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Technogym selected as the Official Supplier for the Athens Olympic and Paralympic Games 2004

After Sydney, it’s time for Athen’s.  Once again, Technogym has been chosen as the exclusive official supplier of fitness and Wellness equipment for the Greek Olympic games. Eleven gyms and more than 300 machines from the vast array of products will be keeping athletes in tip top shape for the entire competition.

Workout areas will be installed throughout the Olympic Village for Tennis, Track and Water athletes. Seven media villages will be available for the more than 20,000 journalist, giving the media the opportunity to experience Technogym first hand. An estimated 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries will use the latest from Technogym in preparation for all competitions.

Reliability, credibility and of course, experience have paved the way for Technogym’s selection, having already supplied the Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 games. And it doesn’t end there…after Athens comes the 2006 Turin winter Olympics.

The Greek Olympic committee has recognized Technogym’s finesse as an international company dealing in more than 80 countries through this exclusive agreement, choosing Technogym over their American, and international competitors.

This confirmation on the part of the International Olympic Committee represents an important occasion to promote the Technogym brand and products around the world. And furthermore, it is another crucial step down the road towards achieving the 2006 Vision – to be the Wellness lifestyle for all the world.

Let the games commence!

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Centennial View

Wednesday, July 09, 2003

NEVADA SPORTS ACADEMY: Advanced aid for athletes

Facility goes high-tech to help performance

By TODD DEWEY
VIEW STAFF WRITER
 

Stronger, bigger, better. That's what the Nevada Sports Academy promises to make any athlete who walks into its new, high-tech, state-of-the-art sports performance facility in Henderson.

The center, which bills itself as the most advanced athletic training facility on the West Coast, features Technogym, Swimex and Biodex equipment, as well as indoor turf, netted cages, video analysis, Internet performance tracking and much more.

A true high-tech health club for the 21st century, the Nevada Sports Academy, located at 880 Seven Hills Drive, Suite 100, is designed to help athletes of all ages and skill levels raise their performance a notch or two. The facility opened in May.

"This will take any athlete to the next level," said Michael Crovetti Jr., founder of the academy. "When I was a college football player, this was a dream of mine. I was always looking for somewhere to get bigger, stronger and faster, and a place like this didn't exist."

Developed to meet the needs of pro and amateur athletes of all ages and fitness levels, there are sport-specific training programs for virtually every sport, including baseball, football, basketball, golf and others.

The center features a batting cage and a Major League Baseball regulation-size pitching mound, just to name a couple amenities, and can accommodate the needs of nearly every type of athlete.

Several current and former professional athletes have already praised the facility in its brochure, including Amani Toomer of the New York Giants and Las Vegas resident Marty Barrett, a former Boston Red Sox player.

"The academy has the best rehabilitation equipment I've ever seen," Barrett said. "It definitely has the training equipment to take athletes to the next level."

A wide range of customized group, personal training and sport-specific programs are offered, with certified athletic and personal trainers on staff to oversee them. The academy also staffs full-time orthopedic and sports medicine physicians and offers educational and injury prevention programs.

"We're not trying to take the place of coaches. We're trying to be a complement to coaches," said Jason Tarno, the medical director of the NSA and a team physician for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "We have all the time in the world to work on fundamentals, in a controlled environment. We can throw the football here at 2 p.m. in August."

All the latest training equipment, and highly skilled instructors, is designed to improve strength, speed, agility and coordination. It's intended to help young athletes realize their potential as they compete for spots on their high school teams, vie for college scholarships and, for a select few, pursue professional careers.

All the programs include computerized pre- and post-testing, with "smart keys" monitoring progress, and guiding athletes through their workouts, keeping track of sets, pounds, reps, seat placement and even the ideal speed for the optimal range of motion for each exercise.

Each program is catered to meet the needs of each athlete, and if the computerized testing doesn't show an improvement in strength, there is a money-back guarantee.

"The Technogym equipment is the first of its kind in town, in terms of the computer tracking," Crovetti said. "Pre- and post-testing is important to us. We guarantee parents we'll improve their (children's) strength or they'll get their money back.

"When it comes to executive fitness, employees can go and sit in a steam room, so trackability is very important. We offer the same programs here as a personal trainer, but in a little more private, upscale setting. And it's not intimidating. It's a comfortable atmosphere."

The academy features a SwimEx machine, complete with a flat screen TV, in which athletes can watch ESPN or study their own form as they perform resistance or performance training.

Depending on the program, athletes can track their performance on the Internet, through the academy's secure Web site, or view frame-by-frame video analysis of themselves running, hitting, pitching, throwing or swinging a golf club. The academy can also send video packages to prospective college coaches over the Internet and more.

Nutritional assessment and counseling is available, along with psychological training and techniques, comparisons to world-class athletes, computerized assessments of muscle imbalances and injury prediction, computerized fitness analyses featuring cardiovascular testing, heart rate, oxygen consumption, flexibility and strength testing, body fat analysis and more.

A baseball hitting camp and football throwing camp is scheduled for this summer, with snowboard and ski camps planned for the fall.

Four Nevada Sports Academies are planned for the valley overall, with a 25,000-square foot facility set for the Southern Highlands area.

The academy also plans to offer scholarships to low-income athletes, who will have to submit an essay for consideration, with long-term goals to land major sponsors to make the facilities accessible to more area athletes.

"The idea is to make every kid feel like they're playing for a big-time program," Crovetti said.

Centennial View

Friday, August 15, 2003

Falls are leading cause of injury for those 65, older

Seniors may lose balance due to inner ear problems

By EMMILY N. BRISTOL
VIEW STAFF WRITER
 

Fear of falling is more than just a cliff-side phobia.

For a growing segment of the population a loss of muscle or bone strength coupled with dizziness can spell disaster. The effect of falls is not only damaging physically but is expensive, costing insurance companies billions of dollars each year.

"There's a high mortality rate with patients who fall," said Brian Warner of the Balance Center of Las Vegas. "It's unreal as to how much is spent on a yearly basis on prevention (of falls) as well as mortalities."

According to the Elder Fall Prevention Act of 2002, falls are the leading cause of injury deaths among people 65 and older. Sixty percent of fall-related deaths occur among those 75 and older and 25 percent of seniors die within a year of a hip fracture. Statistics cited in the act ratified by Congress last year include a projected direct cost from falls to exceed $32 billion by 2020.

Warner, who manages a Balance Center in Summerlin and Henderson, said because of the aging of the baby boomer generation the nation is facing its largest group of seniors in history. By 2030 the population of those 65 and older will double.

As those 55 and older flock to age-restricted communities such as Sun City Summerlin, Sun City Anthem and Sun City MacDonald Ranch, perhaps Southern Nevada's elderly population will grow more rapidly than the national average.

For many the cause of falls initially stems from the inner ear, either through dizziness or loss of hearing.

"Your inner ear is a key contributor to your equilibrium," Warner said.

As a natural part of the aging process bones and muscles weaken and coupled with a fall, the results can be deadly.

"I see people all the time that are just so afraid they are going to fall," Warner said.

A fall starts a cascade effect of possible maladies beginning with immobility. The immobility begins a cycle of muscle loss that can later snowball into immune system failures. Many who suffer a severe fall don't die of the fall itself but of later complications such as pneumonia.

Those at the Balance Center want to spread the word that there are preventative measures available. Trained specialists can work with diagnostic machines and tools to unlock someone's fall potential as it relates to hearing, balance, muscle and bone strength and overall health. Once a client is checked out, a program can be established to strengthen weak muscles or help correct balance problems.

"People just don't know there's something we can do about dizziness," Warner said.

Preventing falls isn't just the goal of the Balance Center, it's the goal of the Elder Fall Prevention Act of 2002, which set aside funding and resources to research fall prevention as well as increase public education. The act launched a three-year education campaign from the National Safety Council.

A new version of the act, called the Elder Fall Prevention Act of 2003, incorporates preliminary research and has established new statistics. One such fact is that annually more than 64,000 individuals 65 or older sustain a traumatic brain injury as a result of a fall. In addition, 40,000 individuals 65 or older visit emergency rooms with traumatic brain injuries suffered as a result of a fall each year, of which 16,000 of these individual are hospitalized and 4,000 of these individuals die.