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Total Fitness Clubs has partnered up with EVOLUTION Pilates and Nutrition to hold Pilates Mat classes to support Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Shape Magazine’s October Breast Cancer Awareness and Fundraising event, “Pilates for Pink,” Oct. 18-23, 2010. One Hundred percent of the proceeds from these “Pilates for Pink” Pilates Mat classes and from the [...]

Sport&Health Clubs, the Washington, D.C. metro area health club company, announced the acquisition of Clubgolf Performance Center at its Rio location, Gaithersburg, Md. Clubgolf, a year-round performance center focused on a personalized combination of evaluation, fitness training and instruction, shares Sport&Health’s mission by striving to improve golfers’ game, break bad habits and achieve golf goals [...]

Selected from a plethora of RetroFitness Facebook fan posts, Donna Dillow Jones of North Laurel, Md., has been rewarded with a three-month free membership at RetroFitness of Jessup, Md., for her amazing weight loss and transformation success story. RetroFitness launched a weeklong social media fan page campaign on September 7, encouraging its 8,000-plus social media [...]

Family lifestyle brand Citibabes will be providing enriched childcare and signature children’s classes at select Equinox locations, enabling families to have a more convenient and fulfilling fitness experience. “We are looking forward to sharing our childcare and children’s programming expertise with fitness giant Equinox,” said Tracey Frost, CEO and co-founder of Citibabes. “Citibabes will bridge [...]

A Minnesota investment firm is taking Anytime Fitness Inc. to Poland. Wayzata Poland Z.O.O., a subsidiary of Wayzata Capital, signed an Area Development Agreement to operate Anytime Fitness Clubs in Poland with plans to open three clubs in Warsaw in the next two years. The first club is already under development and is scheduled to [...]

Keith Worts has been named the new president of Crunch Fitness, the health club chain that fuses fitness with entertainment. Worts, former COO of Crunch, has over 20 years of experience in the industry. In his new role, he will oversee the management of Crunch’s 21 locations in the U.S. “I couldn’t be happier to [...]

Beginning July 1, 2010 businesses offering ultraviolet tanning services must collect a 10 percent excise tax as part of the excise tax requirement of the Affordable Care Act, enacted in March 2010. Businesses must collect the tax at the time the customer pays for service; if the customer doesn’t pay then the tanning service provider [...]

Club managers and owners alike have been witness to many different socioeconomic changes over the last year. In light of these changes, the Club Industry 2010 Trade Show in Chicago during Oct. 6 through Oct. 8 will be titled “Moving Forward.” Now celebrating its 25th year, Club Industry is telling the industry that it’s time [...]

On Sept. 3-5 the Rush Fitness Complex based in Knoxville, Tenn., celebrates the grand opening of their newest facility in Winston-Salem, N.C. This is their 20th location. Local area businesses will be providing food, door prizes, music, balloons, free tours and the chance to win a free one-year Rush membership for all who attend. The [...]

Life Time Fitness plans to close in downtown St. Paul, Minn. According to TwinCities.com, the club failed to come to terms on a lease agreement with the building’s landlord. The club has been at its location, at the University Club building on Cedar Street, for the past 13 years. “August 13 will be the last [...]