Happy Birthday to IDEA Fitness Journal!

If you stay at a place long enough, the anniversaries just start piling up. Last year it was IDEA’s 40th anniversary celebration. This year, we are thrilled to wish a very happy 20th birthday to this award-winning publication.   

Fitness Journal is just one in a long line of excellent print and digital magazines and newsletters IDEA has provided for its members since 1982. It just happens to be the one that was robust and relevant enough to stand the test of time. Combining the tenets of great journalism and storytelling, evidence-based reporting and practical “Monday-morning-ready” ideas that translate research into action are our classic hallmarks. The continuing education in our pages has kept countless numbers of fit pros on the cutting edge of their craft and on a meaningful learning journey that has no parallel.

Based on your feedback to our team’s work, the formula continues to resonate. The Journal has grown, stretched and evolved along with the industry, and it will continue to serve our community as a mainstay of this great profession. 

I point to our dedicated team of editors, freelancers, subject-matter experts, graphic designers and advertisers who have made possible the 20-year lifespan of this incredible resource. You have my everlasting gratitude for collaborating on a brand I could not be more proud to share with fitness and wellness pros every single issue for the past two decades.

Who Moved My CEC Quiz?

All of this homage to tradition stated, there is bound to be disruption over the course of 20 years. This issue marks the first time in about 15 years that we have not included the CEC Quiz in the printed magazine. Just a handful of readers still use the paper quiz, and we needed the extra 4–5 pages to fit all the great material we planned.

Here’s how it now works: Each CEC article has a QR code (the little square box with the black-and-white matrix pattern) that leads to the associated online quiz. Simply use the URL provided in text with each article or scan the QRC with your smartphone camera, and you’ll be instantly transported to the online test.

This is a permanent change that will give us space to provide some additional content for you. Please reach out to our team if you have any questions: content@ideafit.com. In the meantime, I hope you’ll help us celebrate this milestone by reading every page of this rich issue that kicks off the “Volume 20” party! 

For all you do to Inspire the World to Fitness®, IDEA salutes you!

Sandy Todd Webster

Editor in Chief

@sandytoddwebster

@fitnesseditor

@ideafit