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Controversy Concerning who is an Exercise Physiologist
August 8, 2011 By 597 Comments
Boston, MA (PRWEB) July 26, 2011
The right for unqualified persons to identify themselves as ?physiologists? has recently been challenged by a group of 21 senior scientists who are affiliated with a large number of prestigious universities and laboratories. During the past 20 years, increasingly large numbers of persons involved in exercise testing and exercise programming have inappropriately and incorrectly identified themselves as ?Exercise Physiologists.?
The group of senior physiologists has clarified the matter by issuing a Statement to address the question, ?Who is an Exercise Physiologist??. They identify an exercise physiologist as a person with an earned doctoral degree who studies the acute responses and chronic adaptations of the humans to physical exercise.
Research in Exercise Physiology can be traced back to the late 1700?s although serious research by scientists employing modern methodology did not begin until the 1950?s.
During the past 20 years, physical exercise when regularly performed has been confirmed to play an important role in health enhancement and health maintenance. Scientific studies of exercise at university, clinical, and research institute laboratories have resulted in a more complete understanding of human physiology. This has also resulted in an increased use of exercise in rehabilitation, cardiovascular risk factor identification, and physical conditioning programs for activities of daily living, sport, and health enhancement.
Howard Knuttgen, PhD, of the Harvard Medical School pointed out that, ?a person who assists in exercise testing or provides fitness counseling could be identified with a title such as Exercise Specialist, Exercise Trainer, Fitness Trainer, Exercise Technologist, Research Assistant, Fitness Specialist, or Personal Trainer. The title of Physiologist should be reserved for scientists who conduct research.?
See the complete Statement at the Internet address: http://www.exercise-physiologist.org/
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Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Program Released on DVD by the Heart Fit Clinic
August 8, 2011 By 878 Comments
Calgary, AB (PRWEB) July 22, 2011
The Heart Fit Clinic is the leader in cardiac rehabilitation, maintenance and heart attack and stroke prevention. It is providing innovative ways to ensure people are living happier, healthier and longer with this cardiac rehabilitation exercise DVD program. Exercise is the best medicine for heart health and with this program patients can know how to exercise safely and effectively.
Heart disease and stroke continues to be the leading cause of death and hospitalization. More people are surviving cardiovascular events and bed rest, or taking it easy may not be the best choice. We are restricted by wait times, so when waiting and doing nothing may be more harm than good.
It is difficult to know how to exercise after a heart attack. Fear, anxiety and lack of confidence will keep patients bed ridden when it is actually doing more harm than good. This cardiac rehabilitation exercise program includes exercise benefits, exercise guidelines, and exercise precautions. Once patients begin their cardiac rehabilitation exercise program then patients can progress to other umbrellas of fitness that is included in this program. Resistance training and stretching guidelines and exercises are also included in the cardiac rehabilitation exercise program.
For stable patients after a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack, early exercise is the key to the best outcome for your heart. Their research states that within 1 week of their heart attack is best. The heart itself will become better with exercise sooner and of course continuing as lifestyle behaviour.
In the past, it has been told to wait four to six weeks before commencing a cardiac rehabilitation program. The researchers out of University of Alberta determined that patients who begin an exercise program one week after their heart attack were found to have the best heart performance. The key of course is to continue with your exercise program.
Calgary cardiac wellness program, Heart Fit Clinic provides clinical fitness assessments to determine safe and effective level of exercises especially for patients after a heart attack or stroke. It is important to have some fitness assessment whether it is a sub-maximal or maximal test so your healthcare team can determine a safe and effective level of exercise.
With this cardiac rehabilitation exercise DVD program patients can determine a safe level of exercise with or without fitness exercise testing. Patients in rural areas may not have the benefit of getting some fitness assessment so this program allows for patients to prescribe their exercise intensity. It becomes important to log and set a diary of the exercise program as their will be a training effect.
Starting a cardiac rehabilitation exercise program after a cardiovascular event is vital and will save lives especially when you start early. This exercise program can also be used for patients who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, stress and overweight.
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Fit Approach Gets You Bikini Body Ready
August 8, 2011 By 84 Comments
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2011
Just in time for summer, Fit Approach (http://www.fitapproach.com), a new online fitness community that inspires and encourages people to live a healthy and fit life, launches today. Find fitness tips and tricks, healthy recipes, and stories that will get you moving and bikini body ready in no time.
Fit Approach is a supportive community of athletes, athlete wannabes, nutritionists, amateur chefs, and fitness enthusiasts who want to empower people everywhere to lead a healthy and fit life. Fit Approach provides a welcoming environment for people to share their stories and relate to one another on a variety of topics including fitness, food, beauty, relationships and self-esteem.
?We believe that fitness should be a lifestyle rather than a routine,? says Jamie Walker, Co-Founder and President of Fit Approach. ?We built Fit Approach to help people make better decisions about their health, and to talk about it in an open, earnest, and supportive way.?
If you are interested in contributing to Fit Approach, please contact info@fitapproach.com, or visit the website for more information.
About Fit Approach:
Fit Approach is an online fitness community made up of athletes, athlete wannabes, nutritionists, amateur chefs, and fitness enthusiasts that aims to empower people everywhere to lead healthier lives. Fit Approach was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, visit the website at http://www.fitapproach.com.
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ActivewearUSA.com Announces Fitness Angel Program for Professional Trainers
August 8, 2011 By 788 Comments
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) July 19, 2011
ActivewearUSA.com, one of the largest online retailers of women’s activewear and Women’s Workout Clothes, announces the launch of its Fitness Angel Program. Professional fitness trainers with a variety of backgrounds are able to join the Fitness Angel Program and receive specialized access to discounted activewear.
The ActivewearUSA.com team respects instructors, trainers, Yoga, health and fitness bloggers, and all other kinds of fitness folks. Avi Woolman, CEO and founder of ActivewearUSA.com says, “Trainers are in fact angels, and we’d like to reward them for all their efforts, motivating us to lead a healthier lifestyle.”
By joining the ActivewearUSA.com Fitness Angels Program, Fitness Angels will receive discount offers on women’s activewear. The perks include:
A 15 percent discount on all regular priced items, site wide
A free gift with the first purchase
The twice-per-month ActivewearUSA.com Fitness Angel newsletter discussing all things fitness
Access to exclusive private sales
Badges to use on Facebook and fitness sites
The opportunity to pass on discounts to clients
In order to qualify to be a Fitness Angel, a copy of a current certification in fitness must be submitted to ActivewearUSA.com. Qualified candidates might include: Zumba, group ex, yoga, Pilates, personal training, or kick boxing instructors.
If the applicants are bloggers, they must have a blog that is at least six months old and need a minimum of 10,000 page views per month. It is also asked that a Fitness Angel badge be displayed on their site.
See site for more information on Fitness Angel Program.
About ActivewearUSA.com:
ActivewearUSA.com was founded with the goal of providing the best yoga clothing and women’s workout clothes on the market. The company encourages women to look and feel their best while enhancing their life through fitness. ActivewearUSA.com carries more than 60 high performance, stylish, activewear brands.
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http://www.ActivewearUSA.com
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Five Points Fitness a Corte Madera Fitness Center Announces They Will Partner With MedaFit
August 8, 2011 By 213 Comments
Corte Madera, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) July 22, 2011
Five Points Fitness, a full-service fitness center in Corte Madera, is creating a partnership with MedaFit, a medical wellness company, to provide trainer-based small group exercise programs for individuals with medical illnesses.
The partnership is specifically catered for people who have recently been hospitalized for heart disease, cancer and stroke. The partnership also provides a dedicated area for training that allows for an intimate, non-threatening environment for clients. There will be a 12-week program and participants need not be members of Five Points Fitness to take part. Each group will consist of five to ten people and will help improve personal fitness levels through a strength and cardiovascular conditioning program. Five Points Fitness has certified trainers that are also considered clinical exercise specialists.
“If you need a personal trainer Corte Madera Five Points Fitness can help. We offer well qualified personal trainers able to work with a varied population from young athletes to older adults with health issues and no workout history,” says Bryan LeFebure of Five Points Fitness.
Conveniently located at the Paradise Shopping Center in Corte Madera, Five Points Fitness is a health center with universal appeal. Five Points Fitness prides itself in being able to offer fitness solutions to meet all needs in a reasonably priced, pleasant and professional environment. Whether it is someone looking to get fit or a seasoned ?gym-rat,? the nonjudgmental environment appeals to everyone. They offer a personalized service and each personal trainer is held to the highest standard, required to meet specific training criteria and is nationally certified.
For more information on Five Points Fitness and their services, contact Bryan LeFebure at (415) 413-4154 or visit their website at http://www.fivepointsfitness.net. Five Points Fitness is located at 5651 Paradise Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925.
About Five Points Fitness
Five Points Fitness Corte Madera weight training boasts a newly renovated, 17,000-square-foot split-level facility with a complete selection of modern exercise and strength training equipment, as well as an impressive array of cardiovascular machines (each with an individual television monitor). Five Points is especially proud of its Personal Training program, the key to a successful, sustained and efficient training regimen. Highly affordable, customized programs geared to a variety of fitness goals are available.
They offer health and fitness classes, yoga, mat pilots, spinning, boot camp, and ZUMBA! Special health services include diet consultation with a certified nutritionist, physical therapy and massage.
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Ribbon Nutrition Announces Fund-Raising Program for Non-Profit Organizations
August 8, 2011 By 336 Comments
St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) October 9, 2006
Based on an understanding of the difficulties of non-profit fund-raising and the personal desire of the founders to make a difference in ending Breast Cancer, Ribbon Nutrition has created an Affiliate Fund-Raising Program (AFRP) as a means to help raise money for non-profit organizations and to educate and empower individuals in the fight against Breast Cancer.
The purpose of Ribbon Nutrition?s AFRP is to provide Breast Cancer, Cancer, Health, Women?s, and Environmentally-oriented non-profit organizations of all sizes the ability to raise additional funds without having to spend existing resources to do it. The program offers non-profit organizations the opportunity to directly raise money through a ?click-through? link placed on their website. Each time a member clicks over to the Ribbon Nutrition website, their ?click-through? is linked back to the non-profit organization. From there, Ribbon Nutrition will donate 30% of the shopper?s total purchase to non-profit organizations. The program is further supported by customized marketing support that the company creates for each individual organization. To view a sample, visit http://www.ribbonnutrition.com/ad/young.
Ribbon Nutrition?s AFRP has several other unique features. A pitfall of many affiliate programs is that they work the first time when a member ?clicks-through,? but do not continue to raise money for the organization when members go back to the website for a subsequent purchase. To address this, Ribbon Nutrition created a system where shoppers cannot purchase Ribbon Nutrition products on their website without ?clicking-through? a non-profit organization or choosing a non-profit organization that their purchase will benefit. The logos and websites of the participating non-profit organizations are displayed on the Ribbon Nutrition website for the shopper to choose from and can be viewed at http://www.ribbonnutrition.com/locate/locate.php.
Ribbon Nutrition?s Affiliate Fund-Raising Program is also designed to offer more than just supplements. Each purchase from the site in October will also include a free subscription to the natural lifestyle magazine inPink as well as other educational materials on diet, nutrition, and other lifestyle factors that may help prevent Breast Cancer. Visitors to the website will also have the option to sign-up for Life Saving Email
(http://www.lifesavingemail.com), a free Breast Self Exam Reminder System and Healthy Lifestyle e-Newsletter offered by Pink Penguin Press, a non-profit organization focused on education and empowerment. Participating non-profit organizations are invited to send educational information to Ribbon Nutrition for disbursement with orders from the Affiliate Program website.
For more information about Ribbon Nutrition, please call the founders directly: Stephen Hennessy at 404-441-6683 or Jim Powers at 941-779-5940. For more information about the Affiliate Fund-Raising Program, call 800-757-7212 ext 709. Visit Ribbon Nutrition on the web at http://www.ribbonnutrition.com.
About Ribbon Nutrition:
Founded in 2005 by Jim Powers and Stephen Hennessy, Ribbon Nutrition?s (http://www.ribbonnutrition.com) mission is to help fight Breast Cancer through a message of prevention, empowerment, and education. Ribbon Nutrition offers a complete selection of over forty vitamin, mineral, digestive, herbal, and specialty supplements for the whole family. All Ribbon Nutrition products are manufactured to the strictest quality standards and feature the highest quality ingredients available. Ribbon Nutrition also offers their products at health food stores nationwide where they donate up to 10% of the total revenue from the sale of the products to non-profit organizations who share their mission of ending Breast Cancer.
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RevNutrition.com to Carry Biotropics Products
August 8, 2011 By 145 Comments
Delray Beach FL (PRWEB) July 25, 2011
Nutritional Products International (NPI) is pleased to announce that the Biotropics line of natural health products is now available on RevNutrition.com.
Biotropics, a company that develops a variety of Malaysian resources into superior natural health products, focuses on merging past traditional approaches to medicines and well being into cutting-edge, innovative health solutions.
“We are very excited to partner with RevNutrition.com for the selling of the Biotropics line of products,” said Siti Nooruhani, Business Development, Sales & Marketing Director of Biotropics. “This will give consumers even more access to the best natural, name-brand nutrition and health products on the market today.”
Based on extensive research and modern science, Biotropics’ products are designed to meet the health, wellness and vitality needs of today’s men and women. The brand’s all-natural products include an array of the highest quality proprietary botanical extracts, including standardized extracts, all-natural dietary supplements and ingredients for nutraceutical, functional food and cosmetic applications. The company also develops herbal medicines and botanical drugs.
RevNutrition.com brings a wide range of high-quality, affordable wellness products to consumers around the world. On the site, consumers can choose from the most trusted names in the industry, backed with the assurance of competitive pricing and a price match guarantee.
“Biotropics’ products are all backed by the best research available when it comes to all-natural health solutions,” said Mitch Gould, CEO of RevNutrition.com. “By providing scientifically tested natural supplements from Biotropics on our site, we are adding to our comprehensive selection.”
NPI, one of the world’s leading nutraceutical companies, provides sales and marketing solutions for Biotropics and hundreds of other brands worldwide. This enables foreign brands to be successful with consumers in the United States.
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QA Graphics Collaborates with KB Nutrition Consulting to Aid in Nutritional Menu Labeling
August 8, 2011 By 148 Comments
Ankeny, IA (PRWEB) July 27, 2011
QA Graphics, a Midwest interactive design company, has formed a relationship with KB Nutrition Consulting, a nutrition consulting firm, to further assist their clients when developing digital menu boards with nutritional menu labeling for use in restaurants, quick serve restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores, retail outlets etc.
With the FDA?s impending menu labeling laws requiring restaurants to provide calorie information as well as other nutrition information on request, QA Graphics anticipates the increased use of digital menu boards to display this nutritional information. To facilitate a smooth transition for their clients, QA Graphics has formed an alliance with KB Nutrition Consulting. This collaboration will ensure that QA Graphics is familiar with the new menu labeling requirements and other trends relating to nutritional guidelines. In addition, KB Nutrition will serve as a resource for QA Graphics? clients, available to help those that have not yet analyzed their menu?s nutritional values according to the menu labeling laws that will take effect later this year.
?By collaborating with KB Nutrition, we have access to an experienced professional to assist our clients in complying with menu labeling laws, as well as other nutritional guidelines,? said Dan McCarty, president and owner of QA Graphics. ?Now?s an opportune time for restaurants of any size to switch to digital menu boards, to simplify compliance with the nutritional labeling laws and stay current with industry trends.?
KB Nutrition, located in Dallas, Texas, is dedicated to working with restaurants to provide nutrition information for their recipes, identify allergens and work to modify recipes to meet certain health guidelines. KB Nutrition can help QA Graphics? clients determine what information must be displayed as part of the menu labeling laws, as well as what additional information needs to be available, such as calories from fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, etc. Kim Blum, owner of the nutrition company, brings over 10 years of experience as a registered dietitian, with extensive experience conducting nutrient analysis and menu development.
?Restaurants and food service establishments have a unique opportunity to provide nutrition information to their customers via menu labeling. In addition to posting calorie counts, restaurants can also provide allergen information as well as help patrons identify menu items that meet certain health guidelines,? said Kim Blum, MS, RD, owner of KB Nutrition. ?Digital menu boards are the perfect way for restaurants to meet the needs of their health-conscious consumers and keep their company on track with current trends and laws.?
QA Graphics provides nutritional menu board design services for static digital signage, drive-through displays and interactive applications for use on kiosks in high-traffic areas. Example features include:
Healthy Girl Introduces Nutritious Alternatives to Unhealthy Recipes
August 8, 2011 By 38 Comments
(PRWEB) January 21, 2010
CookingWithHealthyGirl.com is a new Web site that aims to help women and their families embark on the path to healthy eating and living. Healthy Girl provides healthy alternatives to recipes traditionally prepared with ingredients high in calories. Her recipes are the culmination of extensive research conducted on food, nutrition and the human body.
Mandy (Healthy Girl), the site?s founder, began experimenting with her favorite recipes in an effort to shed a few pounds. After trying a few diets with little success, Mandy realized that what she needed most was not a diet change, but a lifestyle transformation. By making just minor changes to dishes she already enjoyed, Mandy could still prepare her favorite meals and not feel guilty. She is excited to share her tips and advice on her Web site and to allow other families to enjoy the same meals.
The site highlights important aspects of a healthy diet, including a grocery list, weekly sweets, healthy morning meals and grocery staples that all kitchens should include.
Healthy girl focuses on six major points when creating healthy recipes: (1) Ensuring the recipe is full of healthy ingredients, (2) Making sure the recipe is tasty, (3) Making sure the portion size is big enough to be filling, (4) Ensuring the recipe should is easy to make, especially when preparing for children, (5) Having a recipe containing everyday ingredients that can be easily found in any supermarket and (6) Having dinner entr