Obesity news
11 Apr 2021
A major new initiative will look to strengthen and unite the fitness industry's voice in
09 Apr 2021
A parliamentary report is calling for a £3bn intervention fund to build back better health
30 Mar 2021
The UK government has launched a new Office for Health Promotion, designed to lead efforts
24 Mar 2021
It is unlikely that the UK will see a Work Out to Help Out scheme
22 Mar 2021
The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to
19 Mar 2021
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) has unveiled a new Sleep Initiative, just in time for
23 Feb 2021
There’s nothing quite like discovering a product that creates a huge impact in our life.
17 Mar 2021
The government has said it has no plans to fund a Work Out to Help
17 Mar 2021
Budget fitness operator The Gym Group has generated £1.8bn in social value since 2016. Pre-pandemic,
10 Mar 2021
At least one of the vaccines approved for use against COVID-19 could be less effective
05 Mar 2021
The UK government is exploring whether incentivising people financially to take part in physical activity
25 Feb 2021
What are the effects on public health of gyms and leisure centres being shut during
19 Feb 2021
Excess body fat and obesity are likely to have contributed to more deaths in England
04 Jan 2012
Core Health & Fitness is proud to have signed an exclusive supplier agreement for the
17 Feb 2021
People aged 40 living with Type 2 diabetes face a "disproportionately increased risk of dying
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
28 Jan 2021
Everyone Active is offering a month’s free trial of its digital Everyone On Demand service
26 Jan 2021
Sport England has vowed to tackle inequality and create a nation of "more equal, inclusive
22 Jan 2021
The failure to tackle the UK's obesity crisis is down to successive governments being guilty
12 Jan 2021
Addiction – a word laden with negativity. But isn’t that exactly what the fitness industry
13 Jan 2021
An England-wide survey of over 5,000 adults found that 80 per cent of people aged
07 Jan 2021
The closing of gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools under COVID-19 restrictions is costing the
05 Jan 2021
Therapeutic fasting and medi-wellness clinic Buchinger Wilhelmi in Germany is helping its guests to live
18 Dec 2020
A Swedish study has shown that people with type 2 diabetes are much more likely
08 Dec 2020
Global wellness real estate and technology company Delos is collaborating with TPP Capital Management Group
03 Dec 2020
PureGym will take its budget fitness concept to Saudi Arabia, after securing a franchise partnership
02 Dec 2020
Gyms, health clubs, leisure centres and fitness studios in England are back in business today
23 Nov 2020
Gyms, health clubs and leisure centres will be able to open their doors when the
18 Nov 2020
Thousands of COVID-related deaths could be prevented if successive governments had tackled the country's obesity
05 Nov 2020
Investigations by HCM have revealed a correlation between countries with lower obesity rates and those
31 Oct 2020
As England counts down to lockdown this Thursday, HCM editor Liz Terry, has penned an
21 Oct 2020
Gyms in Liverpool,UK, have been given the go-ahead to reopen, following a dramatic week of
20 Oct 2020
Persistent and rising levels of lifestyle disease across the world have exacerbated the effects of
15 Oct 2020
"Dozens" of gyms in Liverpool, UK, have defied the government and stayed open for business
05 Oct 2020
The pandemic’s outbreak caused many people to use time in nature as a coping mechanism
10 Sep 2020
Lefay Resort and Spa Lago di Garda in Italy has introduced five new treatment packages
07 Sep 2020
Gyms and health clubs are a cornerstone of the global recovery from COVID-19 – and
02 Sep 2020
In response to the UK government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme, Myzone has launched
01 Sep 2020
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has hired a personal trainer to help him get fit
24 Aug 2020
Speaking to HCM, Brent Darden, the new interim CEO and president of IHRSA, says the
21 Aug 2020
As the government announced its new obesity strategy to limit the impact of a potential
09 Aug 2020
A significant proportion of leisure facilities in England have not reopened since lockdown measures were
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Editor's letter
“It’s never been more important for everyone in our sector to commit to maintaining COVID-secure operating standards ”
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Management
Katie Lewis and Lindsey Simpson co-founded Workplace Mental Wealth
to drive workforce change in the health and fitness industry. Liz Terry talks
to Lewis about their first research study – the Fitness and Active Leisure
Workforce State of Mind Survey – and the launch of The Good Work Pledge
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I don’t think we can point to any club in America that’s doing better now compared to pre-pandemic times
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Meticulous tracing and reporting of cases show, time and time again, that fitness centres and yoga studios are some of the safest places on the planet
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Supplier showcase
Hussle’s new Membership Conversion Service proactively turns Hussle customers into direct club members, encouraging them to join clubs they attend regularly
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Tad Chapman from Active IQ argues that operators should take
a fresh look at apprenticeships and their power to drive recovery
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New tax laws will hit the UK fitness
sector in early April, changing
the way freelance PTs are legally
classified for income tax and national
insurance, as Abi Harris reports
HCM magazine
How will digital, gyms and live fitness mesh to create a new customer offering in health clubs? Phillip Mills, executive director of Les Mills, shares his views
HCM magazine
A new tracking tool, called Moving Communities, will assess
the impact of the UK’s £100m National Leisure Recovery
Fund, as well as evaluating the contribution public sector
facilities make to their local communities, as HCM reports
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Children with better cardiorespiratory health than their peers also do better on cognitive tests and other measures of brain function, according to new research
HCM magazine
Policing the rules, even if it means
losing members, will be crucial to
building trust as health clubs reopen,
Paul Roberts tells Kath Hudson
HCM magazine
“The Mahindra Group has always taken wellbeing very seriously; its Indian heritage means that mental and spiritual health and mindfulness are embedded in its philosophy”
HCM magazine
In spite of having met all government-agreed, COVID-secure operating
standards, group exercise has had a rough ride during the pandemic, being
closed more than gyms. HCM asks why this is and what can be done about it
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“It’s a beautiful vision but there’s a lot of hard work ahead”
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Changing rooms
have been largely closed during the pandemic, but as clubs open up, how will ongoing pandemic restrictions impact
changing room design?
We ask the experts
for their observations
and reflections
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