Gyms, fitness centers, outdoor recreation centers, and health clubs all focus on keeping people strong and healthy. If you run a workout facility, you know that sometimes things can go wrong. Someone gets injured while using the equipment, or pulls a hamstring while working with a trainer. Or a child gets hurt in the childcare facility.

Avoid Claims and Lawsuits From Day One

Incidents can leave you wide open to liability claims and lawsuits, but a gym insurance policy can protect you and your facility.

Additional insurance coverage to consider:

• Participant liability and accidental medical coverage: Covers you if boxers or martial arts participants are injured in sponsored tournaments or supervised competitions
  • Accidental medical insurance provides medical care for the injured participant. The policy may also cover travel to and from competitions or events.

• Supplemental liability insurance: You need additional supplemental liability coverage if your gym, fitness center, or health club offers services like tanning beds or rock climbing walls.Here are some special liability exposures to protect against:

• Swimming pools
• Hot tubs and saunas
• Rock climbing walls
• Day spa services
• Tanning services
• Massages
• Skin care services

• Umbrella liability: This type of policy provides excess liability coverage in the event of a catastrophic event that results in a large liability lawsuit. It kicks in when your other liability policies are exhausted. Business umbrella policies, sold in increments of $1 million of additional coverage, can provide excellent protection against large legal claims at an affordable rate.

Regardless of the type of fitness club or unique home gym equipment you have, liability insurance can save millions in Litigations and payouts. You require coverage that specifically matches your unique risks. An independent agent who specializes in business insurance can help to assess your risks and get the right coverage plan in place.

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Specialty Training Programs

No two people are going to start the exact same workout program at the exact same time, so finding gyms that are able to come up with a training regimen that works for your schedule and provides the help you need is important. Maybe you prefer yoga classes or you are a Pilates freak. Or perhaps you are curious about the benefits of Crossfit programs. The best gyms are those that can accommodate a variety of fitness plans.

Top Notch Trainers

Having a top notch trainer to help you through the process of becoming fit is crucial. We all struggle to motivate ourselves from time to time, so the presence of an experienced trainer who can whip you into the proper shape is always necessary. If you are someone who needs help getting started or wishes to learn more about the best ways to work out, choose a gym with a quality training staff.

Amenities On Site

Every person has different needs when they head out to the gym. Some may require free parking, while others need to join a gym with a sauna that is fully equipped. The time to find out about whether the gyms you are considering are capable of meeting your needs is during the selection process, not after. Some may only need a bare bones gym with the basics, while others will require a massage therapist, state of the art locker room, a pool or even a nutritionist.

State Of The Art Fitness Equipment

Be sure to thoroughly inspect the weights and any other exercise equipment that you will be using during your visits. If the gym has the right equipment, do they have enough to go around? Many of us do not have enough time on our hands to wait for long periods of time if equipment is occupied. Whether you are into building muscles or you are looking for a place to do your cardiovascular workouts, take a close look at the equipment you are going to be utilizing.

Overall Convenience

Is the gym close to where you live? Is it busy or crowded during the times that you like to go? All of the great equipment, amenities and staff that gyms have to offer are of little help to those who cannot make the trip on a regular basis. Consider the location of the gym and your schedule before making a choice.

To find the gyms that meet all the above criteria visit www.soOlis.com/gyms or email info@soOlis.com.

The health club and gym owners are hit on a daily basis to carry many of these add on company’s products, nutritional, clothing, and accessories. They are solicited to carry these items because their members are most likely to purchase these products. But the gym owner / manager has the challenge of the increased staff and carrying the inventory. Examining the staff challenges are easy. First is reliability, second is cost (hourly, taxes, healthcare), finally managing. When it comes to the inventory, the biggest challenge is shrinkage!

Let’s look at nutritional products business. Over 11.5 Billion dollars were sold in 2012, and this number is supposed to grow to 15.5 by 2017. How many gym members purchased products at nutritional stores? Gyms try to get some of that business, but as stated previously, with the constant challenge of staff and inventory, they make a minimum profit with many headaches. Therefore most of the smaller facilities or 24 Hr. facilities don’t even try.

But what if a gym owner / facility operator could increase their top of mind advertising, reduce staff and increase revenue with a piece of the nutritional product sales? The solution is their your own online store. It’s simple. Choose your products you want to sell; soOlis uploads the products into your cart. The owner and facility operators introduce the cart to members. The members are buying products anyway from Amazon, GNC, Vitamin World, and even Walmart. Now their members can buy the products from their website and have the convenience of either picking up the products at the gym or have the product shipped directly to the member. Now the gym has increase brand recognition through more visits to their website and now offers a complete fitness solution; the gym increase revenue from nutritional sales that they were missing before. This cart can also be used for all your services: Day fees, Personal Training, Kids Programs. Again the members can sign up for different programs in the comfort of their homes and you didn’t need a staff member to complete the transaction!

Internet sales are expecting to increase by 17% NEXT year! Don’t miss out on a tremendous opportunity. Contact soOlis.com for more information on your online store at info@soOlis.com or call 877-789-8773. soOlis.com, where quality of life begins.

1. Control Capital Costs and Cut Labor Costs: Outsourcing takes your variable cost and makes them a fixed cost. That way businesses can invest elsewhere and limit the large expensive in their start up stages. In terms of labor costs, business owners have proven it time and time again that just because you can doesn’t mean you should. The time it takes an employee or business owner to figure out how to start a specific project, he or she could have had it done by Outsourcing it to the experts.
a. Example: A Fitness Equipment Dealer wants a website for his business, and along with one of his/her employees, they decide they can build it. A year later, the site is almost done and the manufacture informs the dealer of all the new products coming out and the old ones are discontinued. A waste of all that time and money!

2. Focus on core business: As employees workloads increase with non-core business tasks due to increasing business, the business focus can shift away from the core activities. When business outsource they keep their employees focus.
a. Example: The gym is growing and you need a better way to communicate with the members. Outsource a company to develop e mail and social media campaign instead of trying to do it yourself!

3. Level Playing Field or Even Give Your Business a Competitive Edge: As start- up business and/ or small businesses strives to grow and compete in competitive markets, they need to look as professional as the competition.
a. Example: Don’t through your new business website together on go daddy just so you can have a website. It is the first impression to clients and prospects.

4. Start New Projects Quickly: Coming up with an idea, hiring the staff for the idea, putting the procedures in place all takes time and money
a. Example: A Fitness Manufactures wants to develop Custom QR Codes that link to Instructional Videos. Do they know everything that goes into that project? It’s not just create a video and slap on a QR Code.

5. Reduce Risk: Business are constantly pushing the envelope with new ideas; before investing in staff, outsource the project and see it the project will generate revenue.
a. Example: Let’s build a shopping cart for the gyms website. Who will manage it; ship it; handle returns; credit card compliance issues, and so on.

6. Get Access to Skilled Expertise: Jack of all trade masters of none. Outsourcing enables the business to get experts in the field.
a. Example: A health club owner has some knowledge in website design; he decides he needs a new website and is going to build one in his spare time. The problem is he has not spare time because he is managing his health club, creating sales and marketing materials, doing the accounting and so on.

All these facts and example can be found in the Health & Fitness Industry. The question is why are they so prominent? If outsourcing is a common practice for Fortune 500 companies why don’t more health and fitness companies take advantage of outsourcing?

For more information on outsourcing services contact Tim Sebold @ tsebold@soOlis.com or visit www.soOlis.com/business for all soOlis’ business products and services.

New soOlis' Custom QR Code Clients

The answer is simple, COST!  soOlis’ QR Codes are only $10 dollars a machine.  How much does a law suit cost?  How much does additional staff cost?  How much money are facilities loosing when members quit?  What you’re your equipment repair costs? soOlis’ QR Codes help address all these issues.

1                     Liability – According to a fitness industry insurance company “with the initiation/addition of these QR codes it is just one more brilliant step towards risk management. I feel that this is something all facilities should have available to further enhance the knowledge base of specific equipment to not only members and guests, but staff as well.”

2                     Staffing Costs – Most corporate centers, 24 Hour Gyms, and hotels don’t have the money to staff their fitness centers, Through the QR Codes, the members, employees and guests can view an instructional video on how to set up and use the fitness equipment properly.

3                     Members Quitting – How many members join gyms and because they worked out years ago, they don’t think they need an orientation on the new equipment!  They quickly find out equipment has changed and they don’t want to look stupid asking someone so they leave.  With soOlis’ QR Codes the new members scan the QR Code, watch a 1-2 minute video, and they are on their way to a safe and comfortable workout without having to ask for help.

4                     Equipment Repair – The fact is residence, guests, and members break equipment!  Most of the time they break the equipment using it improperly.  The soOlis’ QR Codes will again show them the proper way to use the equipment.

According to Chris Gallagher, Direct Fitness Equipment, “I sell a tremendous amount of equipment into hotels, condos and gyms, the clients are always asking about orientations and how many times I can come back to show the residence and members how to use the equipment.  The QR Codes basically do the orientation for me.  I make sure they are on every piece of equipment I sell!”  Tim Littrell, Fitness Concepts followed by saying,” I know from my experience, many of my clients like the concept of the QR Codes because they don’t have any staff for the fitness centers.”

For more information on how soOlis’ custom QR Codes can help your business, contact Tim Sebold at tsebold@soOlis.com or call 877-789-8773 ext. 705.

soOlis.com is and informational website and internet technology business for the Health and Wellness Industry.  With over 50 years of combined experience in the Health and Wellness Industry, soOlis.com does not need to be taught the industry to help its clients.  We only service the Health and Wellness Industry!

Although it may seem painful, it is important to to begin exercising a muscle injury as soon as you can. By not doing so, you are allowing other muscles to tighten up. You do not have to do any intense exercises. Go slowly and make sure to apply ice to the injured area when finished.

If you want great results when weight training, be sure that you are always switching up your techniques. Do not stick with the same few exercises. Even if you are targeting the same muscle group, you should try a different exercise, heavier or lighter weights or different intensity levels. This is how you can get the most out of your training.

Gyms

Good fitness is essential to your health. If you do not have a work out plan and are not fit you will find that you are more susceptible to becoming ill. You can find many books and articles on fitness and even places to go locally such as local gyms. Keeping fit will keep you busy and happy, and will make you look and feel better.

Fitness Centers

If the idea of regularly working out at a gym or health club leaves you with cold feet, look for recreational activities that are both, energizing and exciting. Rock climbing is becoming increasingly popular in local gyms and fitness centers and offers an excellent workout for the muscles in your arms, legs and back.

Hopefully you have found the information in this article to be helpful and useful so you can apply it to your everyday life. If you can find the time to put the tips in to action, you will find your fitness routine to be less of a burden and more fun.

September 28, 2012 Nashville, TN.  In soOlis.com’s continual effort to educate everyone on Fitness and Wellness products and services, they have created Custom Instructional QR Codes for fitness equipment.  It is quick and simple; just scan the QR code and a detailed instructional video will help the user operate the fitness product.

Tim Sebold, VP of Sales & Marketing for soOlis.com, said, “We are really excited about our most recent product.  We believe with this product, we can get more people exercising.  Think of all the unstaffed fitness facilities. The explosion of 24 HR fitness clubs, corporate fitness centers, condos, and hotels.  We believe we can assist all owners and operators of these unstaffed facilities to provide a safe and informative facility through our instructional videos.” Tim further added that he hopes the instructional videos will increase membership for local gyms and usage of condos and corporate gyms.  “People generally have a tough time asking for help and working out of their comfort zone. Now add working out for the first time!  It all becomes very intimidating.  But now with Custom Instructional QR Code, a person who has never worked out and has been cleared by his or her physician, can go to an unstaffed condo gym, scan the QR code and safely operate that treadmill that seemed so intimidating before.  There is no awkwardness or guess work.  It just makes for a happy and safe exerciser.”

soOlis.com’s first installation of the Custom Instructional QR Codes was at WOC Fitness in Ocean City, MD.  WOC Fitness is a 24 HR fitness facility utilizing several different brands of fitness equipment.   When asked why it was important for WOC Fitness to have this technology, Bonnie Zemo, President of WOC Fitness said, “Since we are open 24 HRs, we aren’t always here to answer questions or show people how to use the equipment.  With this technology, our members will be able to properly and safely use our equipment.”  With technology people are always concerned with cost.  But according to Bonnie, “It’s a “no brainer. We paid a small set up charge for our logo and $9.95 a label.  It is much less than paying a trainer to demonstrate each piece of equipment.”

soOlis.com is a fitness and wellness information company.  soOlis is dedicated to educating everyone interested in fitness and wellness products and services.  soOlis.com – where quality of life begins!

For more information on custom QR codes for your facility, please contact Tim Sebold @ tsebold@soolis.comor call 877-789-8773 ext 705.

Some would ask, “What is the problem with having a forwarding link to a manufactures website anyway? “  Here are the main reasons why it is a bad idea.  First, and most important, the fitness equipment dealer could lose a sale.  Once a prospect is on a manufactures site, what is going to stop them from contacting the manufacture directly?  Second, the manufactures actually are competing with the fitness equipment dealers on the internet.  The manufactures have much more resource working on internet marketing.  They focus on their SEM, SEO, and PPC; which most fitness equipment dealers don’t even understand.  Finally, fitness equipment dealers need to “Brand Recognition”; they need to be well known in their community, not the manufacture’s brand.  Clients should say, “Doesn’t Fitness Brokers sell treadmills?” not “Doesn’t that one dealer sell Precor?”

According to Brad Bishop, President of soOlis.com, “This is a great opportunity for Commercial and Retail Fitness Dealers that don’t what to or can’t afford to spend money continually updating their website and working on internet marketing.  soOlis will create a landing page that looks like the clients site, mark the manufactures the dealers represent and keep all the products up to date so the dealers will not even have to think about the product section on their site.  We will also provide our comprehensive product comparison feature.”

So any fitness distributor who would like to keep all their prospects on their site or just wants to take advantage on the new fitness equipment comparison feature please contact Tim Sebold at tsebold@soOlis.com or call 877-789-8773 ext 705.

soOlis.com is strictly an information fitness and wellness website.  The company has over 50 years of experience in all facets of the Fitness Industry, fitness dealers, gyms and health clubs, and distribution through manufactures.  soOlis.com your fitness & wellness authority.