Industrywide Issues Articles

"Experience Managers" Wanted By Don Longwell T he club I belong to runs a Fit and Fun Corporate Challenge, a two-day charity event open to com- partners. The play is strenuous, but the mood is friendly and relaxed. It's not the exercise that gets me off the couch; it's the experience that goes with it. Once in a muscle pump class, as we were doing a long, repetitive exercise, our instructor beg...

Weathering an Economic Slowdown in the Fitness Industry What facilities and staff can do to succeed in today's cloudy economic climate. Nobody likes to talk about an economic slowdown. People at all levels of the health and fitness business worry enough about their companies in good times; hardly anyone wants to think about potential bad times. It is scary to think of consumers pulling back on sp...

autoimmune disease and overtraining oanne, a fitness professional in her mid-30s, had been sick for several months. She ached all over, was extremely fatigued, suffered gastrointestinal problems and just generally did not feel well. Additionally, her hands had become extremely sensitive to the cold. Although she was able to continue exercising and teaching 10 or more classes each week, her conditi...

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF FITNESS IDEA Essay Contest finalists offer their views of what fitness will be like in the year 2025. ow will people be looking after their health 25 years from now? Will we be participating in "military-astronaut" fitness classes, using our thumb print on weight equipment to customize our workout, exercising in a virtual reality room or having our DNA profiled to assess ...

ou are a hardworking personal fitness trainer with a solid client base, a respectable reputation and a passion for your work. As operator of your own training facility, you earn a steady income from a packed schedule of one-to-one workout sessions. While you appreciate your clients and their business, lately you've begun to feel "maxed out" from all the hours you the ethics spend working with th...