Choosing Software. Part 3
* Create and store simple and complex custom exercise programs for each client to achieve individual fitness goals.
* Build personal training philosophies into each exercise program.
* Instruct clients in pre-execution and post-execution phases of each exercise, and record their actual performance. Read more…
Choosing Software. Part 2
Innovative programming
* Offer turnkey incentive programs to boost interest and motivation.
* Conduct health-risk analyses to keep clients engaged in ongoing dialogue with trainers. Read more…
Choosing Software. Part 1
In choosing the right fitness software for your particular facility’s needs, it helps to ask all the right questions before it is too late.
In the next century, the health facilities that will thrive will be complete lifestyle management centers with customized health and fitness services for each member. Read more…
SELF Challenge 2001: Month Three
Give yourself a pat on the backâyou’re almost there! Here’s the third and final installment of SELF’s total body makeover plan, with expert advice from the Golden Door Spa and the Duke Diet & Fitness Center. This month you’ll amp up your cardio routine, exercise muscles you didn’t know you had and learn how to work favorite foods into your diet (yay)! Read more…
Wireless Gadget
OVERSTATED: PalmPilots
Everyone loves them. There’s the classic Palm, the Palm III, the Palm IIIx, the sleek Palm V, and, of course, the Trekkie-fan Palm VII. You can’t help but love the fact that 3Com has marketed a hugely successful product all while driving Bill Gates and his minions at Microsoft up the Redmond walls. Read more…
Physicians Fail to Counsel Adolescents About Smoking
Physicians are not taking an active role in discouraging smoking among their young patients, reported a study released in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study, led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, found that doctors rarely offered their young patients advice about the hazards of smoking, even when they knew that they smoked.
Study Exercise and Weight Loss Can Reduce Blood Pressure
A program of regular exercise and weight loss is an effective, drug-free treatment for elevated blood pressure in mildly to moderately obese individuals, according to a study in the August 18 issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DDT Revisited. Part 2
Benefits of DDT
In spite of its 1972 ban, DDT was known to be very beneficial well before that time.
Nor was DDT shown to be a human carcinogen, certainly at environmental doses, as stated by A.J. Lehman, M.D., director of pharmacology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in 1965.
DDT Revisited. Part 1
Twenty-nine years after the Environmental Protection Agency’s 1972 ban of the pesticide DDT, the case against DDT is finally coming unraveled. There was extensive scientific literature available at the time, which demonstrated DDT’s overwhelming benefits. In short, the ban was not supported by the scientific information available at that time. Read more…
Mystical Chiropractic. Part 7
Crescione’s primitive tests contrast acutely with the precise, high-tech evaluative procedures familiar to certified athletic trainers, exercise physiologists and registered physical therapists. Yet he stated that his procedure was “more complicated” than that of many chiropractors because he was “more thorough.” Read more…