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HASTINGS, MN -- Anytime Fitness CEO and Co-Founder Jeff
Klinger has sold his interests in Anytime Fitness and its affiliates and
has left the company.
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CHICAGO -- Bally Total Fitness, Chicago, announced today that
it has appointed Steven Barnhart as its senior vice president and chief
financial officer. Barnhart will report to Bally CEO Mike
Sheehan.
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SAN JOSE, CA -- A former vice president of 24 Hour Fitness
and an advertising executive were sentenced to federal prison last
week.
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VANCOUVER, WA -- In the completion of the sale that was
announced last week, Nautilus said that it had relinquished the
licensing of certain assets of its commercial business to Xiamen World
Gear Sports Goods Co. Ltd.
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NEW YORK -- Crunch Chairman Mark Mastrov says a recent
lawsuit against the company prior to his involvement with Crunch is
likely frivolous.
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RALEIGH, NC -- Last month, O2 Fitness purchased its second
Peak Fitness club, this one in Fuquay Varina, NC. The company now has
seven clubs, all in North Carolina.
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RICHMOND, VA -- A man was found dead last week in a swimming
pool at an American Family Fitness center in Richmond, VA.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) will host
the inaugural Warrior Games May 10-14 in Colorado Springs, CO,
Department of Defense officials said.
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PORTLAND, OR -- Portland State University opened its new
Academic and Student Recreation Center on Jan. 3.
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CLEVELAND -- More than 15,500 people have registered for a
free three-month membership program in the Cleveland area.
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PHILADELPHIA -- To promote students’ well-being as they
start making their own choices about healthy lifestyles, the YMCA of
Philadelphia & Vicinity is offering free one-year memberships to
seventh-grade students in 2010.
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Don’t miss out on the Club
Industry East show this May in New York, featuring keynote
presentations from former New York Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent and Ali
Vincent, winner of “The Biggest Loser.” For more details, visit the
show
site or view the pre-show
brochure (PDF).
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24 Hour
Fitness, San Ramon, CA, is once again playing a role in TV’s
“The Biggest Loser,” which kicked off its ninth season last week. In
the season premiere, all contestants received the bodybugg calorie
management system, exclusive to 24 Hour Fitness. In the Feb. 9 episode,
Rockne Brubaker, a U.S. Olympic hopeful in pairs skating and a Team 24
Hour Fitness member, will lead contestants through an
Olympic-training-inspired boot camp at the 24 Hour-sponsored U.S.
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.
The New York City Fire Department, in a partnership with Town
Sports International’s New York Sports Clubs and a program called
NYC Service, is offering free CPR classes at all New York Sports Clubs
in the city’s five boroughs. The service is part of a new program
called FDNY CPR to Go, which began earlier this month.
The 180 Sports and Fitness club in Knoxville, TN, will not reopen,
according to a local media report. The club closed in December after a
bank foreclosed on the property. In an e-mail sent to WVLT-TV, club
co-owner David Johnson said that the decision against reopening was
based on the economic climate and the competition in the Knoxville
market, which had already absorbed several of his former members and
prospective members.
The Marines Corps’ Training
and Education Command (TEC) announced plans to develop new online
courses to standardize training for the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) and
the Combat Fitness Test (CFT), as well as for the Marine Body
Composition Program (BCP) and Military Appearance Program (MAP). The
classes will be required for command physical training representatives
who monitor the PFT and CFT, and for those who manage the BCP and MAP.
The computer-based classes will be offered on MarineNet, an online
learning management system run by TEC’s college of continuing
education.
Officials at the Jewish Community Center
of the North Shore, Marblehead, MA, recently invested $85,000 on new
cardiovascular fitness equipment as part of the JCC’s plan to update
its facilities. The new equipment includes 10 treadmills with TVs, two
seated ellipticals with TVs, one stationary upright bike, one
stepmill/stairclimber, one elliptical, two rowing machines and a set of
kettlebells. Over the past six months, JCC officials also added parking
spaces, extended operating hours, enhanced programs and improved
customer service.
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Peak Pilates,
Boulder, CO, has named Kevin Bowen as director of education. Bowen
co-founded the Pilates Method Alliance, a not-for-profit professional
organization for the Pilates method. Bowen will work to deliver
educational programs to a new generation while overseeing development
for the company in all forms of media. In addition, he will manage
Peak’s expansive external network of teacher trainers and education
partners while driving the company’s global expansion by creating new
strategic alliances and enhancing existing partnerships. Bowen has held
positions with Equinox Fitness Clubs, David Barton Gyms and Pinnacle
Health Clubs.
Retention
Management, Charlotte, NC, has launched an enhancement of its
Marketing Blast e-mail program for customers. This new component, part
of its automated member communication program, provides clients with a
large new library of marketing templates and additional creative tools
to produce customized, professional-looking HTML marketing e-mails. The
enhancements include complete editing tools to easily customize e-mail
text formatting, access to an extensive image library that is
continuously updated, options to upload images and the capability to
send a sample to any e-mail address before delivering it to members or
prospects.
Fitness Anywhere,
which created TRX Suspension Training, announced that New Orleans Saints
quarterback Drew Brees is now a spokesperson, partner and investor in
the company. Brees, one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL, credits TRX
Suspension Training for helping him rehabilitate his shoulder from a
2005 injury and also credits the product for his ongoing conditioning.
“I don’t put my name behind anything unless I believe in it 100
percent,” Brees said. “So for me to endorse the company’s products
and also invest in it should say a lot about how excited I am about what
Fitness Anywhere is doing.”
Life Time Fitness has
selected the employee scheduling program from Kronos Inc. to control labor costs and
achieve its operational objectives. Life Time, which had previously
incorporated the Kronos time and attendance processes, aims to enhance
member experience and retention.
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Do you have an enthusiastic indoor cycling group at your
club? Do you want to help the men and women who are serving our company
in the military? If you can say yes to both of those questions, then you
should check out this year’s Spinning Nation charity event, which is
set for Feb. 27. The proceeds from this year’s event will go to Ride 2
Recovery, a charity that benefits mental and physical rehabilitation of
people in the armed forces.
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It’s January, and you know that this is the biggest month
for health club owners. The media seem to know this as well, and
they’ll often ask us for our views of the industry.
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