Fitness Education

I don’t usually use guest posts, but I received a thoughtful and heartfelt counterpoint to my arguments about the utility of School Bus Safety Awareness Day.

The guest poster is Kathleen Both, the owner of a local school bus company. Now I certainly don’t see eye to eye with Kathleen and still believe that the lessons taught on School Bus Safety Awareness day, while undoubtedly important, are also undoubtedly straightforward and can certainly be taught at school rather than be served by McDonald’s.

Before I get to her letter, she also updated me on some additional school bus related deaths.

In addition to the 3 deaths that I detailed, Kathleen provided me with details of 8 more. Read more…

Newtown, PA, September 14, 2010 –()– Team Fitness America announces their September Personal Trainer Of The Month with a fitness trainer out of Chicago, IL. Baiba Liduma has demonstrated what it takes to be chosen as a top personal trainer of Team Fitness America from a nationwide team of personal trainers. Liduma’s ability to work with many different types of clients and personalities while still offering great customer service and unwavering results made her stand out to be chosen for the prestigious Team Fitness America Personal Trainer Of The Month Award.

Liduma is a well versed and educated personal trainer, Pilates teacher, yoga teacher and nutritionist (with a specialty in raw nutrition). L Read more…

Nashville, TN, September 08, 2010 –()– Augie Nieto has helped shape the Health and Fitness Industry through his leadership, dedication, and commitment to excellence. In 1975, Augie helped launch Lifecycle by traveling the country selling the original Lifecycle to gyms and health clubs from a motor home. Augie sold Lifecycle when revenue reached $7 million a year and continued to run the company as it grew into Life Fitness, one of the world’s largest fitness equipment manufactures. Under his watch, revenue hit nearly $200 million by 1997 before the company was sold again for $310 million.

Ironically in 2005, besides being named as Chairman of Octane Fitness, this unbelievable fitness entrepreneur was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. The Read more…

“Children have to learn how to be bored. Read more…