‘Biggest Loser’ Fever Hits Navy
The mania surrounding the popular reality weight loss television show, "The Biggest Loser,” has taken hold of Navy Fitness, inspiring many sailors to lose weight...
Nautilus Announces Record Revenue
Revenue at Nautilus is looking up. The company announced record net sales of $199.3 million for fourth quarter 2006. That’s an increase of 10 percent from the same quarter last year when the revenue was $182 million...
Mind Over Matter
Are the health benefits from working out all in our heads? Maybe so. New findings appearing in the February issue of Psychological Science suggests that many of the beneficial results of exercise are due to the placebo effect...
Government Forming Advisory Committee
Taking another step towards developing physical activity guidelines as announced in October, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is developing a physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. Beginning in June, the committee will ...
First Prescription Diet Pill Approved for OTC Use
Skip the trip to the doctor. Your overweight members have an easier way to obtain the diet pill, orlistat. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved orlistat capsules as an over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss aid for overweight adults. Orlistat was initially approved in 1999 as a prescription drug to treat obesity and remains ...
Bally Opens New Club in Alexandria, VA
Bally Total Fitness has expanded in the Washington, DC, area with the early February opening of a new club in Alexandria, VA. Bally has four other clubs in northern Virginia, six in suburban Maryland and one in DC...
New Jersey JCC Plans Expansion
A $26 million, two-year expansion of the Jewish Community Center (JCC) on the Palisades will add 22,000 square feet to the center, which has more than 10,000 members. As part of the project, ...
Gold's Gym Opens 42nd Fitness Facility in Texas
Hundreds of local residents took part in the grand opening of Gold's Gym Bandera Trails in San Antonio, and, as a result, the facility sold 174 memberships. The 40,000-square-foot facility marked the opening of the 42nd Gold's Gym facility in Texas....
No New ‘PEP’ in School’s Step
– The U.S. Department of Education will be not accept any new Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) applications this year, according to the U.S. Department of Education. ...
Elliptical, Stationary Bike Are New PRT Cardio Options
Here’s some good news for sailors who don’t like to run. The Navy’s fitness program introduced the option of using elliptical trainers or stationary bikes as new ways for sailors to complete the cardiovascular portion of the physical readiness test (PRT). The elliptical and cycle tests are both ...
Six States Earn an 'A'
California, Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennesse received high markets on the The Obesity Initiative's latest report card, a best-of-the-best list of those states taking positive steps to combat the nation's obesity epidemic, especially as it affects children...
Binge Eating More Common Than Other Eating Disorders
The first national survey of individuals with eating disorders shows that binge eating disorder is more prevalent than either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The study, conducted by researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, also calls binge eating disorder a "major public health burden" because of its direct link to severe obesity and other serious health effects. ...
New Navy PRT Cardio Options
Good news for sailors who don’t like to run. The Navy ’s fitness program recently introduced the option of using elliptical trainers or stationary bikes as new ways for sailors to complete the cardiovascular portion of the Physical Readiness Test (PRT)....
Bally Sponsors Women’s Health Fair
One in every three women in the United States dies of heart disease. To help women learn how to reduce risk factors and adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle, the Sister to Sister...
Colorado Town Opens Rec Center
An architecture firm made every inch count at the $12.2 million, 57,000-square-foot Gypsum Recreation Center (GRC) in the mountain town of Gypsum, CO. While other community centers in Colorado often depend on tourism...
YMCA Partners with Hospital for Wellness Program
The Clarion County YMCA is expanding its services by collaborating with a local hospital. Clarion Hospital’s fitness program, Wellness Works, will merge with the Y’s wellness services effective on March ...
CA Governor Launches School Fitness Competition
The California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports is initiating a statewide fitness competition among K-12 schools to promote increased physical activity and better health among California’s youth...
Mission Bay’s Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center Hosts Community Access Program
After a year of planning, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Mission Bay’s Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center hosted a pilot community access program that offers free exercise classes and nutritious food for children and seniors who live in underserved communities near the UCSF Mission Bay campus...
Norfolk MWR Unveils Waterfront Fitness Specialists
Naval Station Norfolk’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) committee introduced their newest trainers, Waterfront Fitness Specialists Jodie Byrkett and Susan Lowry, at an open house in late January...
New Study to Test Exercise in Heart Failure Patients
Cardiologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are helping to lead an international study involving 83 other sites that will test 3,000 patients to determine whether exercise really is good for heart failure patients and whether exercise programs should be covered ...
The Cooper Institute Earns National Accreditation for its Personal Trainer
The National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) granted accreditation to the Cooper Institute’s Personal Trainer Certification (CI-PTr) program for a five-year period. The Cooper Institute is one of only seven organizations to achieve NCCA accreditation ...
More Than Fun and Games
Interactive fitness may have received a boost this month when the School of Physical Education, Wellness and Sports Studies at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, FL, opened the first university interactive fitness research lab for youth on Jan. 8. About 100 Y operators...
Activity Levels Associated with Academic Performance
Higher levels of activity in physical education (PE) class are associated with better academic performance, according to one of two new reports commissioned by The California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation. However, only four ...
Gold’s Gym Celebrates 10 Years in Russia
MOSCOW -- Ten years ago, when Paul Kuebler, Jake Weinstock and Vladimir Grumlik got together to open Gold's Gym Moscow, things in Russia were a little different. "At the time, the concept of fitness was completely different than in the U.S," says Paul Kuebler, part-owner of Gold's Gym Russia. ...
Florida YMCA Undergoes Expansion
The 55,000-square-foot South County Family YMCA invested more than $389,000 in new fitness equipment and plans to celebrate its grand reopening in mid-February. As part of the two...
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