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Life Fitness has supplied the equipment for the health and fitness facility on Queen Margaret University's new £100m sustainable campus in Edinburgh.
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17 Sep 2007
Children in Barrow, Cumbria, have just become the first in the UK to trial a new electronic playground technology.
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02 Aug 2007
This year’s IDEA League Sports Event, which was sponsored by Life Fitness, was won by RWTH Aachen, Germany.
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30 Jul 2007
Barrow Park in Cumbria has installed new playground equipment in an attempt to make children using the facility active.
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06 Jun 2007
The new Vo2 sports and fitness centre has opened at the University of Reading.
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28 Feb 2007
The Swim for Health scheme – a programme run by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) in partnership with the Department of Health (DoH), and Hull and East Riding Council – has been officially launched after a year-long pilot.
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06 Feb 2007
Witney’s Windrush Leisure has been identified as one of the top performing leisure centres in the UK by the National Benchmarking Service (NBS).
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23 Jan 2007
An £8m Physical Education and Sports Science Centre has opened at the University of Bedfordshire’s Polhill campus in Bedford.
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21 Jan 2007
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) has awarded the title of Fitness Educator of the Year to Len Kravitz PhD, associate professor of exercise science at the University of New Mexico.
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29 Nov 2006
A free-of-charge activity beach has recently opened in Herzlia, Israel, to encourage beachgoers to engage in more physical activity during their leisure time.
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29 Nov 2006
The sport and fitness centre at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, will re-open on 15 November following a complete refurbishment by new manager Energy Fitness Professionals.
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07 Nov 2006
The winners of the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) Commit to Get Fit Awards 2006 were announced on 26 October.
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30 Oct 2006
Kingston University in London has reopened its fitness centre following a £0.5m revamp.
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16 Oct 2006
A four-year drive to reduce obesity in the town of Colac in Victoria, Australia, has resulted in 1,800 children weighing less, watching less television, eating more healthily and engaging in more sport.
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11 Oct 2006
A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claims that physical exercise has little impact on obesity in young children.
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06 Oct 2006
On 13 December 2006 the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) will be holding the first ever national conference focusing specifically on the inclusion of disabled people in the fitness industry.
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03 Oct 2006
Coventry has been selected as the host city of the 2007 UK School Games.
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11 Sep 2006
Minister for fitness Caroline Flint has launched a new programme aimed at increasing the accessibility of heath services for teenagers in four areas of the UK.
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08 Sep 2006
New research has suggested that children could risk becoming asthmatic and wheezy if they regularly use indoor swimming pools.
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18 Jul 2006
As the fitness industry heads towards a potential partnership with both government and businesses to promote a healthy lifestyle, one of the biggest challenges it faces is identifying, attracting and retaining senior management with the skills and experience to take the industry to the next level.
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07 Jul 2006
The Lance Armstrong Foundation is set to fund research at the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Tennessee, US, to see if regular exercise can alleviate the memory and cognitive problems that many cancer survivors experience following chemotherapy.
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18 May 2006
Energy Fitness Professionals (EFP) is set to open a new club in July, on the site of Playgolf’s recently opened Northwick Park six-hole golf course in Harrow.
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04 May 2006
Public Health Minister Caroline Flint has announced the publication of new practical tools for GPs and other health professionals to help patients lose weight and improve their health.
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04 May 2006
A new programme has been launched in Kent to try to find out the effects of brisk and regular walking on children’s health and obesity levels.
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06 Apr 2006
University graduates applying for registration with the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) need to show that they have completed a “relevant” degree programme and have had at least six months’ professional experience of working in the industry.
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21 Mar 2006
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has established a new charitable trust, the Health and Fitness Foundation, to promote activities which encourage physical activity.
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16 Mar 2006
Sport England has announced that chief executive, Roger Draper will be stepping down to join the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) as chief executive.
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21 Feb 2006
Former professional footballer Brian McGorry, who played for Cardiff, Bournemouth and Peterborough, has announced plans to open an exclusive fitness centre in Liverpool this spring.
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02 Feb 2006
A new children’s fitness programme has been launched at Llanishen Leisure Centre in Cardiff to tackle inactivity and obesity among 11- to 14-year-olds.
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02 Feb 2006
Billy Kerr has joined Winchester Tennis and Squash Club as general manager on the eve of the Hampshire club’s 100th anniversary.
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26 Jan 2006
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