Fitness Management is the magazine for owners, managers and program directors in physical fitness facilities. Founded in 1985, the magazine publishes 12 issues per year with editorial content emphasizing facility management and preventive health care.

Fitness Management is the magazine for owners, managers and program directors in physical fitness facilities. Founded in 1985, the magazine publishes 12 issues per year with editorial content emphasizing facility management and preventive health care.

Fitness Management also publishes an annual Buyer's Guide with listings of the industry's suppliers, and runs the annual Nova7Awards competitions, which recognize fitness facilities and suppliers for innovative excellence.

Fitness Management is the premier industry publication used by fitness managers to make the decisions that run their facilities. It is also the best read publication in the industry, with more than 78% surveyed reading 3 of the last 4 issues, (according to a 2007 Readex Preference Survey).

Market: Fitness Management serves the $17.6 billion fitness facility industry, including: health clubs, YMCAs, JCCs, hospital and medical fitness centers, corporate, fire and police fitness programs, college and universities, hotel and resort clubs, country clubs, and property development firms.

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FEATURES
Special Report: Best of 2008
21 2008 Nova7Awards: Winning Innovations
Ronale Tucker Rhodes, M.S., Editorial Director
This 15th annual Fitness Management Nova7Awards competition recognizes the outstanding performance of fitness facility professionals and suppliers.

22 Nova7 Facility Award Winners
Amy Scanlin, M.S., Anne B. McDonnell and Heather Peavey
Seven winning and 14 runners-up facilities are recognized for their outstanding innovations in this year’s competition.

36 Nova7 Facility Award Judges
Fourteen industry veterans volunteered their time and expertise to judge which facility innovations deserved awards.

40 Nova7 Facility Award Honor Roll
From 1993 through 2007, facilities around the world have entered and won the Nova7 Awards competition, earning their place in the honor roll ranks.

42 Nova7 Supplier Award Winners
Fitness industry professionals voted for seven suppliers as the “best” in seven categories. Find out who they are and what sets them apart from the competition.

46 Research/Science Update: “Stretching” the Truth
Roy Stevenson
Researchers have the answers to whether individuals should stretch before and after exercise.

50 Meet the Expert: Older Adult Solutions
Colin Milner
Attract and serve the growing older adult population by moving beyond the status quo.

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Editor’s Note
BY RONALE TUCKER RHODES, M.S., EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Nova7Awards Past

The Nova7Awards history is rich with vision and a passion to motivate members. After 15 years of running the Nova7 Facility Awards competition, I decided to take a look back at the entries. What I found is that, over the years, the entries haven’t changed much in objective — to facilitate a place or program to encourage healthy lifestyles, resulting in increased memberships and retention rates — or in their level of creativity.

Here’s a smattering of some of the more creative facility entries that won in previous years. Perhaps they will trigger some new ideas for those who enter the awards, and maybe inspire those who have yet to enter the awards to do so in 2009.

• In the 1995 competition, LifeQuest Fitness & Aerobics Club, Charleston, S.C., won for its After Hours program, at which the facility sponsored a “smoke-free comedy show at a local sports café, as well as a smoke-free Monday Night Football get-together with a local radio station.” And for those who weren’t interested in spending their evenings at a restaurant or bar, LifeQuest remained open Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. ...

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