Independent Gyms are proud to announce the return of the Gym Operator Conference, taking place on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November 2025 at Cranmore Park, Solihull.

The CoverMe app has transformed class management for Total Fitness, with huge time savings, stronger compliance and better talent management

From service delivery to deploying consumer insight, what can the industry learn from hospitality? Kath Hudson asks experts with a viewpoint on both sectors

CoverMe Fitness, the seamless, on-demand fitness team management and cover solution app, has launched an exclusive perks and discounts package for fitness professionals.

Foundry’s MD reveals plans to take its ‘posh spit and sawdust’ training concept to more local markets and also to pilot a franchise package

Complaints about group exercise have become a thing of the past for the Reynolds Group thanks to its partnership with CoverMe, a digital platform that simplifies group exercise and PT management for clubs and instructors.

The co-founders of Studio Society talk about taking immersive fitness global and how their new CoverMe app is connecting group-ex instructors to work

With the pandemic creating staffing challenges, we ask our experts how they’re responding

If operators want to grow their business, they need to support those with long-term health conditions, says Exi’s head of research. She tells Kate Cracknell how this can be achieved

A new on-demand group exercise class cover app, CoverMe Fitness, is set to revolutionise the fitness industry, allowing club managers to source the best freelance exercise instructors in less than 30 seconds.

The Digital Marketing HUb (DMH) is a CIMSPA initiative, which has secured an additional grant from Sport England to fund the Digital Marketing Hub.

Premier Global NASM, which is owned by US-based Ascend Learning, has announced it's winding up its operations in the UK.

With between 85 and 100 per cent of employers reporting staff shortages, is the UK fitness sector heading into a workforce employment crisis and what can be done about it? HCM reports

The MD of Fitness First talks to Kate Cracknell about creating new products, new motivations and a whole new vision, as he’s tasked with reinventing the brand as a standalone enterprise

HCM has confirmed that the UK government's £1bn support package for the hospitality and leisure industry, which allows businesses to claim a cash grant of £6,000, is not currently available to health clubs.

The world’s first virtual reality gym and the world’s first social wellness club. Kath Hudson looks at some of the exciting new concepts to emerge in the last year

New tax law, IR35, is changing the way employers treat tax and national insurance payments for freelance staff such as PTs, explains Abi Harris

Anthony and his brother Ian founded a health charity, Fixing Dad, to save their father’s life. They tell their moving story

Fitness instructors, personal trainers, coaches and other self-employed physical activity workers in Wales are being given extra financial support through Sport Wales.

Gyms, health clubs and leisure centres will be able to open their doors when the current lockdown measures in England come to an end on 2 December.

The senior management team at GymNation saw the need for an affordable offering in Dubai and are rolling out 50,000sq ft gyms

A look at some of the impressive digital offerings clubs have created in lightning fast time, to keep members active at home

Duncan Bannatyne, CEO of Bannatyne Group, which runs spas, health clubs and hotels, says the coronavirus shutdown could cost the company £30m.

1Rebel, the London-based boutique studio operator, has announced a new initiative to help support its freelance instructors through the current period of COVID-19 uncertainty.

The son of Basic-Fit founder, Rene Moos, tells HCM how he’s building and rolling out his own boutique brand, Saints and Stars

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The CEO of WE11 has a business model based on a high-end co-working space for PTs and is aiming to disrupt the industry

The creators of The Foundry offer free memberships to people on benefits. Find out how their philosophy drives them

Liz Terry shares her thoughts  

Technology is shaping the way we do fitness