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17 Jul 2025
The UK government has got behind Joe Wicks’ latest initiative – Activate – a new
03 Jul 2025
The much anticipated Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England reveals ambitious
21 Dec 2023
Without government action, economic growth in the UK will continue to be hampered by the
07 Aug 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has paid a surprise visit to a branch of The Gym
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
10 Oct 2019
The outgoing chief medical officer, professor Dame Sally Davies, has called for urgent action across
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
01 May 2019
Leeds has become the first UK city to successfully lower the rates of childhood obesity
26 Jun 2018
The latest chapter of the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan – published this week – has
17 Jan 2018
Canadian rapper, producer, actor and entrepreneur Drake is turning his attention to the restaurant business.
30 Jan 2017
The Youth Sport Trust has pledged to work with schools to develop their physical education
19 Oct 2016
Some of the UK’s top visitor attractions are failing when it comes to serving healthy
18 Aug 2016
Experts and campaign groups have poured scorn on the government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy, describing it
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
03 Jun 2016
The days of spas being sold as quiet retreats are gone, says Nicola Field, spa
23 May 2016
A new report has accused public health bodies of colluding with the food industry to
16 May 2016
Leisure centres should curtail the “unethical” selling of junk food if they want to be
17 Mar 2016
Plans for a new £600m fund to improve the wellbeing of NHS workers must drive
09 Mar 2016
Dance, yoga and Pilates classes will be made available to NHS staff as part of
26 Jan 2016
The government must take bold steps to make inroads in tackling Britain’s burgeoning childhood obesity
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
15 Jan 2016
Health experts are calling for labelling on food and drink to show how much activity
10 Nov 2015
Health experts are calling on the government to scrap the so-called ‘fat letters’ posted to
02 Mar 2015
Ensuring that Britain’s children are leading healthy and active lifestyles should be a top priority
13 Jan 2015
A new Youtube campaign designed to highlight the grim reality of inactivity has been launched
10 Nov 2014
A pioneering Danish health scheme that enforces a series of strict lifestyle changes is being
13 Oct 2014
TV shows like the phenomenally successful The Great British Bake Off are fuelling a culture
22 Sep 2014
Running and other forms of aerobic exercise could help people to maintain self-control and prevent
01 Sep 2014
A group of leading GPs and health experts have called on the government to create
30 May 2014
Three quarters of British men will be overweight or obese by 2030 because of current
16 Apr 2014
A west country gym’s new sugar sin bin has inspired more than 100 members to
15 Mar 2013
The London Assembly has called on mayor Boris Johnson to implement policies to tackle childhood
26 Aug 2011
A group of influential doctors and medical experts has called for governments globally to take
28 Oct 2009
Leisure centres are undermining efforts to increase health levels among young people by stocking junk
19 Mar 2009
The largest ever study on how obesity affects mortality, carried out by Oxford University, has
24 Jan 2008
The government has announced a £372m anti-obesity strategy aimed at ‘transforming the environment’ in which
16 Nov 2006
Burger King Holdings will reportedly halt advertising to children and showing fast-food adverts in between
11 Oct 2006
Play England has launched a national conference – called Places to Play: Working together for
26 Jul 2006
Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the public to take responsibility for their own health.
23 Feb 2005
An independent research company has declared that claims that childhood obesity has hit epidemic levels
09 Jun 2004
The British Medical Association’s Annual Conference of Public Health Medicine has called on the government
07 Jun 2004
According to a report in The Sunday Times, the government is going to make Britain’s
13 Feb 2003
The changes to gaming law proposed by the Budd Report will spoil the harmless fun
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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New launch, Salus House, elevates boutique wellness with
high service levels and a partnership with Technogym
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Pulse Fitness has created a
new health club delivering an
elevated wellness experience
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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Stephen Price
Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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Jamie Clements
The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Deena Gillan
Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
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