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Egym snaps up Hussle as it moves to dominate the corporate wellness market with its Wellpass product
Egym, has signalled its intention to become a dominant force in the corporate wellness sector with the acquisition of UK-based ...
Egym, which raised €207 million last year in new investment, continues to build its top team with the appointment of ...
The UK government acknowledged in its recent budget that economic recovery depends on the health of the nation, but failed ...
Technogym is launching Checkup, an assessment station which uses AI to personalise training programmes in order to create more effective ...
Fitness On Demand (FOD) has teamed up with Les Mills, to offer an omnichannel fitness solution to operators. Fitness on ...
Samsung has unveiled a smart ring, packed with innovative technologies to aid health and wellbeing, which will be available later ...
GoCo Health Innovation City in Sweden plans to lead the world in delivering wellness and new science
A new urban city centre in Gothenburg, Sweden is in development with the aim of accelerating health innovation. Next Step ...
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The ICO has ruled that eight leisure operators have been unlawfully processing the biometric data of their employees to be ...
More consumers are realising meditation is beneficial, but many give up because it’s difficult to master the mind. The Muse ...
Newcomer to the market, Lunar Health Clubs, is gearing up to open its first high-end club this April, in Marlow ...
University of Washington researchers have created a wireless wearable in the form of a thermal earring that continuously monitors a ...
Zumba, and virtual reality workout platform, FitXR, have joined forces to offer mixed-reality versions of Zumba's dance routines. The partnership ...
Triathlon legends, Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, have launched a free conversational AI tool to share their vast training knowledge with ...
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Editor's letter
Into the fitaverse
Fitness is already among the top three markets in the metaverse, with new technology and partnerships driving real growth and consumer engagement that looks likely to spill over into health clubs, gyms and studios
Profile
Fahad Alhagbani: reinventing fitness
“Let’s live in the future to improve today”
Profile
New reality
Sam Cole, CEO of FitXR, talks to
Fit Tech about taking digital
workouts to the next level, with an
immersive, virtual reality fitness club
Profile
Sohail Rashid
“My vision was to create a platform that could improve the sport for lifters at all levels and attract more people, similar to how Strava, Peloton and Zwift have in other sports”
Research
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
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”
Innovation
Bold move
“Our results showed a greater than 60 per cent reduction in falls for individuals who actively participated in Bold’s programme”
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”
App analysis
Going hybrid
Workout Anytime created its app in partnership with Virtuagym. Workout Anytime’s Greg Maurer and Virtuagym’s Hugo Braam explain the process behind its creation
Ageing
Reverse Ageing
Many apps help people track their
health, but Humanity founders
Peter Ward and Michael Geer
have put the focus on ageing,
to help users to see the direct
repercussions of their habits.
They talk to Steph Eaves
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
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”
Power Plate is owned, manufactured and distributed by Northbrook, Ill.- based Performance Health Systems LLC, ...
Wattbike is chosen by the world’s top sporting teams, elite athletes, coaches, plus hundreds of ...