Learn-to-swim is the foundation of most aquatic facilities, but to ensure you are earning revenues to cover your operations, it’s wise to expand your options.

It's not the New Year yet, and yet I find myself in one of those reinvention phases. You know how it is. You take a look around and take stock and think, I'm bored with myself.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 56.7 million people in the United States with a disability in 2010. That represents 19 percent—nearly one-fifth—of the population. This includes both physical and mental impairments that have an impact on major life activities.

Scent marketing, used to influence and connect consumers on an emotional level, can provide unique benefits in fitness facilities.

Title IX brought about a sense of inclusion for women in sport, and more women have taken on careers in the sports industry, gaining ground in marketing, events, communications and more. But in some areas, women are still laying the groundwork.

Walk back with us through the history of the Special Olympics, and consider how to move the movement forward.

Functional fitness is all the rage, and fitness equipment manufacturers are providing new and innovative machines that can accommodate it. Here, we take a look at this and other trends in fitness equipment.

Rod Tarullo knew he wanted to be in parks and recreation from his early teenage years.

Dr. Jane Katz is a bundle of energy and positivity. She's taught thousands of people how to swim, starting in 1964 at the City University of New York (CUNY) and since 1989 at John Jay College where she's a professor in the Department of Health and Physical Education.

In recent years, more cities and parks have stepped up efforts to provide swimming education to all their residents.