Active IQ news
22 Sep 2019
Active IQ has appointed two new directors to strengthen its senior management team. The awarding
04 Sep 2019
Virgin Active has enlisted around 100 of its staff on a bespoke apprenticeship programme in
20 May 2019
Exercise has been shown to have a positive impact on people's mental health, but is
16 May 2019
A new qualification focusing on mental health – one of the first of its kind
10 May 2019
Basketball England has become the first national governing body of sport to train its staff
29 Apr 2019
EMD UK, the national governing body for group exercise, has been working with Active IQ
13 Feb 2020
In 2004, Shogoro Uemura, CEO of Iyashi Dôme, was inspired by his father’s work to
26 Mar 2019
Double Olympic champion Max Whitlock has teamed up with leisure operator Everyone Active and awarding
05 Mar 2019
National Apprenticeship Week, the annual celebration of the impact of apprenticeships on businesses, individuals and
05 Nov 2018
Awarding organisation Active IQ has launched a Level 2 Award focusing in mental health –
29 Oct 2018
Active IQ has been declared the winner of the Innovation of the Year Award at
22 Mar 2018
Forty members of staff at trampoline park operator Oxygen Freejumping have become the first in
15 Mar 2018
UK-based training provider Active IQ has partnered with Train Me, to offer students on Active
12 Feb 2020
HIIT specialist, Speedflex, is set to launch a new studio at Gateshead International Stadium in
12 Jan 2018
Gyms registered with Myzone will be able to sign up to ‘boxing for fitness’ training
01 Dec 2017
The physical activity sector’s best performers in workforce development were announced last night (30 November)
16 Oct 2017
Boutique fitness brand Frame is to press ahead with expansion following a £6m funding injection.
22 Sep 2017
The Hatton Academy – the training arm of Hatton Boxing which was founded by four-time
29 Jun 2017
The health and fitness industry’s finest came together in their hundreds last night (28 June)
22 Jun 2017
Active IQ and Right Directions have launched a Level 2 qualification for court monitors in
11 Jan 2020
A new cross-training concept has arrived, offering weightlifting, athletic, metabolic, and functional exercises in a
08 Jun 2017
Fitness professionals can now gain advanced skills in personal training after Active IQ launched a
24 Apr 2017
Awarding body Active IQ has given its backing to two clinically-focused qualifications offered by Health
13 Mar 2017
Boxology, the boxing-based training programme, has been recognised by Active IQ’s Professional Recognition scheme and
06 Mar 2017
Fitness and leisure qualification body Active IQ has strengthened its team with the addition of
30 Jan 2017
The doctor of both the Great Britain men's basketball team and York City Football Club
23 Jan 2017
Up-and-coming professionals in the physical activity industry will have the chance to further the careers
18 Jan 2017
Premier League football club Sunderland is offering young players qualifications to transition into the health
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Research
New research from Mintel reveals private health and fitness clubs had a record
breaking year in 2019. Mintel’s Lauren Ryan gives us the highlights
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HCM talks to Fraser Smith about founding his studio and why he picked miha bodytec as his supplier and EMS training for his USP
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Class Boutique Fitness has collaborated with Physical Company to create a boutique studio offering that’s as inclusive as it is effective
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Abbeycroft Leisure - Inspiring better health and
wellbeing for Suffolk communities
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IHRSA Update
Kristen Walsh takes a look inside IHRSA’s
latest Profiles of Success report
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You could help members reduce feelings of sadness, conquer binge-eating and improve self-control, using learnings from the Journal of Consumer Psychology, reports Megan Whitby
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Third Space sold its boutique brand, Another Space, and launched
its sixth full-service club in the space of a few weeks, signalling its
intention to consoldidate its position at the top end of the market
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People
“We have 14 rockstar instructors, all freelance but all working for us on an exclusive basis, and haven’t lost a single one of them since we opened. We pay them well – they can earn €100+ for a full class. But even more important than that, they all feel involved in the business”
People
“All the research shows, if people aren’t exercising, it isn’t because of a lack of facilities. It’s because of the softer stuff: What do I wear? Who do I go with, because I don’t know anyone there? What do I need to take with me?”
People
HCM people
Amanda Daley
Professor of behavioural medicine, Loughborough University“PACE labelling would be a simple, user-friendly way of informing people, at a glance, of the amount of physical activity required
for the food they are considering eating ”
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In addition to being one of the UK’s largest leisure management companies,
Parkwood Leisure is also a health and fitness operator at scale, with 73 gyms and over
100,000 members. MD Glen Hall tells HCM how two major reviews in recent years
have put the company on a new path
People
HCM people
Duncan Jefford
Regional Director, Everyone Active“People don’t want to just come in and run on a treadmill or sit on a bike, they want an experience”
People
HCM people
Stephen Aucott & Matt Brown
Odyssey Health Club and Spa“We’d like to think we’re offering something unique that will encourage members to grow their own vegetables and
reconnect to their relationship with food”
People
“People have been coming back to me for more than 35 years – I take them to another dimension as they progress, because the dimensions are endless”
People
HCM people
Groupe Arkose
Groupe Arkose: co-founders“Bouldering is more than a trend: it’s fun and healthy, strongly aspirational, easily accessible, highly motivating and promotes social interaction”
People
HCM people
Kam Panesar
Awakn: Founder and CEO“Years of studying the greats – Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant,
Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs – combined with my own life lessons – led
to the Awakn 7 pillars process and my goal to Awakn London”
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