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Consumer Article - Skip to It!
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Think you need a pricey gym full of high-tech exercise toys to push yourself to the next fitness level? Try the humble skipping rope instead. Skipping is a serious muscle toner for the calves, shoulders and arms. And it blasts calories at an intensity that rivals running.
Popularity: 21% [?]
Calculating The Children’s Fitness
Tax Credit For 2007
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
The following information about the proposed tax credit is for parents of children under the age of 16. If you are part of an organization providing programs of physical activity for children under the age of 16, please see Information for organizations providing eligible programs of physical activity.
Popularity: 20% [?]
A Great Canadian Success Story
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Gene Kay built his first club in Hamilton, Ontario in 1981, attaining a membership of 1,000.
By 2007, that first club had grown into Alliance Fitness with 18 Fitness Centres serving over 100,000 members. All 18 facilities have now been sold.
As reported in our December FitNet, LA Fitness, a privately-owned American health club chain established […]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Candid Manager
Lana Asuchak, Calgary
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Lana Asuchak
ALIVE Personal Taining
Calgary
www.alivepersonaltraining.com
How did you become a fitness club owner?
When I was laid off from my job as an X-ray technologist in 1994, I knew what I had to do – go back to university and pursue my true passion: fitness! I had started teaching fitness classes when I was 19 and had […]
Popularity: 13% [?]
“Freedom Through Sport” to Help Disabled Get Moving Sooner
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008EDMONTON - Patients and physiotherapists from Edmonton’s Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital have met with people from the U.S. Walter Reed Army Medical Centre to discuss how they can work together.
Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, an Alberta soldier who lost both legs in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, says he hopes a new program, “Freedom Through Sport,” will […]
Popularity: 27% [?]
Curves Now at the Breakfast Table
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
TEXAS – Curves International, Inc., the world’s largest fitness club franchisor, announced that its Curves Cereal line was named Best Food Extension by the readers of Brandweek magazine.
Curves Cereal was launched earlier this year in a partnership with General Mills and is carried nationally in more than 20,000 American retail stores. Offering nutrition benefits, […]
Popularity: 19% [?]
Study Says Seniors Should Focus More on Fitness Than Fatness
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008SOUTH CAROLINA – A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that overweight and obese seniors who were physically fit outlived their contemporaries – even thin ones who weren’t physically fit.
“There is perhaps too much focus on body weight, and fitness is only an afterthought,” said lead researcher Steven N. Blair, a […]
Popularity: 18% [?]
ACSM Survey Names Top 20 Fitness Trends
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008INDIANAPOLIS – Educated and experienced fitness professionals are predicted to be the number one fitness trend in 2008 based on the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) second-annual Fitness Trends survey, published this month in ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal.
According to the survey, the availability of more “educated and experienced fitness professionals” will be the […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
