South Melbourne, Victoria (PRWEB) August 06, 2012

The team at Revolution Personal Training Studio in Melbourne announced today that they will offer a free fitness bootcamp for local residents who are looking to get fit in and have fun.

"We specialize in group personal training and weve decided to offer a free bootcamp every Saturday starting next week, said Luke Scott, managing director for Revolution Personal Training. The best thing about it is that any money donated will go toward a different charity each month."

Scott explained that the company provides studio personal training in a boutique setting within its South Melbourne personal training studio as well as group personal training and corporate fitness programs.

Our Group Personal Training is a great way for you to get involved at a lower cost with an effective and fun workout, Scott stressed.

The managing director explained that what makes the free fitness bootcamp so different from all of the other bootcamps, gyms and fitness places in Australia is that its training center where the free bootcamp will be held is not a gym at all.

Therefore we are set up perfectly for personal training and small group personal training sessions, Scott stressed. Our studio is only attended by people working with a personal trainer at all times.

This free bootcamp will benefit everyone who participates in it, and the groups are always small with a maximum of 10 participants being allowed at a time, said Scott. This ensures you never get lost in a crowd and will always be working hard. There is a great social atmosphere about each session with everyone pushing each other along to help them achieve their best. You will need to book yourself into the session however to ensure numbers are kept to a maximum of 10.

For more information about Revolution Personal Training, please visit: http://www.revolutionpersonaltraining.com.au/services/group-personal-training and http://www.revolutionpersonaltraining.com.au/services/mobile-personal-training

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Coaches at the 2012 Olympic Games in London have harnessed a new set of tools to land a coveted spot on the podium -- mobile apps.

Gymnastics, diving and swimming coaches are using apps to analyze form, execution and timing to improve performance.

John Geddert, head coach of the U.S. women's gymnastics team and personal coach of Olympian Jordyn Wieber, likes SwingReader and Coach's Eye, apps available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, to record gymnasts' routines and play them back in slow motion, frame-by-frame.

"You can see form and execution errors, legs apart or knees bent," explained Geddert, adding that the apps helped him diagnose why a gymnast at the Olympics was not being credited for an element in a routine and make immediate adjustments.

The U.S. swim team uses an underwater camera to take video footage which is reviewed poolside in slow motion with an app called VideoPix, available for iPhone and iPod Touch.

National performance advisor Russell Mark said it helps the swimmers master aspects of their technique such as their starts and turns.

Aaron Dziver, one of the coaches behind Canadian synchronized diving bronze medalists Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion, is also a fan of VideoPix.

"We can look at the actual technique we're trying to modify in the diver and very quickly show them what they're doing and have them try to focus on a corrected execution," he said.

The coaches also use apps to superimpose different dives on top of each other to compare differences in execution.

"Every single country uses an iPad on deck and captures the dive as soon as they do it," explained Drew Johansen, head coach of the US diving team.

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Lolo Jones attempted to console Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton following her fall in the 100-meter hurdles preliminary heat.

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LONDON -- The heartbreak was written all over Lolo Jones' face, except it wasn't her dreams that were shattered this time. In the sixth preliminary heat of the women's 100-meter hurdles, it was Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton, a former World Champion, who tripped over a hurdle and saw her last shot at a medal slip away. At age 37, Foster-Hylton was running in her fourth, and likely last, Olympic Games.

At the finish line, Jones quickly rushed over to Foster-Hylton and tried to put an arm around her. But Jones knew very well there was nothing she could do or say to ease the pain. Four years ago, she clipped the ninth hurdle in the final and dropped from first to seventh place because her lead leg came over a barrier a fraction of an inch too low.

Monday morning at the Olympic Stadium in East London, everyone was reminded once again just how cruel the 100-meter hurdles can be. It can cut a world champion down in less than 13 seconds flat, rendering four years of work into a puddle of tears. Few know the feeling as intimately as Jones.

"My heart breaks for Brigitte," Jones said moments after she qualified for Tuesday night's semifinal with her season-best time of 12.68 seconds. "I'm just devastated for her because she's been so dominant, and for her not to have an Olympic medal, I'm devastated for her.... I tried [to console her], but honestly, the emotions were outpouring from her. If she would've punched me, I totally would understand because... we work so hard for this."

Her voice cracked and tears appeared to well in her eyes, as if she was reliving her Beijing blunder all over again. In 2008, her misstep garnered a mountain of coverage, particularly because she had been the gold-medal favorite heading into Beijing. She handled the utter disappointment with grace, speaking with reporters and seeing out her responsibilities before convulsing with tears inside the Bird's Nest. It's a race that continues to haunt her -- and not just on the track.

The attention she received that night in Beijing, and in the subsequent years since, has become the hot topic of the moment. Jones is not the favorite to win gold in London on Tuesday night, but she has received more media coverage and marketing opportunities than Australia's Sally Pearson, the 2011 world champion who led qualifiers after running 12.57 seconds, or U.S. teammate Dawn Harper, the reigning Olympic champion. In part because of her physical beauty and her relative openness about her personal life and struggles, Jones has become a popular and accessible subject for news outlets -- both sporting and otherwise. But now, that openness has bred backlash.

A New York Times story published last week suggested that Jones was actively capitalizing on her misfortunes for attention. "Essentially, Jones has decided she will be whatever anyone wants her to be -- vixen, virgin, victim -- to draw attention to herself and the many products she endorses," the story read.

The Times suggested her image far outsized her performance, comparing her to former Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, who once ranked in the Top 20 but gained most of her fame for a pretty face despite having never won a WTA title. But while Jones may not be a favorite tomorrow night, that's not to say she never was. She hasn't won an Olympic medal, but she is a two-time Indoor World Champion in the 60-meter hurdles and has run the 100-meter distance as fast as 12.43, when she cruised through the semifinal in 2008. Only Pearson has run a faster time since. And though Jones' performances this season have been relatively meager, they should also be taken in the context of a recent hamstring injury and an August 2011 spinal cord surgery that left her essentially bed-ridden for weeks.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Personal Protective Equipment in the U.S.

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SBI estimates the U.S. market for personal protective equipment (PPE) will top $13 billion in 2012. As the economy begins to heat up, U.S. PPE sales should exceed $14.1 billion in 2013, which represents an 8.2 percent increase over the 2012 figure. The strengthening global economy should increase the growth rate in 2015 with PPE sales in the U.S. anticipated to hit $16.7 billion.

The Personal Protective Equipment sector is comprised of a group of products that are designed to protect users from occupational hazards, injuries and illnesses. Categories covered include:

Body Protection and Protective Clothing

Hand and Foot Protection

Head and Face Protection

Respiratory Protection

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Valerie Adams' biggest challenge ahead lies in her head. For it's in the mental space that her long-time rival, Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, seems intent to play.

It's not currently possible to know Adams' thoughts on Ostapchuk's apparent recent spike in form as the pair prepare for their showdown for gold in the shot put on Tuesday morning (NZ time).

The powerful Aucklander long ago shut down her media commitments. She arrived in London only in recent days from Switzerland where she has been training, according to inside observers, "at a whole new level". She is in her own zone. No visitors allowed, especially pesky journalists wanting to know what she thinks of Ostapchuk.

And what are we to think of her? Or more accurately, what are we to believe about her?

On the one hand, every time Ostapchuk has faced Adams in meaningful competition she has folded faster than a collapsible deckchair. In Beijing four years ago, Adams psychologically destroyed her early in the final and she never recovered.

It's been the same whenever Adams has broken from her daily Spartacus-style training regime in Switzerland to compete in the Diamond League, the premier northern hemisphere track and field circuit.

The Kiwi Olympic champion beat her at the world indoor championships in Turkey this year and has maintained that dominance in recent Diamond League encounters. But then a strange thing happened. Midway through June, Ostapchuk suddenly started throwing consistently over 21 metres. Adams, whose personal best is 21.24m, has thrown 21.03m and 21.11m in her last two competitive outings.

But Ostapchuk has supposedly eclipsed Adams' best throw this year five times in as many weeks, including the year's best throw of 21.58m on July 18. The word supposedly is used because all of Ostapchuk's "Val-beating throws" happened within the borders of Belarus. Cynical athletics insiders whisper about "magical measuring tapes" when it comes to distances attained at nondescript events within old Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries which often make only a passing nod to athletics convention.

If Ostapchuk has made a quantum leap in performance on the eve of London, the same cynics might point towards other reasons than a magical tape. Either way it seems Ostapchuk wants to play with Adams' head. It's a brave strategy.

In Beijing, Adams relished the challenge of personalising the battle with her rival. She stared her down with the type of body language that both intimidates and imposes. Adams is not an athlete to be messed with and a fascinating personal battle awaits when the pair face off.

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Team GB poster girl delivers Great Britain's TWELFTH gold of the Games She stormed to gold by winning 800m in front of 80,000 home crowd Javelin: Jessica Ennis threw a lifetime best of 47.49m, smashing her previous personal best of 47.11m. Long Jump: Managed 6.40m in the second round and 6.48m in the third Heptathlete racked up a 188-point lead by mid-afternoon, setting her up for tonight's 800m run

By Jill Reilly and Chris Parsons

PUBLISHED: 08:19 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 17:05 EST, 4 August 2012

Jessica Ennis tonight lived up to her pre-Games billing as the golden girl of British athletics by storming to gold in the Olympic heptathlon.

The 26-year-old Sheffield star earned Great Britain's twelfth gold - and Team GB's fourth of five on 'Super Saturday' - following her 1st place finish in the 800m.

Roared on by a partisan 80,000 crowd, home favourite Ennis looked overcome with emotion after becoming Olympic champion at her first ever athletics contest in London.

Top of the pile: Ennis throws her arms into the air after topping the podium in style by winning the 800m

World's greatest: The Sheffield athlete won the heptathlon with 6995 points - over 300 more than her nearest rival

She's done it: Ennis cannot contain her joy after her stunning heptathlon performance in the Olympic Stadium

Queen of the heptathlon: Ennis was crowned Olympic champion in her first ever athletics contest in London

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Ennis spoke before her competition about her hopes for a hurdles personal best to settle her nerves, though she could not have dreamed that she would shatter her previous best mark of 12.79sec to such devastating effect.

Her time of 12.54sec was 0.02sec inside the UK record of hurdles specialist Tiffany Porter and also the quickest hurdles performance ever recorded in a heptathlon.

I am still so shocked at the hurdles time, she said. I knew I was in good shape. My hurdles have been going well and if I had run 12.80 or 12.70-something, I would have been over the moon. But 12.54 I literally cant believe it. Its so crazy.

So crazy, in fact, that it was the same time that American Dawn Harper clocked to win the 100m hurdles gold medal at Beijing. Ennis may now be tempted to try her hand at the individual event, which opens with the first-round heats on Monday morning.

Her name is already on the entry list, but only as a precaution against her failing to complete the heptathlon. With just 36 hours of rest available to her after the final event, taking part would mean avoiding the media onslaught that will inevitably be heading her way if she wins gold.

After such an explosive start, it was a pity that Ennis was unable to get closer to her high jump personal best of 1.95m in the second event of the day, though her clearance of 1.86m was by no means disastrous and was actually 1cm higher than she cleared on her way to breaking Denise Lewiss UK heptathlon record in Gotzis, Austria, in May.

It also caused no damage to her place in the overall standings, with Dobrynska clearing 1.83m and Chernova managing just 1.80m.

The revelation of the high jump was Liverpudlian Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the former world youth heptathlon champion, who soared to a personal best of 1.89m which, following her personal best-equalling 13.48sec in the hurdles, elevated her to the dizzy heights of the bronze medal position after two events.

It was evidence of why, at the age of 19, she is already being touted as the next Jess if she can improve her throws. Even Ennis has conceded that she has the potential to surpass her achievements in years to come.

However, now is Enniss time and she appears to be marching inexorably towards Britains first track and field gold medal of the Olympics if she can sustain her current form.

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AT the base of every company lies an essential ingredient human resources. Without people, no company would be able to function. Implementation of strategies and running of the company would not be possible.

Mazda Motor Corp representative director, president and chief executive officer Takashi Yamanouchi believes that investing in people is important and aims to build a company that employs people who enjoy their work.

In my career, I've spent nine years on human resources development. Throughout that period, I truly felt the company is made of people and we need to ensure they are constantly motivated and their capabilities are developed, he says.

Mazda has implemented training programmes based on the seven Mazda Way principles, which is shared with the entire Mazda group worldwide. In 2008, the company summarised seven basic principles and values that were handed down from its predecessors.

The seven principles integrity, basic and flawless execution, continuous kaizen (improvement), challenger spirit, self initiative, tomoiku (mutual learning) and one Mazda are instilled into employees of Mazda to be sincere, faithful to the basics, to have a challenging spirit, to mutually develop others as well as yourself, among others.

We use the seven Mazda Way principles as guiding principles for general conduct, Yamanouchi says.

Loyal to Mazda

For someone who has been with the company for more than four decades, Yamanouchi clearly has adopted the Mazda Way and is full of energy and excitement for what the future holds for Mazda. Joining the company in April 1967, which was then called Toyo Kogyo Co Ltd, he has been involved in a variety of roles, slowly climbing up the ranks to be where he is right now.

In my 20s I worked for Japan's marketing and sales division. Then in my 30s I was dispatched to several dealerships in Japan to learn the retail side of the business. In my 40s after I completed my business management studies in the United States, I decided to change from the sales division to corporate planning. Then in my 50s, I was appointed as a corporate officer responsible for corporate planning, financial management, purchasing, human resource development and others, he says.

Yamanouchi jokes: I've been here too long.

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LONDON - Britain's Jessica Ennis stared at the scoreboard, waiting for her time to post, and then thrust her arms into the air.

Another personal best. Another crowd-pleasing performance.

Ennis closed out the first day of the Olympic heptathlon by running the 200 metres in a personal-record 22.83 seconds to take a 184-point lead with three events left.

Ennis, who opened the Olympic track meet Friday morning by running the 100-meter hurdles in a heptathlon record of 12.54 seconds, returned for the night session and picked up where she left off.

Competing in front of a capacity crowd at Olympic Stadium, many of them waving British flags, Ennis recorded a shot put of 14.28 metres (46 feet, 10 1/4 inches), then closed the night with another fast time on the track.

She finished with 4,158 points, while Lithuania's Austra Skujyte had 3,974 and Canada's Jessica Zelinka had 3,903.

"I'm absolutely elated with today, to have performed like that with two personal bests and to end it with a PB was a brilliant start to the (heptathlon)," Ennis said.

She had reason to be thrilled.

With nearly all 80,000 seats filled for the first taste of Olympic track and field, Ennis wowed the home crowd by finishing the 100-meter hurdles in the fastest time ever in the heptathlon's first event.

How fast? It matched Dawn Harper's gold-winning time in the 100-meter hurdles final at the Beijing Games and would've been good enough to take that title at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.

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Kaifu Lee revealed personal information of American coach John Leonard on blogging site Weibo Details were retweeted 14,000 times and led to at least one death threat Mr Lee has removed post but said Leonard should apologize for remarks made about two-time gold medalist Ye Shiwen

By Louise Boyle

PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 2 August 2012 | UPDATED: 18:08 EST, 2 August 2012

The Olympic row between the U.S. and China rolled on today as the personal details of the American swimming coach who questioned the gold-medal success of Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen were shared with 15 million bloggers.

The home and work addresses, phone numbers and email of John Leonard were posted to Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like site.

The information was posted by Kaifu Lee who once ran Google in China. He has since deleted Tuesday's post but not before it was retweeted 14,000 times.

Going public: Kaifu Lee posted the details of American swimming coach John Leonard on to Chinese site Sina Weibo - where they were seen by his 15 million followers

Mr Lee wrote that he had read numerous articles on 16-year-old swimmer Ye Shiwen and that all were 'relentless attacks from John Leonard'.

According to the BBC, he then wrote: 'John Leonard should apologize. Below are his background and contact details. If you want to contact him, I suggest using civilised and factual approach.'

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