The health club industry has gotten a publicity boost during the past year, thanks to the media's attention to the workout habits of President-elect Barack...More
Because there are more clubs in the industry than we could ever cover, we are providing a place on our 25th anniversary page for owners of club companies to share their company's history with our online readers, too....More
Just as Pilates has branched into one-on-one training, yoga also is entering that realm, but the benefits come more in retention than in added revenue....More
By the time the 1980s arrived, the fitness industry had emerged from basements and garages where it had been home to bodybuilders to become an industry of tennis, racquetball and fitness facilities appealing to a broader market with broader offerings....More
Business owners are now looking for ways to cut costs and conserve resources. By following an up-and-coming trend called adaptive reuse, owners can breathe new life into an existing building and circumvent much of the expense and the challenges of new construction....More
Jeff Herdman, a former professional basketball player, scoured the Los Angeles area for six years for the perfect location for his health club. One day,...More
Health club members can take a step back in time by visiting the Merritt Downtown Athletic Club. The 66,000-square-foot fitness facility is located inside of a 148-year-old train depot...More
A 20-year-old eight-plex movie theater in the small town of Moorpark, CA, got two new lives in 2002, when Epic Enterprises purchased the building, upgraded three of the theaters to the latest movie specs and stadium seating, and converted the other five theaters into a 28,000-square-foot health club....More
A 1912 New York City skyscraper received a new lease on life in 2000 when Equinox transformed part of the 37-story building into an upscale 38,000-square-foot health club....More
On a normal weekday in mid-November, a quick search of some of the latest stories about the fitness club industry had an all-too-common theme: a struggling economy....More
The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association is participating in the effort by NSF International to create a voluntary certification process for owners of fitness facilities....More
The Las Vegas Athletic Club has had to cease its offer of free enrollments to women after the Nevada Equal Rights Commission decided in a 3-to-1 vote that the promotion was discriminatory....More
Just three months after Casey Conrad left Healthy Inspirations, the company she founded in 2000, one of the company's franchisees, Scott Draper, has purchased the assets of the women's weight loss and fitness company from Jim Rowe....More
Gold's Gym International's new CEO, James Weaver, has taken over the reins of the company after David Schnabel, who had been CEO of the company for two years, resigned last month to...More
Initially, it was Tom Watkins who called the Gold's Gym in Frederick, MD, to inquire about working out there. After Watkins had second thoughts six months' worth of second thoughts...More
Nifty After Fifty Launches Cane-Fu Aerobics; American International College to Offer Executive MBA in Commercial Fitness; Automated External Defibrillator Saves Life at Wisconsin Club; Snap Fitness Hires Former Curves President and COO Gary Findley...More
Creating a more gracious, professional and high-performance sales staff can help you maximize sales production faster and minimize sales staff failure rates....More
An article in the July/August 2008 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Is Google Making Us Stoopid? by Nicholas Carr, has been the source of much discussion by....More
