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INDIANAPOLIS -- A growing demand for properly certified and
educated personal trainers is the top fitness trend for 2011, according
to a worldwide survey of fitness professionals by the American College
of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
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IRVINE, CA -- Star Trac has definitely had a year of
transition. The Irvine, CA-based manufacturer has undergone two rounds
of layoffs, a change in presidents and a purchase of the
company.
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COTTAGE GROVE, WI -- Matrix Fitness products helped Johnson
Health Tech Inc. (JHT) achieve a 33.5 percent increase in domestic
commercial sales for third quarter 2010, according to the
company.
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HELSINKI, FINLAND -- Fitness sales (home and commercial) for
Amer Sports Oyj, the parent company of Precor, were EUR52.6 million
($73.7 million) for the third quarter 2010, a 7 percent increase from
the same time last year.
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CHICAGO -- Debra Siena has been promoted to president of
Proactive Partners, a division of Chicago-based TCA Holdings LLC, which
owns and operates Midtown Athletic Clubs.
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LOS ANGELES -- A lawsuit filed against LA Fitness by a
photographer who claimed R&B singer Chris Brown’s bodyguards harmed
him has been settled.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA -- A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed
in May by a group of for-profit club owners in the Charlottesville, VA,
area who claimed that Albermarle County acted unfairly when it allocated
$2.03 million in public funds toward building a new YMCA
facility.
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OVERLAND PARK, KS -- The Salvation Army is continuing to
build its presence in the nonprofit fitness center market with the
opening this week of two facilities.
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In talking to several club operators lately for a story
we’re working on for our December issue on high-volume, low-price
clubs, it’s hard not to think about the one club operator I really
would’ve enjoyed talking to: Rudy Smith.
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Recent research has indicated that some people are just more
genetically predisposed to being heavy than others. And researchers at
Harvard University say that America will soon have a 42 percent obesity
rate (although others claim we’ve topped out at 34 percent), blaming
the climb on obese friends making people feel more comfortable about
also being obese.
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When Pilates first became popular in health clubs, a lot of
people thought it might just be a fad, but then the programming seemed
to have legs, ranking as a top fitness trend for several years. However,
a recent survey by the American College of Sports Medicine showed that
the 2,200 surveyed fitness professionals around the world suddenly
didn’t think of Pilates as a top trend for the coming year.
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24 Hour
Fitness, San Ramon, CA, is inviting all members of the military
community to work out at any of its clubs free of charge this week in
honor of Veterans Day, which is Thursday. Individuals must present valid
military identification at a 24 Hour club. The promotion began Monday
and ends Sunday, Nov. 14. 24 Hour also is donating up to $50,000 to
KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit that supports youth fitness, through a
Facebook Deals promotion that offers discounts to members who check in
to a 24 Hour club on Facebook
Places. The promotion runs through Dec. 15.
Sport & Health Club, McLean,
VA, has completed a $500,000 renovation to its 55,000-square-foot
Lakeforest location in Gaithersburg, MD. The renovation included a
cardio theater studio with flat-screen TVs and cardio equipment,
additional strength training circuits with elliptical cross trainers and
cardio equipment, and a Wii for the Kidz Klub. New brand colors,
wallpaper and carpet also were added. The renovation is the result of
Sport & Health’s $25
million in mezzanine financing it secured in 2009.
Midtown
Athletic Club Palatine (IL) announced the promotion of longtime
staff members Anish Manrai and Neil Wywialowski to director of fitness
and fitness director, respectively. Manrai had served as the club’s
junior director, tournament director and assistant head professional for
the past eight years. Wywialowski has been on the club’s staff for 17
years, the last 12 as the personal training director.
Ellipse Fitness, Appleton,
WI, is expanding into Milwaukee and its surrounding suburbs. Three
locations are scheduled to open in Milwaukee by the end of the year, the
first of which is scheduled to open Nov. 15 in Brookfield, WI. Ellipse
Fitness offers both regularly scheduled group exercise classes and
proprietary weight-loss programs.
Corporate Sports Unlimited,
Austell, GA, has a new agreement to manage the executive fitness center
for Delta Airlines, the company announced. Corporate Sports Unlimited
now manages 21 facilities in the Atlanta area, including facilities for
CNN, Cox Enterprises, Emory University, Georgia Pacific, UPS and
Arby’s.
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GymValet,
Cleveland, provider of the GymValet Spray Bottle and Towel Holder
Equipment Cleaning System, is now a supplier for Petra Hygenics eco-friendly
non-alcohol-based foaming hand sanitizer. The foaming hand sanitizer is
available in 4- and 16-ounce bottles, as well as 4-1.1-gallon cases.
Manual and touch-free foaming hand sanitizer dispensers are also
available.
Starting in January, Les Mills
International, Auckland, New Zealand, will roll out its Sh’Bam
dance program. The company already did a pilot of the program in 65
clubs across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New
Zealand. Sh’Bam combines basic dance choreography with a soundtrack of
chart-topping popular hits, dance music, remixes of familiar classics
and modernized Latin tracks in an effort to emulate the atmosphere of a
nightclub.
Chizam Inc., Menlo Park, CA, a
new retention tool that integrates a private social network with fitness
tools into a club’s existing website, has announced its first
installation at VillaSport, a
lifestyle fitness club with locations in Colorado Springs, CO, and The
Woodlands, TX.
If you missed the Club
Industry 2010 panel session about licensing of personal trainers,
you can view a video
of the session, courtesy of World Instructor Training Schools
(WITS), which has posted the video on its website.
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