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A Scottish Executive commissioned study to evaluate the beneficial effects of the smoking ban has found a 17 per cent fall in hospital admissions for heart attacks in the first year.
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11 Sep 2007
X-Bike, the indoor cycling class concept from Trixter, will be introducing a new idea in group exercise at Leisure Industry Week called VR X-Biking.
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31 Aug 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
Women's sports and lifestyle brand, USA PRO, has teamed up with Cancer Research UK to launch a special clothing collection.
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01 Aug 2007
Only half of the UK population gets enough sleep and up to 12 million Britons do not do any exercise – while still believing they are fit for their age.
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06 Jul 2007
SOLL Leisure is running a campaign to help people quit smoking and get fit to coincide with the smoking ban which came into force in England on 1 July.
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04 Jul 2007
Health and fitness franchise Attiva supported Malvern's 5km 'Race for Life' recently, helping to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Involved was the company's Richard Noble, himself a cancer survivor and Cancer Research UK volunteer.
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15 Jun 2007
The annual Working in Fitness Survey will be extended in 2007 to gauge feedback from members of the REPs on the principle tasks and roles of their job as they experience it and their working conditions.
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12 Jun 2007
The value of the UK health and fitness clubs market has reached £3.94bn – a 5 per cent increase since 2002.
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09 May 2007
Aston Villa players Thomas Sorensen and Craig Gardner have opened a new gym for children to tackle childhood obesity.
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01 May 2007
Barnsley Premier Leisure, which operates 10 sports and facilities, is fighting back after the borough was rated eighth on a list of places in England with the highest obesity risk.
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07 Mar 2007
Fitness training provider YMCAfit has launched a landmark training scheme in London for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women (BME).
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05 Jan 2007
New research published today by Sport England has revealed that only 21 per cent of adults in England are hitting recommended targets for participation in sport and active recreation – taking part in moderate intensity, three times a week.
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07 Dec 2006
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
The Danish fitness industry has recently welcomed the establishment of the first trade body for the sector – the Danish Fitness & Health Organisation (DFHO).
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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
According to the Fitness Industry Association’s (FIA) latest State of the Industry Report, UK consumers now have, on average, seven private and two public health and fitness facilities within two miles of where they live.
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01 Oct 2006
Initial findings from the Register of Exercise Professionals’ (REPs) 2006 Working in Fitness Survey suggest that, on average, people working in the industry are £1,500 a year better off than in 2005.
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11 Sep 2006
Health and fitness clubs in the UK have lost more than 53,000 members this year as customers have opted not to renew their memberships, according to a recent survey.
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29 Aug 2006
German consumer affairs minister Horst Seehofer has reportedly announced that draft legislation is being prepared to partially ban smoking in public places across the country from as early as 2007.
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26 Jul 2006
The Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) is asking the industry to research into the necessity of all level 2 and 3 instructors having to hold a current CPR certificate as a condition of registration.
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25 Jul 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
A new 18,000sq ft (1,700sq m) health club is set to be built as part of a new £9.5m retail, office and luxury apartment development being undertaken by Brook Henderson Estates in Reading.
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13 Jul 2006
The latest research from HAFOS (the Health and Fitness Omnibus Survey) – carried out by Leisure-net Solutions and supported by SIBEC – was revealed at the annual SIBEC UK forum, held at The De Vere Belfry in Warwickshire.
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23 Jun 2006
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) is investigating the potential delivery of the scheme in Europe, following its success in the UK over the past five years.
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08 Jun 2006
The time has come again to have your say about the fitness industry through the Working in Fitness survey.
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06 Jun 2006
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has joined forces with the Performing Right Society (PRS) – a non-profit making organisation which collects and distributes music royalties on behalf of its members – to make sure that every fitness operation in the UK has a current PRS licence.
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06 Jun 2006
The international sports association IHRSA, in cooperation with Deloitte and sponsored by Technogym, has published its second, annual study of the European fitness market.
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31 May 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
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
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