The "Baby Boomer Fitness Expert" Nominated for Second Personal Trainer of the Year Award (PR Web)

2003 ACE Personal Trainer of the Year award winner, Stephen Holt, has just been nominated for the 2007 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year award. In the words of IDEA, "This influential honor recognizes the individual whose outstanding leadership, business management, motivational and instructional skills are exemplary in addition to inspiring others to achieve greater personal growth and a higher

Peak Physique in Troy is like 'second home' (Detroit News)

TROY -- When Troy resident Lisa Matel injured her back five years ago, she needed to find a gym to continue her exercise regime after her prescribed physical therapy ended.

Health and Fitness Industry Declares 2007 The Year to Reshape the Way America Lives and Moves (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Health clubs across the country are gearing up to help Americans of all ages ring in healthier lifestyles for 2007, says the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association .

Volunteer Search (BendBulletin.com)

AMERICAN RED CROSS needs volunteers to work at local blood drives. Shifts are about four hours Mondays through Fridays and during special events. Contact: 382-2142.

Visakhapatnam teenaged girl practices Karate with one hand! (ANI via Yahoo! India News)

By Bassi Reddy Visakhapatnam, Dec.7 (ANI): Watching the 12-year-old Nadipalli Akshita practice various Karate steps with the ease of any national Champion is a sight that hardly anyone would like to give a miss. But for this single-handed teenaged girl, it's just another day of life devoted to martial arts. Akshita, during the last six-year association with the awe-inspiring game, requiring

IOC ACTIVITIES (Olympic Committee News)

The 2nd Athlete Career Programme Forum, held at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne on 7 and 8 December, was attended by almost 30 NOC representatives and Adecco managers.

Community Briefs (Bladen Journal)

The Tar Heel Volunteer Fire Department is currently conducting its family portrait fund-raiser. For the next few weeks, families in the Tar Heel fire district will be contacted and asked to make a donation.

Speed Wins PFA Praise For Landmark Appearance (Sporting Life via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport)

Gordon Taylor has praised Gary Speed ahead of the veteran's record 500th Premier League appearance.

All The News (Football365.com)

Players' union boss Gordon Taylor has praised Gary Speed "as one of our finest members" as the veteran prepares to celebrate a record 500th Premier League appearance.

American scientist's research of life's first cells (EurekAlert!)

WASHINGTON, DC -- For her research of life's first cells, Irene Chen, a regional winner from North America and the Grand Prize winner, today was named to receive the $25,000 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists, supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science , which is published by AAAS, the nonprofit society.

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