2014 Fitness Industry Awards Winners Announced

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After seeing the largest, and most competitive field of entrants to date, the winners for the 2014 Fitness Industry Awards Auckland were announced at a sold out ceremony on Saturday 22nd November at AUT University’s Sir Paul Reeves Building in Auckland. The 2014 winners represent truly excellent contributions to health and fitness in New Zealand.

With judges comments such as: “…instrumental in creating lifesaving changes to the lives of his clients.”; “Their ethos is to improve the wellbeing of their community.”; “…great progression and visual cues with a dose of humour thrown in” and “A pleasure to watch”, it is no wonder that judges have praised entrants this year as lifting the bar on all previous years.

A full list of winners can be found attached and at www.fitnessindustryawards.co.nz. This includes comments from the judges about the winners.

This years Awards have seen a lot of new initiatives introduced into the process for the first time. Clubs who made it through to the second round of the awards entry process were asked to send a NPS (Net Promoter Score) Survey to their clubs. An all new Live Assessment was undertaken at the finalist stage of five exercise professional categories including 16 international judges judging four specialist topics over three hours.

The 2014 Awards had 19 categories, looking at both individuals and facilities that operate in the fitness/exercise industry.

Most awards are based on an application process that is reviewed by a judging panel. The exception being three special awards which are awarded for special contribution to either the industry, education in the industry or professionalism and standards. These are selected by the boards of The Exercise Association of New Zealand, The NZ Register of Exercise Professionals and Skills Active. The winners were announced at the New Zealand Fitness Industry Awards Ceremony on the 22nd November.

The award ceremony itself has proven to be an extremely prestigious. Past guest speakers have included the Hon John Key, Hon Rodney Hide, Hon Murray McCully and Sue Kedgeley. The award ceremony’s MC is fitness and media personality Suzie Clarkson.

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