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OVERLAND PARK, KS -- More bills on personal trainer licensure
popped up last month in state legislatures across the country.
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PHILADELPHIA -- A World Gym International official has
expressed remorse over last week’s shooting at one of the company's
clubs.
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BEACHWOOD, OH -- Members of the new Life Time Fitness in
Beachwood, OH, are paying an additional 3 percent on their monthly dues
for that city’s admissions tax.
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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Bulls unveiled the first of 25 new
fitness centers for children at a ribbon-cutting ceremony last
week.
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PITTSBURGH -- To help cover construction costs for a new $4.2
million downtown location, the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh sold corporate
sponsorship and naming rights for the 42,000-square-foot facility,
slated for a soft opening on March 29 and a grand opening on April
24.
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WOODINVILLE, WA -- Precor has opened and begun operations at
a new facility in Guilford County, NC, near Greensboro. The plant, which
will produce Precor strength products, replaces a smaller facility in
Valencia, CA.
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NEWPORT, RI -- Officials at Naval Station Newport held a
groundbreaking ceremony for a new $19.2 million fitness center last
week. A congressional delegation from Rhode Island attended the
event.
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CORVALLIS, OR -- Students around the country celebrated the
60th annual National Recreational Sports & Fitness (NRSF) Day on Feb. 22
to honor the founding of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports
Association (NIRSA).
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Life Time
Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, broke its own Guinness World Record on
Sunday by having 1,052 members and guests participate in a static
cycling class at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Life Time CEO Bahram
Akradi led the class, which included music spun by internationally
renowned DJ Roberto Costa. The previous record was 600 participants set
in January in Houston.
World Gym International, Los
Angeles, has added Jim Teatum and George Jackson to handle the
company’s international development and franchise growth. Teatum is
the former president of Nautilus’ commercial division and senior
market development director for Reebok International. Jackson is a club
developer/owner and financial consultant previously with KPMG
International.
A soldier at Fort Hood,
Killeen, TX, died last week after collapsing during a morning physical
fitness training exercise. 1st Lt. Michael Jue of Warren, OH, died March
2. The 37-year-old soldier joined the military in July 2004. He was
assigned to the First Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat
Team, 1st Calvary Division.
The board of directors at the Beaumont
Metropolitan YMCA, Beaumont, TX, announced plans last week to keep
one of its locations open and try to continue construction on its new $4
million facility. Last
month, the Y announced plans to close all of its facilities, citing
financial concerns. Now the board says it will work with the YMCA of the
USA to discuss completing construction on the new facility in hopes of
opening it. The board also voted to keep open its facility at Parkdale
Mall but to cease operations at its L.L. Melton facility.
The new 55,000-square-foot expansion to the University
of Arizona’s rec center closed for 24 hours just one week after
its Feb. 22 grand opening because of a flood in the basement. The
mechanical room in the basement flooded after water flowed into a
utility tunnel from a trench at a construction site for a new residence
hall, school officials said. The rec center opened at noon the following
day but crews were still working on air handling equipment for the
building. School officials hope to have everything repaired within two
to three weeks. Damages will be paid by the contractor’s
insurance.
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Crunch and Johnny
G., who invented Spinning, will
introduce the Gunning Ride workout March 15 at the Crunch club in West
Hollywood, CA. Gunning Ride is a new group fitness class that utilizes
the Spin bike and the Johnny G. Krankcycle by Matrix in a 45-minute
class. The launch will raise money for Project VisAbility, which works
to provide jobs in the areas of health and fitness for those with
physical challenges.
Johnson Health Tech North
America Inc., Cottage Grove, WI, has partnered with the LIVESTRONG Foundation to launch
LIVESTRONG Indoor Cycling by Matrix, a collection which includes three
cycles and ICE Education, a comprehensive education platform. Johnson
Health Tech also will introduce its LIVESTRONG by Matrix commercial line
at the IHRSA show this week in San Diego. Endorsed by seven-time Tour de
France winner Lance Armstrong, the cardio line includes two treadmills,
an elliptical trainer, a recumbent bike, an upright bike and two indoor
cycles.
ABC Financial, Little
Rock AR, announced its new software product, MYiCLUBonline, which
features an online membership enrollment function. MYiCLUBonline,
which will be unveiled this week at the IHRSA show in San Diego, is
fully integrated with ABC Financial’s DataTrak Club Management
Software. The online enrollment option allows clubs to offer 24/7 remote
recruitment of prospective members.
Power Plate International,
Irvine, CA, will introduce the new pro6 at the IHRSA show this week in
San Diego. It is the first-ever combination of Power Plate exercise with
upper body cable-resistance training and is designed to give users a
total-body workout in a half-hour. The Power Plate pro6 features an
all-new fitness system called proMOTION, which uses high-strength
Vectran cables to transfer vibration to the upper body at high-speed
frequency rates between 20 and 40 times per second, which expands the
benefits of acceleration training, the company says.
The Accrediting Commission of the
Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an accrediting
organization for distance learning institutions, recently accredited the
Aerobics and Fitness Association of
America. The DETC Accrediting Commission is listed by the U.S.
Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency,
and it is a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education
Accreditation.
Jay Delvecchio, CEO and president of World Instructor Training Schools
(WITS), and Amy Hyams, director of program development for WITS and
a commissioner for the International
Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET), testified
last month before the Health and Government Occupations Committee of
the Maryland General Assembly in support of the Personal Trainer Act HB
747.
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With today’s opening of the International, Health, Racquet
and Sportsclub Association (you know it better as IHRSA) show in San
Diego, Club Industry will be there covering all the latest
(equipment) and greatest (events) through Saturday.
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I was in Boulder, CO, and had the pleasure of taking a tour
of the new Colorado Athletic Club, managed by Wellbridge. It’s
actually one of two new facilities in Colorado for Wellbridge. (The
other is in Denver.) The interior design fits right into the Boulder
“outdoorsy” feel, using natural stone and earth tone
colors.
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An article in USA Today got me thinking. It talks
about a military investigation into why commanders sent soldiers from
Fort Wainwright, AK, back to Iraq after doctors recommended that they
lay low and recuperate from existing wounds. It cites Army statistics
that found 16 percent of soldiers are non-deployable this year, many of
those because of health problems.
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