Virgin Active news
24 Jan 2020
Health-tech brand hero has acquired Revitalise London – a preventative health and vitality specialist –
29 Nov 2019
The Bannatyne Group has appointed Hugh Hanley as its new head of fitness. He joins
18 Nov 2019
Wellness company MYXfitness has become the latest company to launch an on-demand, at-home fitness offer,
12 Nov 2019
Boutique fitness operator 1Rebel has partnered with Technogym to develop an at-home indoor cycling platform
10 Oct 2019
A health and wellbeing club which combines exercise and physical activity classes with mental and
04 Sep 2019
Virgin Active has enlisted around 100 of its staff on a bespoke apprenticeship programme in
24 Jan 2020
Active-net 2020 has revealed the agenda for the two-day educational, networking and business meetings event,
24 Jun 2019
The Bannatyne Group has completed a £750,000 redevelopment of its latest acquisition, the historic Cookridge
11 Jun 2019
Les Mills International (LMI) has joined forces with health club mobile app provider Netpulse to
30 May 2019
Boutique indoor cycling operator Psycle has written to its members, announcing plans to close its
24 May 2019
Female-friendly fitness operator Sweat! has closed its doors, just nine months after it revealed ambitious
08 Apr 2019
A new breed of health club professional is starting to make its presence felt in
01 Apr 2019
Fitness equipment giant Technogym is entering the home fitness market with the launch of Technogym
13 Feb 2020
In 2004, Shogoro Uemura, CEO of Iyashi Dôme, was inspired by his father’s work to
12 Mar 2019
Les Mills International (LMI) has joined forces with health club mobile app provider Netpulse to
26 Feb 2019
A new event – marketed as the first major business gathering for Asia's health, fitness
18 Dec 2018
Virgin Active has reopened its Mayfair club with a renewed focus on group classes. Hosting
19 Nov 2018
Paula Wells has been named director of YMCA Awards. Wells, who has spent more than
14 Sep 2018
Developer Moda has signed a pioneering partnership with wellness company Hero, which will look to
09 Aug 2018
Budget operator Xercise4Less has named fitness industry veteran Peter Wright as its new CEO. Wright
30 Oct 2019
The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is proud to be the industry leader
22 May 2018
YMCA Awards has become the UK’s first awarding organisation to achieve accreditation from the Chartered
04 May 2018
Serco Leisure has named Simon Pittman as its new national membership sales manager. Pittman, a
05 Apr 2018
Fitness kit and software supplier eGym has appointed Justin Smith, the former managing director of
22 Mar 2018
Fitness kit and software supplier eGym has announced the acquisition of fitness app specialist Netpulse
08 Mar 2018
Virgin Active has relaunched its Kensington Collection Club in West London as part of its
22 Feb 2018
The Bannatyne Group has completed a £750,000 upgrade of its Russell Square club in the
06 Feb 2018
TV journalist and presenter Dr Michael Mosley has been announced as a keynote speaker for
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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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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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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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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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Technogym is helping Odyssey Health
Club launch new gym floor formats that
enhance the member experience
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Myzone
Steve Mellor, owner of AMP Athletic, has installed Myzone to drive his business.
We find out how it’s enabling him to deliver great service to his members
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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
“People come in with problems and the NHS is absolutely brilliant at fixing things when they’ve gone wrong or are broken. But it’s all reactive: unfortunately, it’s not very good at stopping things getting broken in the first place ”
People
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
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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 ”
People
“I didn’t dream how big this is going to get. I never imagined it would go to the dimension it is now. But it’s there, so we’re going with it”
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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”
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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
“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”
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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”
People
“One day, as our estate continues to grow, it might even be that we create an Evolution Wellness membership and app – a way of aggregating across the total portfolio, allowing people to consume any of our brands by using credits from their digital membership”
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