Stemming Childhood Obesity With Hydraulic Exercise Circuits
It's fast, it's fun, it's coed, and in 30 short minutes, it builds stronger muscles and bones, improve cardiovascular conditioning, and burns fat in kids. Symanthia Harpers, founder of Shapes for Women, offers an in-depth…
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East Meets West: A Nutritionist Sheds Light on Vitamins, Nutrition, and Goji
Dr. Earl Mindell is a pioneer in the nutrition world, he helped to popularize the use of vitamins for healthy living with his highly acclaimed book, the Vitamin Bible, first printed in 1979. He enlightens us to better health by intelligent use of both Eastern and Western approaches to medicine…
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Natural Ways to Lower Bad Cholesterol, Boost The Good, Improve Your HDL Factor and Get Healthy
Cholesterol naturally rises with age and is a leading contributor to heart disease---- the number one killer in the U.S. Regardless of your age, there are many steps you should take right now to suppress this silent marauder. Al Valente explains natural ways to lower your LDL through nutrition, exercise, and other means Learn more…
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HOGGAN Sprint Circuit: Magnetic Marketing for Health Clubs and Express Gyms
Elegant, intuitive and non-intimidating strength training equipment uses magnetic technology behind the scenes to attract the boomer, women, junior and senior newcomers to circuit training. Its versatility can pamper the beginner or make a gym rat sweat. Learn more…
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Health Clubs Transition to the Era of Age Management
With the advancing biological age of the boomer population segment, more and more health club members are seeking additional age management programs to complement their exercise regimen. Science as revealed that aging is caused by damage to DNA. Suracell now offers a program for health clubs to offer advanced nutraceutical formulations based on each member's unique DNA analysis. A great service to your members, not to mention a whole new profit center. It's high tech, but you won't need a staff nutritionist to administer. Learn more…
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It All Starts With a Simple Call for Help
An acclaimed personal trainer, decided to branch out into the broader health club business. He soon found out that his elegant club wasn't enough to bring in the needed revenue. He called in industry expert, Jim Thomas to shape things up for the arrival of the first quarter of 2006. Without increasing the budget by even a dime, Thomas rewrote job descriptions, added magic words into the marketing mailers, trained the front desk staff in how to sell, and instilled a total air of confidence and renewed energy. The quarter recently wrapped up with a 30% to 37% increase in sales, all achieved without a dedicated sales person. Find out how…
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Hear Me Roar, Time For Change -- Understanding Women's Heart Disease
Unbeknown to most, heart disease claims more women's lives per year than men, and ten times more women die from heart disease than from breast cancer. Because women's symptoms are more subtle than men's, the medical community frequently misdiagnoses a heart attack as something far less severe. It's time for women to understand their bodies in this regard. A conversation with Dr. Miriam Nelson, co-author of Strong Women, Strong Hearts, sheds light…
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Ontario Racquet Club Offers Exercisers Instant Feedback with MYTRAK
With an emphasis more on the deconditioned fitness market, a new device, called MYTRAK, that instantaneously displays heart rate and exertion at each machine in the health club, will coax new members to stay with the exercise program for those critical first 3 months. A nominal monthly fee can be charged that will convert it to an immediate profit center all the while boosting member retention and recruiting more members…
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Promise of Good Health and Successful Aging -- An Interview with Superstar Dermatologist/Nutritionist, Dr. Nicolas Perricone
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, MD, is a board certified clinical and research dermatologist and is regarded as the Father of the "Inflammation Theory of Aging". Amazingly, he is the author of 3 New York Times #1 Best Sellers: The Perricone Promise, The Perricone Prescription, and The Wrinkle Cure. Based in our home state of Connecticut, we were able to speak to the whirlwind doctor between guest appearances on the Today Show, and running his highly successful cosmeceutical company. He shared his thoughts on fitness, nutrition, aging and beauty…
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Ramp™Enables Independent Circuit Training Clubs to Compete; Eliminates Big Safety Hazard
For years, circuit training clubs all used the same recovery station in between their hydraulic machines: the ubiquitous running square. However, clubs are now finding that the most hazardous elements in their gyms are not the machines, but the running squares - members are tripping over them and getting hurt. The Ramp™ is widely used by multipurpose health clubs in group aerobics classes and has proved to be perfectly adaptable as a safe recovery station. Best of all, it's a killer differentiator from Curves…
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'Women Only Wellness' Jump Starts Circuit Training Club with Aqua Massage -- Hydraulic Circuit Training Club Attracts Members with a High-Tech Wellness Device
In the competitive space of 30-minute women-only circuit training clubs, one clever club owner in the greater Sacramento California area installed a high tech wellness apparatus to gain a competitive edge. As an added profit center, she installed an Aqua Massage unit which helps lure in new members and keep existing ones. Oh, and the added revenue's not so bad either…
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Exercise and All That Jazz -- An Interview with Judi Sheppard Missett, Founder of Jazzercise
Jazzercise and its founder, performer/teacher/businesswoman, Judi Sheppard Missett, are a phenomenon in the fitness world. Having recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, Jazzercise is now a $67 million per year mega company. We caught up to the peripatetic Missett a during a taping event at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. A thousand Jazzercise teachers and students were at hand with people attending from as far away as Japan. Ms. Missett is still the creative force behind the company and still teaches several classes a week to this very day. What follows are her insights into the past, present and future of Jazzercise and clues as to where fitness in general may be heading…
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The Lotte Berk Method Rediscovered -- Pilates on Steroids
Like 80-year-old Pilates before it, 30-year-old Lotte Berk Method is enjoying a resurgence as sophisticated exercisers want a total package which includes all round fitness plus transformation into slim, sleek and toned bodies. Lydia Back, the method's grandmaster, has injected high energy music and street funk moves to mesh with decades-old body transformation methods, the end result is a high intensity workout that total transforms bodies. It's no wonder it has been sought after by New York's dancers, actors and athletes for decades…
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Emotional Intelligence -- Dr. Daniel Goleman Addresses IHRSA Conference on Importance of EI
Ironically, success may not be related to IQ. Dr. Goleman postulates that it's related to our abilities to empathize and work through others, something he calls Emotional Intelligence. Want to be a better manager or hire better people? You'll need to know why our brains are hard-wired to behave as certain way ever since our caveman beginnings…
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An Interview with Dr. Miriam Nelson -- A Very Strong Woman
Tufts University researcher, speaker and best selling author of 6 "Strong Women" books shares her thoughts on how exercise and nutrition combine for optimal health in women; and how she recently ran the 2004 Boston Marathon…
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Rudy Giuliani on Leadership -- IHRSA's Person of the Year 2004, Talks About Leadership
Rudolph W. Giuliani was the mayor of New York from 1994 to 2002 and is currently CEO of Giuliani Partners. He is recognized for reducing New York city's crime rate by 57%, cutting welfare rolls in half and reducing taxes by $2.5 Billion. Most importantly he is recognized for leading New York City through the most tragic event. He shares his 6 skills to leadership…
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The Executive as an Elite Athlete -- The Power of Full Engagement
Tony Schwartz is a best selling author and a nationally recognized authority on performance, change and growth. He co-created LGE Performance Systems' Corporate Athlete® Training System. He is also co-author with Jim Loehr, Ed.D., The Power of Full Engagement. He shares some of the methods they have developed for both elite athletes and elite executives…
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Building Strength & Stamina -- An Interview with Wayne Westcott
Dr. Westcott has a distinguished 35-year career in the strength and fitness arena and has authored 16 books on various forms of fitness and strength training. He shares his thoughts on how far we've come and gives us a peek at what may lie ahead…
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"HGH: A Cure for Middle Age Spread"
Human Growth Hormone has been proven to foster weight loss, greater strength, and youthfulness in older adults, but there are health risks and to taking expensive injections. Certain forms of exercise can stimulate the body's natural ability to produce HGH, find out how…
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Yoga…Still Going Strong
Most health clubs and Y's were early to build yoga into their offerings. However, like any program, it too has
a product life cycle and is currently going through evolutionary stages. Recently, it has received a lot of media attention that will bring in droves of neophites, how should fitness centers respond?
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"New Kid on the Block" -- CorporateFitnessSource.com uses the Internet to slash costs on quality treadmills."
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"Powered by FitLinxx: FitLinxx Offers Clubs A Quick and Easy Way To Build Websites"
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