Step by Step: Design
Kurt Broadhag, president of K Allan Consulting and 23D Gym Design, shows how to design for the optimal cardio experience.

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Hot News

Health Clubs Removed from Maryland Tax Bill
ANNAPOLIS, MD -- The Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee voted Tuesday to remove health clubs from a list of services to which a proposed expansion of a sales tax would be applied. Read the full story.

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Club Hopping

Health Up, Fitness Down for Health Fitness Corp. in Third Quarter
MINNEAPOLIS -- Revenue for the third quarter increased 5 percent at Health Fitness Corp., the provider of integrated employee health management programs announced earlier this week. Read the full story.

New Gold's Gym Planned in Virginia
ROANOKE, VA -- A new Gold's Gym will open in March at a mall in Roanoke, VA, according to The Roanoke Times. The Gold's Gym will take the place of New Fitness, which closed last year in bankruptcy. The five investors of the new Gold's told the newspaper they are investing between $4 million and $5 million in renovations and equipment.

The new Gold's Gym franchise will compete with the current Gold's, which opened four years ago in Southwest Roanoke County, and will not share members, according to the newspaper. The new Gold's also will compete with other fitness centers in the area, including a planned $30 million recreation center in North Roanoke County that will serve both children and adults, according to the report.

New LA Fitness Opens in Washington State
EVERETT, WA -- LA Fitness opened a new club in the Everett (WA) Mall, The Everett Herald reported. The 49,000-square-foot club is the largest LA Fitness in the Northwest, general manager Clint Richard told the newspaper.

The new club includes a full-sized basketball court, racquetball courts, a four-lane lap pool, a spa, and large areas of circuit-training machines, cardio equipment and free weights. The club also includes 10 mounted plasma TVs, two classrooms for exercise sessions and on-site child care.

Tennessee Y Fires Employees Over Noose
CLEVELAND, TN -- Earlier this week, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga's Cleveland (TN) branch fired three employees who were involved in leaving two nooses at its facility. Read the full story.

Washington State Athletic Club Purchases Women-Only Club
BELLINGHAM, WA -- The Bellingham (WA) Athletic Club (BAC) has purchased the Express Fitness and Tan women-only club, The Bellingham Herald reported. BAC owner Cathy Buckley told the newspaper she plans to change the name of the club to Bellingham Athletic Club Express.

Express Fitness provided a 30-minute workout for its members. Buckley told the newspaper that she will listen to the club's members before making changes to the workout programs, which might include adding more cardio equipment for the 30-minute workout.

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School Days

UMass Breaks Ground on New Student Rec Center
AMHERST, MA -- The University of Massachusetts (UMass) broke ground last week on a new $50 million student recreation center that is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2009. Read the full story.

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Boot Camp

More Unfit Airmen and Sailors Being Discharged
WASHINGTON, DC -- Government officials say fitness programs are working to make the military healthier despite the fact that more airmen and sailors are being discharged because they are unfit and overweight. Read the full story.

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Industry Beat

Augie Nieto Releases Book
NEW YORK -- Augie Nieto, founder of Life Fitness, released his book "Augie's Quest: One Man's Journey from Success to Significance" on Wednesday, making an emotional appearance on "The Today Show" with his wife, Lynne. Nieto was diagnosed with ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2005. After attempting suicide soon after the diagnosis, he has focused his life on raising funds to cure the disease. Proceeds from the book, which goes on sale Nov. 13, will go to find a cure. Read the full story.

Report: Nation's Health Declines
WASHINGTON, DC -- The overall health of the nation declined over the past year despite progress made in some key health indicators, according to a report released this week by the United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association and Partnership for Prevention. The report indicates that the overall health of the nation declined by a rate of 0.3 percent since last year. Read the full story.

Older Adults Benefit from Functional Training
SAN DIEGO -- Functional fitness programming works for older adults, and most of them see real-world benefits relatively quickly, according to a study commissioned by the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, upon the request of ACE, examined physical improvements associated with functional training. Read the full story.

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