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Life Fitness had an 11 percent increase in net sales in
fourth quarter 2010 and a 9 percent increase in net sales in 2010,
compared to the same periods a year ago, according to financials
released by Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, IL.
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In the wake of an arrest of one of its trainers, Lifestyle
Family Fitness says it is cooperating with authorities who say he had
$20,000 worth of steroids at his home.
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The recession that began affecting the fitness industry in
2008 and causing the weakest period in our recent history cost the
country more than 7 million jobs, and it is not clear that they will be
re-created. But this recession has taught the club industry some lessons
that we shouldn’t forget.
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ZX Fitness recently closed one of its clubs but has plans to
open a new club in the spring in the Charlotte, NC, area.
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The owner of a fitness club in Kosciusko, MS, a town in
central Mississippi, is still missing five days after she was last
seen.
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Life Fitness will introduce a limited edition Augie’s Quest
LifeCycle exercise bike on March 17 at the International Health, Racquet
and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) show in San Francisco.
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Cybex has 180 days to improve its stock price or risk being
delisted on the NASDAQ Stock Market, according to a letter from NASDAQ
received by Cybex on Jan. 21.
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Total Gym, the San Diego-based manufacturer of functional and
resistance training equipment, reaches another milestone while coming
full circle by rebranding as—Total Gym.
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The majority of the country is bracing for yet another big
storm over the next few days. For many club operators in the Northeast,
this is just another in a long string of winter storms that affected new
club member sign-ups in what is traditionally the biggest month of the
year for fitness facilities.
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Among the several responses we received in the days after the
passing of Jack LaLanne, few were as poignant and as thoroughly
well-written as a letter from the family of Rudy Smith.
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People lie about their health and fitness habits. That may
not come as a surprise to you or your trainers. How many times have your
trainers been told by their clients that they are following their set
exercise and healthy eating plan between sessions, but your trainer is
seeing lackluster results?
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Partnerships with the medical community are becoming more
important to some club operators. In
this week’s Step by Step, Wendy Williamson shares some ideas about
how you can make initial contact with doctors and follow up with them to
develop a partnership.
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Check out our list of tools that make blogging, marketing,
backups, security and all those other must-do’s easier, cheaper and
less frustrating in February’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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Anytime
Fitness released its “Weight of the Union” report, which
examined the fitness and nutritional habits of its members. The study
found that financial incentives were a significant motivating factor in
recurring gym visits. Anytime Fitness members received nearly $3 million
in reimbursements from their insurance companies for working out 12
times a month or more. The full report is at www.anytimehealth.com.
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Technogym has introduced mywellnesskey, a portable device
that measures a person’s physical activity to help motivate them.
Using the product, club staff can follow clients and motivate them
outside the gym through the assignment of a daily activity target,
according to Technogym. Inside the club, mywellnesskey allows clients to
activate the Technogym machines on their personal training program and
save the results that will contribute to achieving their daily target.
mywellnesskey also is fitted with a USB support to upload the lifestyle
data on www.mywellness.com.
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