Health Fitness Management: A Comprehensive Resource for Managing and Operating Programs and Facilities

In this case, combining business and health fitness doesn't involve displaying stock indexes on the treadmill monitor. It does mean the introduction of conventional business management principles and operational guidelines to the unconventional business of health and fitness. Owners and managers of health fitness facilities, as well as students will benefit from insightful information on running a health fitness facility smoothly, efficiently, and successfully. Ready-to-copy forms and worksheets are included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

William C. Grantham is general manager of the Little Rock Athletic Club, which was named the best commercial fitness center in Arkansas in 1996 by both the Arkansas Governors Council on Physical Fitness and the Arkansas Times. Selected in 1974 at the age of 25 to direct Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s Aerobics Activity Center in Dallas, Texas, Grantham has since been involved in nearly every facet of health fitness facility management and operation. He has directed facility design and start-up, managed as many as 135 employees, and handled all areas of marketing, finance, member services, food and beverage, and pro shop management.

Grantham is the coauthor of Developing and Managing Health/Fitness Facilities. He is a member of the International Health and Racquet Sports Association and a graduate of the organization’s Professional Management Institute. He is also a member of ACSM. Married to Jamie, William enjoys reading, cycling, and computers.

Dr. Robert W. Patton has been involved in the health and fitness field for the past thirty years. He is currently a regents professor of kinesiology at the University of North Texas in Denton, where he was instrumental in the development of the health fitness management and exercise physiology graduate programs. As a consultant and expert witness, Patton has served over fifty major clients, including corporations, hospitals, resorts, and hotels, as well as preventive medicine clinics and commercial fitness centers.

In addition to writing more than 80 journals articles and several encyclopedia chapters, Patton is the principal author of Implementing Health/Fitness Programs and Developing and Managing Health/Fitness Facilities. Patton is married to Elisa Hardy Patton and has two grown kids, Laura and Scott. He is an avid traveler and a fitness enthusiast who enjoys jogging and cycling as well as reading and gardening.

Tracy D. York serves as director of operations for the Lake Austin Spa Resort, a destination wellness spa located in Austin, Texas. Prior to accepting this position, she served as director of The Spa at the Cresent, a luxury spa, fitness, and wellness facility managed by Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, which oversees five-star hotels and resorts around the world. In this role, York was responsible for managing all aspects of the private fitness facility and public day spa. In addition to her management duties at The Spa, York served on the development team for Rosewood Hotels, designing spa and fitness facilities. She is a contributing author to ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (Fifth Edition) and a section editor for the ACSM’s Resource Manual to the Guidelines (Third Edition). She is a lover of outdoor activities and enjoys jogging, cycling, weight training, yoga, and golf.

Mitchel L. Winick is a consultant, author, and speaker in the areas of professional service management, marketing, and communications. During the past 20 years, he has applied his expertise to two distinctly different industries. As a consultant in the health fitness industry, he provides management and marketing research, analysis, and advice to many of the United States’ largest health fitness organizations, including the American College of Sports Medicine. As a licensed attorney, he serves as an adjunct professor of law, teaching law office management and technology, at Texas Tech School of Law and the University of Houston Law Center. He also serves as a faculty member and author for several professional organizations, including the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism, the Center for Nonprofit Management, and the State Bar of Texas Professional Development Program. He is coauthor of A Guide to the Basics of Law Practice and Law Office Management: Practice and Technology. He and his wife, Debbie have two children, Tyler and Lezah.