Let’s face it: An attractive lean body is good for your libido and your energy level.

Couples That Sweat Together, Stay Together

Firm up, gain confidence and engage with your partner by performing popular activities together – both in and out of the gym. Try yoga and Body Pump class together, or tennis doubles and lifting weights at home.

Even if you live in a multi-family unit or a small apartment, be active together. Maybe book a couples’ massage or a ski lesson – we’d love to hear about your Valentine’s Day Couples Workouts.

Exercise, Sex and Your Brain

When you moderately exercise, the release of endorphins – those feel-good hormones or feelings of pleasure that are created and released in your brain – help create the surefire recipe for a superior love life.

Exercise produces chemicals in the brain that evoke feelings of happiness, reduce stress, and also increase arousal. Several studies show that men and women who exercise together regularly do report better (and more frequent) sex with their partners.

Maybe take a dance class together or join a gym and share a personal trainer. Go easy, but go together as a couple who might move mountains – together.

One of the best things about exercising at the gym or using home exercise equipment side-by-side is that you really do not have to be performing the same activities to get the physical jolt of being together. You do not have to be have to be at the same fitness level to participate in effective couples workouts, according to studies.

We asked some of our favorite exercise experts for their ideas on how to workout as a couple for Valentine’s Day, and received awesome suggestions on how to make each others’ hearts race!

• Try a fitness skill neither one of you has dared to try yet

• Create the ultimate home gym and meet for exercise dates

• Purchase a special personal training package for two

• Be open-minded and keep your partner’s needs (goals, comfort level) in mind

Have no fear, happy couples. Even exercising side-by-side or coming together for the last 15 minutes of stretching may potentially increase your attractiveness and commitment to each other.

Valentine’s Day Workouts That Really Work

Firm up, gain confidence and engage with your partner by performing popular activities together, both in and out of the gym. From yoga and Body Pump classes to doubles tennis and snowshoe excursions, sweating together brings you closer. Research proves it.

Remember this Valentine’s Day, working out as a team might include your whole family, office mates, parents and best friends. When winter hibernation mode kicks in, you’ll need support from your workout buddies to get moving again.

Couples workouts don’t have to just come once a year. Working out with your romantic partner can benefit your body weight, self-esteem and your relationship. The couple that plays together stays together.

Set up a new home gym together for Valentine’s Day; there are many exercise options for working up a sweat together. Now, grab your honey and go for a hike.

Ask soOlis sports and marketing services to help you plan and develop your future content marketing initiatives.

OneFitStop, created in 2012,  assists personal trainers and fitness companies with managing every aspect of the business from scheduling, to payments and bookings. Their program helps instructors keep up with their clients and stay on top of their business simultaneously.

soOlis.com, completes the business solution by providing the internet marketing component.  soOlis, specializing exclusively in the health and fitness industry, can create everything from custom websites to all aspects for social media marketing and advertising.  

With each of these two companies collaborating, they are developing an “all-in-one fitness business solution”. OneFitStop manages your business, while soOlis is focused on promoting it.

“With both companies working together, we can provide a great business solution for small fitness facilities and personal training studios,” said Tim Sebold, VP of Sales and Marketing for soOlis.

OneFitStop was launched in 2012 with the vision to improve the quality of life for everyone by making fitness accessible through technology.  We empower fitness professionals to grow and manage their businesses, by providing an easy to use, industry

approved platform to connect to their clients and perform all the necessary tasks required for business success.  OneFitStop has a dedicated team of fitness, business and technical experts and innovators. Headquartered in Sydney Australia, OneFitStop is the leading on the go platform for fitness professionals.

soOlis was founded in 2009, our company is proud to provide information that is necessary be aware of within the Health and Fitness Industry. We offer several different marketing tools to help your business succeed in the industry. Some of our services include custom social media marketing, fitness equipment portals, e-commerce, custom websites and online marketing. With over fifty developers and designers we have the knowledge and talent to help you while providing excellent customer service to ensure you are 100% satisfied.

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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.

 What makes us different from other certification programs? 

• Students review videos and text through our interactive web based program.
• Students can study anywhere an Internet connection is available.
• Managers/owners can monitor their student’s progress.

      ·         Your staff can maintain their certification via our Continuing Education (CEU) portal.

• Successful sales education to help acquire and retain clients taught by Jeffrey Gittomer (Author of several sales books including: “The Little Red Book of Sales and the “Sales Bible”).
• Your staff will all be on the “same page.”
• NCCA nationally accredited certification

There is nothing like this in the industry today.  In this economical climate, our platform is the perfect fit for people who want to enter into this field, but do not have the resources to get certified and the club manager/owner who needs a qualified staff to train their members.

Smart Fitness University is a division of The National Council of Personal Trainers (NCCPT), who has been certifying trainers for over 15 years.

For more information, contact:

Karen Perlmutter

Vice President of Sales and Marketing

karenp@smartfitness.com

888.666.1497 x11

SmartFitness

‘Revolutionizing Personal Training Education’

Surprisingly, despite the relatively low cost and the readily available background checks electronically, clubs continue to avoid this necessary operating cost.  I might suggest that clubs can ill afford to NOT incur the cost of a thorough background screening for prospective new hires and team members up for promotions.  Perhaps things are tight and health clubs cannot afford it.  I may agree, however, the real questions are can clubs afford the costs associated with fraud, theft, violence, turnover of good employees, litigation & negligent hiring, turnover or job related accidents because of employees who are cons or convicts in our clubs?

Some clubs are extremely diligent and exhaustive in the interview process; they conduct team interviews & ask the ubiquitous open-ended behavioral questions, check references and perhaps even conduct on-line personality profiling.  They even conduct background checks.  If so, congratulations!  You are one of a few who are long on team member selection and due diligence.   So, how do you know that your third party company does a national data base search?  Have you asked?  Typically, if you are paying in the $15 to $25 range for a basic criminal check, searches are only done within the state your club is located.  If they do a national search, does a real live person assess the “rap sheet” of a prospective hire?  Or as in most cases, does a computer program flag or pass a candidate for you to hire.  Assault in Arizona is coded differently than theft in Texas.  Without an evaluation of the criminal data by a trained person, normally flagged prospective hires can be passed.  I am aware of one club who assumed the management of a club and conducted background checks for the new team members fr0m the old regime.  During the transition period and interview process, an existing, manager candidate admitted to the new owners they did “some time”.  Not wanting to deal with a rehabilitation case, the new owners figured the background check would produce a flagged result not to hire.  Unfortunately, that did not happen and the process of managing this person out must begin.  An in depth background check and evaluation by a trained person would have resulted in a termination during the transition.

Padding resumes can also be an issue for clubs as it can be for any industry.  When someone represents a body of work done on a resume and in fact it is not true, how do you know?  Do we really want a personal trainer who claims they are certified, when in fact they are not, conducting VO2 Sub-max or max testing to determine safe training heart rate ranges?  If the former coach of Notre Dame Football, George O’Leary, claimed he falsely earned a letter playing football at New Hampshire, a journalist, Janet Cooke could win a Pulitzer Prize for an untrue story and the former CFO of VERITAS who “misstated” he earned an MBA fr0m Stanford, then clearly lying on a resume is possible.  If those individuals have the gumption to stretch the truth, then a supposed graduate with a degree in Exercise Physiology and Certified Personal Trainer could certainly type accomplishments on a resume that are not earned.

I come fr0m a trust but verify school of thought, famously espoused by President Ronald Reagan.  And I know for a fact, we have some of the most amazing servant leaders and service providers in the health/fitness business compared to anyone in a service business.  Additionally, I believe frauds and cons are not rampant in our business, and yet I believe just as strongly that we sure want to authenticate such a belief so as to preserve the assets and business reputation we have earned.

Frank J. Ancharski, M.S. (Verifiable)

Chief Coaching Officer

Club Coach Services

March 2011

All the World Gyms are full service facilities with personal training, group exercise, child care and much more.  Also Tuscaloosa is open 24/7

Anyone in the Tuscaloosa, Wantagh, or Mandrin area looking for great gyms, check out these World Gyms, you won’t be disappointed!

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