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NEW EVENT SET TO FUEL FEMALE
FITNESS BUSINESS OPERATORS
Women are more likely to work more hours,
find it harder to get funding, and be over 35
when they take the plunge into starting a
business. They are also less likely to ask for
what they want, to put their hand up for help,
or to put themselves forward as leaders.
A new fitness business event for women
has been created in order to address these
issues, and more. The creators of the FUEL
Women’s Fitness Business Summit have put
together a program of some of the brightest,
most influential and ambitious female fitness
business leaders over its one or two-day
event in Sydney this 25 and 26 July.
The presenter faculty will share the
latest insights from the fields of PR,
networking, leadership, entrepreneurship,
digital marketing and more, while enabling
delegates to connect with like-minded
women, and learn strategies for brand-
building and revenue growth.
For information and to register go to
events.morfus.fit
Source: FUEL Women’s Fitness Business Summit
SCREENING TOOL OVERHAULED TO
INCREASE CLIENT SAFETY
In collaboration with Sports Medicine
Australia (SMA) and Exercise & Sports
Science Australia (ESSA), Fitness Australia
has launched the newly developed Adult
Pre-Exercise Screening System (APSS)
which includes an updated Screening Tool
and User Guide.
Barrie Elvish, CEO of Fitness Australia,
said that the tool gives consumers and
professionals confidence in measuring
needs and risks on entry or re-entry to
physical activity.
‘As Fitness Australia shifts its purpose to
getting more Australians, more active, more
often, the importance of a newly developed
APSS and associated screening tool cannot
be underestimated. Minimising risk will give
new participants increased confidence to
start their active journey’ said Elvish.
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Twenty years ago in the pages of Network
magazine, Swedish aerobic champion Jesper
Magnusson was imparting his tips on how to add
some pep to group exercise classes:
“Looking for a quick easy combination to add
some spice to your routines? This Jazzy Low
Impact combination is one of my favourites and
I often incorporate it into my classes. It has a groovy Jazz style, yet is low impact and very
easy to teach. Moving the arms in an up, down motion creates a great contrast, and is good
fun when the whole class does it together. The second part of the combination is simply the
hips moving in a single, single, double action. By adding direction, you can create variation
in the routine.”
“I’m a reformed perfectionist. I was the kind
of child who would sit up until midnight,
crying because my English homework wasn’t
good enough, or re-writing my notes from
every class because my handwriting wasn’t
neat enough. Failure seemed catastrophic.
As an adult, business has taught me that I
will fail sometimes, that I will make mistakes
sometimes, that I’ll handle things poorly at
times – but that all of those things are not
only human and humanising, they’re also a
basic tenet of business.
I know that when I drag my heels on doing
something, it’s usually because the inner
perfectionist is saying ‘this won’t be good
enough, you’re going to fail’, and because I’m
scared that in the failure, I’ll be letting down
my team, my business partners, my clients.
But the real lesson is two-fold:
1. If it is perfect, I probably waited too long
to release it (and then the demand may no
longer exist); and
2. There are very few failures that you can’t
come back from.”
The inaugural FUEL Women's Fitness
Business Summit will take place in Sydney
on 25 & 26 July. Check out the full program
and register at events.morfus.fit
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