
New Fitness Test for Adults Launched
WASHINGTON, DC -- The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports launched a new national fitness test for adults this week....
Building for Sale, Not Club, in Tennessee
MEMPHIS, TN -- The new 24-hour DAC Fitness center in Millington, TN, is not for sale, but the building it is housed in is up for auction, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal....
Air Force Fitness Gets Runners ‘In Training’
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, TX -- Air Force fitness recently created the new program In Training to help Air Force members achieve their running goals. ...
Man Breaks Guinness Cycling Record at Illinois YMCA
NAPERVILLE, IL -- The Fry Family YMCA in Naperville, IL, is going down in the “Guinness Book of World Records.” On May 12, at the Y, George Hood set a new world record by pedaling 178 hours on a stationary bike. In the process, he helped raise $30,000 for the facility’s annual fundraising campaign. ...
Snap Founder: Company Not For Sale
By: By Stuart Goldman, managing editor
CHANHASSEN, MN -- Snap Fitness CEO and founder Peter Taunton rebuked a report last week stating that Snap Fitness is for sale. However, at least one industry observer maintains that the company is for sale. ...
Central Florida Center Becoming Too Crowded for Some Students
ORLANDO, FL -- At the Athletic Business Conference and Expo last December in Orlando, a pre-conference tour featured the University of Central Florida’s athletic facilities. The campus’s state-of-the-art, 84,000-square-foot recreation and wellness center was among those facilities....
Air Force Cycling Event Brings Services Together with Healthy Competition
ARLINGTON, VA -- More than 300 amateur and professional cyclists participated in the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic, which was held Sunday in the Washington, DC, area. ...
