Gold’s Gym in Tuscon, Arizona, held a grand re-opening celebration last week. The facility added 4,000 more feet of floor space as well as an indoor/outdoor child care playground area. The club says it is the only fitness facility in the country that offers two cardio cinemas.
Planet Fitness has sold World Gym International to the Joyce J. Cammilleri family for undisclosed terms. The new owners obtained the relationships with franchisees as well as the World Gym brand, and former president Mike Uretz will serve as an advisor to the company.
Sport & Health Clubs announced the promotion of Mark Fisher to president and chief operating officer. Fisher has been a long-term employee of the company, and has served as the senior vice president of operations and sales as well as the COO over the past six years.
Town Sports International TSI’s New York Sports Clubs teamed up with Forrest Solutions, a leading employee recruitment firm, for a career workout day, giving people an opportunity to boost their career and their metabolism. The day featured insights on topics like career strategy, upgrading resumes and interview skills, followed by a free workout featuring NYSC personal trainers.
The gym, located in Sunrise, Florida, recently purchased $200,000 worth of state-of-the-art cardio equipment, in a decision made by Fitness 21 managing partner Rick Bouza in a bid to set his seven year old family owned and operated club apart from larger gym chains. “Contrary to what most businesses do in a tight economy, we’ve decided to spend money to increase our market share and give us an edge on the competition,” he says. “The new Star Trac cardio offerings will play a big part in setting Fitness 21 above other gyms. No other gym in the area provides machines with personal entertainment options like we are.”
The new equipment includes 20 E-Tri treadmills and four E-TBTi Total Body Trainers. In addition to including the standard features Star Trac is known for, both machines feature an integrated 15-inch HD personal viewing screen with channel and volume controls. The machines are also equipped with an iPod doc that has music, video and USB charging station capabilities. Finally, Fitness 21 added 20 Star Trac Spinner Pro bikes.
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IHRSA’s Top Ten Reasons to Join a Health Club in 2009
2. Practice Prevention: Exercise is a form of preventative medicine that research has shown can lower the risk of many chronic health problems while helping to stave off the effects of aging.
3. Improve Work Life: Exercise can boost employee morale, increase productivity and lead to decreased absenteeism.
4. Save Money: Health club membership remains an incredible value for the cost, and could help members save on medical costs in the long run.
5. Make a Difference: By joining a club and exercising, members are doing their part to reverse the alarming increase in obesity rates in America.
6. Spread the Health: Members can take the lead and be an example of healthy living and wellness for family, friends and their community.
7. Weather the Storm: Health clubs give members a safe, protected place to workout – no matter what the weather is doing outside!
8. Better Together: Health clubs provide a supportive environment for members to meet new people, build friendships and network. Enlisting the support of others can increase motivation and make it easier for members to achieve health and fitness goals.
9. Variety is the Spice of Life: Many give members an array of workout options to choose from in one place, which helps combat boredom.
10. It’s Deserved: A health club membership is not really a luxury – it’s an investment in health – so remind members to look at it this way!
Registration Now Open For Chain Reaction Spinning Event
Chain Reaction was created to help HealthCorps extend its proactive health movement nationally, encouraging and educating high school students to live a healthy, active lifestyle. The event brings together celebrities, fitness enthusiasts, professional athletes and companies for a fun, high-energy event to reach the $1 million fundraising goal to establish HealthCorps’ groundbreaking curriculum in more schools within the coming year.
Star Trac, building on its Expect Different initiatives to encourage all people to live a healthy, active lifestyle, has partnered with HealthCorps to organize the event. Founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthCorps encourages and educates American youth and families to “Eat Smart and Exercise” by providing them with knowledge, tools and support to make healthy choices.
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Life Fitness continues commitment to inclusive fitness
Life Fitness has been involved with IFI since its inception and is committed to providing equipment that is suitable for exercisers of all abilities. Lawra Joseph, marketing manager for Life Fitness in the United Kingdom, explains, “This is the first time that our IFI accredited products will have fully integrated inclusive features. The new approach demonstrates the company’s continued dedication to the IFI and also reflects its growing importance for operators.” The new developments to Lifecycle Exercise Bikes and the treadmill include a new console overlay and a keypad with dome switches accented by brighter colors, making it easier for people with visual impairment to navigate the console. Modified level controls on the bike’s handlebars allow users to more easily identify and reach level controls. The Lifecycles also feature a new color for the seat height adjustment mechanism, a tactile label for the seat positions and a pedal with a heel strap. In addition, there are now contrast lines and a larger logo on the edge of the treadmill’s running belt to assist all exercisers in identifying when the belt is rotating.
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California Family Fitness (CFF) in Sacramento, California, has had 50 of Trixter’s X-Bikes installed in their state-of-the-art facility for six months, and the X-biking programs are proving to be the most popular group fitness classes offered at the gym. Melissa Thomas, the club’s group fitness director, says, “We were looking at ways to differentiate CFF from the competition and the link up with Trixter has been perfect. The bikes offer us a number of different programs, including traditional group classes, a virtual reality X-biking class, elite athlete training and a kids program.” Trixter’s patented X-bars and free wheel drive train not only give this bike the feel of an outdoor bike, but provides a full-body workout that, according to Bath University, burns up to 55% more calories than a regular indoor bike, allowing for shorter class times with better results.
The company has just signed a deal with the Ocshsner Clinic Foundation in Louisiana to provide bikes not only for the wellness center, but also for their mobile gym, which will visit over 100 schools every month in the New Orleans area. This program will enable a large number of school age children in the area to get access to state of the art exercise equipment
Gold’s Gym in Tuscon, Arizona, held a grand re-opening celebration last week. The facility added 4,000 more feet of floor space as well as an indoor/outdoor child care playground area. The club says it is the only fitness facility in the country that offers two cardio cinemas.
Planet Fitness has sold World Gym International to the Joyce J. Cammilleri family for undisclosed terms. The new owners obtained the relationships with franchisees as well as the World Gym brand, and former president Mike Uretz will serve as an advisor to the company.
Sport & Health Clubs announced the promotion of Mark Fisher to president and chief operating officer. Fisher has been a long-term employee of the company, and has served as the senior vice president of operations and sales as well as the COO over the past six years.
Town Sports International TSI’s New York Sports Clubs teamed up with Forrest Solutions, a leading employee recruitment firm, for a career workout day, giving people an opportunity to boost their career and their metabolism. The day featured insights on topics like career strategy, upgrading resumes and interview skills, followed by a free workout featuring NYSC personal trainers.
The gym, located in Sunrise, Florida, recently purchased $200,000 worth of state-of-the-art cardio equipment, in a decision made by Fitness 21 managing partner Rick Bouza in a bid to set his seven year old family owned and operated club apart from larger gym chains. “Contrary to what most businesses do in a tight economy, we’ve decided to spend money to increase our market share and give us an edge on the competition,” he says. “The new Star Trac cardio offerings will play a big part in setting Fitness 21 above other gyms. No other gym in the area provides machines with personal entertainment options like we are.”
The new equipment includes 20 E-Tri treadmills and four E-TBTi Total Body Trainers. In addition to including the standard features Star Trac is known for, both machines feature an integrated 15-inch HD personal viewing screen with channel and volume controls. The machines are also equipped with an iPod doc that has music, video and USB charging station capabilities. Finally, Fitness 21 added 20 Star Trac Spinner Pro bikes.
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IHRSA’s Top Ten Reasons to Join a Health Club in 2009
2. Practice Prevention: Exercise is a form of preventative medicine that research has shown can lower the risk of many chronic health problems while helping to stave off the effects of aging.
3. Improve Work Life: Exercise can boost employee morale, increase productivity and lead to decreased absenteeism.
4. Save Money: Health club membership remains an incredible value for the cost, and could help members save on medical costs in the long run.
5. Make a Difference: By joining a club and exercising, members are doing their part to reverse the alarming increase in obesity rates in America.
6. Spread the Health: Members can take the lead and be an example of healthy living and wellness for family, friends and their community.
7. Weather the Storm: Health clubs give members a safe, protected place to workout – no matter what the weather is doing outside!
8. Better Together: Health clubs provide a supportive environment for members to meet new people, build friendships and network. Enlisting the support of others can increase motivation and make it easier for members to achieve health and fitness goals.
9. Variety is the Spice of Life: Many give members an array of workout options to choose from in one place, which helps combat boredom.
10. It’s Deserved: A health club membership is not really a luxury – it’s an investment in health – so remind members to look at it this way!
Registration Now Open For Chain Reaction Spinning Event
Chain Reaction was created to help HealthCorps extend its proactive health movement nationally, encouraging and educating high school students to live a healthy, active lifestyle. The event brings together celebrities, fitness enthusiasts, professional athletes and companies for a fun, high-energy event to reach the $1 million fundraising goal to establish HealthCorps’ groundbreaking curriculum in more schools within the coming year.
Star Trac, building on its Expect Different initiatives to encourage all people to live a healthy, active lifestyle, has partnered with HealthCorps to organize the event. Founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, HealthCorps encourages and educates American youth and families to “Eat Smart and Exercise” by providing them with knowledge, tools and support to make healthy choices.
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Life Fitness continues commitment to inclusive fitness
Life Fitness has been involved with IFI since its inception and is committed to providing equipment that is suitable for exercisers of all abilities. Lawra Joseph, marketing manager for Life Fitness in the United Kingdom, explains, “This is the first time that our IFI accredited products will have fully integrated inclusive features. The new approach demonstrates the company’s continued dedication to the IFI and also reflects its growing importance for operators.” The new developments to Lifecycle Exercise Bikes and the treadmill include a new console overlay and a keypad with dome switches accented by brighter colors, making it easier for people with visual impairment to navigate the console. Modified level controls on the bike’s handlebars allow users to more easily identify and reach level controls. The Lifecycles also feature a new color for the seat height adjustment mechanism, a tactile label for the seat positions and a pedal with a heel strap. In addition, there are now contrast lines and a larger logo on the edge of the treadmill’s running belt to assist all exercisers in identifying when the belt is rotating.
Peaksware compatible with iPhone
Osteoporosis in the United States: Bone Mass Density Related to Activity Levels
California Family Fitness (CFF) in Sacramento, California, has had 50 of Trixter’s X-Bikes installed in their state-of-the-art facility for six months, and the X-biking programs are proving to be the most popular group fitness classes offered at the gym. Melissa Thomas, the club’s group fitness director, says, “We were looking at ways to differentiate CFF from the competition and the link up with Trixter has been perfect. The bikes offer us a number of different programs, including traditional group classes, a virtual reality X-biking class, elite athlete training and a kids program.” Trixter’s patented X-bars and free wheel drive train not only give this bike the feel of an outdoor bike, but provides a full-body workout that, according to Bath University, burns up to 55% more calories than a regular indoor bike, allowing for shorter class times with better results.
The company has just signed a deal with the Ocshsner Clinic Foundation in Louisiana to provide bikes not only for the wellness center, but also for their mobile gym, which will visit over 100 schools every month in the New Orleans area. This program will enable a large number of school age children in the area to get access to state of the art exercise equipment