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CHANHASSEN, MN -- Life Time Fitness enjoyed an increase in
revenue and a decrease in its attrition rate during the first quarter of
the year.
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NEW YORK -- Town Sports International (TSI) reported a
decrease in revenue during its first quarter 2010 earnings call with
analysts.
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SCHILLER PARK, IL -- The Life Fitness Division of Brunswick
Corp. had a slight increase in first quarter 2010 revenue, according to
financials released by Brunswick, Lake Forest, IL.
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NEWINGTON, NH -- Planet Fitness has hired former Gulf Oil LP
Chief Financial Officer Jayne Conway as its new CFO.
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BATON ROUGE, LA -- A personal trainer at an Anytime Fitness
in Louisiana allegedly used a pen camera to record women in the club’s
shower room.
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BOSTON -- The 7th annual Get Active America! Week will occur
May 3-9, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub
Association (IHRSA). The event is a national health promotion program
sponsored by IHRSA.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Sports Club Co. had a decrease in revenue
for the first quarter of the year, the Los Angeles-based company
announced.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The childhood obesity epidemic is posing a
threat to national security, according to a new report from Mission:
Readiness, a group comprised of retired military leaders.
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GREENVILLE, SC -- A new joint membership option will enable
members of the YMCA of Greenville to use fitness facilities and services
offered by the Greenville Hospital System (GHS) University Medical
Center.
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FORT COLLINS, CO -- Although the $32 million renovations to
the Colorado State University (CSU) Student Recreation Center recently
reached the halfway mark, CSU officials announced that they may cut 50
campus jobs this summer to compensate for a decrease in state
funding.
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SCHILLER PARK, IL -- Life Fitness has named Tim McCarthy as
vice president for the Americas, responsible for performance in the
United States, Canada and Latin America.
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Do you think your club has winning programs? If so, put them
up against programs from other clubs by entering the eighth annual
Club Industry Best of the Best competition. Winners will be
featured in the magazine and will receive their awards at the Club
Industry show in October. Entries are due June 7, so download a
PDF entry form today to get started.
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Potential Energy Athletic Club in Saginaw Township, MI,
closed its doors last Friday as a result of foreclosure. The
45,000-square-foot club, which had been in business for 29 years, had
between 2,000 and 2,500 members in the 1980s and 1990s, owner Chuck Hise
told The Saginaw (MI) News. That number dwindled to 500 members
in its final days. Potential Energy employed 29 people.
Jim Lawler, former director of the Auburn-Lewiston YMCA, Auburn, ME, will
receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on May 4 as part of the 2010 Maine
Fitness Awards. The awards recognize Maine citizens for their
involvement in promoting physical activity. Lawler retired from the
Auburn YMCA last year after 29 years. During his tenure there, he went
from a part-time employee to the executive director and grew the Y’s
budget from $268,000 to nearly $2 million.
Students at the University of
California-Riverside voted to approve a rec center expansion
project. The current rec center is operating at 72 percent beyond its
capacity and has 30-minute waiting lines for cardio equipment, school
officials say. Opponents of the proposal say the proposed
$149-per-quarter student fee increase is too high. The new facility is
expected to open in the winter of 2014 and will have three times the
current amount of space for cardio and weights, as well as an indoor
rock climbing wall, juice bar and swimming pool.
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Star Trac, Irvine,
CA, introduced the Star Trac Coach, a personalized workout led by
professional coach Kimberly Shah, who guides users through more than one
million workouts on Star Trac’s embedded screen treadmills. “We
think it’s a revolution in cardio training,” said Steve Nero,
president and COO of Star Trac. “It’s like having a personal coach
for you throughout your cardio workout.”
Roger Harvey, who served more than 12 years as the COO of Crunch, New York, has joined the board
of advisors of Technique
Fitness Inc., an online fitness management company. Technique
Fitness will be exhibiting at next week’s Club
Industry East show in New York.
Cybex International Inc.,
Medway, MA, named Stephen Alvezi as its director of sales for Cybex
Golf. Alvezi is responsible for growing the number of golf and country
clubs that have Cybex equipment. He also is helping to further
strengthen golf industry relationships for Cybex and support the
company’s partnerships with the Club Management Association of America
and PGA Tour legend Greg Norman, an official ambassador for the Cybex
Golf Fitness platform.
Advantage Fitness Products
(AFP), a provider of full-service fitness facility planning, design,
supply and service, recently completed a club installation on behalf of
global real estate investment management firm CB Richard Ellis (CBRE)
for its first New York City property at 1540 Broadway. Building tenants
include Viacom, MTV, BET Networks and Pillsbury, among others. CBRE
chose the fitness amenity as a distinguishing opportunity to set its New
York City property apart from competitors, according to AFP. AFP was
retained to develop a five-star wellness complement within the
skyscraper that would be available to building occupants as a based
amenity of their tenancy.
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The two main public fitness club companies in the industry,
Life Time Fitness and Town Sports International, are operating on two
completely different levels.
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Judging by the comments made by readers after this recent
article, Jane Fonda remains a polarizing figure in America. The USA
Today article promotes Fonda’s World Fitness Day, which will be
held Saturday at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
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It’s no wonder that so many non-gym goers are confused
about the effects regular exercise has on their bodies. In reading this
New York Times article on exercise studies, I must say all the
mixed messages were confusing me, and I work for Club Industry
magazine!
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