Bruce’s Journal Week Four
Last week was not a very good one for my health. I spent most of my time at work, sometimes staying until one or two in the morning. The late schedule prevented me from going to the gym and made my food choices impulsive. The food at work, though plentiful, doesn’t always fit within a healthy diet, especially since they started stocking Soft Batch Chocolate Chip cookies. (more…)
Key Success Factors
Each department head, and certainly the club’s general manager, should have three to five key “drivers” for their position. Hopefully, if successful with these factors, the business will dramatically improve. These factors will change from year to year. For fitness directors, the following are examples of what they may focus on: (more…)
What about Going Backward
In a gym, you’ll see people pedaling backward on a stationary cycle or walking backward on a stepper in attempts to target different muscle groups or to increase the intensity of their workout. The same holds true for elliptical trainers, as most commercial models allow the user to go forward or backward. (more…)
Tune in a little on-line diversion
If you’re like many employees, you are probably in a situation where your personal computer has recently been upgraded.
So you’ve got a new high-end PC that features all the latest and coolest multimedia features, and a fast connection to the Internet. Speakers sit on either side of your monitor, and are most often silent.
Sooper Teamwork
Many health clubs have achieved success by relying on the philosophy that teamwork yields the greatest rewards. And while most utilize this approach with their staff, many others use it to foster camaraderie among members. But imagine what would happen if you integrated staff and members working toward a common goal. Sound dynamic? Just ask the Cooper Fitness Center about its Sooper Dooper Cooper Grooper (SDCG) program. (more…)
The Investor David S. Wetherell
He materialized from out of nowhere, the owner by leveraged buyout of College Marketing Group (CMG), a mail-order company in Winchester, Mass., that sold lists of professors and their courses to textbook publishers.
Going Сorporate
In developing the Business Partnership Program, LifeQuest wanted to find a way to provide a top-of-the-line membership program to small businesses with minimal cost to the club or program participants. The program targets businesses that are interested in promoting health and wellness, but are too small to afford a wellness program. (more…)
Conversations
There you go, the entire exchange word-for-word. I’ve decided to wait until the whole drama unfolds to comment. But for now, I found this written by Arthur Tiersky which explains much better than I what I was thinking…
“Yes, Ted’s excuse sounded pretty lame, but I remain unconvinced that he had a conscious intention, knowing that he was on a national TV show and has a wife and newborn back home, to actually “get something going” with Ghandia. (more…)
Lunging Into Aerobics
An aerobics class may never look or feel the same if a LifeQuest Fitness invention continues to grow in popularity. The new Lunging Poles, designed to enhance lower-body workouts, are the hottest thing going at LifeQuest’s Charleston, S.C., facilities, says CEO Wayne Caparas. (more…)
Sex: Twice In One Week
This may go hand in hand with the results of the previous article posted concerning results of a study in Wales. That one dealt with the health effects of having sex on middle-aged men. (Editor’s note: we do not mean to imply that sexual acts were performed using middle-aged men as a piece of furniture. (more…)
