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Dance fitness: Dance fitness special

Gym-based dance concept SwingTrain found fame on Dragons’ Den, when dragon Deborah Meaden invested. Kath Hudson talks to founder, Scott Cupit

Published in Health Club Management 2017 issue 10

What’s SwingTrain?
SwingTrain is a total body cardio workout, accompanied by the vintage vibes of swing, gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz, providing an alternative to the usual top 40 hits. Instructors lead participants through a series of fun, follow-along moves inspired by the vintage street dances of the Charleston, lindy hop and shag.

Suitable for all levels of fitness and coordination, no dance or fitness class experience is required. All the moves have modifiers, so instructors can help people with limited movement, or who need to build their fitness levels more slowly. Sessions last an hour with warm-up and warm-down.

What are the benefits?
The full body cardio workout exercises the legs, arms and core, as well as developing coordination and mental agility, through memorable routines. Participants can burn up to 500 calories in an hour, while having lots of fun.

What keeps people engaged?
The experience keeps people coming back – it’s fun, the choice of music is enjoyable and classes have a great atmosphere. SwingTrain also sets out to foster friendships: some of our routines have interaction and pairing-up elements, so people can meet and have fun with others. Instructors are coached on how to build a community, rather than just a client-base, and we choose SwingTrainers who are innately friendly and encouraging.

How has Deborah Meaden’s involvement helped business?
The mentoring from Deborah Meaden has helped me become a better entrepreneur, and I can now share what I’ve learned with the SwingTrainers, so they can build their business, as well as their community. Every SwingTrainer is coached on becoming an entrepreneur, not just a fitness instructor.

A central SwingTrain team offers instructors personal contact, as well as personal tuition in social media, marketing goals, using ambient media, establishing tone of voice, managing workout environments, client retention, paid advertising, local marketing strategies and more.

Meaden’s involvement has accelerated growth. We launched in the UK in January 2017 and then went international, launching in Australia, Italy and New Zealand within months.

Read more online www.swingtrain.com

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Dance fitness: Dance fitness special

Gym-based dance concept SwingTrain found fame on Dragons’ Den, when dragon Deborah Meaden invested. Kath Hudson talks to founder, Scott Cupit

Published in Health Club Management 2017 issue 10

What’s SwingTrain?
SwingTrain is a total body cardio workout, accompanied by the vintage vibes of swing, gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz, providing an alternative to the usual top 40 hits. Instructors lead participants through a series of fun, follow-along moves inspired by the vintage street dances of the Charleston, lindy hop and shag.

Suitable for all levels of fitness and coordination, no dance or fitness class experience is required. All the moves have modifiers, so instructors can help people with limited movement, or who need to build their fitness levels more slowly. Sessions last an hour with warm-up and warm-down.

What are the benefits?
The full body cardio workout exercises the legs, arms and core, as well as developing coordination and mental agility, through memorable routines. Participants can burn up to 500 calories in an hour, while having lots of fun.

What keeps people engaged?
The experience keeps people coming back – it’s fun, the choice of music is enjoyable and classes have a great atmosphere. SwingTrain also sets out to foster friendships: some of our routines have interaction and pairing-up elements, so people can meet and have fun with others. Instructors are coached on how to build a community, rather than just a client-base, and we choose SwingTrainers who are innately friendly and encouraging.

How has Deborah Meaden’s involvement helped business?
The mentoring from Deborah Meaden has helped me become a better entrepreneur, and I can now share what I’ve learned with the SwingTrainers, so they can build their business, as well as their community. Every SwingTrainer is coached on becoming an entrepreneur, not just a fitness instructor.

A central SwingTrain team offers instructors personal contact, as well as personal tuition in social media, marketing goals, using ambient media, establishing tone of voice, managing workout environments, client retention, paid advertising, local marketing strategies and more.

Meaden’s involvement has accelerated growth. We launched in the UK in January 2017 and then went international, launching in Australia, Italy and New Zealand within months.

Read more online www.swingtrain.com

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Into the fitaverse

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Fit Tech people

Ali Jawad

Paralympic powerlifter and founder, Accessercise
Users can easily identify which facilities in the UK are accessible to the disabled community
Fit Tech people

Hannes Sjöblad

MD, DSruptive
We want to give our users an implantable tool that allows them to collect their health data at any time and in any setting
Fit Tech people

Jamie Buck

Co-founder, Active in Time
We created a solution called AiT Voice, which turns digital data into a spoken audio timetable that connects to phone systems
Profile

Fahad Alhagbani: reinventing fitness

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Building on the blockchain

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Bold move

Our results showed a greater than 60 per cent reduction in falls for individuals who actively participated in Bold’s programme
App analysis

Check your form

Sency’s motion analysis technology is allowing users to check their technique as they exercise. Co-founder and CEO Gal Rotman explains how
Profile

New reality

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Sohail Rashid

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Physical activity monitors boost activity levels

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have conducted a meta analysis of all relevant research and found that the body of evidence shows an impact
Editor's letter

Two-way coaching

Content providers have been hugely active in the fit tech market since the start of the pandemic. We expect the industry to move on from delivering these services on a ‘broadcast-only’ basis as two-way coaching becomes the new USP
Fit Tech People

Laurent Petit

Co-founder, Active Giving
The future of sports and fitness are dependent on the climate. Our goal is to positively influence the future of our planet by instilling a global vision of wellbeing and a sense of collective action
Fit Tech People

Adam Zeitsiff

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We don’t just create the technology and bail – we support our clients’ ongoing hybridisation efforts
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