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Niagara Healthcare buys Balance Master
Multiple use: the product works in fitness and rehab
Jupp to chair standards and qualifications panel
> SkillsActive has appointed
a new chair to its Technical
Expert Group. Georgina
Jupp, MD of CK Academy
in the UK, will head up a
panel of industry experts in
an eight-month project to
research industry standards
and qualifications.
The TEG panel has been
tasked with confirming
whether industry standards
and qualifications are in line
with jobs within the industry.
The research will include
surveys of instructors and
employers, focus groups,
Georgina Jupp
job descriptions, and
studying existing research
from Europe, the US
and Australasia.
> One of the UK’s leading
healthcare and mobility
product manufacturers has
acquired the BalanceMaster
vibration machine.
Niagara Healthcare manufactures
a range of therapeutic
lifestyle products and considers
BalanceMaster a perfect fit
to its stable. BalanceMaster
helps the user to improve
joint mobility and enhance
muscle stability for the lower
limb and pelvic regions. It
also brings an enhanced sense
of body position and awareness.
“It has a range of fitness
and remedial uses, and a
steadily growing market
base,” says Niagara’s MD
Irving Milsom. “We are confident
the new partnership
will drive brand awareness
even further within the fitness
industry, and spread the word
about this innovative piece of
exercise equipment.” �
Jupp sits on SkillsActive’s
Fitness Employers Group
(SAFE) as well as heading
lifestyle and well-being
consultancy, CK Academy.
“After 23 years working
in the fitness industry… I
recognise the huge importance
of this mapping exercise to
ensure we continue to
deliver qualifications and
training that are current,
fit for purpose, engage
employer’s views and
continue to demonstrate
the professionalism of our
industry,” Jupp says. �
News & Notes
continued
Group fitness
goals monitored
with FitLinxx
> A club in The Netherlands
is the first to use
the FitLinxx computerised
fitness programming system
to monitor the goals
and achievements of the
participants of its group
fitness classes.
Trivium Sport in
Etten-Leur, a member
of the WellPro group
of independent clubs,
launched the initiative
in October. All the participants
of the classes are
registered using the
FitLinxx system and all
their exercise is recorded—
their gym-based programmes
as well as any
activities they do outside
the club.
“In addition to the
pleasure of attending
group fitness classes,
our members can now
receive personal attention
through FitLinxx,” says
Miranda Pertijs of Trivium
Sport. “By professionalising
our systems and
recording all the activities
of our members, we are
able to give them more
support and achieve
greater retention.”
“Trivium Sport is the
first club in the world
which will use FitLinxx in
group lessons,” says Peter
Wolfhagen, general manager,
FitLinxx Benelux. �
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