
September 2014
Fitness JournalIDEA Fitness Journal - September 2014
Global Childhood Games
What do kids in different countries do to stay fit and happy?

Fitness at Your Fingertips (or Thumbs)
Use these apps to improve your fitness business and enhance your client experience.
The Biomechanics of Obesity
Justin Price, MA, explains why we need to address the connections between extra weight and chronic pain.
Creative Ideas that Inspire
Mix up your programming with high-intensity and restorative movements.
Step Up to Warm Up
Use these opening moves to prepare and empower students.
Creative Class Design
Evolve your workouts—and watch participants reach their goals.
Rethinking, Disrupting and Transforming the Way We Eat
Menus of Change® suggests action steps for navigating the intersection of our food, our health and the planet's future.






Appetizers
Here's a taste of what's cooking in the nutrition world:


Smooth Sailing Toward Specialization
Discover how to specialize the smart way.
Restoring Physical Confidence in an Older Adult
Legally blind, Joan needed to improve her strength and balance to maintain her independence.
2014 IDEA World Fitness Awards
Celebrating world-class fitness pros and their impact on people's health.
Secrets of the Masters Athlete
Learn what keeps these inspirational athletes fit and focused.
Diabetes & Exercise: What Every Fitness Professional Should Know 
Exercise is a safeguard against the disease, especially type 2. 
Combat Ready 
A mixed martial arts fitness expert explains how techniques that get Ultimate Fighting Championship® competitors into shape can appeal to a broad spectrum of fitness clients. 
Sorting Out Supplements 
What the research says about calcium, vitamin D, magnesium and omega-3 fatty acids. 
Improving Chronic Neck Pain With Pilates 
Help people find relief from neck pain by providing props and modifications and by guiding clients toward correct spinal alignment. 





