I'm generally not a big fan of McDonald's. Despite the fast food chain being part of my childhood, it has little allure for me today. Of course, I don't...More
On Aug. 10, the last day of its liability and property insurance policy term, Cross Gates Athletic Clubs was dropped by its insurance provider. Due to...More
SOUTHINGTON, CT The YMCA-Southington (CT) has a purported scam to thank for increasing the public's awareness of its programs and services. Last month,...More
CHICAGO Bally Total Fitness made it official last month: The second-largest revenue-producing club company in the industry filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy....More
GAINESVILLE, FL A new club in Tioga, FL, increases the Gainesville (FL) Health & Fitness Center club numbers to three. Joe Cirulli, owner of Gainesville...More
AUSTIN, TX The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) recreation center, which is scheduled to open this fall, could have alumni and families of students...More
WILMINGTON, DE The Fitness Co. (TFC), which opened its first club in 1981, filed Chapter 11 petitions last month in the United States Bankruptcy Court...More
DOVER, NH The hiring of Ben Midgley as president of Planet Fitness was an act to preserve sanity for Mike Grondahl, co-founder of the company. Midgley,...More
BROOKLYN PARK, MN Dennis Lee and Tim Porth, the founders of Octane Fitness, won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award in the consumer...More
MOUNT PROSPECT, IL Among sports participants age 7 and older, females make up the majority in four of six activities surveyed in 2006 by the National...More
SAN JOSE, CA Product sales in the sports and fitness nutrition market are expected to reach $36 billion by 2010, according to a recent report by Global...More
EDEN PRAIRIE, MN Membership growth and in-center revenue led Life Time Fitness to a 33 percent increase in second quarter earnings, according to the company....More
NEW YORK The board of directors at Crunch Fitness looked beyond the fitness industry when it hired Tim Miller as the new CEO last month. Miller has nearly...More
DALLAS The Texas Attorney General has cited Life Time Fitness, Eden Prairie, MN, for unlawfully dumping identifying information of its members both adults...More
HURLBURT FIELD, FL More than 50 active-duty service members, civilians, retirees and dependents recently participated in the second annual Weight Warriors...More
NEW YORK While spending a lot of time in front of the computer building Internet-based companies over the last seven years, Howard Lerman admits he put...More
WASHINGTON, DC Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) recently introduced legislation that could encourage businesses to implement workplace wellness programs for their...More
NEWPORT NEWS, VA Through the healthy-living example of one command fitness leader (CFL), 96 percent of the sailors on the pre-commissioning unit (PCU)...More
KADENA AIR BASE, JAPAN More than 1,500 volunteers from different branches of the U.S. military and the local community came together to help with the...More
SAN FRANCISCO Last month, the San Francisco Superior Court approved a class action settlement between 24 Hour Fitness and approximately 1.8 million current...More
ZHUHAI, CHINA Founded in 1977 by Paul Kuo, SportsArt Fitness is celebrating its 30th anniversary. In November, the company will celebrate with a world...More
OWATONNA, MN Cybex International Inc. has opened a $15 million, 340,000-square-foot, eco-friendly manufacturing facility in Owatonna, MN. The new facility...More
LAS VEGAS Two Fabiano-designed Gold's Gyms won awards at the 2007 Gold's Gym International Convention in Las Vegas. The Gold's Gym in Islip, NY, won three...More
Nearly 5,000 coaches and Jewish athletes from across the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Israel, the United Kingdom and Venezuela convened at three...More
As we near the end of the summer, we start the much-anticipated fall season, which for most clubs is the start of their sales' peak season. Traditionally,...More
As we try to find ways to service Baby Boomers and Generation X’ers, we are not paying enough attention to our next generation of members, that mercurial group known as Generation Y—comprised of teen-agers or “tweeners.”...More
You spent a few years researching what type of wellness center to build, then invested lots of dollars to create a center you can proudly call your own....More
Attention Chicago Cub Legends Ernie Banks, Ron Santo and Ryne Sandberg: Come October, some new players will be in the Windy City, and they're looking...More
Dave Peters has been in the fitness club business a long time. He had socked away some of his earnings from his more than 40 years in the industry into...More
Although cycling is the second-most popular exercise activity in the world next to walking, when it comes to health club members, group cycling is often...More
As former Home Depot executive Carl Liebert makes a home for himself as the new CEO at 24 Hour Fitness, he is moving the chain into new markets on the East Coast, in Asia and into the world of children’s programming....More
Lockers The Polytex System provides fully automated, around-the-clock solutions for storage, distribution, retrieval, tracking and management of towels,...More
One last thought about flings. Tennis and I have usually had an on-again, off-again love affair. I don't play tennis nearly as often as I should, and...More
