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.

Corporate wellbeing platform, Wellhub – formerly Gympass – has entered into an agreement to buy European employee benefit programme provider, Urban Sports Club.

AI-driven software is enabling hyper personalisation for members, while also allowing operators to build powerful communities, as Julie Cramer reports

Dr Cedric Bryant considers how the industry can best use language to broaden its reach

Dr Tim Anstiss talks to HCM about the ‘coachbots’ he’s developing to help clubs successfully support behaviour change in members

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 American Council on Exercise (ACE) has acquired the Dr Sears Wellness Institute (DSWI) for an undisclosed sum. DSWI will join ACE as part of a new division, ACE Health and Wellness. The move enables ACE to expand its health coaching certification and education offering.

The co-founder of Next Health on helping people optimise their health and his plans for global growth

The City of Portland in Maine, US, is investing in a wellness programme for its entire workforce. We talk to the founder and CEO of Wellness Workdays

This charitable initiative is supporting people with health conditions and disabilities to get into physical activity

The City of Portland in Maine, US is investing in a customised wellness programme, which it will make available to its workforce.

US-based health club chain Equinox has revealed plans to open two new properties in London.

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.

People with psychosis engage in low levels of physical activity, with men who have the serious mental disorder two times more likely to miss global activity targets compared to people without the illness, a study has found.

A new training course designed to equip exercise professionals with the behaviour change skills needed to get inactive people moving is being delivered to Everyone Active’s exercise referral specialists.

Edward Phillips, founder of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine in Boston, US, talks to Julie Cramer about tackling chronic disease

In the second of his two-part series on behaviour change, Dr Tim Anstiss examines the powerful potential of wellbeing coaching

As part of our continuing series on behaviour change, Dr Tim Anstiss offers his advice on the questions, tools and strategies needed to effectively deliver health coaching

Following a construction period of five months, the first facility under the Holmes Place Spa brand has opened in Europe within the Zürich Holmes Place Club.

UK-based health club operator Fitness First plans to open sites in India and Russia as part of an ambitious expansion programme.