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Article: LA Fitness to step up health focus and site opening programme.(Health & fitness news)(LA Fitness International)
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- Leisure Report
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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LA Fitness is stepping up its focus on the health benefits of exercise as it accelerates its expansion.
Next month the firm will introduce a pilot scheme offering free weekly sessions for overweight people at three of its clubs. The sites, in the North, the Midlands and in the South, will offer the one-hour classes comprising consultation, fact sheets and exercise for up to 15 people referred by their GP.
The programme follows the findings of LA Fitness' Weight Loss Study, where participants were asked not to alter their food intake but were given an individual tailored exercise plan and assigned their own personal trainer for one hour a week. After 12 ...