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A new scheme to train fitness instructors to deliver holistic services is being piloted in West Yorkshire by YMCA Fitness Industry Training.
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05 Mar 2008
Fitness Industry Education is launching a new combination of online and classroom learning across its Level 2 Gym and Level 3 Personal Training courses.
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11 Oct 2007
Fitness instructors in the UK will be able to train towards an advance level aerobics qualification for the first time.
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19 Sep 2007
One KX, Central YMCA’s health and arts centre in Kings Cross, London, will open on 23 June. To mark the event, the One KX Open Day is being held with activities both inside and outside the five-storey building.
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15 Jun 2007
Two YMCA centres in Fleetwood and Thornton, Lancashire, are to offer free sports sessions to local teenagers.
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30 Nov 2006
Central YMCA has announced that its new London-based health and arts centre, called One KX, will formally open in May 2007.
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30 Nov 2006
The secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Tessa Jowell, visited a Manchester YMCA on 25 September to meet three groups of young people who the YMCA is helping to get active.
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04 Oct 2006
Angela Sarkis makes YMCA history as the first woman to be appointed national secretary in the charity’s 160-year lifespan.
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19 Sep 2006
Training company fitness fx is to launch a new, pre-choreographed exercise class called kick fx in January 2007.
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13 Sep 2006
RAF Cosford in Shropshire, which encompasses the RAF School of Physical Training, has teamed up with Central YMCA Qualifications (CYQ) to increase the vocational skills of its staff.
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17 Aug 2006
YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit) has been awarded almost £0.5m to launch a new scheme aimed at Black Minority Ethnic (BME) women.
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27 Jul 2006
Fylde Coast YMCA has been awarded a five-year contract to manage Poulton-le-Fylde Swimming & Fitness Centre on behalf of Wyre Borough Council.
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13 Jul 2006
On 1 July, £400,000 of new health and fitness facilities will officially open to the public at the Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire YMCA.
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28 Jun 2006
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has started the ball rolling on this years’ Fitness Leaders and Management Excellence (FLAME) Awards.
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09 Feb 2006
Winners of the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) Commit to Get Fit Awards 2005 – which recognise clubs and centres involved in the FIA’s annual fitness and membership-boosting campaign – were announced on 27 October.
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14 Nov 2005
Kings Hall Leisure Centre and Britannia Leisure Centre in Hackney are the latest facilities to join the London Fitness Network (LFN), bringing the total number of affiliated centres to 64.
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09 Nov 2005
Central YMCA’s chief executive, Rosi Prescott, has been appointed to Sport England’s London Sports Board in recognition of the fitness industry’s contribution, alongside sporting bodies, in shaping investment plans to encourage a fitter nation and London’s Olympic strategy.
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12 Aug 2005
Twelve Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) approved training providers met in Birmingham recently to discuss a range of subjects, including how to respond to the growing demand for career development and continuing professional development (CPD).
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25 Jul 2005
Ontario’s government is encouraging its public to make physical activity and fitness a key part of their lifestyle in 2005.
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17 Feb 2005
Fitness Professionals (Fitpro) and Drummond Education have launched a Certificate in Personal Training together with a Training in Different Environments module.
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09 Feb 2005
Health and fitness industry training provider FITKID has launched a franchise package to replace its Fun Fitness Class licensing programme.
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20 Jan 2005
Minister for sport and tourism, Richard Caborn has praised the work the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) is doing and called increased industry support for it a “win-win situation for everyone”.
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09 Nov 2004
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) last night unveiled the winners of its Commit to Get Fit campaign awards and presented two clubs with its award for excellence because the standard of both was so high they couldn’t be separated.
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29 Oct 2004
Viscount Thurso, chair of the Fitness Industry Association, has written to the Daily Express newspaper following the publication of an article by celebrity trainer Matt Roberts, which criticised the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs).
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14 Sep 2004
Former Paralympic athlete Kevin Saunders is pushing his wheelchair across the US in a 2,000-mile health and fitness tour known as The Big Push.
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10 Aug 2004
YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCA®fit) has been appointed official training provider for the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) Level 2 Course.
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14 Jul 2004
A founding member of the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs), YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit), has increased its level of support for the register by offering free membership to graduates of its training scheme in their first year of work.
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11 May 2004
The 23rd IHRSA (International Health Racquets and Sportsclub Association) convention held in Las Vegas recently proved an opportunity for an international meeting of exercise registrars and representatives concerned with setting standards of qualifications for the fitness industry.
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27 Apr 2004
Nita Jackson, diagnosed as autistic at the age of 14 in 1997, has completed the YMCA Fitness Instructor course delivered as part of the Club Kingswood Academy.
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16 Feb 2004
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