The Retention Convention will focus on the impact a happy workforce has on retaining leisure centre, gym and health club members at its event in May.

We speak to Instructability’s Hilary Farmiloe about ensuring disabled people are represented in the fitness workforce

GLL, Everyone Active and Fusion Lifestyle are among the nominations for this year’s Active Training Awards – which has been expanded to include a day’s conference.

InstructAbility, the award-winning programme providing fitness instructor training for people with disabilities, is to roll out courses across the north of England for the first time this year.

Training provider YMCAfit is bidding to bring new blood into the industry through an innovative marketing campaign designed to target markets that traditional advertising is unable to reach.

A scheme to get more disabled people into fitness careers, created by the charity behind the Aspire National Training Centre, is gathering pace. Rhianon Howells reports

British troops in Afghanistan have undergone what is believed to be the first group cycling instructor training course to take place in the country, as they bid to keep their comrades fighting fit in every sense.

YMCAfit has announced the appointment of fitness industry training expert Dan Rees as senior training and delivery manager.

InstructAbility, an award winning training programme providing fitness industry training for people with disabilities, has announced a raft of new courses for 2014.

After four years away from the health and fitness industry, Leisure Opportunities can exclusively reveal that former FIA/ukactive chief executive Andree Deane will return as head of YMCAfit.

Instructability, the programme created by spinal cord injury charity, Aspire and YMCAfit, to provide fitness industry training for people with disabilities, has been given a Big Society Award from the prime minister.

Becca Douglas takes a look at some of the initiatives aiming to deliver a legacy from last year's London Paralympic Games

The winners of the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) and Matrix Flame Awards for 2012 have been announced at the Ball of Fire - the finale of the annual Flame Conference.

YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit) is to expand into the north of England, following a merger with the health and fitness units of Professional Fitness and Education (PFE).

Awarding body Central YMCA Qualifications (CYQ) has announced that Aquababies, Ariel Yoga and YMCAfit are among the providers to have signed up to its endorsement service.

Consisting of six trainers, Keiser UK has created a new Education Team which will deliver Keiser Installation, Foundation and Advanced Module courses throughout the UK.

Toronto, Canada-based Merrithew Health & Fitness Group's has agreed a deal that will see YMCAfit in London, UK join its international network of official Licensed Training Centers.

Training provider YMCAfit has add Street Dance training courses to its curriculum.

Fitness provider Central YMCA has announced plans for a free training programme to transform London youngsters into qualified street dance instructors.

YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit) has won the Opening Doors to Adult Learning Award, presented by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) as part of National Adult Learners’ Week.

A new scheme to train fitness instructors to deliver holistic services is being piloted in West Yorkshire by YMCA Fitness Industry Training.

YMCAfit has launched a course in east London to enable local people to train as instructors of Street Dance.

Health and fitness operators based in London could benefit from free fitness training thanks to a scheme funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the London Learning and Skills Council (LSC).

Fitness training provider YMCAfit has launched a landmark training scheme in London for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women (BME).

On 13 December 2006 the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) will be holding the first ever national conference focusing specifically on the inclusion of disabled people in the fitness industry.

Two heart attacks and a subsequent heart bypass operation acted as a catalyst for 68-year-old bookseller David Corran to radically change his life.

YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit) has been awarded almost £0.5m to launch a new scheme aimed at Black Minority Ethnic (BME) women.

YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCA®fit) has been appointed official training provider for the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) Level 2 Course.

A founding member of the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs), YMCA Fitness Industry Training (YMCAfit), has increased its level of support for the register by offering free membership to graduates of its training scheme in their first year of work.