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13 Apr 2026
In a city where delivery bikes are as common as sunshine, GymNation has done something
07 Apr 2026
Manchester City Council has launched an ambitious programme to offer free gym memberships and access
For more than three decades, Creative Fitness Marketing (CFM) has been helping health clubs grow
11 Feb 2026
Bolton Middlebrook Leisure Trust has scooped the contract to run five leisure sites as an
10 Feb 2026
The UK fitness industry has significant headroom for growth, consumers are prioritising their spend on
26 Jan 2026
A new study has found more people are using AI to self-diagnose illness, as well
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
14 Jul 2025
A £24 million modernisation programme will get underway in Wandsworth, London as Places Leisure wins
25 Jun 2025
The Health and Fitness Association (formerly IHRSA) is calling on US club operators and members
12 Jun 2025
After a decade of lobbying by the Health & Fitness Association, the US House of
28 Jan 2025
Research by the Global Health and Fitness Alliance (GHFA) and the Health and Fitness Association
24 Jan 2025
Fitness participation rates in the United Arab Emirates and Kingdom Saudi Arabia are growing faster
10 Jan 2025
Brits are choosing to spend more of their disposable income on health and fitness than
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
07 Aug 2024
Emotional health and habit-tracking are two of the fastest growing health categories according to corporate
01 Jul 2024
According to research carried out in the US by YouGov, cost is the main reason
Farrer tells government the physical activity sector is critical to fixing the UK’s sluggish economy
01 Feb 2024
Mike Farrar, chair of UK Active, has called on the UK government to deploy the
09 Aug 2023
GymNation, which was acquired by JD Gyms in 2022, has opened its latest health club
23 Jun 2023
Pure Gym has launched a fitness championships dedicated to the over-50s with a strong emphasis
18 May 2023
Councils in the UK will benefit from hundreds of thousands of pounds of extra revenue
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing disparate information from multiple
16 May 2023
The European fitness market has experienced a "strong recovery" after two difficult years that saw
05 May 2023
All gym, health club and other fitness subscriptions and memberships have been made tax-free in
23 Nov 2022
A list of 250 of the UK’s most popular gyms on Instagram has crowned Psycle
23 Sep 2022
Athlo, an app enabling consumers to sell unwanted classes has soft-launched in the UK. The
06 Dec 2021
Denmark has been identified as the cheapest country in the world to live a healthy
Code Fitness is co-owned by Steve McClory and Luke Watson and was launched in 2013
29 Oct 2021
A new credit card – launched by wellness platform Paceline – will link financial benefits to physical
13 Oct 2021
Tanni Grey-Thompson has outlined her vision on how the physical activity sector can play "the
30 Sep 2021
New research by Barclays Corporate Banking reveals that the leisure, fitness, spa and hospitality industries
10 Aug 2021
The number of children enrolled on Parkwood Leisure's Learn to Swim Programme, has reached a
30 Mar 2021
The industry is eagerly awaiting the reopening of health clubs and leisure centres in another
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
31 Jan 2021
Fitness business in China's top 18 cities generated US$4.9bn in revenues during 2019, before the
12 Jan 2021
The government needs to provide the fitness and physical activity sector with a plan which
11 Nov 2020
The Gym Group will look to further grow its 183-strong portfolio across England, Scotland and
08 Sep 2020
Carbon, creators of the first AI-powered at-home fitness mirror that tracks workouts, announces the launch
02 Sep 2020
Announcing the company's half-year results today (2 September), Richard Darwin, CEO of The Gym Group
27 Jul 2020
Bans on meal deals, stricter rules on food advertising and printing calorie contents on menus
22 Jul 2020
The UK's industry's leading trade associations have united to call for a major review of
20 Apr 2020
Incorpore and MoveGB are pleased to announce they have entered into a landmark partnership, combining
18 Mar 2020
Leading trade bodies representing the physical activity sector have called on the government to introduce
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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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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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New launch, Salus House, elevates boutique wellness with
high service levels and a partnership with Technogym
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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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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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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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Researchers have long known that the brain changes as a result of exercise. Now researchers believe this process is actually driven by the brain
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One of the biggest mistakes the fitness industry still makes is advertising almost
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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