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Franchise Strong Pilates has announced that former English cricketer, Stuart Broad, has come on board as an ambassador to help challenge the traditional perception of ... More

Sport England has announced investment into 53 areas highlighted in the top 10 per cent of the UK in terms of inactivity, social need, deprivation ... More

US operator, Life Time, has started the rollout of cold plunges to more than 70 of its clubs in response to customer demand. In a ... More

After four launches last year, Third Space is keeping up the pace of expansion with a new signing on London’s Oxford Street, as well as ... More

Arc, London’s highly anticipated social wellness club, has officially debuted today (31 January) in Canary Wharf with a sleek 5,000sq m flagship urban bathhouse. First ... More

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has unveiled its 2025 Future of Wellness Trends report, outlining 10 trends that will shape the US$6.3 trillion global wellness ... More

Recognising the growing importance of wellness to travellers, Hilton has partnered with Calm – a leading global app for sleep, meditation and relaxation – to ... More

A new, premium fitness concept opens in Clapham, London in Q3 2024 called Arma, which will combine a Brazilian jiu jitsu academy with a fitness ... More

As we enter 2025, HCM reflects on the key trends of last year and what else might break through this year. Reformer Pilates was one ... More

President of Xponential Fitness, Sarah Luna, has left the company – one of the world’s leading franchisors of health and fitness brands – her last ... More

David Lloyd Clubs launched its latest site at Bury St Edmunds, UK, yesterday (3 December,) which has been under construction since last year. Facilities include ... More

A Kickstarter campaign is underway to fund a fully automated wearable nutrition tracker which takes photos of food and calculates its calorific and nutritional values. ... More

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

Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the academic year 2023-2024 has found that one of the biggest determinants of physical activity ... More

Following the completion of PureGym’s Blink Fitness acquisition, outgoing CEO, Humphrey Cobbold, and incoming CEO, Clive Chesser, lift the lid on the rollercoaster journey. “I ... More

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 ... More

Eighty nine per cent of people are taking more action than a year ago to improve their wellbeing, according to Lululemon's Global Wellbeing Report 2024: ... More

Purpose Brands, the US$3.7 billion company formed by the merger of Orangetheory Fitness and Self Esteem Brands, has appointed Tom Leverton as CEO. Leverton most ... More

UK Active has written to chancellor, Rachel Reeves, asking for measures to offset the cost increases the fitness sector will incur as a result of ... More

CIMSPA is preparing a submission in response to the government announcement of a 10-year health plan consultation for England and is inviting the sector to ... More

Moving Communities, the data platform which tracks participation at public leisure centres, has teamed up with Saturday morning 5k run organiser, Parkrun. This collaboration will ... More

Market research outfit, Leisure DB, is launching a monthly ‘market tracker’ for the UK’s health and fitness industry The new service has been created off ... More

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) has announced details of its new Wellness Council. The council was created following a panel discussion at the 2024 Inspire ... More

Drents Museum in the Netherlands has launched a radically different presentation of its permanent collection. The 170-year-old museum teamed up with exhibition design agency Northern ... More

The Food, Diet and Obesity Committee has published a report calling for the British government to fix the broken food system and turn the tide ... More