Archive for September 2011
j/fit Health Club Step (Gray/Black)
Step Aerobics is a great, simple way to boost your metabolism, work your cardiovascular system, and lose weight. This step trainer comes with a durable, non slip surface and adjusts from four inches all the way up to eight, to accommodate users of all fitness levels. When you’re done, the whole system is compact enough to conveniently slide under your bed or store in your closet.
A MESSAGE FROM LINDSAY JAY AT DISCO HEALTH CLUB !
DISCO HEALTH CLUB WHY JUST EXERCISE – WHEN YOU CAN PARTY! Launched on Wednesday 13th January 2010, Disco Health Club is an innovative concept that allows girls and guys to keep fit while dancing along to their favourite disco classics, all in the surroundings of a West End club. Taking its inspiration from the 80s aerobic style of Olivia Newton John and Jane Fonda, Disco Health Club will inject some longed-for glamour and light hearted fun into keeping fit. Disco Health Club encourages you to shimmy into some shiny leggings, pull on the legwarmers, and dig out those retro sweatbands for a workout like no other! While many find going to the gym a bore and struggle with strenuous exercise programmes, Londoners are quite happy to burn off up to 500 calories an hour strutting their stuff on a packed dance floor on a Saturday night. Disco Health Club takes the energetic aspects of clubbing, keeps the glamour and the DJs and provides an upbeat environment that is designed to encourage its guests to keep fit and lose weight while wearing fabulous clothes and having fun with their friends. The night begins with a series of Disco-inspired aerobics classes, led by Disco Health Clubs expert instructor Lindsay Jay. The idea is that guests learn basic moves and dance combinations as the DJ plays. The room is lined with mirrors, making it the ideal location to perfect dance moves before letting your hair down. Lasers and lights add to the club atmosphere and hide any mistakes! The bar …
Fitness Management: A Comprehensive Resource for Developing, Leading, Managing, and Operating a Successful Health/Fitness Club
Fitness industry specialists Stephen Tharrett and James Peterson present the most comprehensive blueprint ever created for developing, leading, managing, and operating a successful health fitness business.
The book is separated into seven distinct sections representing the primary skill sets needed to succeed as a leader and manager in the health/fitness club industry. Each section contains these and other key topics: Introduction to the Health/Fitness Industry (history, current practices and trends, attitudes and attributes of the consumer/club member); Membership in the Health/Fitness Club Industry (defining the differences between a member and a customer, types of memberships, packaging of memberships, pricing strategies, branding, marketing, sales management); Membership Retention in the Health/Fitness Club Industry (the value of a membership and retention, variables known to influence attrition and retention, creating and defining positive club-based experiences, defining and creating a service culture, programming for health/fitness clubs); The Health/Fitness Club Business (legal business structure, business operating models, getting started, financial models and tools, budgeting, forecasting, and driving profitability, buying, leasing, selling, and raising capital); Staffing Issues in the Health/Fitness Club Industry (employees versus independent contractors, compensation, benefits, education and skill competency, organizational alignment, team building and recruitment); Facilities and Equipment in the Health/Fitness Club Industry (designing and construction, cardiovascular, selectorized/variable resistance, free-weight, purchase or lease equipment); Operational Practices in the Health/Fitness Club Industry (risk management, operating practice, front-desk, child-care, fitness, aquatics, tennis, locker rooms, laundry, housecleaning, accounting, types of spas, spa facilities and features, space requirements, financial parameters, spa staff).
Also includes sections on the international health/fitness club industry, the future of the health/fitness club industry, case studies, and eighteen thoughtfully organized appendices covering everything from the various industry associations and organizations to sample job descriptions and member satisfaction surveys.
Students and young professionals can rely on the most current and up-to-date information available in the industry contained in this text, and seasoned industry professionals who wish to expand their knowledge into areas where they may not have as much experience will find Fitness Management an invaluable resource.