Anytime Fitness opened more than one club a day in 2025 and is on track to maintain this rate of growth this year, as parent company Purpose Brands targets further international expansion.

Social fitness the missing link to member engagement, according to a new Myzone report

Ben Allen has been appointed managing director at Common Bond. Having set the company up for growth, Robert Rowland now steps into an advisory role.

Purpose Brands has announced its entry into the Italian market, having sold the franchise rights for four Orangetheory Studios to Icon Palestre.

Franchising is booming – Europe’s three biggest operators are planning to use this model to grow in new territories; Purpose Brands is opening a club each day and Crunch Fitness and Jetts Fitness have planted flags in India

Group exercise specialists, Les Mills, questioned 10,000 consumers across five continents about their fitness habits in the 2026 Global Fitness Report. One of the key takeaways is that joy is a major motivator of making a fitness habit stick

Total Fitness polled more than 5,000 UK adults to find out what women want from the gym experience and shares the fascinating insights with the industry

UK self-employed personal training platform, Your Personal Training (YPT) has announced a new partnership with Anytime Fitness.

All the news from the show, as it gets set to mark its 10th anniversary

Viva Leisure’s CEO on global growth and redefining revenue generation

Basic-Fit has received permission to operate 24/7 staffless clubs in France, a change which is expected to save the high-value, low-cost operator at least €10 million per year.

Anytime Fitness has opened a gym in Sydney Airport to support the 40 million travellers passing through each year and the 30,000-strong airport workforce. 

From the moment Aary Walia decided to open his first Anytime Fitness gym with Precor equipment, he knew he’d made the right decision.

From getting sacked to risking it all, industry leaders share their learnings from tough times

Anytime Fitness is tackling gymtimidation with a new advertising campaign and in-club initiative, designed for people who have been “searching, not starting.

Heart rate training and gamified technology are creating uplifting fitness experiences that keep members coming back for more, as Julie Cramer reports

Julie Cramer looks at recent health club projects where the combination of expert-led design and functionality have elevated the offering

Purpose Brands has announced the signing of a master franchise agreement with ABFit to take Anytime Fitness to Saudi Arabia.

Purpose Brands is launching its first Anytime Fitness club in Dubai on 1 November, through master franchisor, Purple Fitness.

After a networking breakfast, Leisure Media CEO, Liz Terry and PureGym chair, Humphrey Cobbold, have just opened the HCM Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London.

The CEO of Purpose Brands on the company’s ambitious goal to reach 10 million members globally by 2030

Box 12, supplier of boxing studios and programming, is going into voluntary liquidation, with Begbies Traynor Group appointed as liquidator of the current trading company, Box 12 Global Ltd.

Australia has one of the fastest growing wellness economies in the Asia Pacific region, according to the first data collected about the country’s wellness industry by the Global Wellness Institute (GWI).

The 2025 HFA Global Report, which looked at almost 30 markets, shows that around the world more people are joining gyms and seeing fitness as essential, despite rising living costs.

The industry veterans are gearing up to launch a longevity concept franchise called Zenergie, as Kath Hudson reports

Purpose Brands – the company formed by the merger of Self Esteem Brands and Orangetheory Fitness – has teamed up with the Dr B telehealth service to offer medical consultations to its members.

The co-founder of Anytime Fitness talks about building Self Esteem Brands and his partnership with Dave Mortensen

The UK fitness industry is growing in terms of members, market value and penetration, according to LeisureDB’s State of the UK Fitness Industry Report 2025.

A summary of the Health & Fitness Association’s research into the global market.

The franchise segment is a fast moving and dynamic part of the industry. Kath Hudson rounds up some of the major deals and developments of the last 12 months, including former Xponential Fitness CEO, Anthony Geisler, arriving back on the scene.