Adopting a more intelligent approach to energy usage can save thousands of pounds a year without compromising service. Consultant Simon Wright shares his top tips

The New York-based David Lynch Foundation helps people to overcome extreme stress using the power of meditation. Julie Cramer talks to co-founder Bob Roth

We’ve had smartwatches, smart glasses and even smart shoes. Now the humble skipping rope is the latest age-old object to be reinvigorated as a fitness-focused piece of wearable technology, with not one, but two companies currently crowdfunding to bring skipping ropes into the 21st century.

ukactive strategy director Steven Ward considers what might be in store for the physical activity sector following the 2015 General Election

PAN Studio's Run An Empire app aims to bring sport to a gaming generation

New Ipsos MORI research highlights a worrying trend for people to follow the sedentary norm

How much CV training do we need to do, and what’s the best way to do it? Lauren Chambers asks the experts for their advice

trendwatching.com’s Vicki Loomes offers six consumer trends for the health and fitness industry to consider harnessing in 2015

Six consumer trends to harness for business success in 2015

The latest HAFOS survey gains insight into consumers’ views of budget clubs and microgyms

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.

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

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.

A bottom-up approach to risk management can work for clubs, says Right Directions’ Gill Twell in her step-by-step guide

Kath Hudson offers an overview of the groups and schemes pitching to help tackle the UK’s obesity crisis

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.

How can we change the nation’s psyche and get people moving? We ask our panel of experts

Which elements of the member journey are most linked to retention levels? Dr Melvyn Hillsdon outlines the findings of the TRP 10,000 report

The Child Protection in Sport Unit is turning its attention to helping the leisure sector put safeguards in place

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.

On his dream for the fitness industry

Molly Crockett on precommitment

Sean James reports on the growing functionality and popularity of apps among gym members and health club operators alike

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).

Antipodean training provider the Australian Institute of Fitness (AIF) has become one of the first fitness brands to utilise photo-messaging app Snapchat.

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

Do free guest passes work as a means of winning new members, and what are the alternatives?

The MD of the newly merged Nuffield Health Wellbeing talks to Julie Cramer about expanding further into prevention and wellbeing

As part of our management series, Julian Leybourne offers his views on management’s role in creating effective marketing communications

From falls prevention to improving explosive power, studies show vibration technology is effective in a wide range of applications