Highlights from the Health & Fitness Association 2025 Global Report, which deep dives into the state of the industry globally.

Aimed at consumers who are prioritising longevity and recovery, The Club provides an alternative way of socialising to conventional hospitality models, combining movement, recovery, hospitality, art, and architecture.

JD Gyms has designed its own personal training qualification and announced the launch of the JD Gyms PT Academy.

As UK market penetration hits 18 per cent, how much higher could it go?

The MD of Active Insight says the sector can use data to deliver more powerful member experiences and outcomes

Investment, leadership, consumer trends and growth were hot topics at our annual event for the industry. Click to watch the presentations in our report

The founder of Deia Health talks about lifestyle medicine and the increased appetite for wellness spaces that overlap with healthcare

Freedom Leisure has responded to consumer demand and will be keeping Guildford Lido open, and heated, throughout the winter.

With padel and pickleball experiencing exponential growth, how can health clubs tap into this golden opportunity? Padel’s Luigi Carraro and pickleball’s Karen Mitchell explain

Hussle, the country’s largest flexible fitness platform, has announced a new national partnership with Habitual, the UK’s leading digital weight loss programme combining GLP-1 medication with behaviour change support.

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 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.

Blantyre Capital Limited has sold half of its shares in The Gym Group to new and existing shareholders.

New weight management drugs could be used to create a global metabolic health revolution and improve longevity, if investment and cross-sector collaboration can prevent obesity and its health-related problems.

A look at the results of the 2025 ACSM survey.

Physiologist, wellbeing expert and co-founder of Future Practice and Pillar Wellbeing, Oli Patrick, gives his view on what the industry should be focusing moving forwards, in order to meet the wants and needs of consumers.

CEO of Trouble Global and industry provocateur, Emma Barry, gives her annual review of the current – somewhat contradictory – trends and gives advice to operators about how to futureproof their businesses.

HCM Handbook editorial director, Liz Terry and Kath Hudson predict key trends, influences and opportunities set to shape the sector, including vagus nerve resets, diagnostics and social prescribing.

Can an Agency Agreement Model protect public services asks Lisa Forsyth

Brits are choosing to spend more of their disposable income on health and fitness than eating out and drinking socially according to a new survey from UK Active.

Politicians are turning to weight loss drugs to control obesity in the population. Kath Hudson polls the experts on the impact

South Korean fitness brand, Drax, has launched operations in the UK, with the acquisition of equipment supplier Outdoor Fitness Concepts.

Eighty nine per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds are doing some form of strength exercise weekly and that 17 per cent of the UK population is now a gym member.

Premium health club operator, David Lloyd Clubs, has expanded its range of family activities after identifying that dads are spending less quality time with their kids.

Wearable technology is once again top of the trends according to the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual survey, followed by mobile exercise apps and exercise programmes for older adults.

Telehealth specialist HealthHero has announced a partnership with UK operator, Parkwood Leisure.

Midlands-based boutique operator, MK Health Hub, has launched a Pilates-inspired concept called MK Reformed, with plans to franchise.

As the UK health sector struggles with demand, health clubs are now stepping in to offer medical service support

According to a number of recent studies, semaglutide weight-loss drugs can be effective in treating depression, anxiety, dementia, addiction and some eating disorders.

Director at Active Insight, Mike Hill, reports on the seven core findings from the Customer Service Survey which collected data from 184 local authorities