latest fit tech news
Centred Wellness – a travel and lifestyle platform connecting members with health and wellness services and products – has acquired ...
Korean scientists have developed a dynamic way of adjusting the difficulty of video games – by estimating the players' emotions ...
Mobility app Pliability has integrated with digital health and fitness tracker Whoop to create a smart, personalised tool that helps ...
Athlo, an app enabling consumers to sell unwanted classes has soft-launched in the UK. The platform was founded by Matthew ...
Peloton has opened pre-orders in the US for its new connected rowing machine. Consumers can reserve a rower for delivery ...
Zwift is launching its own brand direct-drive smart trainer, Zwift Hub, on 3 October in the US, UK and Europe. ...
Fitness equipment specialist Dyaco UK has appointed industry veteran Jon Johnston as managing director of its commercial operations. Johnston, a ...
Withings, one of the original smart scale developers, is gearing up to launch a Body Comp smart scale and Health+ ...
Active Nation has released a new app, Active Nation Anywhere, which offers over a thousand on-demand workouts to users. The ...
Digital fitness provider Funxtion has raised €5.8m (£5m, US$5.7) from Lexar Partners and company shareholders. The capital will be used ...
Sweat-sensing wearable manufacturer, Epicore Biosystems – whose products provide real-time health data on a range of metrics, including hydration and ...
Orangetheory has introduced a new AI-powered heart-rate tracking system called MaxHR to boost the personalisation and efficiency of members’ workouts. ...
Corporate wellbeing platform Gympass has launched personal training service Trainiac in the UK. Already live in Brazil and the US, ...
editor's picks
features
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”
Interview
Mathieu Letombe
“We’ve found 90 per cent of Withings users continue to regularly use their scales after one year and 50 per cent regularly continue using them after 10 years”
Origin Stories
Adrian Hon
Zombies, Run! is one of the most enduring fitness apps, with half a million users getting active while engaging in ‘missions’ against the zombie apocalypse. Its co-creator spoke to Steph Eaves about the power of story
Fit Tech People
Mike Hansen
Managing partner, Endorphinz
“We noticed a big gap in the market – customers needed better insights but also recommendations on what to do, whether that be customer acquisition, content creation, marketing and more”
Supplier showcase
Funxtion: A vital connection
NonStop Gym, Switzerland’s no frills gym chain, has appointed FunXtion to create its member training app
App analysis
Digital community
Matt Stebbings of SLT Group talks
about the creation of their Community
Portal, a new platform that aims to help
anyone to get active, whether that’s
inside or outside of SLT’s facilities
Usability
How usable is your product?
Your fit tech product might be a game changer, solving problems or creating new possibilities for clients, but none of this will matter if it’s not easy and enjoyable to use. Industrial designer Nick Chubb explains why usability is key, and the factors to consider when designing your new product
Augmented Reality
Refining augmented reality
London boutique The Refinery has created an avatar-led
digital fitness offering called ALFI, which utilises augmented
reality (AR) to demonstrate movements. Zoe Bertali,
one of the co-founders of the gym, tells us more
Fit Tech People
Anantharaman Pattabiraman
CEO and co-founder, Auro
“When you’re undertaking fitness activities, unless you’re on a stationary bike, in most cases it’s not safe or necessary to be tied to a screen, especially a small screen”
Fit Tech People
Adam Zeitsiff
CEO, Intelivideo
“We don’t just create the technology and bail – we support our clients’ ongoing hybridisation efforts”
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
In conversation
Jessica Ennis-Hill: founder of Jennis
Jessica Ennis-Hill is on a mission to close the gender data gap in health research. Her app, Jennis CycleMapping, is designed to help women understand their cycles and how to train during each different phase. Steph Eaves speaks to Ennis-Hill to find out exactly how it works
Leading software company Fitronics has launched an all-new website featuring its leading
sports and fitness technology brands; The Retention People (TRP), CoursePro (CAP2) and
Strive.
In order to support gyms and health clubs in this difficult economic climate, Orbit4 is
helping operators by telling them the best time to trade in and buy new based on its
intelligence-led data and tech.
Matrix provides innovative commercial fitness equipment to facilities in all market sectors including private health ...
1Life is an innovative lifestyle and management solutions company that engages with tens of thousands ...
Pyramids Centre enhanced thanks to Technogym, BH Live & Portsmouth City Council
Technogym
H Live has grown rapidly since 2010, operating leisure sites, sports and entertainment venues across Dorset, Hampshire and London. Read more
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