Awards and Rankings

The Top 100 club list, compiled each year by the staff of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine, ranks U.S. clubs by total corporate revenue dollars for the previous year. Download and purchase the Top 100 lists or read an analysis of the lists.

DEADLINE EXTENDED to JULY 15!

Think your club has what it takes to be the Best of the Best? If so, why not put it to the test in front of a panel of experts in the Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro Best of the Best Awards?

The 2009 Best of the Best entry form is available here! Deadline: The deadline has been extended to July 15, 2009

For more information, e-mail Pam Kufahl at pam.kufahl@penton.com.

Previous Years Winners:

Feature Presentations

A trainer changes the life of a young woman with cerebral palsy. A governor's endorsement puts a national spotlight on children's health. A simple idea...

Lone Stars

Although the annual Best of the Best competition is a nationwide battle to be named the best in various types of programming, this year's winners all...

Setting the Curve

Game on. Competition was the name of the game for this year's Best of the Best contest. Numerous fitness facilities entered the fourth-annual contest,...

Hanging Out with the BEST

What does it mean to be the Well, the term is often subjective, but for our third-annual Best of the Best contest, a panel of judges tried their best...

2004 BEST OF THE BEST

There is nothing better than a pat on the back or a word of praise for a job well done. Well, the Fitness Business Pro Best of the Best Awards are our...

BEST OF THE BEST

Ask any athlete, any artist or any businessperson why they work as hard at their craft as they do and more often than not the answer will be “to be the best.”

That is no different for the fitness facility industry...

Lifetime Achievement Award

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper

Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper coined the term "aerobics" in 1968, leading him to forever be known as the "Father of Aerobics." He founded the Cooper Aerobics Center, which includes a research group, a medical practice and a fitness facility. An international speaker, a one-time co-host of a radio show about fitness and author of 19 books, Cooper is still a practicing doctor at the age of 77. He has developed a new mission in life: to decrease the rate of childhood obesity.

For more about Dr. Cooper, read "Cooper's Calling," a profile from the September 2008 issue.

Previous Years Winners:

Love All

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

When Steven Schwartz speaks about his father, the pride of a son becomes evident quickly. He describes his father, Alan Schwartz, as charming, brilliant,...

A Man of Connections

Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM

One summer in the 1960s when Rick Caro was a teenager in Scarsdale, NY, he worked three service-related jobs. He served as an activities director at a...

A Lifetime of Dance and Fitness

Oct 1, 2005 12:00 PM

Judi Sheppard Missett knew she would dedicate her life to the joy of dance from the first time she stepped on the stage. But it wasn't until years later...

GOOD as GOLD

Sep 1, 2004 12:00 PM

Ask almost any person on the street what name pops to mind when they think of fitness and the odds are the late Joe Gold will top the list at least his...

AND THE WINNER IS

Sep 1, 2003 12:00 PM

Deciding on a recipient for Club Industry's first ever Lifetime Achievement Award, was not an easy task. In fact, it was far more difficult than the staff...

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