Aim of course to help women 'get sorted'
Posted: July 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm
These days you can be coached to excel in just about anything and now one Queenstown centre is offering coaching in the broadest subjects of all - life.
The Nadi Wellbeing Centre is offering the "Personal Foundation Programme" for women who are interested in personal development in all aspects of their lives.
The "transformational course" aims to help women reorient their lives around self-care and encourage them to "get sorted" personally, mentally, physically and financially.
Organiser Amanda Woolridge took part in the course 15 years ago when first studying for a life-coaching course.
"It was life transforming for me and so I now deliver the programme locally, and so far 56 Queenstown women have also completed it and made positive changes in their lives."
The programme costs $392 per person and comprises eight weekly sessions starting on Tuesday, August 14, from 7.45pm. The course includes a workbook containing 12 "life lessons". The women will meet for an hour and a-half each week to share insights and receive support. Email amanda@xlcoaching.co.nz
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Underrated coaching jobs in Pac-12?
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Today we ranked the Pac-12 coaching jobs -- an inexact science to say the least.
ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach took another angle: Underrated coaching jobs. And he tapped two from the Pac-12: Stanford and Washington.
Here's what he had to say:
Washington: The Huskies won a national championship under coach Don James in 1991, so there's no reason they shouldn't be more competitive in the Pac-12. Coach Steve Sarkisian, a former USC assistant, has expanded UW's recruiting base into California. Husky Stadium is finally getting a face-lift, so the Huskies will play this season at the Seattle Seahawks' CenturyLink Field. The $250 million project will remove the lower bowl of Husky Stadium and add a 40,000-square-foot football operations center, including a weight room and meeting rooms.
First off, when Mark writes about Stanford having "tougher admission standards that a lot of other schools," what he meant to say is admission standards that are higher THAN EVERY OTHER SCHOOL PLAYING FBS FOOTBALL.
I like these picks. Of course, "underrated" suggests a lot of things. Mostly I see it as a measure of a good place to be where you have a chance to win but a little less win-or-else pressure.
But are "underrated" jobs destination jobs? Or are the competitiveness and ambition -- required qualities in big-time college sports -- too overwhelming to prevent an eye from wandering. Sure, some guys who win big stick around second-tier jobs -- Boise State's Chris Petersen and Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer being two -- but it seems the vast majority of coaches are committed to the climb.
For most highly competitive sorts, they want to go to the most prestigious program, one that gives them the best chance to win national championships on a regular basis. And they'd want to see their name atop lists of highest paid coaches.
For some, though, there are other considerations, such as putting down roots and quality of life. And, perhaps, toning down the win-or-else reality of several big-time programs.
It will be interesting to watch Shaw at Stanford, his alma mater, and Sarkisian at Washington over the next few years. Shaw has been adamant that he already has his dream job and has no interest in going elsewhere. But what if he wins a national title and gets a call from the NFL? Same could be said of Sarkisian. Would he turn down the NFL? Heck, would he turn down, say, Florida if it ever became available?
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Press Box: Three Armstrong medical allies banned for life by USADA
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The United State Anti-Doping Agency announced lifetime bans for three former members of Lance Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service teams. The regulatory body revealed significant evidence against Armstrong and his associates in a published news release Tuesday. Team doctor Luis Garcia del Moral, consulting doctor Michele Ferrari and trainer Jose Marti declined to challenge allegations of a vast doping conspiracy before Monday's deadline, essentially accepting sanctions from the USADA. In the release, USADA outlined the doctor's clinical treatments in Spain during which saline infusions were given to mask prohibited blood transfusions and he "administered banned performance-enhancing drugs, including EPO, testosterone, corticosteroids and human growth hormone to cyclists." Moral was first accused by former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis, convicted of doping in 2011, of being the brains of the doping program during his five-year stint as the team's primary physician from 1999-2003. "Permanently banning these individuals from sport is a powerful statement that protects the current and next generation of athletes from their influence, and preserves the integrity of future competition," USADA CEO Travis Tygart said in the statement. GOLF School is out for the PGA Tour -- Qualifying School, that is. The pressure-packed tournament known as the Qualifying School for years has determined which newcomers and journeymen will earn playing privileges on the tour for the following year. However, this year's Q-School will be the final edition before a new qualifying process is introduced in late 2013 for the 2014 tour. The most direct route to PGA Tour qualification will be through the Web.com Tour (formerly known as the Nationwide Tour). The top 25 finishers each year in the second-tier league will automatically move up to the big leagues the following year. The top 75 players from the Web.com Tour and players ranked Nos. 126-200 on the PGA Tour (the top players who failed to retain their PGA Tour cards) will enter a three-tournament series of $1 million events to be held in the fall. The first 25 from the Web.com Tour standings will play in the series in an attempt to enhance their playing priority for the following year, though they already will be assured of PGA Tour cards. Twenty-five additional players will move up based on their results in the three-event series. NHL The St. Louis Blues have re-signed unrestricted free agent Jamie Langenbrunner to a one-year deal according to TSN. The veteran forward will be 37 at the start of the 2012-13 season. He played one a one-year, $2.5 million deal last season and was named an assistant captain for the Blues to help the team transition during an early season coaching change to Ken Hitchcock. Langenbrunner scored six goals and tallied 24 points in 70 games last season. NASCAR NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger made his first public comments since he failed a drug test that led to his temporary suspension. Allmendinger requested NASCAR test his "B" sample, hoping it will produce a negative result. If that test does come up negative for banned substances, Allmendinger will be reinstated immediately. It the test is positive, he would be suspended indefinitely. The result is likely to take at least four or five days to produce. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was interviewed by former FBI director Louis Freeh on July 6 and, according to his attorneys, told the university-assigned independent investigator that he was never told of any incident involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. "At no time in the more than 16 years of his presidency at Penn State was Dr. Spanier told of an incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct or criminality of any kind," said attorney Peter Vaira in a statement. Grand jury testimony released in November indicated otherwise, and recent email correspondence leaked to national media and published by CNN would imply Spanier had direct knowledge of at least the 2001 incident reported by graduate assistant Mike McQueary. The findings of the Freeh Report are expected to be released Thursday morning. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery signed a seven-year contract extension with the Hawkeyes worth a minimum average of $1.66 million per season. McCaffery has raised expectations in Iowa City since replacing Todd Lickliter in 2010. The Hawkeyes reached the postseason in March, and McCaffery said the logical progression is to return to the NCAA Tournament in 2013 with a team that will be missing only two players from last season, supplemented by a top-20 ranked recruiting class. SOCCER Soccer legend Diego Maradona has been fired as the coach of the Al-Wasl club in the United Arab Emirates after one year on the job. Maradona, 51, led the team to an eighth-place finish in the 12-team league. The Dubai-based club had given him a two-year contract in May 2011, but he was removed with a year remaining on the deal. Al-Wasl sacked the entire coaching staff, the team announced in a statement.
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Research and Markets: Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders, Managers, and …
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/pq2rk6/emotional_intellig) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Emotional Intelligence in Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders, Managers, and Teams, 2nd Edition" to their offering.
The importance of emotional intelligence as a critical factor in personal and business success is now well established. Emotional Intelligence in Action, Second Edition shows how to tap the power of EI to build effective emotional skills and create real change for leaders and teams.
This book breaks new ground in providing a cross-reference matrix that maps sixty-five exercises to four leading emotional intelligence models - the EQ-I 2.0 or EQ360, TESI and TESI Short, the MSCEIT, and EISA - making it easy to use with all the models.
Revised to respond to the significant changes in EQi-2.0 and to add two new instruments, TESI and EISA, this Second Edition now offers in-depth coverage of such emerging topics as emotional expression, as well as twenty new exercises, accompanied by reproducible handouts for your participants.
Ideal for both individual or team coaching or as part of a wider leadership and management development program, Emotional Intelligence in Action, Second Edition provides highly-effective experiential learning, drawn from real life, that will help you enhance emotional intelligence competencies in every organization.
About the Authors
Marcia Hughes, president of Collaborative Growth, serves as a strategic communications partner for organizations and trainers and is a professional speaker. She offers emotional intelligence training and coaching and is a certified trainer in the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360, and TESI.
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Health and Fitness at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth – Video
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Fitness First ordered to pay for stolen items of a member
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
NOTED wellness center Fitness First may have to change its policy on lack of liability over lost items after the Court of Appeals (CA) ordered it to pay a lawyer whose cellphone, uniform and wallet were allegedly stolen in one of its branches.
In 2006, lawyer Rommel delos Reyes complained to the management of Fitness First-Robinson's Manila about the disappearance of his personal belongings but the management said it cannot be held liable citing the provision in the membership agreement and notices posted on its walls.
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But in a decision penned by Associate Justice Antonio Villar, the CA said the reported loss "constitutes negligence and dereliction of its duties and responsibilities as operator of a health and wellness establishment."
"Fitness First, being a health club establishment is clearly bound to provide not only a comfortable working-out atmosphere for its members but also a security to their persons and belongings," the courts ninth division said on July 2.
Echoing the arguments presented by the Makati City Regional Trial Court which favored delos Reyes complaint, the CA found out that Fitness First failed to conduct an investigation especially that it holds the master key that could open all lockers.
As a result, the appellate court opened the possibility of one of the employees carting away delos Reyes belongings since they have access to the master key.
The CA also slammed the membership agreement that exempts Fitness First from any liability for losses, saying this is illegal under Article 2003 of the Civil Code.
Said provision provides that the hotel keeper cannot free himself from responsibility by posting notices to the effect that he is not liable for the articles brought by the guest, but the CA said like hotels, the operation of health and wellness centers are imbued with public interest.
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Breaking sweat: Best cruises for fitness
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Susan Seubert / Norwegian Cruise Line
Cruise lines offer plenty of heart-pumping activities, including basketball beneath tropical skies on the Norwegian Epic.
By Erica Silverstein, CruiseCritic.com
If your idea of a great vacation involves daily runs in the open air, a leisurely workout in a high-tech gym or a smorgasbord of fitness classes from Pilates to Zumba, a cruise may be the perfect getaway for you.
These days, cruise ships are about more than just eating and lying in the sun, and they're attracting fitness buffs, yogis and health-conscious travelers in droves with active options both onboard and off.
Believe it or not, on a cruise you really can lose weight -- or at least break even. That's because fitness centers are growing in size to accommodate a more youthful and body-conscious passenger base and often feature state-of-the-art equipmentand180-degree sea views. Ships are breaking new ground with cutting-edge workouts like Kinesis Walls, popular TRX Suspension Training and Tour de Spin classes, plus offering trendy sessions in Pilates and tai chi.
Deck games like shuffleboard and skeet shooting have made way for onboard surfing, rock climbing, mini-golf and basketball. In port, active excursion options are plentiful. Cycling is big -- not to mention hiking, kayaking, swimming and diving. If breaking a sweat can be fun, cruise ships have found ways to offer those activities in the middle of the ocean.
Royal Caribbeanis leading the pack as the trendsetter in onboard fitness options. Its ships are the only ones afloat to offer onboard surfing, boxing and ice skating. But it's not the only line to put emphasis on fitness. Others are also expanding their gyms and their top-deck fitness options. Some of the smaller lines --SeaDream,Star Clippers,Windstar,Seabourn-- focus on water sports, with onboard marinas packed with water toys that range from kayaks to water-skis.Crystaland Seabourn are two luxury lines getting creative with gentler, senior-friendly workouts like Kinesis and walking, while river lines store bikes onboard for passengers to use ashore.
Before we list our favorite lines for fitness, here are a few tips for working out onboard.
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Fit things to do: Free after-work bootcamp
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Starting today, the Boston Health Commission's free fitness on the plaza classes will expand to include a free after-work Fitcorp Bootcamp class.
The classes are free as part of the Boston Moves for Health program, and will be held from 5:30 p..m to 6:30 p.m. every Wednesday on City Hall Plaza at Government Center (July 11 - Aug. 29, except Aug. 15).
According to the public health commission's Boston Moves site, these classes are designed to emphasize endurance and strength using a variety of drills and techniques to hit all the major muscle groups. And, I'm told by their assistant director of communications, Katinka Podmaniczky, they are designed so that people of all fitness levels can participate (so you don't have to be a triathlete to try it out.)
Advanced registration is not required, but participants are asked to arrive 10 minutes prior to the class.
Bootcamp is part of a series of free exercise classes offered on City Hall Plaza as part of Boston Moves for Health. Other classes include morning yoga classes and morning bootcamp.
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Clipboard: Should the FDA have a say in development of health care apps?
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By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff
While writing about health and fitness mobile apps in February, I heard this question from some clinicians who had begun using the programs with patients: When does an app become a medical device? Rob Stein of National Public Radio reported yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration has posed the same question.
Stein asked it of Dr. Joseph Kvedar, director of the Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health, in a story published yesterday. He writes:
After all, were not talking about apps that help you find a good restaurant or calculate your mortgage. These apps sometimes help make important decisions sometimes life-and-death decisions.
The ones that worry me are ones for instance where you can take an image of a skin lesion and then map it back to a database in the cloud and be told whether it should be evaluated for a melanoma or not, says Kvedar, a dermato logist by training. It just seems a little scary right now to have software making decisions about moles.
Stein reports that the Food and Drug Administration is considering regulating some apps, though not those that simply track health and lifestyle, helping you to keep count of calories or log miles run.
There are apps today that change a mobile platform into an EKG machine, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, who leads the agencys center for devices, told Stein. When its being used to diagnose patients, its a medical device we believe subject to FDA oversight.
Such statements are getting pushback from app-makers who say the oversight could stall development.
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UVa-Wise to hold health and wellness center groundbreaking
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WISE, Va. --
A new health and wellness center addition at the University of Virginias College at Wise will move forward with a ground-breaking ceremony next week.
The ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. July 19 on the lawn next to Bowers-Sturgill Hall.
The center will include an addition to the Slemp Student Centers existing fitness center and renovate 5,833 square feet of the Fred B. Greear Gymnasium, according to a written statement from the college. The renovation will add 11,000 square feet to the existing facility and house a new exercise area, a multipurpose room for yoga, dance and other classes, two conference rooms for health advising and instruction and locker rooms. The gyms renovation will include a new entryway and refurbished restrooms and locker rooms.
The renovations are thanks to an $8.3 million pledge from Richard and Leslie Gilliam. Richard Gilliam, a native of Wise, graduated from the college in 1974, and his wife Leslie is from Jonesville, Va.
My wife Leslie and I are delighted to help provide UVa-Wise with new facilities for fitness, Richard Gilliam said in the statement. Our goal is to provide for UVa-Wise in a way that will assist the school in attracting and retaining students and to support and encourage a healthy lifestyle for students.
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