NEWS:
July 2009 – Commit To Get Fit Becomes Project Manager for National Teen Alcohol Awareness Program - Following its theme of supporting youth health and wellness, Commit To Get Fit has become the project operation managing entity for The Promise Tour. The Promise Tour is an alcohol awareness program developed by Blake McMeans, who became wheelchair bound after suffering a drinking and driving accident. After struggling through years of rehabilitation to learn to talk, swallow and stand, Blake has dedicated his life to telling teens about the perils of drinking and driving. The Promise Tour, a non-profit organization is planning a national tour across the country reaching out to schools and communities seeking to get one million teens and their parents to pledge not to drink and drive, or ride with those that do.
March 2009 – Commit To Get Fit and GoTrybe.com announce Alliance Relationship for Youth Fitness - Commit To Get Fit and GoTrybe.com have announced an alliance relationship to focus on combining resources and expertise to develop a youth fitness and nutrition product available as both an in-school and after-school program. Utilizing GoTrybe’s unique online youth social community and Commit To Get Fit’s fitness and nutrition video programming, both companies seek to become an inspiring force in the fight to get children and teens active while combating childhood obesity. The goal of the alliance is to offer a cost-effective program tool that supports school teachers and after-school instructors deliver the best health and fitness program to its students and members and award those participants for reaching personal fitness milestones.
January 2009: Commit To Get Fit To Produce Youth Fitness TV Show Series -
in conjunction with a State of Tennessee Project Diabetes grant and St Thomas Health Services, Commit To Get Fit will be producing a youth fitness, TV show series that integrates Governor Bredesen’s Get Fit Tennessee website (www.getfittn.com) and will be available to be aired on PEG (Public, Education & Government) stations through out the state of Tennessee. Promoted with the state’s Coordinated School Health Wellness Directors for each county, the series will be offered to each participating school district as an in-school and at-home program for students to follow with their parents. The nine-show series is composed of programs that are 30-minutes and include three, 8-minute, follow-the-leader pods (cardio, strength and flexibility) with three, 1-minute interstitials that include fitness, nutrition and health-related information. Points are accumulated when participant’s log in their fitness and nutrition information on personal profiles at the website. Production begins in Q1 2009 at The Renaissance Center (www.rcenter.org) with pilot programs to be launched in the spring.
December 2008: Girl Scouts Celebrate Success with Pilot Fitness Program - Participants in the pilot Girl Scouts fitness program celebrated dramatic results after completing the 12-week program. On the final day of the program, the girls enjoyed a party talked about their personal results for the program which included:
• An average of 8 pounds lost
• A decrease of 10 beats per minute for their average resting heart rate
• An average 15% improvement in blood pressure
• A 15% improvement in aerobic fitness
• An average .5% loss in body fat
• A 10% improvement in flexibility
The program was implemented at East Park Center with Nashville Metro Parks and Baptist Sports Medicine Commit To Get Fit. Future Girl Scout fitness programs are planned to launch in September of this year.
October 2008: Boys & Girls Club and Commit To Get Fit Launch A Student Fitness Program At Cameron Middle School - The Boys & Girls Club of Middle Tennessee and Commit To Get Fit announced the launch of a joint student fitness program at Cameron Middle School. About 200 students from the 5th to 8th grades are participating in the program. Each student will have a pre and post fitness assessment, receive a program guidebook and attend two health and fitness classes per week led by certified fitness instructors. Funded through a Healthways grant, the program educates students how to make healthy lifestyle choices while engaging them in whole body exercises that focuses on strength, cardiovascular strength and flexibility. Programs at Cameron Middle are expected to last through the end of the spring school session for 2009.
September 2008: Baptist Sports Medicine Partners With Girl Scouts And Metro Parks To Launch Community Youth Fitness Program - Baptist Sports Medicine is partnering with The Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee and Nashville Metro Parks to launch the youth fitness initiative, Commit to Get Fit™. The goal of this innovative program is to raise awareness of the importance of fitness and nutrition with area girls. Read the Full Press Release here.
August 2008: Baptist Sports Medicine Launches Student And Teacher Fitness Program - Baptist Sports Medicine launched the Commit to Get Fit™ program at St. Edward School in Nashville, officials announced today. The 12-week program, which includes 46 fifth-grade students and 18 teachers and administrators, challenges teachers and students to get healthy by incorporating smart lifestyle choices into their daily habits. Read the Full Press Release here.
July 2008: Baptist Sports Medicine Receives $121k Grant For Youth Fitness Program - Baptist Sports Medicine, a division of Saint Thomas Health Services, is pleased to announce that their youth fitness program, Commit To Get Fit received a grant in the amount of $121,100 from the Tennessee Department of Health. Read the Full Press Release here.
January 2008: Baptist Sports Medicine Launches Youth Fitness Program - Baptist Sports Medicine announced today the launch of a 12-week youth fitness program with Commit To Get Fit. Read the Full Press Release here.
October 2007: Award Winning Youth Fitness Developer, Dr. Bill Elizuk Joins Commit To Get Fit - For 25 Years, Bill Elizuk has dedicated himself to health and fitness either by competing at a high level in sporting events, through training professional athletes to be their best, or as a college professor educating the next wave of fitness and nutritional specialists. Bill and his wife Mary have produced award-winning youth fitness training and healthy nutrition videos and have implemented school programs through American Heart Association grants. His company, Sport Aerobics which started in the mid 90s was well above the curve and was one of the first to develop and implement a healthy lifestyle program for students. This month, Bill and Mary have become part of Commit To Get Fit to help implement a well-rounded and sustainable youth fitness and nutrition program that also includes the entire family. Their participation in Commit To Get Fit offers successful youth fitness programming for those that want to be community solution providers in youth wellness.
August 2007: David Limpus Speaking at the Club Industry National Conference in Chicago this October - David Limpus will be speaking at the Club Industry National Conference in Chicago on Developing A Successful And Sustainable Youth Fitness Program. The presentation will be at noon on October 10th in the McCormick Place. The presentation will also have Cathi Lamberti, CEO of Sportwall, the largest and fastest growing interactive game equipment manufacturer in the country. Both David and Cathi will be talking about facility design, funding, programming, tracking and measuring, community interaction, marketing, including a 55+ program and a return on investment. The Club Industry Conference is one of the largest fitness business conferences in the country for both for-profits and not-for-profits.
June 2007: Commmit to Get Fit Invited to Participate in State of Tennessee Diabetes Grant - Commit To Get Fit is invited by Healthways and Baptist Hospital to participate in a State of Tennessee Diabetes grant for youth. The company will be implementing a new youth fitness program that includes a medical protocol for Diabetes youth, pre-diabetic and the not-yet-fit youth. Utilizing Healthways Diabetes expertise and Baptist Hospital's medical staff, the youth fitness program is designed to provide fitness and nutrition educational information, on-site strength and cardio exercise components with an online tracking and measuring end-user profile that will provide a return on investment. The one year project will be a sustainable program and will be provided to other Tennessee counties as a successful model for implementation.
May 2007: FitRev and Commit To Get Fit Partner to Offer Complete Turn-Key National Youth Fitness Programs - Commit To Get Fit and FitRev, a national commercial fitness equipment dealer have structured an alliance to offer the best youth fitness, cardio and interactive game equipment to facilities across the country.
March 2007: David Limpus develops the Sportime Strength Program to be Launched at AAPERD - Using proven youth fitness programming with Commit To Get Fit, David Limpus developed and helped launch a youth fitness program for Sportime, the nation's #1 provider of Physical Education products for schools. The new program will be launched this month at the AAPERD National Conference in Baltimore.
July 2006: Williamson County Health Department Invites Commit To Get Fit to Create School Youth Fitness Pilot Program for 13 Schools - After a successful pilot program at Page Middle School, the Williamson County Health Department asked Commit To Get Fit to help them develop a 13 school, 10,000 student fitness pilot program to be launched in 2007.
June 2006: HealthTime Reports an 80% Success Rate with Youth Participants - Using fitness, nutrition and behavioral guidance backed by participant rewards, the HealthTime program created by David Limpus has reached its one year anniversary from launch reporting an 80% success rate.
May 2006: Commit To Get Fit Youth Fitness School Pilot Program Ends with Great Success - The Page Middle School Commit To Get Fit Youth Fitness Pilot Program came to a close with participating students averaging a loss of 10 pounds and a lowered heart rate. All participants vowed to continue their program at neighborhood YMCAs.
February 2006: Commit To Get Fit Announces a Youth Fitness Pilot Program at Williamson County Schools - The Commit To Get Fit Youth Fitness Pilot program will launch in March at Page Middle School. The 8-week program will include a fitness facility with strength and cardio equipment and a health educational program for after-school participants.
June 2005: David Limpus Develops Youth Obesity Program for HealthTime - HealthTime, Inc., a medically-based youth obesity clinic that relies on community pediatrician referral, has obtained the services of David Limpus for the development of its youth obesity program. A Franklin, Tennessee doctor group will launch the program using Vanderbilt doctors as its medical Board of Directors.