'End Tables' Achieve Separation Between Fitness Equipment
Fitness equipment is placed in rows because it is space efficient, and because the symmetry of the view helps alleviate the sense of clutter.
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ABC 2012 Preconference Tours Feature Rebuilt New Orleans Facilities
oug Thornton still has the agenda from a meeting he attended seven years ago — Oct. 11, 2005, to be exact. That was the date the senior vice president of SMG, which operates the state-owned, now-named Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans,
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American Health Clubs Contemplate a Move Toward European-Style Design
There are all sorts of exercisers, all sorts of health clubs and all sorts of countries. So forgive the many generalizations that follow.
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Athletic Directors, Coaches Cope with Teachers’ Strikes
Bob Geiger, a physical education instructor and girls’ cross country coach at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago’s Near West Side neighborhood, knew it was likely that Chicago Public Schools teachers would go on strike in September.
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Fitness Facilities Control User Data with Remote Asset Management
We’re living in the era of the “quantified self,” the idea that everything we do can be tracked using technology, recorded, integrated, analyzed and applied to our daily lives.
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How to Know When a Vendor Becomes a Business Partner
By the time this issue of AB reaches readers, the presidential election will be wrapping up, if not history, and the “You didn’t build that” clip will have long since joined “You’re no Jack Kennedy” in the Sound Bites Hall of Fame.
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NCAA Institutes Indexing System for 2012-13 Indoor Track and Field
While the idea of building an outdoor competition track in any length other than 400 meters is preposterous, no one bats an eye at the variation in indoor track lengths.
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New Projects: San Francisco's Boeddeker Park, Ballpark Village
The Williston (N.D.) Parks and Recreation District broke ground on a new recreation center last month. The 224,000-square-foot facility (pictured) is being built on the Williston State College campus, thanks to a 12-acre land donation from the school.
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Outdoor Gyms Catching On in U.S. Parks
Adult playgrounds have been popular in areas of Asia and Europe for some time, but these outdoor attractions have been slow to catch on in the United States. The Trust for Public Land brought its first Fitness Zone®, a collection of outdoor strength, cardio and balance equipment, to Los Angeles five years ago, and many California communities have also embraced the trend.
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Raiders Fan Kathy Samoun Discusses Spectator Safety
She counts among her friends The Violator, Doctor Death, Gorilla Rilla and other costumed occupants of the so-called “Black Hole” seating sections at Oakland Coliseum.
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Resilient Sports Flooring Allows for Training in Hallways
Running in the halls is not frowned upon at Whiteland Community High School. In fact, it’s encouraged.
At least that’s the case around the gymnasium spaces at this suburban Indianapolis institution, where resilient sports flooring covers roughly 8,300 square feet of corridor.
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Schools Attempting to Control Athletes’ Use of Social Media
Denard Robinson is soooo bad! And it makes me feel so good.”
That was Michigan State University backup safety Kyle Artinian’s take via Twitter during archrival Michigan’s Sept. 2 season-opening loss to Alabama — a game in which Robinson, the Wolverines’ star quarterback, struggled.
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