| With so many business and world-wide travelers, | | | | America has perhaps always been the leader in health |
| staying on that new diet or keeping up the workout | | | | and fitness, along with personal training. But with |
| program can get difficult as one flies to meetings, | | | | American stars, such as Madonna, living abroad in |
| trade shows and conferences. However, more and | | | | London has come the publicity of health in the home |
| more services are popping up around the globe to | | | | and on the road. Madonna is pictured weekly in the |
| offer personal training on the move. | | | | London tabloids, such as The Daily Mail, either leaving |
| American Express has always offered its members a | | | | her private gym in London, or working with one of her |
| high-class, elite service. With it's Black Centurion Card | | | | personal trainers in Hyde Park. A popular story last |
| Card Concierge Service, almost anything is possible. | | | | year was how Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, |
| One can book a restaurant at the bottom of the ski lift | | | | hired a personal trainer during his two-week holiday in |
| while traveling up the mountain at Val D'Isere with just | | | | Suffolk. Health and fitness were taking the leading |
| one phone call. But is it possible to always order in a | | | | paragraphs from the regular political stories. |
| personal trainer if one is not a member of the Black | | | | CNBC Television has consistently done a weekly |
| American Express Card Club? | | | | feature on health and fitness and how it can be a part |
| Business magazines have been writing about this issue | | | | of any trader's day - and how it should be! As health |
| for the past few years as the global economy slumps | | | | and fitness take a more significant role in everyone's |
| and the stress levels rise. Forbes Magazine offers a | | | | daily life and lifestyle becomes a larger priority as the |
| piece here in which it looks at personal trainers and | | | | dollar weakens, personal training from city to city and |
| different services around a few of the major trading | | | | in-home might soon become a staple of a middle-class |
| cities. | | | | home. |