New Website Identifies Top Fitness Business Franchise Opportunities

A new fitness business franchise website makes it easier to sort through franchise options. Now online at http://www.fitness-business-franchise.com/, the site provides a list of successful franchises.Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (PRWEB) February 04, 2012 Fitness careers of all shapes and sizes continue to grow, with more promising jobs for personal trainers and coaches over the next decade ...

UCLA School of Nursing, LAUSD Get Middle Schoolers Moving

Funded by a five-year, $1.2 million grant, Dr. Kynna Wright-Volel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Assistant Professor and Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholar from the UCLA School of Nursing and the Los Angeles Unified School District are launching Project SHAPE LA™, a coordinated school-health program to increase physical activity among youth in LA County schools.

Consider this a passport to longer-lasting health: DONNA DOUGLAS column

When Megan Kirk was researching for her Masters degree thesis, what she discovered was like a huge wake-up call. And, not content to just publish her findings and get her degree (in Exercise Technology), she’s now doing something about it.[...]

Health Resources

Providence Regional Cancer Partnership: 1717 13th St., Everett. Call 425-297-5500 or see www.cancerpartnership.org for more information: Click on “Support Services,” then, on the right side of the page, click on “Classes” or “Support Groups.”

Redskin London Fletcher’s fitness regimen

Let’s say your job is to take off at a sprint, get moving about 20 mph and slam yourself full speed into a brick wall — 60 times in a single afternoon. We’d give you a helmet and lots of padding to protect yourself. Because of the toll this would take on your body, we’d make you do it only once a week. And we’d reward you handsomely. Read full article >>