Latest Fitness Industry News
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- Why is Business Planning Important? [news]
- Setting out to build or grow your business without a business plan is like switching on the ignition and driving out your driveway without knowing where you are going, or how you plan to get there.
- Pumping Iron? A Lighter Load May Give Better Results [news]
- Enough with the grunting and groaning at the gym. New research this week in PLoS One shows that, to build muscle, it's more effective to lift a lighter weight many times than to lift a heavy load that you can only manage five or 10 times.
- The Older Kids Get, The Less They Move [news]
- Every parent knows that overscheduling kids is a no-no. Not only is it exhausting for parents, who must cart those little people from place to place, but kids need time to relax. Or do they?
- To Build a Better Youth Athlete, Slug Sports Drinks [news]
- Team sports ain't what they used to be. Parents jeer, coaches demand and kids — understandably — are under a lot of pressure to perform. Competition, even at young ages, can be intense. Let's talk stamina. On those days your child needs a little extra boost on the football field, forget the energy bars; it's energy drinks your budding winner needs.
- Sports Programming - Know Your Game [news]
- If you’re working with athletes you need to know your sport and how best to prepare your athletes. Here is some of the information that you’ll need to understand to put together a conditioning plan for netball and rugby union athletes.
- Boot camp latest fitness fad [news]
- Bootcamp is hot, Pilates is not, according to a new survey forecasting fitness trends for 2011. In fact so precipitous was the fall of Pilates, once a fitness staple, that Dr. Walter Thompson, lead author of an annual poll conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, is starting to call it a fad. "Fads are here today, gone tomorrow," Thompson said. "Pilates has been very strong since 2008. But for 2011 it fell off the list completely."
- Guidelines for Children in Exercise Facilities [news]
- After over 2 years of development, and extensive industry and expert consultation, in early 2009 FitnessNZ released the New Zealand Guidelines for Children in Exercise Facilities. The guidelines’ development was financially supported by FitnessNZ, Sparc, and ACC. The development of the guidelines was lead by Dr Robert Parker of the Children’s Hospital of Sports Medicine (CHISM), Sydney, Australia.
- Update on Music Licensing [news]
- Music licensing is looking likely to be a MAJOR issue in New Zealand. In Australia the rates proposed to use music (of any form, including the radio. CDs, TV etc) in gyms are over $100,000 for a moderate sized club! FitnessNZ has been working on this on many levels, and this has been communicated to members.
- Casual Employment [news]
- All employees have minimum rights and entitlements - including casual employees. What is casual employment? Usually this is employment “as and when” required, with no guarantee of set hours or continuation of employment. In practice, some employees who are described as “casual”, may in fact have an ongoing employment relationship with an employer.
- Health: The Real Story About Low Fat [news]
- You may have noticed the headlines suggesting that low-fat diets--long recommended as the path to better health--don't do any good. Before you rush off to order a cheeseburger with an ice-cream chaser, however, you should take a closer look at the studies on which those headlines were based. You'll probably end up concluding, as I did, that paying attention to how much and what kind of fat you consume is pretty important after all.
- First Comes Love, Then Comes Obesity? [news]
- It's full-on wedding season, but anyone about to pledge to have and to hold should pay closer attention to the bit about "in sickness and in health." New research shows that within a few short years of getting hitched, married individuals are twice as likely to become obese as are people who are merely dating.
- Cancer Control [news]
- Ask a doctor about the best ways to prevent breast cancer, and you're likely to hear about a number of things you can't easily control: being blessed with the right genes, hitting puberty later than age 12, having your first child before you're 30. It's not exactly a basis for action. Increasingly, though, physicians are mentioning a few things you can do that just might help reduce the frightening 1-in-8 odds of getting breast cancer.
- Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat? [news]
- When it comes to dieting, most of us are willing to resort to a trick or two to help us curb our appetite and eat less — drinking water to fill up when we're hungry, for example, or opting for artificial sweeteners instead of sugar to get the same satisfying sweetness without the offending calories.
- The Science of Appetite [news]
- Nature prefers you fat, but you can take control. New research could explain better approaches to dieting and how to curb your appetite. No diet has ever been able to defy the laws of thermodynamics. Whether you go low carb, low fat, low this or low that, the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.
- Planning and Assessing Training Loads in Sports Conditioning [news]
- The article gives practical ways to measure training loads for sports conditioning. We will also show-case some the high tech new ways during the Sports Conditioning Workshop.
- Multidirectional Speed Training [news]
- Coaches in sports such as golf, tennis and swimming recognise the gains in performance that can be achieved through specifically targeting skill. As most sports are based around using bats, racquets, and/or balls of some description the control of these objects is often the focus when it comes to skill development.
- Discover Detox Secrets From Around The World [news]
- Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a pollution-free environment, where we drank only the purest of water and ate naturally untainted foods? Where the homes we lived in were free of chemicals and the air we breathed, water in which we swam, and even the clothes hugging our skin were clean of any artificial substances?
- Vitamin D - Myths and Facts [news]
- For the last 30 years or so, doctors (dermatologists in particular), health officials, beauty experts and many product companies have been demonizing the sun. They’ve told us to avoid it because without sunscreen, exposure to the sun’s rays will damage skin and cause cancer. But this oversimplification distorts the facts.
- How to Cleanse and Nourish Your Cells with Fresh Vegetable Juices [news]
- Drinking just one freshly pressed juice each day is a reliable way of infusing your body with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that can protect your cells against premature aging and disease.
- How to feel full and not gain weight [news]
- It IS possible to eat the warming winter comfort food we want, without stacking on the kilos. As winter approaches, we change the food we eat. Instead of salads and light dishes, we want more warming, comforting food such as soups, hearty casseroles and creamy mash. And then we add our winter kilos. Sound familiar? The good news is we can learn the tricks to have our comfort food and eat it, too.
- Practical Programming: From Back Pain to a Pain Free Bend Pattern – The Deadlift [news]
- Why do we need to train this particular movement pattern? Even with our sedentary lifestyles we're all required to bend many times through out the day - life still exists below desk level! However bending with poor technique i.e. from the waist without use of the lower extremities, places significantly increased pressure on the lumbar disks.
- Women shouldn't avoid strength training [news]
- Despite building stronger bones and providing a metabolic boost that burns fat for hours after a workout, experts say too many women resist it because of a misplaced fear of morphing into the Incredible Hulk. "People who lift weights are generally leaner," said Lou Schuler, a strength and conditioning expert. "This idea that pounds of muscle are suddenly going to appear on a woman's body because she lifts weights is just a delusion."
- Wrist mishaps move to shoulders [news]
- Fitness is one way of dodging injury in the ski season, which can especially damage the wrists and shoulders of snowboarders. Picking up an injury halfway through the ski season can, at best, be a minor irritation. At worst you may find yourself packing the gear away and watching boarders and skiers gliding down unspoilt slopes with the sun on their backs - at home on a DVD. Hurrumph.
- Overeating while pregnant leads to obese babies [news]
- Women who gain too much weight during pregnancy have big babies, putting their children at risk of becoming heavy later on, a new study says. American researchers followed all births in Michigan and New Jersey between 1989 and 2003. They then focused on women who had more than one child, to exclude the possibility that women who were genetically predisposed to be obese were simply passing those genes to their babies.
- Paracetamol linked to childhood asthma [news]
- Results from an international study suggest the increasing use of paracetamol by children may have contributed to the rising prevalence of childhood asthma. But an expert said today the findings didn't constitute a reason to stop using the drug in childhood.
- Dodging gym bugs - it's a real workout [news]
- The sweat dripping off the guy on the treadmill next to you may seem gross, but don't worry. Unless, of course he sneezes. Then you've got problems. And if you have a shower at the gym after your workout, be very afraid.
- Ratchet up your workout with a rest [news]
- If your cardio routine is in the doldrums, try mixing a little tortoise in with that hare. Experts say interval training, alternating bursts of intensity activity with less intense periods, can burn more calories, boost stamina, and stave off that burning pain that stops any workout dead in its tracks.
- Smarten Up Your Feet [news]
- Those of you who have worked with me over the last few years would have heard me whinging and moaning about footwear designs and looking after your feet. Looking after those things at the end of your legs can help significantly reduce calf and back pain and have you moving better.
- Refuelling after your workout [news]
- If you want to recover well after a work out and be able to sustain a successful ongoing exercise programme it is vital that you have a post-exercise re-fuelling regime. It’s as much a part of your programme as the exercise itself. Quite simply they go hand in hand. Without it your ability to exercise consistently may be compromised.
- Turn Back Time on How you Move [news]
- It’s hard to dispute that the modern Western world has adopted a far more sedentary lifestyle compared to their previous generations. This sedentary lifestyle has lead to an epidemic of metabolic disorders and musculoskeletal injuries. It’s no coincidence that the rise in musculoskeletal injuries has occurred at a time when the seated position has become the most common worldwide working posture.
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