physical activity news
20 Oct 2021
A global innovation competition has been launched to find ways to encourage and support more
15 Oct 2021
Nadine Dorries, the recently appointed secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport at
13 Oct 2021
Tanni Grey-Thompson has outlined her vision on how the physical activity sector can play "the
30 Sep 2021
Sport England has spent £1.5m launching its own on-demand fitness platform, with the hope of
30 Sep 2021
Tanni Grey-Thompson has announced she will hand over her role as ukactive chair in August
29 Sep 2021
A group of leading health and fitness companies in Romania have joined forces to launch
18 Aug 2021
Uptivo is an all-in-one digital solution for fitness clubs, fitness boutique studios and personal trainers
23 Sep 2021
People should concentrate on exercise and staying fit – rather than dieting and weight loss
22 Sep 2021
Sports Minister, Nigel Huddleston, has joined gym-goers this morning to kick-off the annual National Fitness
21 Sep 2021
VAT reform, adjustments in business rates and a fitness-led high street regeneration push could see
15 Sep 2021
Physical activity professionals in England will soon be able to access free, one-to-one learning with
31 Aug 2021
Fitness is the world's most popular physical activity and more than 50 per cent of
26 Aug 2021
A consultation has been launched to review the current provision of fitness and leisure facilities
03 Aug 2021
Life Fitness has unveiled the new Integrity SL, its connected LED console designed for the
16 Aug 2021
The Global Health and Fitness Alliance (GHFA) has commissioned Deloitte to produce a major new
13 Aug 2021
OnePT Rochdale has been named as club of the year at this year's ukactive Awards,
09 Aug 2021
A new initiative being launched today (9 August) aims to improve the application of digital
03 Aug 2021
A cross-party DCMS Committee in the UK has called on the government to launch a
30 Jul 2021
Industry body ukactive has joined the chorus of organisations across a number of sectors calling
21 Jul 2021
Leisure-net has revealed plans to transform its active-net business event from an annual face-to-face gathering
03 Sep 2021
“At least 40 per cent of all businesses will die in the next 10 years
19 Jul 2021
KA Leisure has appointed industry veteran Malcolm McPhail as its interim chief executive. McPhail, who
16 Jul 2021
Vulnerable young people will be given opportunities to take part in sport and physical activity
14 Jul 2021
Organisers of the Elevate event – scheduled to be held at London’s ExCeL on 28
13 Jul 2021
A consultation on social prescribing and other similar health programmes will look to "uncover the
13 Jul 2021
A new study claims that being physically active for 30 minutes a day, five days
12 Jul 2021
The government of Singapore has become the first to recommend that people who've received the
12 Jul 2021
The UK government has unveiled plans for a pilot scheme, aimed at using financial rewards
08 Jul 2021
ukactive has set out its vision to develop a national strategy for the UK's public
07 Jul 2021
There is a "clear case" to evolve the purpose and role played by the UK's
30 Jun 2021
Former racing cyclist Chris Boardman has been appointed the new chair of grassroots body, Sport
29 Jun 2021
Health clubs, gyms and leisure centres should focus on ability, rather than age, when designing,
28 Jun 2021
The UK government has confirmed that the PE and Sport Premium will continue to run
23 Jun 2021
The number of active memberships across European health clubs fell by roughly 10 million –
18 Jun 2021
People with depression should be prescribed exercise and then monitored for the first 12 weeks
18 Jun 2021
Aligning fitness and healthcare as part of the wider health and wellbeing needs of the
17 Jun 2021
Frequent strenuous exercise increases the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND) in people with
16 Jun 2021
The UK government has extended the ban on commercial evictions until 25 March 2022. Announcing
15 Jun 2021
People experiencing homelessness are being offered free access to leisure centres by Oxford City Council.
11 Jun 2021
The government needs to urgently set out its plans to support physical activity and fitness
08 Jun 2021
Active IQ has launched two new qualifications – the Level 2 Diploma in Health and
01 Jun 2021
ukactive has published new data from the National ReferAll Database (NRD) – the UK’s first
27 May 2021
Physical activity gives structure and meaning to people’s lives, according to new research. A study,
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Insight
“Class occupancy has reached 120% of pre-pandemic levels in markets where capacity restrictions have been lifted”
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Everyone’s talking about
In the last issue of HCM, we checked with big box operators in the UK to see how
trading has been going since restrictions were lifted. This month we turn our attention
to boutiques and urban studios to find out how they’re faring. Kath Hudson reports
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Interview
The co-founder of The Great Outdoor Gym Company has a vision to
inspire communities to become healthy and sustainable, both
environmentally and personally. She speaks to Kate Cracknell
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Supplier launch
Life Fitness introduces Integrity SL, the next-generation LED console with intuitive functionality and digital connectivity
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Insight
Dr Davina Deniszczyc talks us through the findings of the first
Nuffield Healthier Nation Index, which has benchmarked activity
levels and attitudes to exercise among the UK population
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Research
Changes to DNA which occur during exercise give protection against a wide range of diseases, according to new research from the Univesity of Copenhagen
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Everyone’s talking about
Booming membership sales, busy suburban clubs and members visiting during
the working day. Operators are reporting it’s good to be back. Kath Hudson finds
out what business has been like since the re-set button was pressed
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In this issue, we’re focusing on sharing insights and thought leadership to highlight opportunities for the development of the sector in terms of both markets and offerings, says Liz Terry, HCM editor
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HCM People
Tim Mayer
MDL Fitness“Screens display power generated from each piece of equipment, allowing people to compete against each other for kilowatt hours produced”
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This year’s edition of the IHRSA Global Report which addresses performance from 2020, is a valuable record of the tremendous impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sector, creating a benchmark from which to understand the recovery. Kristen Walsh reports for HCM
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Research confirms the role health clubs can play in supporting
people in nurturing their mental health, as Victor Brick explains
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HCM People
Danielle Obe
Chair, The Black Swimming Association“Our vision is a future with ethnic diversity in aquatics”
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David Minton says the healthy movement industry
is ten times bigger than the health club sector,
and the care industry four times bigger and
ask why we’re not rushing to collaborate?
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Focusing on dieting has failed to offset the rising tide of obesity, say researchers from the Universities of Arizona and Virginia. A focus on fitness gives better health outcomes
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“I’d like to see the gym sector help champion the social prescribing agenda, as a route to getting more people engaged in physical activity”
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People's fitness goals are extremely diverse – ranging from an elite athlete focused on the
next goal to someone who dislikes all activity due to chronic back pain.
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Despite the Prime Minister’s claims that trade with the EU would be tariff-free post-Brexit,
the reality has become very different when importing gym equipment from the EU.
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Award-winning leisure operator Everyone Active generated £342million in social value at its
sites across the country in 2019/20.
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Parkwood Leisure, one of the UK’s leading public leisure facilities operators, helped
prevent more than 7,000 cases of stroke, dementia, depression and type 2 diabetes in 2019,
saving the NHS £16 million, a new social value report has shown.
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