Exercise and Fitness


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 story

Fit Employees Fatten The Bottom Line

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

Get Physical

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

Get Physical

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

Get Physical

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

Business for Sale: Oklahoma Fitness Center

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

My Body Is a ... Profit Center

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

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 story

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 story

The Believer

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 story

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 story

Fleshing Out An Empire

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

Just Say Om

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

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 story

Fitness-Focused Hotels

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

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 story

Cross-Training

Related Terms: Flexible Work Arrang...  Read story

Relaxation Resources

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

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 story

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 story

Fit for the Executive Suite

Hotels with a sweaty twist on room service.  Read story

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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 story

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 story

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 story

What Is It That You Do?

CEO cross-trains his staff members so they have an overall understanding of the company's goals.  Read story

North Carolina Racquet Club

Financial summary & brief description of a North Carolina racquet club.  Read story

How to Run a Marathon

Hey, maybe it's time to run a marathon. Because, really, what self-respecting, athletically ambitious, kick-ass entrepreneur can resist that challenge?  Read story

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 story

The Great Leaders Series: Phil Knight of Nike

He conquered a niche, then brought it mainstream. He was one of the first American entrepreneurs to source product in Asia. And he created a brand that inspi...  Read story

Healthy Capitalist Systems

Sometimes, it seems the American workforce is literally in sick shape. Business health care costs are escalating at an annual rate of about 17% to 20%, ma...  Read story

Silver Lining, For Some

Former municipal comptroller starts his own financial service, helping corporations and cities out of debt.  Read story

The Gospel According To Fatjo

"There's nothing wrong with a desire to make a huge amount of money, but it's the mission that's all consuming."  Read story

Road Trip: Bullish

Restaurateur Richard Melman leads us on a tour of the sites and hidden delights of his hometown, Chicago.  Read story

Financials? What Financials?

A quick quote from a CFO about the importance of open-book management at his copper mine and why.  Read story

Growing by Numbers

CEO of a growing chain of health clubs monitors performance using a key financial ratio.  Read story

Carried Away

Start-up inventor creates new gym contraption that eliminates the need to lug free weights around.  Read story

Splish, Splash

New business sells therapeutic water-workout stations.  Read story

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