IHRSA’s 34th annual International Convention & Trade Show was held in Los Angeles this March. Missed the show? Don’t fret — here’s our breakdown of some of the hottest products that made an appearance.
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A-1 Textiles
What is on your budget every month that makes you see red? One of the biggest monthly replacement items are towels. The Golden Mills towels are manufactured to withstand constant washing, bleaching and over-drying but still remain soft, white and absorbent. There are five qualities of hand and bath towels that are designed to fit every budget — in a full range of sizes and weights. 100 percent satisfaction guaranteed. Four ship points for fast delivery. Call for your free towel samples at 800.351.1819 or visit a1athletictowels.com and click on the shopping cart to place your order today.
800.351.1819 linen@a1textiles.com a1athletictowels.com
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American Public University
American Public University offers more than 190 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs designed for sports and health science professionals, fitness industry professionals and working adults like you — completely online.
877.777.9081 studyatapu.com/ihrsa2015
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Black Mountain Products
Black Mountain Products revolutionary new Safe-T Band™ ensures anyone can use resistance bands without fear of injury. This band utilizes all the same Black Mountain Products components including: high-quality BMP rubber, automotive grade grommets, high thread count nylon and ergonomic cushioned foam grip handles. This new design utilizes an inner tube as an added safety feature to protect you and your members in the event of accidental breakage. All these great features come with a new design and still have the same fair price you’ve come to expect from Black Mountain Products.
224.655.5955 tomw@blackmountainproducts.com blackmoutainproducts.com
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Breezing
While traditional metabolic testing equipment is expensive, Breezing kits start at $350 and support unlimited measurements, keeping the cost of measurements affordable, at about $6 per measurement. What’s more, Breezing streamlines the process so it’s simple, mobile and effective. Portable and wireless, Breezing pairs with iPhone/iPad, allowing metabolic rate measurements to be taken anytime, anywhere. Breezing uses gold-standard indirect calorimetry and state-of-the-art sensor technology to accurately measure resting metabolic rate, then provides an exact daily calorie intake recommendation. Through its free mobile app, Breezing also helps optimize exercise programs for customized weight management.
info@breezing.com breezing.com
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Brewer’s Fitness
The Laddermill is the first variable angle ladder machine. Using a simple resistance mechanism, users can vary the speed of the wall without any costly electric motors. The climber can select from a 5-degree incline to a 15-degree overhang while remaining safe with built in auto-stop technology. By using a mix of ground-based workouts, built in side-rails, and the angle and speed adjustments, users can perform a wide variety of workouts at the precise intensity they need. Anyone from senior citizens to elite athletes can find their perfect work out on the Laddermill.
800.707.9616 sales@treadwall.com brewerfitness.com
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Cal U
California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U) offers 100 percent online bachelor’s, master’s and post-degree program options in wellness and fitness, exercise science and sport management. Cal U’s flexible online programs allow prospective students to gain valuable knowledge and application of sports and health science principles into their careers. With no campus requirement students can focus on maintaining the balance of life, work, family and the pursuit of their education. Asynchronous classes allow students to access courses when it’s convenient for them.
866.595.6348 calugo@calu.edu calu.edu/go
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Cascade Exercise Bikes
Cascade Health and Fitness introduced the first recumbent exercise bike which can be used effectively for group cycling classes at IHRSA 2015. The CMXRT innovation is a fixed gear design with 16 levels of smooth, quiet magnetic resistance. A comfortable four-way reclining seat, step-through design and bi-directional resistance are also popular features. The CMXRT is also effective for rehab use, as resistance can be set at a very low speed. Learn more about the Cascade CMXRT at cascadebiketrainers.com/cmxrt.
855.402.4062 X 105 j.kennedy@cascadehealthandfitness.com cascadebiketrainers.com/cmxrt
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Clubware
Clubware Gym Management Software has been designed specifically for the health and fitness industry, from front desk administration, retail management and class bookings to prospecting, member communications and reporting. Clubware Gym Management Software is regularly updated to meet industry needs and incorporates all the modules that a fitness club requires.
415.269.0529 sales@clubware.us clubware.us
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Codelocks
Codelocks introduces compact digital locker lock. The new NANO90 is a compact version of the cabinet locker locks in its popular KitLock range. The product can either be flush or surface mounted and, with a footprint of just 30 by 90 millimeters, it’s perfect for the smaller wallet or personal effects lockers found in many gyms and fitness clubs. KitLock digital locker locks are designed specifically for securing lockers without using keys or fobs. To access a locker, members simply place their cell phone, wallet and keys inside, enter their own four-digit code on the keypad, then “lock and go.”
+714.979.2900 sales@codelocks.us codelock.us
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COMPETE® energy bites
COMPETE® energy bites Dietary Supplements are convenient, great-tasting bite-sized chews with quality ingredients that provide portable energy. These bites are good news for fitness enthusiasts looking for a safe, effective burst of energy. Each bite provides 135 milligrams of caffeine, about the equivalent of a 12-ounce cup of premium coffee. Six-packs of these tasty treats are available in chocolate and mocha flavors and can be purchased in packs of 12 through Europa Sports Products. At work or at play, COMPETE energy bites provide the boost you need to succeed. They are portable, affordable power for people on the go.
888.998.6001 danielle@westdakotallc.com competenrg.com
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Digilock
NextLock® by Digilock® is proud to introduce SOLA® and DUO® as the newest electronic locks featured at IHRSA 2015. As the market leader in electronic locks, NextLock® by Digilock® provides a new generation of patented lock technology. SOLA® and DUO® offer a custom experience by accommodating both shared and assigned use functionality. The patented electronic manager key allows easy override access, audit and external power. With a four-digit code managed version, facilities now have a truly keyless solution. We believe it is important to continually develop innovative products designed with Digilock’s patented lock technology to create a security simplified® solution.
707.766.6000 sales@digilock.com digilock.com
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Epsilon
Epsilon, formerly Aspen Marketing, is the global leader in creating connections between people and brands. We have the talent, capabilities and assets to be your end-to-end fitness marketing solution.The Epsilon Dashboard allows you to take control of your marketing future. Huge amounts of analytical data are automatically collected, interpreted and translated into priceless marketing information. It has never been easier or quicker to recognize trends, adjust strategies and improve your ROI.
866.668.5158 sales@epsilonlocal.com epsilonlocal.com
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Fit3D
Fit3D is fueling fitness motivation for medical and fitness facility members by providing objective, unbiased assessments of the user’s body. The ProScanner provides users with a 3D avatar of themselves with over 20 benchmark measurements, allowing them to track and visualize their fitness progress in real-time on Fit3D’s web platform. Fit3D’s goal is to be impactful — for members, we want to drive passion into their workouts and keep them engaged in fitness and wellness by showing them results of their hard work. For businesses, we want to drive new member sales, member retention, personal training revenue and ancillary revenue.
239.440.9858 sales@fit3d.com fit3d.com
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GANTNER Technologies
The fitness industry’s No. 1 NFC technology provider. GANTNER Technologies is the leading developer of NFC solutions, specially designed for the fitness industry. GANTNER’s complete solution for access control, check-in, locker room technology and cashless payment all adds up to a member experience that is sure to differentiate you from the competition. Imagine from the time a member arrives to when they leave, one membership card or wristband controls everything — checking-in, using a locker, purchasing a smoothie at the drink bar, even uploading favorite workouts on the networked fitness equipment.
844.703.1139 info@gantner.com gantner.com
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InControl Medical
The second leading cause of bladder leakage in women is exercise. In fact, more than 40 percent of the women who frequent health club facilities leak urine when they exercise. The FDA recently cleared InControl Medical’s Apex product for female stress incontinence for sale over the counter direct to the consumer. Apex provides women the ability to complete an advanced strengthening program in the privacy of their home. Apex treats the cause of leakage at the source, restoring the pelvic floor and eliminating leakage. Our affiliate program allows you to generate revenue and provide value to your female clients without any risk or expense to your business.
262.373.0422 incontrolmedical@incontrolmedical.com dontpadtheproblem.com
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InTouch Follow-Up
Get and keep members. InTouch provides health clubs with an easy way to capture leads, schedule follow-up and track sales performance. It has almost a decade of experience in developing software that is built specifically for the health and fitness sector. Over 800 health club locations in 11 countries use InTouch Follow-Up’s solution to acquire and retain members.
888.437.8243 sales@intouchfollowup.com intouchfollowup.com
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Jacobs Ladder LLC
Jacobs Ladder LLC has been producing Jacobs Ladder for over 10 years. It saw the need in the market for a stair climber that was both lower priced and more reliable. So the company took Jacobs Ladder, stood the user upright and replaced the rungs with stairs. The result is The Stairway. The Stairway is the only stair climber that is self-powered, manufactured in the U.S. and will fit where most stair climbers won’t. It is not only easier to get onto with an 11-inch initial step, it will fit in a ceiling height of 8.5 feet. It is self-powered and easy to move around a facility.
866.697.4100 info@jacobsladderexercise.com jacobsladderexercise.com
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Jonas Fitness
At IHRSA 2015 Jonas unveiled the latest way to manage your club anytime, anywhere from any tablet. The new Compete® On The Go set of online tools gets you out from behind your front desk and allows you to interact with your members and prospects on a more intimate level. No more being tied to a computer when signing up a new member and access to your club’s reporting is always at the palm of your hand. Jonas brings you 30 years of industry experience providing enterprise health club management software, payment processing and member service solutions. For a free demo of Compete On The Go visit jonasfitness.com/demo.html.
888.590.0026 salesinfo@jonasfitness.com jonasfitness.com
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Life Floor
Life Floor tiles are beautiful, durable and engineered for safety, especially in aquatic environments. The tiles boast a critical fall height of 1 foot and their surface, which becomes even more slip-resistant when wet, makes them the ideal flooring option for indoor and outdoor pool decks, showers, locker rooms, yoga studios and anywhere else your members may be barefoot. Life Floor is easy to clean, anti-microbial and a benefit your members will love for years to come.
612.567.2813 solutions@lifefloor.com lifefloor.com
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Listen360, Inc.
Member feedback and online reviews. Competition for members is fierce, but you can improve retention and build a five-star rating online with Listen360 Feedback and Reviews. Whether you have one club or 100, Listen360 lets you keep a finger on the pulse of your business, with real-time customer feedback, closed-loop issue resolution and powerful reporting. And to boost your online reputation, the system gives happy members an easy way to post positive reviews on Google+ and Yelp.
678.352.3050 info@listen360.com listen360.com/cs
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Matrix Fitness
The 7xi is a revolutionary way to link your members to stunning entertainment, social media favorites, effective fitness tracking and brand-building communication from you. It’s also an ingenious way to manage your equipment to expedite maintenance and service, which maximizes machine uptime. All the data the 7xi collects is available on an open platform so it is yours to use in maximizing operations and building member loyalty. The 7xi changes the way you connect and communicate with your members. It revolutionizes the way you manage your equipment, your facility and your data. It expands your ability to attract new and retain existing members.
866.693.4863 info@matrixfitness.com matrixfitness.com
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MorphoTrak
MorphoTrak biometric check-in solution balances total fraud protection and cost saving for the club owner with club member convenience and enhanced experience. As the health club industry leader for biometric check-in, MorphoTrak serves 4 million members of the largest privately held fitness club chain in the U.S. SAVE MONEY. No more replacement cost for lost, stolen or damaged cards, fobs or barcodes. STOP FRAUD. Cards, fobs and barcodes can be shared. Biometrics are secure and cannot be shared. MORE CONVENIENT. Customers never have to remember a card, fob or barcode. SMARTER. Present a modern image with the latest technology.
800.444.0496 info@morphotrak.com cardlesscheckin.com
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MXM/Medallia
Club Works, a Medallia partner company, is the provider of Member Experience Metrics (MXM). MXM is an operational customer experience management (OCEM) system. MXM takes you far deeper than Net Promoter Score into the most important touch point metrics that drive “First Degree Accountability” across your entire operation. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it and when everyone in your organization owns a piece of the customer experience puzzle, you have accountability that drives continuous improvement and cuts to the core of your member experience. Club Works delivers the technology and operational expertise for those obsessed with excellence.
509.888.5636 info@mxmetrics.com mxmetrics.com
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MYZONE
Group classes become encouraging communities, as MYZONE transmits user data to live displays, allowing users to compare their effort to other participants. Through gamification and an online community, physical activity is made competitive and fun, as users can unlock badges, set and reach personal milestones and even challenge their friends, family and colleagues to see who can earn the most MEPs (MYZONE Effort Points). Additionally, MYZONE users can share achievements with their networks on various social media channels, adding further reward to a user’s effort and results.
8555.MYZONE headoffice@myzone.org myzone.org/clubsolutions
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Netpulse
Netpulse is the no. 1 provider of custom branded mobile apps for clubs. The most successful clubs use their mobile app to engage members, drive revenue and create a complete club experience. Your mobile app drives member referrals, personal training sales, member participation in fitness challenges and many other powerful methods of member engagement. It’s a must-have for 2015.
877.NETPULSE ksweeney@netpulse.com netpulse.com
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Peak Pilates®
Peak Pilates® is proud to present our new studio line, The Afina™ Collection. We started with “What if?” and seized the opportunity to make something classical, beautiful and as inviting to the human eye as it is to the human body. Some new features include: removable head rest for easy cleaning, newly designed carriage, contoured footbar with safety catch feature, easy sliding spring adjustments on the tower and more. The Afina is hand-crafted with the traditional approach that has made Peak Pilates® the preferred choice of studios worldwide. The Afina comes in three configurations: The Afina 4 reformer, The Afina 5 reformer and the Afina + Tower.
800.925.3674 info@peakpilates.com peakpilates.com
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PRIMEX
PRIMEX is an elite, ingeniously structured resistance trainer that strengthens, tones and challenges your entire physique through a natural process of muscle chain activation. By providing people of all ages with a complete, customizable, no-impact workout in less than 10 minutes, PRIMEX fosters whole-life enhancement through whole-body fitness. For athletes PRIMEX presents invigorating physical and mental challenges to even the most accomplished athletes poised at the peak of their abilities. Use it to add dynamic new elements to an existing routine, or replace worn-out rituals with its revolutionary method of intense muscle chain activation that is critical to increasing speed, quickness and agility.
+1.406.624. 6228 info@primextrainer.com primextrainer.com
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Styku
Introducing MyBodee (by Styku), a revolutionary 3D body scanner for capturing the true shape, body composition and measurements of club members. No need for calipers or measuring tapes. MyBodee creates an exact 3D model then extracts hundreds of precise body measurements within seconds. Members can view precise waist, hip, bust, thigh measurements and more with an accuracy of 0.1-0.25 inches. Motivate your customers by setting fat loss goals, daily activity and daily caloric deficit. Assess body fat, caloric expenditure and maximum calorie consumption. Highlight progress with before-and-after 3D visualizations. Generate reports. Learn more by visiting styku.com/fitness.
323.726.3837 info@styku.com styku.com/fitness
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TriggerPoint™
TriggerPoint™ makes it easy to empower your clients to maintain and restore the body’s natural, athletic ability to move freely with the launch of three new handheld products, The GRID® STK, NANO™ and T-Roller™. Specifically designed to increase flexibility and relieve the body’s most common aches and pains, use them while seated or standing to help channel blood and oxygen directly to the tissue for health and mobility. Equipped with specific programming in a convenient size and easy-to-clean surface, all three products are ideal for the gym. To learn more, visit tptherapy.com.
512.300.2804 help@4implus.com tptherapy.com
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Turbine
Turbine — Sports Breathing Technology. Introducing Turbine™, a unique nasal respiratory technology that allows you to get more air in, when you workout. By gently stenting open the airway from the inside, Turbine allows you to breathe more efficiently to focus your energy on the muscles that need it. Worn by famous athletes, Turbine has a starter pack (MRSP $12.95) and refill 3-packs (MRSP $27.95) available. Turbine offers you high margins so you can turbo charge your programs and help your clients to improve their breathing to get more out of every workout. To give your clients the edge and unlock greater profit, contact sales@theturbine.com.
+61 3.8416.0900 sales@theturbine.com theturbine.com
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Woodway
The Wattbike will revolutionize the way your members train. Based on a unique approach of training with power, heart rate and cadence, the Wattbike motivates your members, making their goals a reality. With the Wattbike they can: Use built-in fitness tests to set training zones and make each session the precise intensity needed to achieve their goals. Use Wattbike Polar View to improve pedaling technique which equals more power and speed. Achieve a smooth, comfortable ride with full adjustability and unique Real Ride Feel technology.
800.woodway info@woodway.com woodway.com
