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CHICAGO -- Bally Total Fitness will refund money to former
members in Texas in an agreement it signed with the Texas Attorney
General.
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IRVINE, CA -- Nearly three months after letting go about 100
employees, Star Trac recently underwent another round of
layoffs.
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OVERLAND PARK, KS -- Eight health club companies made the
Inc. 5000 list this year, but none made the Inc. 500 list.
Three had been on the Inc. 500 list last year.
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FALLBROOK, CA -- Less than two weeks before a deadline,
Med-Fit Systems Inc. has purchased a Virginia manufacturing and
warehouse facility from Nautilus Inc.
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NEW YORK -- Crunch Fitness has promoted Keith Worts from
chief operating officer to president.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- As the United States launches its first-ever
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month today, scientists say the
problem may be even more widespread than was thought.
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HASTINGS, MN -- Anytime Fitness launched a new campaign today
that includes free 30-day memberships for adults. The campaign features
an organization called the Coalition of Angry Kids that is “angry”
because it thinks their parents are not doing enough to help them lead
healthy lifestyles.
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CLEVELAND -- People who participated in the Cleveland
Clinic’s go!FIT Greater Cleveland Challenge lost a combined 27,500
pounds.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, GERMANY -- During the first month of using
the new Air Force fitness standards, some 20 percent of airmen failed
the revised physical fitness test in July—double the rate of airmen
who failed the old test.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Officials at California State University,
Sacramento (CSUS) plan to dedicate a new 151,000-square-foot recreation
and wellness center on Thursday.
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We hope you’ve been following us on Twitter and Facebook.
In addition to our own stories from our website, we’ve posted several
good stories from other news sources over the last few days.
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I really don’t like it when people brag, but we are a
little proud of three awards that our publication just won, so please
excuse me while I tell you about them.
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Learn about seven online sales tools for every health and
wellness business in September’s
WebSavvy column, provided by Club Industry and Leslie Nolen,
CEO of the Radial Group and a
Step by Step
columnist. Get more from your website by reading past WebSavvy
articles about how to get more e-newsletter subscribers, analyze Web
traffic and make your site more useful.
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Save up to 25 percent on conference packages for the Club
Industry Conference and Trade Show, Oct. 6-8 in Chicago. You can
register for the All-Access Pass, including seminars in all slots, plus
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Don’t forget that the early bird prices end Friday, Sept. 3. Save even
more by registering now!
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Life Time
Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, has added AMC Theatres to its list of
partners who provide monthly discounts to Life Time members as part of
the company’s Member
Advantage program, which includes discounts at retailers, hotels,
restaurants and entertainment venues. Under the agreement, Life Time
members can purchase two or more movie tickets for $7.50 each, a savings
of 25 percent to 35 percent off AMC box office ticket prices.
BodyScapes Fitness,
Newton, MA, is raising funds for breast cancer research during National
Breast Cancer Awareness month in October. The club company, which
appeared on the Inc.
5000 list this month, will donate $1 for every mile logged on its
Cybex 750T pink treadmills at its three locations in the Boston area.
The money will go to Faulkner Hospital’s Sagoff Breast Imaging and
Diagnostic Centre in Boston.
Merritt Athletic Clubs,
Baltimore, is opening a 7,800-square-foot, 24-hour club later this year
in Anne Arundel County in Maryland, according to the company. Merritt
has opened a preview center for the Buckingham location at the site of
the new facility. Two years ago, the company closed a 21,600-square-foot
facility in the same county, citing declining membership, according to a
report in The Capital, the Annapolis, MD, newspaper.
Mountainside Fitness
Centers, Gilbert, AZ, closed its Arvada, CO, locations, citing
issues with its landlord, according to a report on 9News.com in
Colorado. The report did not specify the issues. This location had 3,500
members, all of whom now can work out at the Apex Rec Centers in the
area. Mountainside Fitness Centers, which was listed on the Inc.
5000 list this month and now has nine locations, notified members of
the closure in a letter and through flyers posted at the facility,
according to the report.
Allentown Racquetball Club,
Allentown, PA, will close on Friday after 31 years in business,
according to a note from owner John Brinson on the company’s website.
The company, which goes by 24-7 Fitness Clubs, has three other
Pennsylvania locations in Bethlehem, West End and Trexlertown, all of
which will remain open. Brinson said that the Allentown facility had
just 5 percent of the company’s 9,540 members. Full-time employees at
the Allentown club will move to the other locations.
Anytime Fitness,
Hastings, MN, is partnering with the American College of Sports Medicine
(ACSM) for a joint promotion of ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine program.
The promotion offers one month free with a 12-month membership at
Anytime when prospects ask for the Exercise is Medicine special. It also
offers a free seven-day pass to Anytime.
The Maryland Athletic Club &
Wellness Center, Timonium, MD, has hired Mike Hines as its general
manager at MAC at Harbor East in Baltimore. Hines previously worked at
the Sport Connection Spectrum Club in Manhattan Beach, CA, and then
moved to the Sports Club Co. as the director of membership and corporate
sales. He played a key role in the launch of that company’s Reebok
Sports Club in New York.
UFC Gym will hold a grand opening
expo on Saturday, Sept. 18, in Rosemead, CA. UFC President Dana White
and UFC fighters Chuck Liddell and BJ Penn will be on hand for
autographs.
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Mountainside Fitness,
Gilbert, AZ, has selected Spectrum NG by CSI Software, Houston, as its
new club management software. In addition to all of the core modules,
Mountainside will be implementing Spectrum NG Scheduler to schedule all
personal training appointments and Spectrum NG Online Services for
online account management and scheduling. “They will be able to
leverage a number of new tools that did not exist in their legacy
system, which should result in a significant increase in employee
efficiency and better customer service,” says Andy Wigderson, vice
president of sales and marketing at CSI Software.
Jackson Hole Health and
Fitness, Jackson Hole, WY, has chosen to implement Fiserv’s Compete
club management software, among other Fiserv services. Jackson Hole
Health and Fitness required a scalable and flexible technology product
to grow its membership, which consists of locals and tourists of this
mountain resort community. Compete is built on the latest Internet-based
technologies, providing the club with functionality to support its
specific business needs, such as check-in, point-of-sale, electronic
membership agreement, online member self-service and simplified EFT
billing processes with supporting reports and reconciliation.
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and St. Paul (MN) Parks
and Recreation selected The
Active Network’s Web-based parks and recreation software to manage
and automate their daily operations. The company’s Software as a
Service model allows the two groups to consolidate all registration data
history into a single database, enabling them to customize reports,
access real-time activity information and scheduling, use e-commerce
capabilities and offer point-of-sale purchasing.
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