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Developing Status and Trend of Chinese Fitness Industry



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Wu Yue

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DOI:10.17265/2332-7839/2017.05.009

With the rapid development of Chinese economy, fitness activities and fitness club is now in the ascendant. There are more than 10,000 kinds of fitness clubs, meanwhile fitness professional clubs, fitness comprehensive business clubs, fitness courses, non-commercial gyms are developing well. Furthermore, fitness clubs generally have little service consciousness, and illegal business activities occur from time to time. Fitness facilities and innovative awareness are not strong. The community oriented and refined club will be the mainstream in future.

l> style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>P < 0.05). HR, VO₂, and RPE were the same for the WP and NP. Sf was lower in WP going uphill (P < 0.05) but was unchanged going downhill. Se in the WP was higher than in the NP for both terrains (P < 0.01). When analyzed by slope, VO₂ during uphill at 18.8° was lower in WP (37.2 ± 6.3) than in NP (38.6 ± 7.1 ml·kg⁻¹·min⁻¹, P < 0.05), but no difference in VO₂ was found between WP and NP at the 12.9° and 7.0°. TT during uphill was slower in WP than NP at 12.9° (7.9 ± 1.1 vs. 7.4 ± 1.0) and 18.8° (5.3 ± 1.3 vs. 4.9 ± 1.0 min, respectively, P < 0.05). No differences were noticed in HR and OP during uphill at every grade. CONCLUSIONS: Pole use decreased metabolic cost in the novice hikers only in the highest grade but not in the other two lower grades.

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