NEWS:
January 29th, 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.