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Kingston University in London has reopened its fitness centre following a £0.5m revamp.
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16 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
Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust (WLCT) is installing the new Easy Line training circuit from Technogym at its Howe Bridge and Robin Park sports centres.
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06 Sep 2006
Sport England is to provide a £250,000 grant towards the cost of a new swimming pool and leisure complex in Durham.
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06 Sep 2006
A new initiative being piloted in Liverpool could see people working out in their local library from next month.
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11 Aug 2006
Total Fitness is rolling out a new concept for families throughout its health and fitness sites.
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20 Jul 2006
Exeter City Council has invested £22,500 in a new swimming programme designed to help tackle junior obesity levels.
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10 Jul 2006
The £1m refurbishment of Hailsham Leisure Centre by Freedom Leisure was officially unveiled by BBC South East Today’s Kaddy Lee Preston at the end of March.
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10 Apr 2006
The Academy Leisure Group has opened its latest health and fitness club in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
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27 Mar 2006
A new collaboration betwen the national government agencies responsible for sport, arts, heritage, the built environment and museums and libraries in the UK has been launched to deliver creative, cultural and sporting opportunities.
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14 Feb 2006
The second annual Working in Fitness survey, carried out by SkillsActive and Leisure-net Solutions for the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs), has revealed that nearly two thirds of respondents fear that poor pay will force them to leave the health and fitness industry.
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21 Dec 2005
Fitness specialist Lifetime Training is set to launch two new training venues in Manchester and the Midlands.
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01 Nov 2005
Leisure giant Whitbread has replaced Stewart Miller as managing director of it health and fitness arm, David Lloyd Leisure, reportedly in a bid to boost perfomance.
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22 Sep 2005
LA Fitness chief executive Fred Turok has announced that he intends to lead the fitness industry into a period of consolidation and launch new concepts to attract consumers currently ‘underserved’ by the health club market.
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22 Aug 2005
Both students and locals are benefiting from new fitness facilities following an investment of £10m at Dublin City University (DCU).
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09 Aug 2005
A health expert has called for a ‘Jamie Oliver of the gym’ to tackle the problem of childhood obesity.
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25 Jul 2005
Whitbread has announced that its pub restaurant and fitness divisions are continuing to suffer from a slowdown in consumer spending and that the group’s key priority is now “restarting like for like sales momentum” in the two areas.
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15 Jun 2005
Health and fitness professionals can receive childhood obesity prevention training thanks to a new course from the Weight Management Centre.
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14 Jun 2005
The only listed health club company left in Britain, LA Fitness, has agreed a £140m takeover by private equity group MidOcean.
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09 May 2005
A £1.45m grant has been awarded to improve community health and leisure facilities in South London.
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28 Mar 2005
A cross-governmental action plan for improving the nation’s health and activity levels has been published.
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11 Mar 2005
Calls for increased activity among members of the public, the introduction of NHS health trainers and encouraging those with specialist needs to exercise in the Department of Health’s White Paper have been welcomed by the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs).
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07 Dec 2004
Olympic sports psychologist Chris Shambrook – who was part of the winning Great Britain rowing team in Athens – and his business partner Matt Barker plan to use their expertise to train health and fitness leaders and team managers.
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07 Dec 2004
Energy drink Red Bull has launched a competition in order to find an
innovative fitness training concept that can be implemented in gyms across
the UK.
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28 Oct 2004
Chris Easton, assistant director of the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI), has warned health club and leisure centre managers that making their sites inclusive for disabled people means much more than just improving access to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
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14 Oct 2004
Sheffield International Venues (SIV) is to introduce ‘private health club’-standard fitness facilities at Concorde Sports Centre as part of its ongoing £1.3m refurbishment plans for the 30-year-old leisure centre.
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09 Sep 2004
Following the completion of the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) pilot phase, assistant director Chris Easton said the scheme has succeeded in its aims of creating accessible fitness facilities and ensuring that disabled people working out in health clubs is “not the exception to the rule, but the norm.”
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07 Sep 2004
Two fitness centres designed to combat obesity and physical inactivity among children will be officially launched this month.
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31 Aug 2004
Health and fitness club operator LivingWell has launched a new membership for the over 60s in a bid to tap into the UK’s aging population.
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09 Aug 2004
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