Participation in high school sports has jumped more than 16% over the past decade, and while interscholastic sports play a key role in the successful development of students, they can also lead to injury.... View More

Life Fitness today announced plans to deliver the Nike + iPod experience on all of its iPod-compatible Elevation Series treadmills, elliptical cross-trainers and Lifecycle Exercise Bikes. Later this... View More

Belly fat doesn't waste any time in gathering, given the chance. And a few weeks of inactivity may be all the chance it takes. So say researchers including Rasmus Olsen, MD, of Denmark's Centre of Inflammation... View More

Contamination of fresh, leafy green vegetables with disease-causing bacteria and viruses is definitely on the rise, a CDC study shows. Why? That's not clear, says study leader Michael Lynch, MD, a medical... View More

Sugar might do more than just plump up our children, it could also help give them asthma, animal research suggests. Asthma now affects nearly nine percent of children and teens, a figure... View More

A diet rich in whole grains may help fight your belly bulge while lowering the risk of heart disease. A new study shows people who followed a weight loss program incorporating whole-grain breads, cereals... View More

It may not come as a bolt out of the blue, but one of the largest studies yet has proven that men and women really do eat differently. Researchers who questioned more than 14,000 American adults... View More

Heart attacks and strokes are among the leading causes of death for sufferers, as the inflammation caused by the disease impacts upon the arteries. But an Arthritis Research and Therapy study found those... View More

Pop quiz, hot shot: What do MTV, Trader Joe's and the iPod have in common? Yes, of course, they're all now ubiquitous and make our lives much more agreeable. But to us, the most interesting thing about... View More

A study published in the February 2008 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the official scientific journal of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), suggests that weight gain brought... View More

The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) and Les Mills International (LMI) have announced a formal alliance with the mission of helping to promote and build the health and fitness... View More

Recent research confirms what many in the industry already know: Members need accountability in order to lose weight and keep it off. In fact, people who were enrolled in a weight-loss maintenance trial... View More

Health club membership in the United States increased by three percent last year from 42.7 million members (over the age of six) in 2006 to 44.1 million in 2007, according to early estimates from an annual... View More

I have had the privilege of hearing JJ speak, and she is by far the authority in the area of weight loss resistance and being proactive about your health. In her latest program, which includes a book and... View More

Obesity is killing our country, and it is no longer just an "adult disease." Unfortunately, the associated co-morbidities are not either. The statistics are startling: The number of overweight children... View More

A client arrives for a consultation, nervous, apprehensive and, most of all, optimistic. She's been convinced that you as an experienced personal trainer really have the ability to get her to the body... View More

Your clients love you. You have all the necessary degrees and certifications. You have experience with special populations. So why isn't every doctor in your zip code referring you clients every single... View More

There's an old saying that you can get it cheap, fast and high-quality, as long as you pick any two of the three. But with new guerilla marketing techniques, you can truly have it all. What Is Guerilla... View More

In the increasingly competitive fitness industry today, an emerging client is the injured athlete. Whether discussing an adolescent soccer player recovering from a knee injury or the middle-aged adult... View More

Few topics get me riled up like that of exercise gimmicks and the outlandish claims made by their promoters that saturate the fitness industry. Spend a few sleepless hours watching infomercials this weekend,... View More