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Denver, CO [11/21/2008] — HealthStyles Exercise Equipment’s Commercial Product Division has added another exclusive facility, SuperFit, to their line-up of state-of-the-art fitness facilities in the Wyoming area.

This 2500 sq. ft. fitness facility offers members an environment where you can focus on your health and wellness goals. The SuperFit fitness facility features state of the art cardiovascular, resistance, and free weight equipment with personalized training to help you achieve your fitness goals. Owner Jake Snow spared no expense to bring the Casper residents the best, newest, and most exciting lines of commercial exercise equipment the fitness industry has to offer.

The commercial exercise equipment provide by HealthStyles Exercise Equipment includes FreeMotion Epic selectorized strength stations, Nautilus free weight machines, Nautilus treadmills, Nautilus recumbent exercise bikes, Octane Pro 3700 elliptical trainers, and Expresso Fitness upright bikes. The virtual experience of Expresso Fitness bikes includes over 30 virtual environments with stunning graphics that create realistic rides and an opportunity for club members to compete side-by-side.

“HealthStyles was able to meet all of my needs from design and equipment selection to delivery and service.” says SuperFit owner Jake Snow. Jake admitted he was totally blown away with HealthStyles’ service and attention to detail throughout his purchasing process.

To contact the HealthStyles Exercise Equipment Commercial Products Division directly, call 800-688-2557. Click here to for more information about the HealthStyles Commercial Sales Team online.

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About HealthStyles Exercise Equipment
HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is a privately owned Specialty Exercise Equipment Retailer with eleven Colorado Stores and a Commercial Sales Team. Owners Dave and Jeanne Sheriff, and HealthStyles Exercise Equipment employees have been assisting fitness enthusiasts throughout Colorado and Wyoming since opening their first store in Glenwood Springs in 1993. In addition to providing consumers with the best selection of quality exercise equipment for the home, HealthStyles sells quality exercise equipment along with facility design support and equipment maintenance services to clubs, hotels, corporate fitness centers, hospitals, schools and colleges, and other commercial settings. HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is headquartered in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and can be reached at 800-688-2557 or online at http://www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

Denver, CO [11/13/2008] — HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is proud to announce the addition of free personal training services at their 11 Colorado retail store locations. HealthStyles Exercise Equipment values its commitment to health and fitness education. With the new HealthStyles Fitness Professional Network managed by Anne Parker, HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is now able to offer free pre-sale personal training evaluations and free in-home personal training and program design sessions with any equipment purchase to Colorado customers.

HealthStyles Exercise Equipment understands that sometimes finding the correct fitness program and equipment can be confusing and frustrating. HealthStyles has always taken pride in staffing the most experienced and knowledgeable retail sales team to help customers choose the best exercise equipment. Now customers can receive a complimentary in-store personal training evaluation with one of HealthStyles’ certified personal trainers to discuss their fitness goals and select the best fitness solution to meet their needs. And after buying the perfect fitness solution from HealthStyles, customers can receive a free in home personal training session and program design to teach them how to get the most out of their new equipment.

“HealthStyles Exercise Equipment has been the specialty fitness leader in Colorado for 14 years offering the absolute best selection of exercise equipment, the best quality brand names, and the absolute best pricing.” says owner Dave Sheriff. “But to be competitive in these challenging economic times, we understand that we need to give the customers more than just products and great pricing. Customers need to feel confident that they are making the right investment with their hard earned dollars. We are extremely excited to offer a new specialty retail shopping experience with the professional follow through to help our customers achieve their fitness goals.”

For more information visit us online at www.HealthStylesExercise.com. To set up an appointment for a free fitness evaluation, customers can email training@healthstylesexercise.com or call 1-888-487-0151. To contact the HealthStyles Retail Store location nearest you call 1-800-829-9705.

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About HealthStyles Exercise Equipment
HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is a privately owned Specialty Exercise Equipment Retailer with eleven Colorado Stores and a Commercial Sales Team. Owners Dave and Jeanne Sheriff, and HealthStyles Exercise Equipment employees have been assisting fitness enthusiasts throughout Colorado since opening their first store in Glenwood Springs in 1993. In addition to providing consumers with the best selection of quality exercise equipment for the home, HealthStyles sells quality exercise equipment to clubs, hotels, corporate fitness centers, hospitals, schools and colleges, and other commercial settings. HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is headquartered in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and can be reached at 800-688-2557 or online at http://www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

Here are my top three ways to avoid weight gain during the holidays. It will make things much easier for you in January. Believe me, it’s very easy to gain weight, and very difficult to take it off.

1. Make a workout plan and stick to it. The holidays are very busy and one of the reasons we gain weight is because we are eating more and working out less. Why not make it easy on yourself and set up an in-home workout program that is quick and produces great results.
2. Quality over quantity…do a 30 minute high intensity workout 5 days per week and you will have increased energy, eat less (because you are more in tune with your health) and keep those holiday pounds from grabbing on to your mid-section.
3. Work out first thing in the morning. There are too many after work distractions…get it done early.

Research shows that when Americans spend money on an in-home gym they are more likely to stick to their fitness program. We are held accountable by spending the money on our home fitness area and the convenience of being able to workout at home makes it almost impossible not to workout.

At HealthStyles we have many fitness options to meet the needs of all fitness levels and goals. Here are a few suggestions, and as always, feel free to contact me with specific questions regarding your health and fitness goals.

An indoor cycle and DVD. Your own private spin class that fits into 4 square feet in any room - perfect for small apartments or studios or multi-use family rooms.

Does joint pain get in the way of your workouts? Try a recumbent bike, upright bike, or elliptical trainer.

Are you too busy to workout? Make it short and sweet with an Inspire home gym. A 30-minute circuit training session will do the trick.

On the road? Pack some Spri bands, a FitBall, or your Acuhoop so you don’t miss a workout while visiting friends and family this holiday season.

Not sure where to start? Set up an appointment for a FREE no-obligation In-Store personal training evaluation* at one of HealthStyles’ 11 Colorado retail store locations. And after you’ve purchased your perfect home fitness solution, we’ll provide you with a FREE In-home personal training session* to show you how to achieve the results you want with your new fitness equipment.

Anne Parker, CSCS
HealthStyles Exercise Equipment
Director of Education and Programs
training@healthstylesexercise.com.

*Free personal training evaluations are available by appointment only at HealthStyles 11 Colorado retail store locations. Free In-Home personal training is available within 25 miles of HealthStyles’ 11 Colorado retail stores. Personal training services may not be available in areas outside of HealtStyles’ standard retail territories. No purchase is necessary for a free in-store personal training evaluation. Free In-Home personal training sessions are available with any exercise equipment purchase. Limit one per customer.

We need to get out of our old routines and make better choices for our health. The best way to do that is to surround yourself with people who have the same goals. If you are going to start working out every morning at 6am, it is going to be tough if your spouse stays up (and keeps you up) until midnight watching TV. You and your partner are going to have long-term success if you work at it together. It’s a great bonding experience and good clean fun!

And as always, feel free to contact me with specific questions regarding your health and fitness goals.

Anne Parker, CSCS

HealthStyles Exercise Equipment

Director of Education and Programs
training@healthstylesexercise.com.

Denver, CO - [11/7/2008] — HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is proud to announce that Anne Parker has joined the Company as Director of Education and Programs. Anne Parker will lead the growth and development of the HealthStyles Fitness Professionals Network, a unique win-win referral program developed to bring together top health and fitness professionals with Coloradans who seek improved and optimal health.

Anne Parker has been active in the Denver fitness scene as a fitness studio owner and fitness business consultant.  Parker started her career in Newport Beach, CA as a personal trainer at the Sports Club/LA and as an Olympic hopeful for the 2000 Olympic Games in Athens. As a pioneer in the event of women’s pole vault, she spent time working with the top coaches in the world at the US Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA.

“Working as a personal trainer and training for the Olympic Games taught me invaluable lessons about goal setting, running a business, and helping people get in the best shape of their lives. I am excited to bring together the best personal trainers in Colorado to help them improve their businesses and at the same time improve the lives of anyone who enters a HealthStyles Exercise Equipment store.” said Anne Parker.

The goal of the HealthStyles Fitness Professional Network is to create a win-win referral partnership between top fitness professionals in Colorado and HealthStyles Exercise Equipment’s 11 Colorado retail stores.  Anne Parker will manage the growth and development of the fitness professional network to select the best qualified candidates and to provide ongoing sales and business coaching to help participants get the most out of the program.  Fitness professionals will benefit by receiving qualified customer leads from HealthStyles Exercise Equipment, expanding their service offerings with exercise equipment sales, and utilizing HealthStyles’ store locations to conduct clinics and seminars to help grow their training businesses.  HealthStyles Exercise Equipment will also benefit by expanding their product offerings to include training services, providing customer education programs and professional pre-sale support, and by receiving highly qualified customer referrals from fitness professionals.

Personal trainers, fitness instructors, coaches, and other health and fitness professionals interested in joining the HealthStyles Professional Trainer Network can contact Anne Parker for more information at aparker@healthstylesexercise.com or 1-888-487-0151. To contact HealthStyles Exercise Equipment, call 1-800-829-9705 to connect to the HealthStyles Retail Store location nearest you. Or find us on line at www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

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About HealthStyles Exercise Equipment
HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is a privately owned Specialty Exercise Equipment Retailer with eleven Colorado Stores and a Commercial Sales Team. Owners Dave and Jeanne Sheriff, and HealthStyles Exercise Equipment employees have been assisting fitness enthusiasts throughout Colorado since opening their first store in Glenwood Springs in 1993. In addition to providing consumers with the best selection of quality exercise equipment for the home, HealthStyles sells quality exercise equipment to clubs, hotels, corporate fitness centers, hospitals, schools and colleges, and other commercial settings. HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is headquartered in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and can be reached at 800-688-2557 or online at http://www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

About Anne Parker
Anne Parker holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Coaching Certification from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. While at St. Thomas, she was a member of the 1997 NCAA Division III Track and Field runner-up National Championship Team. She is an NCAA All-American athlete and a USA Track and Field level II coach. Additionally, she holds personal training certifications with the National Strength Coaches Association and the National Association of Sports Medicine. For more information, visit http://www.denver-personal-trainer.com

Denver, CO - [924/2008] –Healthstyles Exercise Equipment is proud to announce that they are now the exclusive Life Fitness home exercise equipment supplier in Colorado. This is an exciting partnership with Life Fitness, the global leader in designing and manufacturing a full line of reliable, high quality fitness equipment for commercial and consumer use. Life Fitness was instrumental in the origin of exercise equipment, and has been an industry leader for nearly 30 years with a proven track record and history of excellence.

From the development of the original groundbreaking Lifecycle® in 1968 to the high tech and easy-to-use treadmills and ellipticals of today, Life Fitness has stood out in terms of quality and innovation since the beginning. Today Life Fitness exercise equipment is the No. 1 brand of fitness equipment in health clubs worldwide.

The same commercial quality and innovation is seen in Life Fitness home exercise equipment. From the innovative FlexDeck® shock absorbing system that has long been a part of every treadmill, to the high tech features that include entertainment consoles, iPod compatibility, and a virtual trainer to maximize your workouts, Life Fitness has consistently been at the forefront of home fitness equipment.

Healthstyles will feature the full line of Life Fitness home treadmills, ellipticals, upright and recumbent exercise bikes, and home gyms in their 11 retail stores throughout Colorado. New 2009 models will be introduced on showroom floors this fall.

“Bringing Life Fitness into the HealthStyles line-up adds one of the best product lines in the industry to our already amazing selection of equipment,” says Tim Hilgert, HealthStyles Regional Manager. “Providing our customers with the perfect equipment to meet their fitness goals is our main focus; and now being able to offer Life Fitness as an option is a huge advantage for us as well as our clients.”

To contact the HealthStyles Retail Store location nearest you call 1-800-829-9705 or find us on line at www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

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About HealthStyles Exercise Equipment
HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is a privately owned Specialty Exercise Equipment Retailer with eleven Colorado Stores and a Commercial Sales Team. Owners Dave and Jeanne Sheriff, and HealthStyles Exercise Equipment employees have been assisting fitness enthusiasts throughout Colorado since opening their first store in Glenwood Springs in 1993. In addition to providing consumers with the best selection of quality exercise equipment for the home, HealthStyles sells quality exercise equipment to clubs, hotels, corporate fitness centers, hospitals, schools and colleges, and other commercial settings. HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is headquartered in Glenwood Springs, Colorado and can be reached at 800-688-2557 or online at http://www.HealthStylesExercise.com.

In real life, our bodies move to the side, backwards, forwards and diagonally. Shouldn’t we train the same way? Traditional weight training tends to be linear and follow one plane of movement. A workout that embraces true function encourages multi-planar training (frontal, sagital, and transverse) which integrates all your motions and mimics real life movement. This will bring a muscular balance to your body, increasing performance and preventing injuries.

Traditionally when we hear “low impact” we think that the workout is not going to be challenging enough to help us reach our fitness goals as fast as possible. No pain, no gain is the old-school way of thinking about fitness. By incorporating multi-planar and high intensity movements people with joint pain can experience a low impact workout that completely challenges the cardiovascular and muscular systems. No more running or jumping, you can see amazing results with low-impact workouts.

A few great tools in your quest for low-impact/high intensity workouts are elliptical trainers, rowers, seated elliptical trainers (by Octane), home gyms that allow for multi-planar movements (by Vectra, Torque, or Inspire), stability balls and balance boards.

Here is a workout to try at home: (beginner/intermediate)

Low Impact/High Intensity Interval Training for Weight Loss

5-minute steady state warm up (walking, elliptical, or bike)
1-minute step-ups (on 6” step) or step side to side without step
1-minute arm run with 3lb. dumbbells (only use your arms, not legs)
1-minute on elliptical or stationary bike (the intensity should be hard)
1-minute crunch and twist on stability ball (regular crunch and then twist at end)
1-minute chair squats (stand in front of chair, sit and stand up)
(repeat this 3 times)
5-minute steady state cool down (walking, elliptical, or bike)

Here are a few tips to help you keep your Olympic torch burning.

1) Set Reasonable Goals

Make sure you set reasonable long and short term goals. Start with a long term goal for something that you really want to accomplish. Run a marathon, go on a weekend backpacking trip with the family, go on a cycling vacation tour. There are unlimited options of active goals that are both fun and rewarding that you can look forward to. Once you have a long term goal, break up your training time into small increments to give yourself weekly and monthly milestones to achieve along the way.

2) Add Variety

Don’t be a slave to a single training program. Getting on the treadmill every day repeating the same workout over and over is a surefire way to get bored or burned out. Make sure that you include a variety of exercises in your weekly routine. Try cycling or an elliptical instead of the treadmill. Alternate strength training or some yoga or pilates into your schedule.

3) Intensity

Plan out your schedule to make sure that you alternate hard and easy days. You really only need to focus on challenging yourself with more intense or longer workouts 2 or 3 times per week. The rest of your workout days in between can be fun and relaxing. Try hill intervals on the treadmill one day and go for a fun hike with the family the next.

4) Include Friends and Family

Exercising with friends and family can help keep you on schedule and provide extra motivation during your workouts. Plus with our busy schedules, it’s hard to find good quality time to socialize when we aren’t busy eating or are glued in front of the TV set. Exercise has social benefits beyond physical fitness. Studies have shown that couples who work out together tend to be happier, have better love lives, and have better communication.

5) Rest

Don’t forget that rest is a critical part of your fitness program. If you’re feeling tired and over stressed or other priorities in your life make it too difficult to get through your workout routine, go ahead and take an extra rest day. It’s far better to take a couple extra days off that you need to recharge and refresh yourself than to try to push through your schedule and burn out and stop exercising entirely.

Just keep in mind that too much too soon can lead to injury or burn out. Here are a few pointers to get you started on the right track with a long term fitness program:

1) Start slow. When starting a new fitness routine, focus on building a comfortable base level of activity. Don’t worry about miles, speed, or weight at first. In your first weeks of exercising, focus on making your routine an enjoyable part of your weekly schedule.

2) Build up gradually. A good rule of thumb is to follow the 10% rule. You shouldn’t increase your workout volume more than 10% per week. So if you can manage 20 minutes on the elliptical now, aim for 22 the following week. If you add extra workout days to your schedule, you still need to make sure that your total weekly exercise time doesn’t increase more than 10%. It doesn’t seem like much of an increase but you’ll build up quickly over time and each week will be a new success.

3) Don’t forget to rest. Make sure that you alternate adequate rest and recovery between workouts. If you aren’t starting your workout feeling refreshed, fired up, and ready to go, then you’re probably over-doing it.

HealthStyles Exercise Equipment is a sponsor of the event and is features in 2 of the homes, La Belle Maison by 9 One 5 Custom Homes, and Bella Vista by Cline Design Group. As a sponsor, HealthStyles will also host a display in the “Great Room” which is at the entrance to the 2008 Parade of Homes.

This year’s Parade is being held at the new Solterra development located at C-470 and Alameda Parkway. The community was envisioned by Carma, a Calgary-based developer with U.S. headquarters in Englewood. Solterra is in the foothills next to Red Rocks Park, and has taken inspiration from regions of France, Italy and Spain to create the feel of a European hillside town.

Carma partnered with Michael Woodley, owner of Woodley Architectural Designs of Highlands Ranch, as a community architect to work with each homebuilder to embrace the characteristics of the foreign villages, with everything from red-tile roofs to intricate stonework to capture a Tuscan culture.

The Home Builders Association of Metro Denver (HBA) created the annual Parade as an educational event for the public, to showcase the latest trends in home building and design.

“This is a great opportunity for HealthStyles Exercise Equipment to showcase the latest in exercise equipment technology from the top manufacturers in the industry, said Dave Sheriff, co-owner of HealthStyles. “We are excited to be a participant in such a quality event that continues to get better every year.”

“The Parade of Homes is a wonderful opportunity for our customers to envision what a comfortable and functional fitness area in their homes could be like. We regularly design exercise rooms for our customers and sit down with them prior to doing a floor plan to discuss what their goals are, what equipment will help them meet their goals, and how those equipment needs can fit in to their available space.”

What: The 23rd Annual Parade of Homes
When: Saturday through Labor Day; hours, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (ticket sales close one hour before event closes)
Where: From C-470, exit at West Alameda Parkway (between Interstate 70 and Morrison Road on C-470) and go east a half mile to Solterra. Through Golden: South on Colo. 93, left on U.S. 6, turn right at West Colfax Avenue, turn left at Rooney Road to West Alameda Parkway
Tickets: $8-$12, free for children 5 and younger. Tickets available at the door and at King Soopers locations
Info: 303-778-1400 or www.paradeofhomesdenver.com