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Your group cycling class has the potential to bring new members into your club — especially those people who are already outdoor cyclists. * Demographic surveys of your club should indicate what the general interests of your community are. If you are introducing an indoor cycling program in a community already friendly to outdoor cycling, [...]

Ginkgo biloba extract is widely used in Europe for the treatment of dementia of the Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s variety, as well as for elderly patients who do not satisfy the complete criteria for dementia but who present a few typical symptoms. Gingko extract may also be helpful for ordinary age-related memory loss.

Fitness First! management had to first consider what effect the generous policies might have on the center’s bottom line. “Like any other risk, we weighed the pros and cons. In the end, we felt that if other industries are flourishing with these types of total customer satisfaction guarantees, then we could too,” explains Blackburn. As [...]

For the staff at Fitness First! — a 60,000-square-foot exercise facility that operates as a public enterprise fund in Illinois’ Skokie Park District — being the best in their market wasn’t a lofty enough goal. The four-year-old organization, which brings in half a million dollars in sales a year, wanted to offer the best customer [...]

Q: Physiologically, what is responsible for the phenomenon known as the “second wind”? Is it related to an individual’s fitness level? A: No matter how fit individuals are, the first few minutes into vigorous exercise may cause their muscles to ache and make them somewhat out of breath. The body isn’t able to transport oxygen [...]

The bottom line In addition to generating revenue through increased memberships, A la Carte Marketing helped cut payroll expenses. Caparas says LifeQuest has saved half of the marketing director’s salary since August, with the other half being distributed to marketing staff in the form of bonus incentives. Cash bonuses are attached to projects based on [...]

Sometimes it takes giving staff members extra responsibility to realize their full potential. Just ask LifeQuest Fitness & Aerobics Club. After its marketing director was dismissed in August, the club decided against making a hasty hiring decision, and divided the director’s responsibilities among support staff, giving them a chance to flex their professional muscle. Through [...]

Anti-pyretics generally fall into 3 groups; aspirins, acetaminophens, and NSAIDs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen. Since the early 1980′s, aspirins have fallen into general disuse because of a serious association between aspirin use and Reye’s syndrome, an often fatal neurological aftermath of viral illness.

High fever leads to loss of body fluid through the skin and through the increased breathing rate associated with it and as a result the temperature may be driven even higher by the fluid imbalance. For this reason parents should begin encouraging their child to drink more fluids as soon as even a slight fever [...]

Perhaps it is the historical use of fever as the prime indicator of disease that makes its occurrence raise such fear in parents. Episodes of Little House on the Prairie show little John sweating through the “crucial” hours of high temperature as his father and mother look on and pray that soon the fever and [...]