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HEALTH CLUB MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK 2O13


The 9th edition of the Health Club Management Handbook is being distributed in January 2013. The handbook is a comprehensive guide and reference tool distributed to industry operators, buyers and suppliers and available at leading industry events, LIW, IHRSA, FIBO & SIBEC.


WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? FOR INDUSTRY SUPPLIERS ■ Multiple listings of all industry suppliers by:


■ A-Z ■ Phone book ■ Web address book ■ Product selector


■ Company profi les including key information, contact details, images of products and a picture of your company contact


■ Vertical strip adverts in the address book section


FOR INDUSTRY OPERATORS


■ Who’s who? of key industry personnel in the UK and Europe:


■ Private sector operators ■ Public sector operators ■ Industry organisations


■ Features and reference material ■ Predictions for 2013 from key industry fi gures ■ Industry statistics


■ Development pipeline – details of forthcoming projects across the sector


■ Consumer and industry trends for 2013


■ Diary dates – a guide to all industry events, shows and networking opportunities


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The Health Club Management Handbook is available to purchase at £30 per copy and all content will be available online at www.healthclubhandbook.com


AGAINST JORDAN SMITHIES, MD, Elite Fitness


in 2010 I made the decision to remove them from my club – then known as Tara Leisure and Sports, in Oldham. That decision was the result of


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very passionate campaigning by one of our members – a lady called Gill Nuttall, who was the founder of skin cancer charity Factor 50. She had originally just wanted to do more to raise awareness of skin cancer, and specifi cally draw our members’ attention to the potential risks associated with sunbed use. However,


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’m not personally heavily in favour of, or heavily against, sunbeds, but


based on what she was telling me I felt that, as a health centre owner, I had a duty to remove sunbeds altogether. Although the decision mainly came


about thanks to Gill’s efforts, in the end we all know someone who’s suffered from cancer. I wanted to do my bit. When there are other risk- free alternatives out there like spray tans, I felt it was right thing to do to remove our sunbeds. At the time, we did look into


offering spray tans instead, but in the end that didn’t happen. We didn’t experience any negative impact as a result of our decision though. Sunbeds were never really a core part of the business, and in fact members seemed to appreciate what we’d done – as did the local press, who gave our decision a lot of very positive coverage. ●


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Exposure to sunlight produces vitamin D, which helps protect against disease


FOR GARY LIPMAN Chair, The Sunbed Association


F


or many years, sunbeds were a significant secondary revenue


generator in the vast majority of health clubs across the UK. The anti-tanning campaigns vociferously attacked sunbeds, lobbying for their withdrawal on alleged health grounds, with much success. Now the tide is turning. What we have always known is now backed up with published scientific evidence: there is no correlation between responsible sunbed use and skin cancer. Indeed, recent studies have shown that responsible tanning can help prevent melanoma. In addition, the world’s leading


experts on vitamin D advocate use of a sunbed to ensure optimum vitamin D status when living in countries


with latitudes such as the UK, where regular exposure to the correct intensity of UV just isn’t possible for more than six months of the year. Vitamin D defi ciency is linked to many health issues and diseases – as well as, interestingly, athletic performance. As in any successful gym


environment, properly trained staff and well-maintained equipment are at the core of responsible sunbed provision. For health clubs keen to ensure their sunbed provision operates to best practice, membership of The Sunbed Association provides the necessary tools, information and support. Given all the above – and with


regulatory maximum UV irradiance levels in place to remove the risk of burning, legislation to prohibit under- age use of sunbeds, and a code of practice ensuring optimum customer care – there is considerable synergy to be derived from the provision of sunbeds in a health club environment.


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