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Tremendous Franchise Opportunity in the rapidly growing membership based massage and facial industry Prime locations available in PA, NJ & DE • Significant ROI & income potential • $39K franchise fee • $200K - $400K Total Investment • Low Labor Costs • Low Inventory • Easy to Operate -"feel good" business • Flexible owner participation GREG SHISHKO 302-593-0258 • 484-732-8134 gshishko@handandstone.com • www.handandstone.com VOTED BEST OF PHILLY SPRAY TAN 2008 215.545.5010 209 S. 20th St, Philadelphia sunmyst@verizon.net www.sunmysttanningstudios.com ✹ Stand-up & Lay down Units ✹ No Contract ✹ Mystic Spray Tan ✹ Unsurpassed Prices ✹ Customized Airbrushing 1 Free Tan ✹ 50% off Customized Airbrush Tan With MMI, Bob catered to their excitement, offering hard-core training instruction and photos mixed with personalities, gossip, over-the-top inspiration and a willingness to dig in places (like drug issues) his staid competitors wouldn’t. He received death threats for featuring a blonde female bodybuilder with a black male one on an early 90s cover. Ditto for Bob Paris and Rod Jackson, two bodybuilding Adonises who’d recently uncloseted themselves. Through relentless effort, showmanship (hype), bluff and personal charisma, Bob Kennedy grew his dream into something big. And he carried many others along with him. Which brings us back to Jami. You can’t miss the parallels: the dreams, the struggles, cheerleading in a sometimes cold, empty room, waking others to a sense of happening through the sheer force of will, creating something out of nothing. Bob certainly recognized those parallels right away, looking beyond the sexy charismatic blonde (of whom he’s seen so many!) to a daring, imaginative entrepreneur who’s really got her head together. He’s a PHILLYFIT reader and a Jami-fan like the rest of us. It feels good to be in such company, because when you get down to it, they’re both pumping us up about our own amazing possibilities. NOT YOUR USUAL MEDIA MOGUL OR MUSCLEHEAD Something few know about Bob Kennedy: An art college graduate, he’s been oil painting for 50 years. He paints under his father’s name, Wolfgang Kals, to avoid confusion with his role as a publisher. Currently he’s being encouraged by North American gallery owners to agree to a one-man exhibition, something he’s only done in Europe until now. “It’s funny that all of a sudden there is an interest in my (Wolfgang’s) work. Maybe collectors are figuring that I might die soon and my paintings would quadruple in value. I could have done with this attention when I was trying to make a living as a starving artist in England 45 years ago.” Enquiring minds can visit www.wolfgangkals.com. Charles Peeples, NSCA-PT, NCTMB, whose articles have appeared in numerous fitness and bodybuilding magazines, is a regular columnist for PHILLYFIT and a well-known activist for female strength training and physical advancement. (www.teamvalkyries.org). A graduate of the Pennsylvania School of Muscle Therapy, Charles is nationally-certified both as massage therapist and a personal trainer (www.chesterspringsmassage.com). Contact Charles at charles@phillyfitmagazine.com TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR PAIN RELIEF WITH THIS SUPERIOR STRETCHING METHOD UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE COACH'S FOOT! 40 I PhillyFIT PAIN RELIEF IS MINUTES (Not Weeks) AWAY! MAXIMUM EFFORT YIELDS MAXIMUM RELIEF! Rossiter System Stretches Are Quick, Powerful And Effective In Relieving All Types Of Chronic Pain - Headaches, Neck, Shoulders, Upper And Lower Back, Herniated Discs, Sciatica, Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Knee Pain, Plantar fasciitis, And More. GUARANTEED TO LEAVE YOU FEELING LOOSER IN JUST 1 SESSION! SAVE $10 ON A ROSSITER SYSTEM WORKOUT! EXPIRES 4/15/09 March/April I 215-396-0268 I www.phillyfit.com ben309 BENSALEM MUSCLE THERAPY JANICE E. MALLOY,RN, MS, CMT MUSCLE AND SOFT TISSUE PAIN SPECIALIST 1950 Street Road, Suite 318 Bensalem, PA 19020 215-244-1999 bensalemmuscletherapy.qpg.com
PhysicallyFIT Fusion Volunteerism Builds New Fitness Facility for Public High School. T he new fitness facility at the Young Women’s Leadership School at Rhodes was finished on Saturday, September 20, 2008. To the outside observer, the United States is a nation of two minds when it comes to being health conscious. Nutritional and fitness education are growing niche agendas in younger and younger communities, mirroring their decade-long position in the lives of affluent young adults. But on the flipside, some communities, organizations, and families struggle to meet the high cost of staying-healthy care. Inner city schools and children are often neglected by society when it comes to physical education and nutritional empowerment. Almost two years ago, since Fusion: HEART.MUSCLE.MIND’s inception, Fusion embarked on a mission of volunteerism and fundraising for the Young Women’s Leadership School at Rhodes. The Rhodes School is an all girls public high school in North Philadelphia (N 29th Street, near Allegheny) supported by a non-profit foundation that runs schools in lower income neighborhoods. While Rhodes students have many environmental and financial challenges, the school has had an amazing success in sending their committed students to college, with nearly 95% of the graduating class attending universities. Simply put, the students at Rhodes have the drive if given the opportunity. Fusion began working with the Rhodes School to help provide an outside source of fitness and wellness education that focuses on lifestyle choices. Fusion staff supplemented the educational opportunities with real-world perspectives and new resources. Each semester, Fusion mentored a new group of girls, taking them through an enhanced health curriculum, which included nutrition, fitness, and goal setting and understanding their importance. Fusion’s own Center City state-of-the-art facility was also opened to the students, to provide a different and inspiring outlet for activity. “I want Fusion to always have a philanthropic goal of building communities of fitness and wellness,” explained Fusion founder, Gavin McKay. “The Rhodes School’s mission is in step with our ideas, and so we’ve been able to supplement their classes with real world lifestyle coaching and inspiration.” Besides education, Fusion embarked on a daunting project to build Rhodes a fitness center from an empty unused space off the gymnasium. The new fitness center was designed to be a welcome place for any student seeking fitness, but to also help the school’s budding sports programs. “Most health and fitness professionals originally got their star in a school gym and/or sports program, so when I realized that Rhodes had no fitness center – we decided that Fusion had to find a way to build them one. Healthy habits start young so if we can affect these students early on, we have made a huge impact.” In September of 2007, Fusion held a successful fundraiser where clients were able to sponsor pieces of equipment and view the fitness center design. One hundred percent of the funding for this project has been through donations of money, equipment and time – all from Fusion clientele. Over the course of the last year, March/April 2009 I 215-396-0268 I www.phillyfit.com PhillyFIT I 41
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