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Operators, prepare to revolutionise the way members connect with personal trainers in your club, with the ground-breaking Brawn platform.
HCM issue 3 2024
Anna Langridge details work by 1FitLife to help Parkinson’s sufferers get active and improve their symptoms, while Martyn Allison asks a critical question
HCM issue 3 2024
The original low-cost gym concept is getting its third major makeover since being established in 1996, with the first club opening in Cologne. Liz Terry takes a look
HCM issue 3 2024
Is now a golden moment for health and fitness operators to secure favourable leases as desirable anchor tenants? Kath Hudson asks the experts
HCM issue 2 2024
A new breed of health clubs is emerging with joining rules that include invitation-only and referral, with some requiring medical and training assessments, as Kath Hudson discovers
HCM issue 8 2023
The MD of Warehouse Gyms in Dubai tells Liz Terry about growing the business and the power of independents
HCM issue 8 2023
The founder of Kidzania tells us about Kinezis, his pioneering new fitness and entertainment concept which launched in Mexico and is set for global expansion
HCM issue 5 2023
With the pandemic creating staffing challenges, we ask our experts how they’re responding
HCM issue 5 2023
The much-loved tennis star is building his Rafa Nadal Academy brand, combining education with training, fitness and sport, with the most recent opening in Kuwait
HCM issue 3 2023
The industry veteran has opened Core Life in Saudi Arabia for Kun Investment Holdings, with plans to take the concept to the world’s major cities, as Kate Cracknell discovers
HCM issue 1 2023
The PGA Catalunya resort in Spain has launched a 360-degree wellness programme based on a smart business model, as Neena Dhillon discovers
HCM issue 10 2022
Industry experts give us the rundown on the latest software applications
HCM issue 10 2022
The sector is at a crossroads due to soaring energy prices. In this major case study, HCM looks at St Sidwell’s Point, Exeter – the first Passivhaus leisure centre – and talks to the team behind the project about achieving a transformational 70 per cent reduction in energy usage
HCM issue 9 2022
The CEO of Body Action Gym in South Africa dabbled in the sector with a small corporate gym before getting the fitness bug and going large. Now he’s building a six-star health club chain and taking on some major competitors
HCM issue 9 2022
The GM of Nobu Hotel London Portman Square talks about the creation of its new Fitness and Wellness Space, which is open to the community
HCM issue 7 2022
Ben Hackney-Williams, head of content at Myzone, shares tools to drive
positive change in 2022
HCM issue 6 2022
Accor’s global VP of wellbeing is building a hotel wellness portfolio to rival that of the most sophisticated health club offerings
HCM issue 1 2022
Migros Zurich’s fitness veteran is pioneering a wellness first for Switzerland’s cooperative federation
HCM issue 1 2022
The head of the Center for Active Design, Joanna Frank, explains how operating healthy buildings is a ‘non-negotiable’ in the age of COVID-19
HCM issue 1 2022
Denbighshire Leisure’s Jamie Groves challenges the industry to reboot and work to elevate the member experience
HCM issue 11 2021
The CEO of Planet Fitness, Chris Rondeau, talks to Kate Cracknell about the franchise operator’s post-lockdown bounceback
HCM issue 11 2021
Following our update on bounceback in the big-box market last month, we talk to studios about how they’re trading
HCM issue 9 2021
Qualtrics surveyed 12,157 consumers in 15 countries in seven languages to create the Les Mills 2021 Global Fitness Report, as Jak Phillips explains
HCM issue 9 2021
EXCLUSIVE
Fitness marketplace Hussle has signed a partnership deal with McDonald's,
which will see it offer a fitness-based prize as part of the fast-food chain's annual Monopoly
promotion.
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25 Aug 2021
The CEO of KX and KXU on taking the brand to New York in partnership with Casa Cipriani
HCM issue 6 2021
Paul Bedford identifies patterns of member behaviour as gyms reopen
HCM issue 6 2021
On the launch of You Fit’s hotel health club and spa contract management service
HCM issue 4 2021
Denbighshire Leisure MD Jamie Groves, explains how a partnership
with Technogym and Alliance Leisure has led
to the creation of a raft of new offerings
HCM issue 3 2021
The founder of Philidelphia’s Fitler Club explains its high-end concept
HCM issue 1 2021
The CEO of The Club Company is working to rebuild and expand the business by fusing fitness and hospitality
HCM issue 9 2020
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