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trendwatching.com’s Vicki Loomes offers six consumer trends for the health and fitness industry to consider harnessing in 2015
HCM issue 2 2015
Six consumer trends to harness for business success in 2015
HCM Handbook 2015
The latest HAFOS survey gains insight into consumers’ views of budget clubs and microgyms
HCM Handbook 2015
As the industry gathers apace, wearable technology will come to represent a
new form of power dressing for business leaders next year, in the same way
that shoulder pads dominated 1980s wardrobes.
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22 Dec 2014
Where does the UK health and fitness sector currently sit in its product lifecycle, and what comes next? Kate Cracknell asks the experts for their thoughts
HCM issue 1 2015
Health Club Management recently revealed how online gym pass provider
PayasUgym will soon begin testing Bitcoin, potentially paving the way for the
cryptocurrency to become an accepted form of payment across more than
2,000 UK gyms in the PayasUgym network.
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28 Oct 2014
A bottom-up approach to risk management can work for clubs, says Right Directions’ Gill Twell in her step-by-step guide
HCM issue 10 2014
Kath Hudson offers an overview of the groups and schemes pitching to help tackle the UK’s obesity crisis
HCM issue 10 2014
Online gym pass provider PayasUgym will soon begin testing Bitcoin as a form of
payment across its network, paving the way for more than a third of UK gyms to
be able to sell membership via the cryptocurrency.
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23 Sep 2014
How can we change the nation’s psyche and get people moving? We ask our panel of experts
HCM issue 9 2014
Which elements of the member journey are most linked to retention levels? Dr Melvyn Hillsdon outlines the findings of the TRP 10,000 report
HCM issue 9 2014
The Child Protection in Sport Unit is turning its attention to helping the leisure sector put safeguards in place
HCM issue 8 2014
People could be shifting their Christmas-list focus towards the wearable
technology market this year, as consumer interest continues to grow in the
booming fitness monitoring sector.
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16 Jul 2014
Sean James reports on the growing functionality and popularity of apps among gym members and health club operators alike
HCM issue 6 2014
A headband which reads and measures the user’s brainwaves has been
launched on the consumer market with an integrated brain health system which
teaches meditation for US$299 (€220, £178).
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02 Jun 2014
Antipodean training provider the Australian Institute of Fitness (AIF) has
become one of the first fitness brands to utilise photo-messaging app
Snapchat.
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12 May 2014
What forms of communication do your members value? In the second part of his TRP 10,000 series, Dr Melvyn Hillsdon looks at the art of communication
HCM issue 5 2014
Do free guest passes work as a means of winning new members, and what are the alternatives?
HCM issue 5 2014
The MD of the newly merged Nuffield Health Wellbeing talks to Julie Cramer about expanding further into prevention and wellbeing
HCM issue 5 2014
As part of our management series, Julian Leybourne offers his views on management’s role in creating effective marketing communications
HCM issue 5 2014
From falls prevention to improving explosive power, studies show vibration technology is effective in a wide range of applications
HCM issue 4 2014
ukactive's 'Turning the Tide on Obesity' campaign is the latest to rely on nudging. But what is nudging, and does it work? Tom Walker looks at what's involved
HCM issue 4 2014
Matrix Fitness credits much of its success to the people behind the brand. Newly promoted National Sales Manager, Andy Loughray, discusses the merits of this customer-centric company
HCM issue 3 2014
The CEO of Fitness First talks to Kate Cracknell about putting behavioural psychology at the heart of the business, in a £270m repositioning and rebrand
HCM issue 3 2014
The use of face recognition technology to monitor sports fans at the
gates of stadiums continues to grow in prominence, with Australia the next
country to be considering its use across its national grounds.
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25 Feb 2014
From laughter as medicine to wellness hotels, Camilla Parke
of The Futures Company looks at some of the trends set to
shape the wellness sector in the coming year
HCM Handbook 2014
From wearables to measuring participation, microgyms to the
emergence of the public sector, TLDC's David Minton offers
insights based on the latest State of the Fitness Industry Report
HCM Handbook 2014
New research by Mike Hill of Leisure-net Solutions
– conducted exclusively for Health Club Management
– investigates why members leave clubs, and how well
operators manage the leaving process
HCM Handbook 2014
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