Are your social media skills lacking? Do you mean to stay engaged in social media at fitness conferences but get wrapped up in the energy and forget to post? These tips will help you learn to make the best of social media at every conference.
Follow & Use the Official Event Hashtag
Amanda Vogel Interview.m4v newsletter_teaser: Amanda Vogel, MA, accomplished fitness writer and owner of Active Voice Writing Service, offers tips to improve Web-based written communications for five formats: website, e-newsletter, blog, Facebook fan page and Twitter™.
How can you keep up on the latest news and trends in health and fitness? Would you like to find a simple way of sharing this news with your clients—as well as your fellow fitness and wellness professionals? Then you’ll want to check out IDEA’s new FitFeed, at www.ideafit.com/fitfeed.
by Ryan Halvorson
The rates of overweight and obesity among kids continue to climb. Food choices and inactivity are considered major culprits. Are electronic devices also to blame?
Scientists from the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta have linked use of electronic devices, poor sleep patterns and obesity among Canadian 5th graders. The researchers surveyed sleep habits, food intake, physical activity levels, height and weight measurements, and nighttime use of electronic devices among 3,398 children.
by Jeff Stensland
If you have overweight clients who love their social media, you may want to point them in the direction of Twitter. A new study has found that Twitter use helped subjects achieve a healthy weight.newsletter_teaser: If you have overweight clients who love their social media, you may want to point them in the direction of Twitter. A new study has found that Twitter use can help people achieve a healthy weight. How is that possible?
Jade Teta interview.m4v Node Features: Has Videonewsletter_teaser: Jade Teta, ND, CSCS, co-creator of Metabolic Effect, shares his top 5 tips for developing a successful online coaching business.
by Biray Alsac-Seitz, MS
During the holiday season, your clients need a defense against the temptations of devilish desserts and traditional feasts. After all, in the U.S. the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day cause, on average, 0.8–1.4 pounds of weight gain (five times more in those who are overweight or obese), accounting for 51% of the yearly weight gain in the typical American (NIH 2000; Hull et al. 2006).
newsletter_teaser: During the holiday season, your clients need a defense against the temptations of devilish desserts and traditional feasts. After all, in the U.S. the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day cause, on average, 0.8–1.4 pounds of weight gain (five times more in those who are overweight or obese), accounting for 51% of the yearly weight gain in the typical American (NIH 2000; Hull et al. 2006).
by Melissa Spraul
You’re already an active blogger, and you’ve got hundreds of Facebook fans and Twitter™ followers. You consistently post relevant, informational updates and messages. You encourage feedback, and you foster conversations among your followers. Your clients are engaged and enthusiastic.
But you feel you’re in a bit of a rut, or you see that your audience isn’t really growing. Now is the time to mix in other social media tools and tactics.newsletter_teaser: You’re already an active blogger, and you’ve got hundreds of Facebook fans and Twitter™ followers, but your audience isn’t really growing. Now is the time to mix in other social media tools and tactics.
