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LAFAYETTE, CA -- Mark Mastrov and his New Evolution Ventures
company have created a new club with one of the biggest stars in the
world: Madonna.
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CHANHASSEN, MN -- Life Time Fitness reported another quarter
of growth in revenue and net income during a conference call with
analysts.
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NEW YORK -- Revenue dropped by $7.3 million in third quarter
2010 for Town Sports International (TSI), New York, according to
financials released last week.
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IRVING, TX -- Two Gold’s Gym franchisees in the San
Francisco Bay Area say they are leaving the brand after the CEO of
Gold’s parent company, TRT Holdings, made a donation to a political
group led by former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove.
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WEST COVINA, CA -- Authorities say a man beat his estranged
wife with a handgun and shot her in the leg at a Bally Total Fitness in
California.
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NEW YORK -- Equinox is getting in the low-cost model game
with its new Blink clubs.
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LAKE FOREST, IL -- Sales of Life Fitness and Hammer Strength
brand equipment were up by 9 percent year-on-year, according to the
third quarter financial report from Brunswick Corp., the parent company
of the Life Fitness Division.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Club One has made personnel changes in its
corporate health and fitness management division.
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ST. PAUL, MN -- A former Life Time Fitness club in St. Paul,
MN, will reopen in December under management by Health Fitness
Corp.
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MENOMENEE FALLS, WI -- Tri-Country YMCA, the third-largest Y
in the greater Milwaukee area, is planning a $2 million project to
remodel the club, which was damaged by flooding in July.
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BERKELEY, CA -- University of California (UC) police have
arrested a man who was using a cell phone camera to photograph women in
the showers at UC Berkeley’s Recreational Sports Facility, according
to several media outlets.
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For the safety of others, I don’t golf (my shots tend to
stray into uncharted and populated territories), so I am truly in awe of
the magnitude of Lindsay Merrithew’s accomplishment last week. The
president and CEO of Merrithew Health & Fitness (Stott Pilates) got two
holes-in-one in the first nine holes of Doral Red Course in
Miami.
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I was getting the Sunday blues last night when I saw a report
on “60 Minutes” about people who have the Sunday blues every night.
This group is called the “99ers,” or people who have exhausted their
99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
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Learn about the five best holiday e-mail strategies for
wellness businesses in
November’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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Crunch, New York,
will open its sixth franchise club in January in San Marcos, CA. Club
owner Steve Clinefelter, formerly the president of California Fitness,
also owns the Lake Forest, CA, Crunch club, which opened in August.
Memberships for the 17,000-square-foot club in San Marcos will vary from
$9.95 to $19.95 a month.
An employee at a Planet
Fitness in Allentown, PA, was robbed at gunpoint last week in the
club’s parking lot. Police told The Morning Call that the
employee was sitting in his car talking on his cell phone at the time of
the robbery. The victim gave up his phone and bank card, and the suspect
fled on foot, the newspaper reported.
A former employee at a Life Time Fitness in Eagan,
MN, was charged with stealing rings, including a wedding ring that has
an estimated value of $10,000. The victim placed the rings on an
elliptical machine and forgot them when she left, according to
Minneapolis TV station WCCO. The ex-employee, Bradley Jerome Tracy,
allegedly took the rings after the victim left, then pawned one of the
rings at a pawn shop. If convicted, Tracy faces up to 10 years in
prison. Life Time Fitness said it does not comment on pending legal
matters.
An Oct. 24 fire destroyed the 50,000-square-foot Universal Fitness
Center in Stanton, KY, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Eddie Barnes, the chief of the Stanton Fire Department, told the
newspaper that the fire stemmed from an electrical issue around 4:45
p.m. that day. He also said that no one was in the club and that it
closed about a half-hour before the fire began. The fire took two hours
to extinguish, and Barnes said the building was a “total
loss.”
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Med-Fit Systems
Inc., Fallbrook, CA, manufacturer of Nautilus commercial fitness
equipment, announced today it had its third consecutive profitable
quarter. “Bringing the manufacturing of our cardio products back to
the United States, introducing our new dual stack Freedom Trainer and
Nautilus Nova single- and dual-function machines fed an uptick in new
orders, resulting in our best recorded quarter since the [February]
acquisition,” Dean Sbragia, CEO of Med-Fit Systems Inc., said in a
press release. Med-Fit Systems will launch an additional strength line
as well as feature a new fitness assessment and programming tool at the
Athletic Business Conference and Expo on Dec. 2 in San Diego.
Octane Fitness, Brooklyn
Park, MN, launched Cross Circuit Pro on its commercial Pro3700 and
Pro4700 standing ellipticals at the Club Industry show last month. The
program combines cardio intervals on Octane ellipticals with strength
training sets for individual workouts or instructor-led one-on-one,
small group or class sessions. The company shot a short video of a training session while
at Club Industry.
The Natural Products Association
(NPA) is offering a retailer’s staff education toolkit to educate
anyone who sells supplements about what should and should not be
discussed with customers. The toolkit is intended to help retailers stay
within the legal limits of dietary supplement claims. Currently, it is
available only to NPA members, but a version will eventually be released
for all retailers.
Dr. John Spencer Ellis is introducing a new program to fitness
facilities called TACTIX. The
fitness program combines modern martial arts, fitness boot camp
intensity, metabolic conditioning and dynamic flexibility. It also
includes a complete business system that helps club operators bring in
revenue using the system.
ABC Financial, Sherwood,
AR, has promoted Anna Welsh to sales director of national accounts.
Welsh had been a senior account executive with ABC since June 2010 and
has been with the company since 2006. ABC also added two new business
development managers, Andrea Cobbs, previously an ABC club marketing
representative, and new recruit Jeanne Richardson, to its sales
team.
Precor, Woodinville, WA,
has been named the Anytime
Fitness Vendor of the Year. The distinction, which recognizes
outstanding performance, support and client service, is awarded based on
votes by Anytime Fitness franchisees. The fitness equipment brand has
won the award twice before, in 2005 and 2006.
Hoist Fitness, San Diego,
has signed an agreement to be a strength fitness equipment supplier for
World Gym International
franchises. Hoist’s full line of commercial strength products,
including the Roc-It Plate Loaded, Roc-It Selectorized, and KL Youth
Circuit models, is approved for World Gym clubs.
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