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NASM Offers Fitness Professionals Pursuit of Excellence Scholarship Award
Posted: October 2, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Partnership with California University of Pennsylvania provides full tuition scholarship
Chandler, AZ (PRWEB) October 02, 2012
This scholarship award, valued at more than $15,000, provides four recipients with full graduate tuition to pursue a Master of Science degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion through NASM and CalUs online education program. The curriculum includes four Internet-based specialization tracks for students: fitness and wellness, performance enhancement and injury prevention, rehabilitation science, and sports psychology.
NASM, the global leader in personal trainer certification, corrective exercise and sports performance training, and CalU have sponsored this scholarship award since 2005. Their goal is to provide active and aspiring health and fitness professionals with opportunities to advance their careers through accredited online bachelors and masters degree programs. Recipients have received more than $300,000 in tuition grants from NASM and CalU since the award was created.
NASM strongly emphasizes academic excellence for professionals who are working to be leaders in the health and fitness, athletic performance and sports medicine industries, said NASM President Andrew Wyant. The Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award rewards students who desire to further their education with longtime partner CalU and our industry-leading, online exercise science degree programs.
Dan Cordell, a 2011 recipient, said he made a personal goal to receive the Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award after earning the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification in 2004. A personal trainer with seven NASM specializations, Cordell completed his bachelors degree in Sports Management-Fitness and Wellness from CalU in 2010. After receiving the Pursuit of Excellence scholarship, he earned his masters degree in Exercise Science and Health Promotion in December.
NASM and CalU provided me with a holistic approach to health and fitness that I believe in and enables me to advance professionally, Cordell said. Im engaged in creating health prevention and personal fitness strategies for underserved populations that will increase their fitness and wellness levels. Im grateful for the scholarship and this opportunity to give back to people who want to be healthier and more active.
Applicants for the Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award must possess a bachelors degree and have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) for all undergraduate and graduate courses to date; plan to enroll in a CalU online masters degree program for the January 2013 start date; and intend to pursue a primary professional career in the health and fitness industry. Completed application packets for the 2013 Pursuit of Excellence in Health and Fitness Award must be postmarked by Nov. 10, 2012. To learn more or to download an application, visit http://www.NASM.org/pursuitofexcellence.
About NASM
Since 1987, the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has been a global leader in providing evidence-based certifications and advanced credentials to health and fitness professionals. In addition to its NCCA-accredited fitness Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification, NASM offers a progressive career track with access to Advanced Specializations, Continuing Education courses, and accredited Bachelors and Masters Degree programs. The NASM educational continuum is designed to help todays health and fitness professional enhance their career while empowering their clients to live healthier lives. To learn more, visit: http://www.NASM.org or call 1.800.460.NASM.
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UCare to Offer Healthways SilverSneakers® Fitness Program in Minnesota and Wisconsin Through 2015
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MINNEAPOLIS & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
As part of its mission to improve the health of its members through innovative programs and services, UCare today announced a three-year partnership with well-being improvement leader Healthways (HWAY) to offer the award-winning SilverSneakers Fitness Program to 125,000 eligible members in Minnesota and 26 counties in western Wisconsin.
SilverSneakers, the nations leading exercise program designed to keep older adults active and healthy, will be available effective Jan. 1, 2013, to members of UCare plans, including UCare for Seniors Medicare plan, UCares Minnesota Senior Health Options (UCares MSHO), and UCare Connect, UCares Special Needs BasicCare plan for adults with developmental and physical disabilities, and mental illness. Current members of the UCan! UCare Activity Network fitness program also will be eligible to change their fitness option choice to participate in SilverSneakers.
We are pleased to offer approximately 125,000 UCare members the opportunity to improve their health and fitness by participating in the SilverSneakers program, said Ghita Worcester, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Marketing, UCare. We work hard to encourage our members to live healthy lifestyles and take advantage of the many health and wellness options they receive through their membership in UCare plans. SilverSneakers expertise, convenient locations, and positive approach to fitness are welcome additions to our preventive health care activities.
Using proven methodologies based upon more than 16 years of science and outcomes, the SilverSneakers Fitness Program increases physical activity in older adults, resulting in higher well-being and lower health care costs. Physical activity can reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases, relieve symptoms of depression, maintain independent living, and enhance overall quality of life.
Evidence also shows that regular physical activity provides important health benefits for people with disabilities, including improved cardiovascular and muscle fitness, improved mental health, and better ability to do tasks of daily life.1 SilverSneakers engages participants in active behavior change through access to a variety of physical activity venues and programming that incorporates physical fitness and social experiences.
UCare is committed to helping people of all ages and abilities overcome barriers to care. By offering the SilverSneakers Fitness Program to their members, UCare is confirming this commitment by providing members with access to a user-friendly, proven solution that provides a unique combination of exercise and social support designed to enhance participant health and well-being, said Ben R. Leedle, Jr., Healthways president and chief executive officer.
The SilverSneakers Fitness Program was founded in 1993 and serves more than 9 million eligible members. The Healthways fitness center network offers convenient access to more than 15,000 participating fitness and wellness facilities nationwide.
About UCare
UCare (www.ucare.org) is an independent, nonprofit health plan providing health care and administrative services to nearly 300,000 members. UCare serves more people from diverse cultures and more people with disabilities enrolled in Medical Assistance than any other health plan in Minnesota. UCare partners with health care providers, counties, community organizations, and other member-directed groups to create and deliver innovative health coverage plans for:
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Humana’s 2013 Medicare Offerings Feature Savings, Choice and Preventive Health Benefits
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
As one of the nationss most experienced Medicare companies, Humana Inc. (HUM) is preparing to address the growing health care needs of the expanding Medicare population.
Humana companies are once again offering a wide variety of cost-effective health plans during the upcoming Medicare Annual Election Period (AEP). Humana will be providing Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDP) to people eligible for Medicare in 2013.
The AEP, when Medicare beneficiaries will select their Medicare coverage for 2013, runs from Oct. 15 Dec. 7, 2012, with coverage taking effect on Jan. 1, 2013. As in recent years, Medicare beneficiaries wont be able to switch plans after the AEP ends (unless they qualify for a special enrollment period), per Medicare program rules.
Medicare Advantage Plans
Humanas Medicare Advantage plans help people get the most out of their health care dollars and include coverage for services like doctors visits, preventive checkups, and hospital stays and many also include coverage for prescription drugs. Most plans also provide benefits such as:
To date in 2012, approximately 1.9 million Medicare beneficiaries have selected Humana individual Medicare Advantage plans for their medical insurance coverage, said Tom Liston, President of Humanas Retail Segment. Humana Medicare Advantage members can rest assured knowing that their coverage continues to be accessible, affordable and meets their individual healthy living and well-being needs. We remain focused and committed to providing value-based health care for our members through an easy-to-navigate, customer-focused experience.
With prescription coverage, health-and-wellness offerings and chronic-condition-management programs available, Humana MA plans offer enrollees many choices including local and regional PPO plans, HMO and Private Fee-For-Service plans.
Humana MA plans also have annual out-of-pocket maximums in 2013, protecting beneficiaries against catastrophic costs. Humana is committed to informing its members and eligible Medicare beneficiaries of the various benefit and savings options that are available to them for 2013.
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Baboon personalities connected to social success and health benefits
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2012) Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives. Now, a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has helped show that baboon personality plays a role in these outcomes, and, like people, some baboons' personalities are better suited to making and keeping friends than others.
The research was conducted by psychology professor Robert Seyfarth and biology professor Dorothy Cheney, both of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. They collaborated with the Arizona State University's Joan Silk.
Their work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Seyfarth and Cheney, along with their colleagues and students, have spent the last 17 years observing a group of baboons living in the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, studying the biological roots of their social dynamics. As with many other primates, baboon societies are strongly hierarchical. Females "inherit" their dominance ranks from their mothers and enjoy priority of access to food and mates. But high-ranking females do not always have greater reproductive success than low-ranking females. This suggests that, when it comes to evolutionary success, the inherited advantage of high rank can't explain everything.
"If you look at a baboon society," Seyfarth said, "and see the ranked, matrilineal families, you would think that whatever traits put an individual at the top of the hierarchy, that's what natural selection is going to favor. But that turns out not to be the case.
"In fact, dominance rank is not as good a predictor of reproductive outcomes as a close network of social relationships and stable relationships over time. So our question became 'What predicts having a strong network?'"
Baboon females actively work to maintain close social bonds, but, like humans, some baboons seemed to be better at it than others. With such traits closely tied to fitness and reproductive success, the Penn researchers wanted to get at the root of this variation.
During seven years of observations in the animals' natural habitat, the researchers measured individual female baboons on their sociability. They measured the number of grooming partners a baboon had, as well her tendency to be friendly or aggressive toward others. They also measured reproductive and fitness benefits they accrued: how long individuals and their offspring lived, as well as their stress levels, as determined by the presence of certain hormones in their droppings.
The researchers found that strength of an individual's social bonds was not fully predicted by seemingly obvious factors, such as the female's rank or the size of the family she was born into.
"Even when a female has a lot of relatives," Cheney said, "sometimes she's a loner, but some females who have no relatives do just fine. It suggests that you have to be both lucky and skilled to have these networks."
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[READ] Health and Fitness September edition online
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Mariella Dimech talks about the trouble of burying negative emotions. Though dealing with negative situations may disrupt the balance of a relationship in the long term, she says avoiding them will render the relationship unsustainable.
Lacking motivation to get in the gym? Don Pisani talks about new research that has proved the urban myth that women can actually achieve an orgasm while working out - whether doing abdominal training, climbing ropes or cycling - the "coregasm" is now being accepted in the scientific community.
Whether working out or eating right, taking your body type into consideration is an important part of achieving your weightloss goals. Daniel Petre tackles the two most common body types, big bums and big tummies.
After bikini season, when time for recovery may be more realistic, many will go down the surgical route to get the body they are looking for. Ray De Bono cautions people on the reasons they are going down that route and advises them how to go about it in a safe manner.
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Branding Fitness: New CKO Kickboxing Gym in Westerleigh Section of Long Island Signs 350 Members Before Grand Opening
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --CKO Kickboxing, one of the fastest growing health fitness franchises, showed how a powerful brand can help a new fitness franchise get off to a fast start as its new gym in Westerleigh section of Staten Island has signed up more than 350 people already even though their Grand Opening won't take place until Sunday, October 7, 2012.
The new cardio kickboxing gym is located at 1267 Forest Avenue at the corner of Jewett and features 50 heavy bags in its spacious 4,000 square foot facility. The high quality, cross training gym provides a family friendly setting to Staten Island's north shore residents who are looking for an alternative to Pilates, yoga, martial arts and spinning classes.
"We're excited to offer cardio boxing classes in Westerleigh," said John Miceli, owner and partner. "We are building on the CKO brand. We are thrilled with the way things have worked out."
Even before the doors to the gym opened on June 23, 100 people had signed up. Another 150 signed up during the first month.
"People know and trust the CKO Kickboxing brand, especially in the New York-New Jersey region, which has more than two dozen locations," said Joe Andreula, Founder of CKO Kickboxing, one of America's fastest growing franchises according to industry standard Entrepreneur Magazine, which included the kickboxing gym franchise in its Franchise 500 list of best franchises.
"We have grown fast for a few reasons. First, because the CKO Kickboxing workout is an efficient total body workout wherepeople get results.The workout appeals to men and women of all ages.Second, we make sure our members feelcomfortable andthat they belong.Our classes are go at your own pace andwefocus mainly on the fitness aspect of kickboxing asapposed tothe martial art. We ensure all members are taught the proper kickboxing techniques so they exercisesafely and can maximize theirworkout," Miceli said.
He cited strong business training and management support from the franchise as another reason for fast growth.
"We attribute our success to the operating model,our marketing strategy and our members.CKO Founder Joe Andreula and his workout and business model provided the necessary training andoperating procedures to pave the way to becominga successful business," he said.
"We did local print advertisementsin Valpak, Shopaholic and Clipper. However, we feel ourbiggest and most effective marketing contributions are our members. They know how effective the workout is. They also continue to expressto us how theyenjoy their experience in our club, which makes themeager to tell their family and friends.Our member referral system is crucial for our club's success."
Fitness kickboxing has been shown to be excellent forimprovingthe cardiovascular system, strength,flexibility and reduces stress.
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Statin Drugs Are Only One Problem – Morley Evans Brings Fitness-Health-Happiness into Focus with a Clear Mission …
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Morley Evans told a small audience this morning that Fitness-Health-Happiness warns people to avoid Statin Drugs and helps people who have taken them to recover. F-H-H helps everyone to choose a life that is long and happy. Modern living, itself, leads to disease, unhappiness and premature death because it removes exercise, nutrition and spirituality.
Regina, Saskatchewan (PRWEB) September 30, 2012
"Our mission is to help people choose a life that is long and happy," Evans told a small gathering this morning in Regina.
Evans said there are many messages competing for attention today. Some are useful, he said, and some are not. Evans believes he has learned things in his own sixty-five-year journey to find good health that others will find helpful.
The Fitness-Health-Happiness website features things Evans, himself, uses and that scientific research has indicated will benefit others.
Evans said that modern living has removed things that are essential to life itself. Labour-saving devices, from electric can openers to jet planes, have eliminated exercise, Evans said. Food has become plentiful (for some) but it is increasingly deficient in essential nutrients, Evans added. Finally, Evans said, secularism has turned the world into a spiritual desert war, mass slaughter and environmental destruction have become "a way of life."
Pharmaceutical medicine, Evans concluded, has not created all the problems, but it has no answers either. "Pharmaceutical medicine is part of the problem," Evans said, "Pharmaceutical companies exist to sell drugs and make money. They are not interested in and they know nothing about health. Doctors are trained by the pharmaceutical companies. Doctors are the primary salesmen of pharmaceutical drugs."
Evans thinks that the pathway to health and wellness adds those things that have been removed. He told the audience that people must exercise, improve their nutrition and feed their souls by serving others.
Evans Consulting Services established Fitness-Health-Happiness in 2012 to bring together ideas that lead to long and happy lives.
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