Fitness Industry Leader Charles M. Leighton Dies

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Charles M. Leighton, the founder of the company responsible for making NordicTrack one of the most iconic and revolutionary lines of exercise equipment, has passed away. The NordicTrack line started with a single piece of at-home exercise equipment, a cross-country ski simulator, in 1975. Leighton's company, CML Group, acquired the equipment brand in the late 1980s and expanded the NordicTrack line to include treadmills, leg machines, cross-trainers, elliptical-style machines and more.

The NordicTrack NTXC8018.jpgNTXC8018.jpgline became one of the most recognized in fitness and has inspired some of today's most popular pieces of equipment from brands like Cybex, Precor and Technogym.

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