Anna Rounaja of Hukka Oy considers success in the Finnish fitness market, and IHRSA publishes its latest European report

A report on the third annual Health Club Awards, which took place during LIW in September

As part of his retention series, Dr Paul Bedford takes a look at how UK facilities currently rate in terms of perceived value for money

Kate Corney rounds up some of the latest console-based technology, designed to motivate and entertain members as they work out

Fitness levels, not age, should be used to determine whether older people should undergo surgery, according to a new study

What are the challenges faced by fitness brands looking to expand globally? Is there an ideal model for international success? We ask our panel of experts

Recent media reports on exercise and lack of weight loss may have confused many people, says Rod Hill of Anytime Fitness Iberia

What will be the future of the traditional full-service club in the face of the growing microgym market? Kate Cracknell reports

Bård Windingstad and Peter Byman, founders of Evo Fitness in Norway, explain to Kate Cracknell how personal training and IT lie at the very heart of their business model

Group exercise participants are loyal, attend regularly and are less price sensitive. Are clubs doing enough to harness group exercise?

Nicole Hearn pays a visit to London-based City Athletic, which offers its members the opportunity to train like elite athletes

In the first part of a new retention series, Dr Paul Bedford takes a look at the impact of brand on member retention

Gyms need to identify and harness the superordinate goals that really drive behaviour change in members, says Kate Cracknell

Professors Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner of Urban-Think Tank talk to Kate Cracknell about their revolutionary and socially cohesive Vertical Gym concept

Fifteen years after penning The Experience Economy, Pine and Gilmore are still inspiring businesses to create original and memorable customer experiences

New products from Physiosupplies, Pilates-Mad, Merrithew and Jordan

Laura Dagg takes a look forward to the highlights of this year's Leisure Industry Week, which takes place in Birmingham later this month

Kate Cracknell and Magali Robathan report on the emergence of the pop-up leisure experience, and what opportunities this trend might present to the fitness industry

An interview with futurologist Magnus Lindkvist ahead of his speech at the IHRSA European Congress in Madrid next month

How could the new wave of wearable technologies affect the fitness market? Industry expert Bryan O'Rourke shares his views

Member retention rates continue to drop across the fitness sector, according to a new national report by Dr Paul Bedford

New study will investigate the links between member characteristics, motivations, values, club activities and retention, says Dr Melvyn Hillsdon

Are operators supporting their members in maintaining good habits, are they leaving them to motivate themselves – or worse still, are they causing them to break good habits?

The MD of budget fitness operator Xercise4Less talks to Kate Cracknell about the company's brand new partnership with UK supermarket chain Tesco

Edward Phillips, founder of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine in Boston, US, talks to Julie Cramer about tackling chronic disease

Abigail Harris visits easyGym's new flagship site in London, and talks to its CEO about future plans for the premium low-cost model

To improve retention, operators need to become much more surgical in their analysis of why members are leaving, says Kate Cracknell

CEO David Stalker looks at the government's traineeship scheme introduced in January, and considers how the fitness sector might benefit

Doug Werner outlines the powerful impact that the ‘Lean' protocol can have on the sales process at health and fitness clubs

Health and fitness devices will make up half of all wireless accessories shipped by 2018, with shipments of app-enabled devices set to hit 170m, according to a new report from Juniper.