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Owner's EDGE

The opportunity for profit from your pool is enormous. Reaping the benefits of a pool—servicing members, bringing in new members, and turning a profit can be intimidating. You are not alone. Often, pools in fitness facilities go underused, with as little as 5% of members taking advantage of this resource. Aqua fitness can be difficult to manage and good aqua instructors are difficult to find and keep. Class format and choreography can be a challenge. The costs to build and maintain a pool are significant. These factors combined can make profitability a huge challenge—but it’s not impossible. In fact, building a pool and maintaining an aqua program hold a tremendous potential for profit. [Read More]


Les Mills Midwest is proud to announce the latest addition to our family. 24 Hour Fitness, the largest privately owned U.S. fitness chain and a leading health club industry pioneer, is rolling out the world-leading Group Exercise class, BODYPUMP®.

This is a fantastic endorsement of Les Mills, and testament to the awesome level of instruction and member appreciation that already exists across the Midwest and the rest of the USA. Distributed by SCW Fitness Education, Les Mills Midwest, (which manages 12 Midwestern states) has licensed Les Mills programs in 46 Gold's Gyms, 78 YMCAs, 4 JCC clubs, 10 Powerhouse clubs, and many other satisfied facilities. [Read More]

Mad Dogg Athletics, home of the Spinning®, Peak Pilates®, Resist-A-Ball®, Bodyblade® and freeFORM® brands, is the world leader in fitness equipment, education and programs. Over the past 20 years, Mad Dogg Athletics has trained more than 200,000 instructors and has reached millions of enthusiasts in 100 countries worldwide through a network of over 35,000 fitness facilities. Send your instructors to SCW MANIA, where they can attend sessions from these world class fitness brands:

Peak Pilates® offers single-source solutions, which are designed to be effective and easy to implement in a mainstream health and fitness commercial environment, and include a combination of innovative equipment designs, such as reformers, chairs, barrels and more, pre-designed group class programs, special population programs, audio/visual materials, instructor training and marketing support. Peak Pilates® training programs preserve the integrity of the Pilates method while making it accessible, affordable, progressive and user-friendly.
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TRX® Suspension Training™ bodyweight exercise brings a unique, effective and amazing twist to client training, group fitness and bootcamp style formats alike.

Fitness Anywhere is now offering two live one-day eight-hour CEC-approved educational workshops geared to meet the needs of fitness professionals who want to learn to properly set-up and use the TRX®, how to cue and adjust TRX® exercises for all fitness levels, and get hands-on practice to feel comfortable integrating the TRX® into training programs.

Understand how to design your own TRX® Group Program with the help of the TRX® teaching guidelines and program design principles, how to set up your group class and launch your own TRX® Group Program.

To find a course near you, visit www.fitnessanywhere.com/education
or call 1-888-878-5348.
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Are you looking for a great new tool for personal training and Group Ex?

The Muscle Bar is the most versatile piece of fitness equipment to hit the market in years. It is completely different from any other bar you’ve seen. You’ll understand the difference the moment you hold it in your hands. The combination of weights and resistance tubing safely overloads the muscle in both the eccentric and concentric phases, giving you superior results in less time. It's safe for users at any fitness level and the availability of different strengths of resistance tubes makes it a great choice for beginners or pros.

The unique design of the Muscle Bar allows you to work all of the muscle groups with a virtually unlimited number of movements and exercises...
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With the recent Swine Flue (H1N1) pandemic, Group Ex Instructors have become even more conscious of the germs and bacteria that can spread form one instructor to the next when sharing Wireless Mic Headsets. Sharing microphone windscreens is an absolute “No.” But how different is reusing your own windscreen class after class without cleaning or replacing it form time to time? Is it any different than reusing a Kleenex tissue multiple times?

As a club owner or manager, one of the greatest assets in your facility is your staff.

It may be company policy that instructors BYOW (bring your own windscreens), but why not surprise them with a fresh new windscreen in their next paycheck? Yes! Fitness Music has super deals...
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