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IRVINE, CA -- Star Trac, which earlier this month said it
would not file for bankruptcy, announced that it has entered into an
Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors (ABC) in accordance with
California law.
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NEW YORK -- The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
won’t pursue enforcement action against Town Sports International
(TSI), New York, after completing a yearlong investigation into
accounting issues, TSI announced.
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CHICAGO -- XSport Fitness has plans to open four new clubs,
which will bring its total to 29 in 2011.
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FISHERS, IN -- A former high school swim coach has been
charged with stealing nearly $17,000 from an Indiana Y over the course
of four years, according to several media outlets.
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FULTON, MO -- A Missouri Y has teamed up with an area
hospital to create a fitness-focused annex on hospital grounds for
members of the community.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- More than 50 percent of Americans could
have diabetes or pre-diabetes by 2010 at a cost of $3.35 trillion during
the next decade if current trends continue, according to analysis by
UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Health Reform &
Modernization.
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You could see and smell the smoke in the air last night as I
left work, but I didn’t know until I got home and switched on the
local news that it was coming from a fire at an historic country club a
few miles away from our offices in Overland Park, KS.
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While chatting with Power Plate International CEO Gregg
Hammann about Star Trac’s announcement that it has entered into an
ABC, I got a couple of other bits of news.
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Andrea Metcalf, an industry consultant and a regular speaker
at Club Industry shows, put together a video highlighting some of the
products she liked at this year’s Club Industry show. Included in her
highlights are treadmills with iPod connections, stabilized climbing
walls, foam rollers, exercise watches, sports drinks, adaptive motion
trainers and exercise shoes.
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You asked, we answered. Check out the replies to questions
sent in to the WebSavvy reader mailbag in
December’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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Life Time
Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, announced today that it will open a new
club in May 2011 in Colorado Springs, CO. This will be Life Time’s
fourth club in Colorado, joining clubs in Aurora, Westminster and
Centennial. The two-story, 129,000-square-foot club will have 24-hour
access to group exercise, Pilates and LifePower Yoga studios, a cycle
theater, a mixed martial arts room and more than 400 pieces of
equipment, as well as tennis facilities with eight indoor courts. The
club also will include indoor and outdoor aquatics centers.
TCA Holdings LLC, Chicago,
the parent company of Midtown
Athletic Clubs, announced the promotion of Michael Mahoney to senior
vice president and general manager. Mahoney, who has served with the
company for 32 years, will oversee operations for nine Midtown Athletic
Clubs in the United States and Canada. He will retain his role as
general manager of Midtown’s flagship location in Chicago. “Michael
is a terrific TCA success story and one of the most knowledgeable and
successful tennis managers ever to work in the industry,” TCA
President Steven Schwartz said in a statement.
Sport & Health Clubs,
McLean, VA, and Project
VisAbility, a nonprofit organization helping to create jobs in
health and fitness for individuals with physical disabilities, raised
$70,000 with their Sweat for a Vet event on Veterans Day. The event was
hosted by all 24 Sport & Health locations, as well as other U.S. and
international locations, and featured rowing machine and indoor cycling
competitions, high-energy music, and celebrity instructors. The money
raised will help provide fitness equipment to Walter Reed Army Hospital
and Bethesda National Naval Hospital.
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World Instructor
Training Schools (WITS) is now offering a hybrid personal training
certification in partnership with St. Petersburg (FL) College that
allows students to complete 15 hours of instructor-led foundation
theoretical education at home and on their own schedule before moving on
to live, hands-on training and internship at one of the more than 300
WITS-affiliated colleges and universities across the country. The
program is approved for CEUS by the Board of Certification (BOC) for
Athletic Trainers, American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA),
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
(NCBTMB), and the International Association of Continuing Education and
Training (IACET).
efi Sports Medicine,
San Diego, makers of Total Gym and the GravitySystem, held the Total Gym
Global Summit Oct. 27-31 in Paestum, Italy, south of Naples. More than
100 of the company’s distributors, Gravity master trainers and Gravity
instructors from around the world attended the event, in which efi
Sports Medicine founders Tom and Joy Campanaro announced the company’s
2010 service award winners. Check efi’s blog for a
list of the winners and photos from the event.
Fundamental Fitness Products,
Denver, has appointed Brent Metzger as president. Metzger has served the
club industry in a variety of roles, including fitness director,
training director, and membership and marketing director for YMCAs and
for-profit facilities in Pennsylvania and Colorado. Fundamental Fitness
Products is an Internet-based manufacturer and retailer of more than
1,500 commercial-grade fitness products and is a preferred vendor for
Anytime Fitness.
Big Ass Fans, Lexington,
KY, is now a preferred vendor for the RetroFitness
chain, which has more than 70 franchise locations and plans to expand to
more than 300 clubs during the next three years. One Big Ass Fan covers
more area than dozens of small ceiling fans at a fraction of the
operating cost, reducing the load on HVAC equipment, according to Big
Ass Fans. The fans also have a patented electronic motor and onboard
controls to keep fan noise low.
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