Archive for May 2007
The Way to a Man’s Healthy Heart Is Through His Stomach
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Read MoreThe Planar Training Method
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Read MorePrenatal Vitamins and Infant Birth Weight
A recent study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (2007; 161 [1], 58–64) found that prenatal vitamin supplementation may help underweight pre…
Read MoreCool Off With Frozen Fresh-Fruit Yogurt Pops
Who doesn’t enjoy a chilled popsicle on a hot, muggy summer day? Trouble is, too many of the store-bought varieties are loaded with sugar and other nonhealthy ingredients. To keep your kids cooled off but healthy this summer, try making and freezing some of your own fresh-fruit yogurt pops. Better yet, encourage your children to come up with their own fruit combinations so as to enj…
Read MoreFighting for Life
Few people have influenced the fitness
industry as dramatically as renowned
entrepreneur Augie Nieto, the founder and retired chief executive of Life Fitness Inc. A once-chu…
Real-World Step
It’s the first day of the convention, and you walk into th…
Read MoreA Spark on the Class Schedule
Chi-Cycle is “cranking” at Maryland SportFIT clu…
Read MoreMusic Therapy Improves Brain Function
Listening to music stimulates the brain and the body-mind connection and can reactivate speech centers of the brain, prompt memory and improve gait and coordination. Owing to the strength of the research evidence, clinical training is now being offered to teach specialists how to use music therapy, according to Robin L. Brey, MD, editor in chief of Neurology Now (November–Dec…
Read More“Soul Chi” Combines Tai Chi With Rhythm and Blues
Melvin Atkins, a martial artist and fitness intructor based in Marin County, California, has blended tai chi with rhythm and blues to create “Soul Chi.”
Read MoreBrain Fitness Instructor-Training Program
For instructors who want to incorporate “brain fitness” into
their class curricula, training is now available on what types
of exercises and activities improve memory, concentration,
decision making, stress management and the ability to deal with
change. SharpBrains i…
STOTT PILATES® Center Opens in NY Sports Club
Pilates studios are finding their way into fitness clubs. STOTT PILATES, an international Pilates education, video and equipment organization based in Toronto, has partnered with New York Sports Clubs (NYSC) to open a Pilates studio and training center inside the NYSC Reade Street …
Read MoreAnger Management Strategies
IDEA Fitness Industry Compensation Survey 2006
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Read MoreFacilitating Fellowship
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Read MoreYoga for Recovering Addicts
As yoga styles proliferate, more programs are targeting specific niche groups who can benefit from yoga’s unique blend of body, mind and spirit. One of these groups consists of recovering addicts. In the 1970s, Superhealth, a pioneering alternative health center for the treatment of addictions in Tuscon, Arizona,
offered heroin addicts recovery services based on kundalini yoga, di…
A Fitness Evangelist
You can feel Chalene Johnson’s exuberant spirit in your bones before you even walk into one of her classes. She is the fitness industry’s honorary cheerleader an…
Read MoreWhat do you do if your client comes to his session with a bad attitude after a bad day?
Grumpy faces and not-so-shiny dispositions are part of the package when you work with clients for the long haul. When a client comes in with storm clouds hovering over his head and negative talk spilling out, it is up to me to use what I know about him to make the session work for both of us.
Read MoreThe Personal Fitness Counselor
Subject: Meredith Nelson, MEd
Company: PrimeTime Fitness Inc.
The Participant Becomes the Professional. Meredith Nelson has always been…
Read MoreTransformational Coaching
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Read MoreHow Values Affect Program Adherence
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