Exercise and Fitness


How to Stay Fit on the Road

Exercising during business travel doesn't have to feel like work. Use these tips to be at your best mentally and physically while on the go.

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How to Start a Yoga Business

Due to its popularity, many yoga lovers are quitting the corporate world to start their own yoga studios.

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Dancing to Success

Zumba founders Alberto Aghion, Alberto Perez, and Alberto Perlman created a company out of a dance phenomenon.

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The Best Hotel Fitness Centers

Three hotels made our list of the best hotel gyms, and we didn’t even break a sweat.

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Zumba Turns Dancers Into Entrepreneurs

The founders of the dance fitness craze teach their trainers how to turn a passion into a thriving business.

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Recent Articles about Exercise and Fitness

What Do You Need to Change?

This is the time of the year when we see a lot of wonderful, inspirational posts and articles about creating new goals for the New Year. Being a Read more

Passions: Jeffrey Sweeney, Yogi

Every morning , Jeffrey Sweeney spends two hours putting his legs behind his head. And standing on his hands, and bending backward to grab...  Read more

How Does Jack LaLanne Do It?

When he opened his first health club in 1936 at 21, Jack LaLanne helped launch an industry that today brings in $19 billion annually. A tireless advocate for...  View slideshow

These Cities Offer the Best Ways To Stay Fit on the Road

Some travel destinations can't help but invoke your inner Lance Armstrong. Staying on the workout wagon while on the open road is not easy, but i...  Read more

Get Physical

In my last column I talked in general about the relationship between your company's c...  Read more

Get Physical

In my last column I talked in general about the relationship between your company's c...  Read more

The Other Bottom Line

How are you supposed to have the time or energy to keep your body in shape while growing a company? Here's why taking the time to take care of your health ma...  Read more

Marketing Consistency: How Marketing Is like Exercise

After logging many hours on the treadmill at the gym, I've come to see a lot in common between physical fitness and marketing. If you are embarking on a m...  Read more

Business for Sale: Oklahoma Fitness Center

An overview of a business offering including price, price rationale, outlook, and pros and cons.  Read more

Fit Employees Fatten The Bottom Line

Company-Sponsored health programs improve morale and productivity.  Read more

Get Physical

What's the one indispensable factor to creating a company culture that rocks? Making physical fitness a top priority.  Read more

Playing Hard to Get

In a highly creative arrangement, an upstart apparel maker manages to sell its brand to footwear giant Timberland--without actually giving up the brand. The ...  Read more

How I Did It: Alden Mills of Perfect Fitness

A Navy SEAL's search for the perfect pushup leads to an entrepreneurial medal of honor  Read more

Travel: Vacations of Steel

So work is making a mockery of your fitness goals? Lose the stress and a few pounds at these retreats.  Read more

My Body Is a ... Profit Center

Lee Labrada's corpus really is his temple.  Read more

Best Hotel for Fitness: Topaz, Washington, D.C.

It's not always easy to find time for a workout during a business trip. This Dupont Circle hotel makes it easier by setting up an exercise bike or ...  Read more

Think Rich and Never Give Up

Flat broke at the age of 21, Joe Cirulli made a list of 10 things he wanted to accomplish in life. One by one, he pulled them off -- and built a health and...  Read more

Hot Tip: Bartering for Perks

Looking for inexpensive ways to improve your workplace? Try bartering for perks . For example, James Morel, the president of 1-800-POSTCAR...  Read more

Virtual Workouts, Real-World Results?

Can you really get your exercise in front of your computer? Dozens of fitness sites are popping up and Inc. has rated the best.  Read more

Virtual Workouts, Real-World Results?

Can you really get your exercise in front of your computer? Dozens of fitness sites are popping up and Inc. has rated the best.  Read more

Jack LaLanne on How to Build a Successful Business

The pioneering health club owner and TV exercise guru shares five tips on how to build a successful enterprise.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Elizabeth Cutler of SoulCycle

Cutler’s favorite things include the Polar Hearth Rate Monitor and Dakine’s Over Under Bag.  Read more

Gary Heavin Is On a Mission From God

His goal: To single-handedly save the world's women from obesity. With Curves, he seems to be pulling it off. And he's built a billion-dollar business along ...  Read more

Fleshing Out An Empire

Can the mastermind of Browning-Ferris do for fitness what he did for waste management?  Read more

Just Say Om

With tough, new rivals like Nike and Reebok, Sara Chambers's yoga business is suddenly getting stressful.  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Restaurateur Stephen Starr

Stephen Starr is best known for his Buddakan restaurants, which have won raves for dishes like Kobe beef satay. But they are only a small...  Read more

Fitness-Focused Hotels

Fitness expert Jim Kaese shares his favorite hotels for the fitness minded business traveler.  Read more

No Time to Exercise?

Everyone feels better when they work out. The problem? Finding time to get to the gym. Case in point? Moi. I, like most working mamas, have to finesse get...  Read more

Brynn Jinnett, Founder of The Refine Method

Want a ballerina body? "Back away from the barre," says Brynn Jinnett, 27, a Harvard University-educated former professional ballerina who danced i...  Read more

Keep Running: A Company in Search of the Finish Line

The founders of Newton Running believed they could shove their way into the running-shoe business. And so they did. Now, where the heck is that finish line?  Read more

Relaxation Resources

On pages 65 through 79 of the February 2004 issue , <...  Read more

Cross-Training

Related Terms: Flexible Work Arrang...  Read more

Coporate Well-being

Integral Data Systems Inc. of Milford, N.H., is a healthy business. The $30-million manufacturer of computer peripherals offers its 350 employees a discou...  Read more

Fit for the Executive Suite

Hotels with a sweaty twist on room service.  Read more

ReadyTalk

ReadyTalk provides everything from insurance to yoga classes to keep its employees physically and mentally fit.  Read more

The health-spa market looks impossibly overcrowded -- and plenty of shakeout victims would line up to confirm it. But Sharlyne Powell and Sharon McConnel...  Read more

Dossier

Answer the call of Shangri-la; go virtual at the Waldorf-Astoria; or work out in the privacy of your hotel room with your own "fit kit."  Read more

Pick a Legal Location and Avoid Zoning Trouble

Legally speaking, it's far less important whether a certain spot is a good one for your business than if it'sproperly zoned for what you plan to do. The f...  Read more

The Wexley Way: How to Think Creatively in 8 Easy Steps

Wexley School for Girls is an amped-up media-agnostic advertising agency that will do just about anything to attract business for clients. Here, the Wexley t...  Read more

Dieting Entrepreneur Sidney Craig Dies

Sidney Craig, the co-founder with his wife Jenny, of the Jenny Craig weight-loss empire, has died of cancer at age 76, the Los Angeles Times report...  Read more