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Manchester City Council has launched an ambitious programme to offer free gym memberships and access to fitness classes for 11- to 16-year-old secondary school pupils.

New York City-based real estate developer Continuum Company has announced it will build a new mixed-use development in Miami, US, with a 150,000sq ft waterfront wellness space for sport, leisure and social experiences.

The University of Liverpool has partnered with Matrix Fitness to transform student wellbeing with a major gym revitalisation

Go Fit has been brought on board by Club Atlético de Madrid for the €800 million Sport City project

Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan in Ubud, Indonesia, has unveiled a new Fitness Hub, almost year after the property launched its redesigned Sacred River Spa at Sayan.

A £24 million modernisation programme will get underway in Wandsworth as Places Leisure wins the operating contract.

North Herts Council is set to deliver one of the largest leisure centre decarbonisation projects in the UK, to reach net zero carbon emissions from operations by 2030.

Luxury hospitality group Proper Hotels has launched its first health and fitness, wellness and athletic performance membership at the Santa Monica Proper Club in Los Angeles.

The University of Bath has elevated its world-class sports facilities with a powerful Matrix Fitness equipment upgrade

Pendle Leisure Trust – which operates in one of the most deprived areas in England – has appointed Simon Gwynne as CEO.

The iconic Carlton Hotel in Cannes has introduced Italian excellence to its newly revamped fitness offerings.

Everyone Active launched its first reformer Pilates studio – the first of 10 studios that will be rolled out over the next 18 months as part of a £20 million redevelopment of its 230-site estate.

Eleiko has announced the expansion of its Prestera Strength System to incorporate modular storage for free weights and training tools.

North Herts District Council has entered into a ten-year partnership with Everyone Active to run five of its leisure centres from 1 April.

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The Walton family, owners of US supermarket chain, Walmart, opened the doors of its new health and fitness centre last Friday, at its Bentonville campus.

The boundaries that mapped the cardio floor, the weight room and aerobics classes have been pushed to include functional training and High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) training zones.

The number of people with health club memberships in Switzerland increased by 11.7 per cent in 2022, as the country's fitness industry saw a strong recovery following the pandemic disruptions.

In the UK, aspiring fitness professionals often find themselves deliberating between the Level 2 Gym Instructor course and the Level 3 Personal Training course.

Growing interest in corporate wellness is creating exciting new opportunities for the health and fitness industry, finds Kath Hudson

Xponential Fitness has entered a five-year licensing agreement with Princess Cruises that gives guests access to its boutique fitness classes and workout channel, XPlus. The tie-up is managed by OneSpaWorld and also launches Xponential’s first corporate wellbeing offering, which provides subscription platform XPass to 30,000 employees at a discounted rate.

NFL superstar, Tom Brady, is taking his digital fitness concept TB12 into the facilities market for the first time following a deal with luxury resort operator, Wynn Las Vegas.

RSG Group has launched the flagship club for Heimat – the gym giant’s new fitness and wellness brand – in Los Angeles. It's the first of a number of sites expected to open over the next three years in Dallas, San Francisco, Berlin, and other cities.

A new report – Optimising personalisation using fitness personas – which defines four key gym-goer types has been released by insight firm Club Intel.

Virgin Active and Myrtha Wellness have joined forces to provide a new sports and wellness centre at Milan’s Bocconi University. The building has been designed by Pritzker-prize winning architects architects SANAA, renowned for creating iconic constructions such as the New Contemporary Art Museum building in Manhattan and the Christian Dior building in Tokyo.

Leading UK university the University of Bath is steeped in a history of sporting excellence, with Team Bath committed to offering its students a wealth of sporting opportunities and access to world-class facilities.

Evolution Wellness has closed all its Fitness First operations in Hong Kong. The pandemic’s impact and the government’s Zero COVID strategy proved too much for the operator, which has put its entire Hong Kong business into liquidation with Kroll.

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Heart-rate monitoring is key to providing real-time feedback on members’ workout intensity, allowing them to improve their fitness accountability and achieve their fitness goals.