COVID-19 news
25 Feb 2021
What are the effects on public health of gyms and leisure centres being shut during
25 Feb 2021
The pandemic cost the US visitor attractions an estimated US$23bn in economic losses during 2020,
22 Feb 2021
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced non-essential retail, including spas, salons, close-contact services and
22 Feb 2021
A collection of industry organisations, including The British Beauty Council, are working closely with the
22 Feb 2021
The re-opening of gyms in Wales has been pushed back by the country's First Minister
21 Feb 2021
The physical and mental health of women in the UK has been put under unprecedented
19 Nov 2020
Matrix Fitness has announced an exclusive partnership with Primal Strength to target an increased strategic
19 Feb 2021
A new visitor attraction at London's Marble Arch is set to anchor ambitious plans to
19 Feb 2021
Excess body fat and obesity are likely to have contributed to more deaths in England
19 Feb 2021
The financial performance of health club operator SATS in the last quarter of 2020 was
18 Feb 2021
Placing gyms and leisure centres at the front of the queue for reopening would be
17 Feb 2021
Data published today (17 February) shows that for every 100,000 visits to UK gyms and
17 Feb 2021
People aged 40 living with Type 2 diabetes face a "disproportionately increased risk of dying
23 Dec 2020
Heading into 2021, storytelling will be a key trend among fitness content creators and connected
16 Feb 2021
Barbara den Bak, Tom Moos, and Clare Stobart have been announced as speakers for ukactive's
16 Feb 2021
PureGym expects lockdowns to last "until at least 31 March" – and that it will
16 Feb 2021
Construction work has been completed on the £29m Sports Park project in Colchester. The new
15 Feb 2021
Spanish capital Madrid has been hailed as an example of a city which understands the
15 Feb 2021
ukactive has published six 'policy calls', which it says are crucial in order to help
12 Feb 2021
Europe’s largest fitness chain, Basic-Fit, has secured a €150m bridge facility, which it says will
11 Dec 2020
Maintaining a consistent member experience across a growing health and fitness brand can prove challenging.
12 Feb 2021
The Cabinet Office has chosen leisure operator GLL as the "face" of England's COVID-secure physical
12 Feb 2021
Europe’s largest health spa operator Ensana has begun offering a seven-day Respiratory Recovery Programme at
08 Feb 2021
Ingesport – which operates the GO fit chain in Spain and Portugal – reports that
04 Feb 2021
CIMSPA has issued a new policy to help ensure fitness and physical activity training is
04 Feb 2021
Approaching half of the UK population (40 per cent) are exercising less during the current
03 Feb 2021
EuropeActive and ukactive have today (3 February) secured a new partnership agreement which will see
02 Feb 2021
Luxury Italian skincare brand Comfort Zone is hosting an online spa and wellness festival on
01 Feb 2021
Wigan Council in the UK will take back the management of all its leisure centres
28 Jan 2021
The UK government has been forced to remove a controversial radio advert which claimed people
28 Jan 2021
Precor has launched a mobile app to accompany its popular networked fitness solution, Preva, which
28 Jan 2021
The physical activity sector is in need of bespoke and substantial financial support in order
26 Jan 2021
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has unveiled its latest trends report containing its top nine
27 Jan 2021
Fitness start-up, Inspace, has revealed plans to launch a new brand, website and social channels.
25 Jan 2021
Knowledge, insights and analysis platform, Well Intelligence, is hosting a six-week masterclass series focused on
25 Jan 2021
Award-winning therapist trainer, Jennifer Young has launched more free educational content to support therapists affected
25 Jan 2021
Fitness instructors, personal trainers, coaches and other self-employed physical activity workers in Wales are being
25 Jan 2021
A five-star Czech health spa hotel in Karlovy Vary is tapping local mineral-rich spring water
22 Jan 2021
The failure to tackle the UK's obesity crisis is down to successive governments being guilty
22 Jan 2021
Les Mills has launched a new digital content solution to support health and fitness operators
21 Jan 2021
Nuffield Health has launched a series of free, online classes focused on emotional wellbeing. The
20 Jan 2021
For over 30 years, ASPA International has designed and built high-quality spas for the hotel,
19 Jan 2021
A national survey has launched to chart the mental health of the fitness and physical
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“Having achieved success with a number of global brands in healthcare, the Fixing Dad team is keen to partner with the health and fitness industry”
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Editor's letter
There’s never been a more important time for us all to be focused on lobbying, as the industry fights for its work and potential to be recognised and supported
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The great debate
Most of the world is dealing with some form of disruption to daily life, work life and
finances, as well as navigating an uncertain world. Even those who enjoy robust mental
health are finding themselves suffering from stress, anxiety, low mood and insomnia.
What can the health and fitness industry do to help? Kath Hudson reports
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Profile
Fitler Club is Philadelphia’s newest private lifestyle club,
boasting premium health and wellness facilities, along
with a hotel, workspaces and refined culinary venues.
Steph Eaves talks to the club’s founder about his creation
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Sponsored
Offering red light therapy to your members can
create a valuable source of secondary spend, while
also supporting them with their recovery and
delivering improvements to mobility, circulation
and muscle soreness, as Karen Maxwell explains
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Interview
COVID survival strategies, growth plans, and a belief that
government is finally recognising the value of the fitness
sector. The Gym Group CEO speaks to Kate Cracknell
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Retention
More than 1,700 industry professionals from 47 different
countries joined the virtual Retention Convention recently,
making it one of the sector’s largest online events of the year
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“Sport Relief’s ultimate objective was to reach the poorest and most disadvantaged... to inspire, encourage and motivate the most marginalised in our society”
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Third Space members embrace new digital app, viewing 75,000 workouts in just three months
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Muir Gray has a vision for a world where exercise professionals help people live longer, better lives into old age
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HCM People
Scott O’Shea
Founder, Station Mill“Coming from a personal training background, my experience has taught me that people hire the trainer before the training
”
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Kate Little / Paula Harris
Kate Little & Paula Harris; regional retail managers, Everyone Active“All products have been priced competitively, using Amazon as a benchmark, to ensure the shop can thrive in a competitive market”
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Adam Tranter
Founder, #Bike is Best and Cycling Marketing Board“If we could get bike journeys up from 2% to 4% it would make a huge impact on emissions, people’s health and mental wellbeing”
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Stephen Tharrett, co-founder, ClubIntel
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Tracking consumers’ sentiment in relation to lockdowns gives valuable insights into members’ priorities. Leisure-net surveyed the first two UK lockdowns and is currently working on the third. Dave Monkhouse reports on results from the lockdown 2 survey
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Resistance training is just as beneficial for women over the age of 50 as it is for men, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales
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