TLee Spas and Wellness has revealed the design concept for a high-tech spa with body mapping scanners to improve public health, for AI company Midjourney.

Walnuts Leisure Centre in Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, has reopened following a £17m transformation designed to secure the long-term future of the public leisure asset and reposition it as a community wellbeing hub.

US low-cost operator, Amped Fitness, has launched a flagship location in Texas, debuting its multi-sensory Amped Universe design architecture.

Virgin Active has officially opened its redesigned Mayfair club, unveiling its latest Social Wellness Club and signalling a significant evolution of its proposition.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Elevate has had its busiest show to date, with almost 200 exhibitors, 115 seminars and 200 speakers over two days.

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

Virgin Active is set to open its first social wellness club in London, with a relaunch of its Mayfair site in July.

Lisa Starr tries out the Ammortal Chamber to see whether layering 10 modalities into one wellness experience really can deliver more

A white paper on women’s fitness, commissioned by Total Fitness, is a call to action says its CEO, Sophie Lawler

Having invested in a wealth of health and fitness businesses, Mastrov tells Liz Terry why he’s bought back the company he started in 1983 – 24-Hour Fitness.

Boutique fitness brand, Barry’s, has opened its 100th global studio, in New York.

The Well HQ has teamed up with pelvic floor and bladder health specialists, Jude, to offer a pelvic floor strengthening programme to complement a supplement launch.

PureGym has announced a partnership with Hatch Athletic to upskill 3,000 PTs across its international portfolio to better support pre and post-natal women.

PureGym has focused on the post-exercise, feel-good glow in an advertising campaign that launched on Christmas Day across tv, radio, in cinemas and social media.

The world of strength training is moving at a rapid pace, driven by consumer demand. Leading suppliers tell Julie Cramer about their latest equipment launches

Jetts UK has launched an Active Woman Lifting Club across its 22 gyms, designed to empower women to get into strength training.

Gen Alpha, and Chinese and Indian imports were talking points at this year’s W3Fit, held in Spain

We talk to the behaviour change specialist on what more the industry can be doing to motivate its members

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

Industry event W3Fit is taking place this week at the Higueron Hotel in Malaga, Spain. Organised by We Work Well, the curated networking event is now in its fourth year and runs from 14-17 October.

In celebration of World Mental Health Day 2025 today (10 October) Gymnation is removing its weights from the gym floor across the UAE and KSA.

The UK health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said that if everyone who is overweight reduced their food intake by 216 calories a day (equivalent to a single bottle of fizzy drink), obesity rates would be halved, while cutting 50 calories a day would lift 340,000 children and two million adults out of obesity.

Gyms are becoming essential to employee benefit strategies, says Epassi, an expert in employee wellbeing schemes

A driver of mental and physical health, vagus nerve protocols have huge potential to support health club members, as Kath Hudson discovers

The huge popularity of strength and resistance training is driving change on the gym floor. Julie Cramer asks leading suppliers what innovations they’re bringing to 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.

Colin Waggett, Tom Leverton, Elaine Jobson and Liz Clark are among the line-up of CEOs giving their take on current issues, such as how to influence governments and whether the recovery trend is here to stay.

Small group PT product manufacturers are managing sustainability and helping health club customers do the same with a range of innovations, as Julie Cramer reports

Lift Brands has announced the sale of its shares in 9Round Kickboxing Fitness back to global parent company, Striking Brands. Lift had been holding a 40 per cent stake.

As interest in women-only workout spaces booms, we talk to the operators working to develop a new generation of facilities by understanding women’s common needs