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2011 Military World Games A Precursor to 2016 Olympics

Sharla Alexander was having a great time in Hyderabad, India. As the logistics coordinator for the U.S. Armed Forces women's soccer squad at the fourth Military World Games in 2007, Alexander was aglow with "Friendship Through Sport" - the motto of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM), the Games' organizing body.

At the 4th CISM Military World Games in Hyderabad, India, North Korea bested Germany to win the women's soccer competition.

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Second Man Dies in Staten Island Breath-Holding Accident

A second man has died following an underwater training accident at a public pool on Staten Island. The New York Daily News reports that 21-year-old off-duty lifeguard Jonathan Proce died Sunday at New York Presbyterian Hospital following an exercise at Lyons Pool last Wednesday in which he and his friend, Bohdan Vitenko, also 21, were practicing underwater breath-holding.

Blog: Reigniting the Passions of the Ex-Athlete

Thinking outside a specific age demographic allows businesses to offer sports opportunities to adults who used to play the sport.

Blog: Breath-Holding Can Be as Lethal as a Grenade

Breath-holding at pools can be deadly due to shallow water blackout.

Health Club Owners New Believers in Prepackaged Group Fitness Programs

Group fitness is vital to our business. We know that members who take classes come in more often, keep their memberships longer and bring us more referrals than those who don't.You cannot afford to recreate the marketing tools they put at your disposal. As owners of a small business, we do not have the resources to hire professional photographers, do photo shoots and create banners, posters, literature, Web content - and then do it all again 90 days later. As a licensee, we have access to professional images and tools for a fraction of what they are worth, and those tools enhance the image of our entire business.You can't train your instructors as well as they can. When was the last time you sent your group fitness instructors away for a three-day weekend to do nothing but work on a single class? When we sent our first four instructors to Les Mills training, they came home exhilarated but exhausted, both physically and emotionally. They had done nothing but work on one class - indeed, each of them worked on nothing but a portion of one class - for three days. Everything they did was critiqued, from their ability to make eye contact to their posture and their cueing. We never could have recreated that training, and our instructors came home understanding the high level of performance that was expected of them.Your young instructors will love it. Unlike longtime group fitness instructors who live for creating new classes, making playlists and perfecting their moves (we know you're still out there), our instructors who are in their 20s have no such passion for all things group fitness. Licensed programming is perfect for this new generation of instructors who don't mind working hard or being critiqued, but who have no interest in creating something new or being left on their own to interpret someone else's class. With licensed programming, they can be told what to do and how to do it.They have systems that you don't. Both Les Mills and BTS will emphasize the importance of a proper launch when rolling out their programs - and better still, they'll tell you how to do it if you've never done it before. How do you blend one or two licensed programs with your freestyle offerings? They'll tell you how. How do you determine what class to offer and when? They'll tell you. Even if you think you're really good at everything associated with your group fitness program, you'll want to tap the knowledge that's available to you, because they are better at it than you.You are part of the community. Unlike group fitness offerings that are geared toward the certification of just instructors (such as Flirty Girl, YogaFit and Powerstrike), the licensing model of BTS and Les Mills creates a community of instructors and businesses. Instructors have access to tools and resources to help them find work at licensed facilities, and we can be confident in the skills of instructors we might meet through the Les Mills network, because they successfully completed the same certification process as our own instructors.

Licensed programming from Body Training Systems (pictured), Les Mills and others come with high up-front costs, but offer club owners many benefits. (Photo Courtesy of Body Training Systems)

Blog: Getting the Bocce Ball Rolling

National Bocce Day gives people the opportunity to try out the sport of Bocce Ball.

Recreation Department Is First to Require Concussion Testing

Vinny Ciurciu, a linebacker for the NFL's Detroit Lions, suffered two concussions during the 2010 season. He sat out two games after the first one, and then a glancing blow to the head on his return was all it took to trigger renewed symptoms.

Cognitive tests, like this one involving the Thornton Academy boys' soccer team, gives coaches and athletic trainers a baseline against which to compare post-concussion tests. (Photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer/The Portland Press Herald)

Baylor Offers Hot Independence Day Season Ticket Deal

Baylor offers football season ticket deal where the price of tickets sold on July 4th will match the outdoor temperature.

Basketball Floor Sought for Aircraft Carrier that Buried bin Laden

The Morale Entertainment Foundation is looking for a sports floor manufacturer to supply a surface for the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.

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Blog: Core Runners Exercise Their Motivational Muscle

Results from Running USA's 2011 National Running Survey.

ACSM Issues New Guidelines on Exercise Quality, Quantity

The American College of Sports Medicine released new recommendations regarding the quantity and quality of exercise for adults.

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Ohio State Joins the 'Zero Waste' Stadium Recycling Movement

The 105,000 fans who packed Ohio Stadium during an average home football game in 2010 generated 111.5 total tons of waste by season's end. Roughly half of that waste - a mix of mostly food scraps and concessions packaging - wound up in landfills.

Dedicated waste receptacles, manufactured in-state from recycled plastics, will debut inside Ohio Stadium this fall. (Photo courtesy of The Ohio State University)

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