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How Support Spaces Can Enhance Efficiency, Security, Growth and Branding

Commonly referred to as a building's "circulation factor," corridors, walls, elevators and staircases that connect the group cycling room and Pilates studio can influence the number of employees you need to safely supervise the facility.

The concourse at John Burroughs School helps connect athletics to campus amenities made from circulation space that improves individual experience, simplifies wayfinding and introduces athletics to a new campus entrance.

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Refreshing CMU Athletic Facilities with Large-Format Graphics

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Central Michigan University wanted to transform the visual experience across its athletic facilities with large-format banners and comprehensive sports venue branding that was weather- and fade-resistant.

Refreshing CMU Athletic Facilities with Large-Format Graphics

Texas Tech Converts Racquetball Courts to Fitness Area

In keeping with the new trend on college campuses of upcycling run-down or underused spaces, Texas Tech University has repurposed two of its original twelve racquetball courts into a 1600-square-foot functional fitness training facility.

Texas Tech repurposes old racquetball courts for new functional fitness training room (Image provided by Escape Fitness)

Four Strategies to Safeguard Your Fitness Business

Owning any business comes with a seemingly never-ending assortment of responsibilities. And when your business is a gym, yoga studio, CrossFit gym or another type of fitness-centric organization, those responsibilities include unique considerations that n

Court Rejects Water Park’s ‘High Thrill’ Ride Defense

Risks of failing to properly control and position those using raft waterslides had already been established as a serious problem in Perez v. Great Wolf Lodge of the Poconos LLC, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97513.

[Renderings of Schlitterbahn Water Park's Verrückt waterslide, graphic created by Nicole Bell]

City Funds App to Combat Childhood Obesity

O’Brien Park in Parker, Colo., has become the test site for a new system of tracking technology designed to encourage a healthier lifestyle in Colorado youth, more than 14% of whom were found to be overweight or obese in a 2014 study.

What to Consider When Dispensing Weight-Loss Advice

No matter how much we, as an industry, try to educate people about the health benefits of exercise, many are primarily interested in losing weight — often at any cost. How do we help our clients reach their goals? How do we engage them in a healthful, eff

[Illustration by Arnel Reynon]

Atlanta Opens Miniature Soccer Pitch in Transit System

MARTA has partnered with Soccer in the Streets and Atlanta United to build the world’s first soccer pitch inside the boundaries of a major urban transit system.

Safety & Security

Hot Topics of the Rio Olympics, as Captured by Social Media

"Fora Temer" signs popped up at various points inside Maracanã Stadium, site of men's and women's soccer and the opening and closing ceremonies at the recent Rio Summer Olympics. Fans holding signs with the slogan — which translates to "Temer Out" — wanted the removal of Michel Temer, Brazil's interim president.

Some fans at the Summer Olympics in Rio used social media to show their displeasure with Brazil interim president Michel Temer. The phrase 'Fora Temer” translates to “Temer Out.' [Images courtesy of Geofeedia]

Product Spotlight: Strength Equipment & Weight Rooms

A look at new strength equipment and weight room products to help outfit your facility

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Washington U. Bridges Past, Present at Athletics Complex

This access control bridge at Washington University's Gary M. Sumers Recreation Center in St. Louis — designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Philadelphia with local associate Hastings+Chivetta — puts visitors literally on top of the activity.

[Photos by James Byard]

New Product Roundup: Sanitations Systems, Training Turf and More

Check out some of the latest products for outfitting your facility, including indoor training turf, shrouded locks and more.

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NAACP Calls for Federal Investigation of HS 'Hate Crime'

At a conference Monday, Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP, addressed the press concerning a recent incident involving an African-American member of the Wiggins football team and a noose.

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