Pete Banbury looks at the future of fitness education and learning

What can health clubs and leisure centres do to improve their weight management offering?

Fitness tracking application RunKeeper has partnered with mobile reward service Kilp to give users gifts and brand samples when they reach their exercise goals.

American and Canadian tennis enthusiasts could soon get the chance to record metrics and data from recent performances to help improve their game, with Sony preparing to launch its attachable Smart Tennis Sensor early next year.

Manchester United FC (MUFC) has moved to ban iPads from the club’s stadium, at a time when many sports clubs are embracing technology as a way of enhancing the matchday experience.

Be it sleeping in or skipping the gym, everyone wishes they could kick those bad habits that hurt productivity and prevent physical activity. Now, a new wearable is bidding to not just track activity, but use pain and shame to ensure users have no choice but to reach their goals.

Reporting on the world’s first Let’s Move for a Better World Challenge

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

46 Promotional feature: Matrix The opportunity to work out while on the move has become an expectation – Matrix Fitness can help you turn it into an experience for staying guests

The chair of Health & Fitness Nordic talks to Kate Cracknell about the disruptive influence of technology and the fundamental need for businesses to be useful

The 2014 Wimbledon tennis championship has kicked off today with a number of technological innovations which are set to improve the way "digital fans" (spectators with mobile devices) engage with the action.

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

Part nine of a nine-part series Leisure centres have a way to increase their sales, income and reach without any financial Outlay, thanks to Alliance Leisure's ‘No Risk' package

EuropeActive plans to grow usage of fitness centres to 80 million members across Europe by 2025. But how?

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

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

IHRSA Annual Convention & Trade Show, IHRSA 2014, Sally Hogshead, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dan Heath, Luke Williams

CrossFit is a tough workout that gives fantastic results, but can it ever achieve mass market appeal?

The digital revolution may well be upon us, but health and fitness consumers buying wearable tech still prefer to make their purchase in-store than from the company’s website, according to new research from Nielsen.

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

With today's activity tracking devices, reward schemes can acknowledge actual activity, not just attendance

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

Refurbishments require huge capital investment, so how do clubs make the most of them when complete?

Vera Kiss of The Futures Company unmasks the Millennial generation and explains what you need to know to be relevant to this market

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

One of Sweden’s leading gym chains has banned changing room 'selfies' at its Stockholm clubs in a bid to protect the modesty of its members.

Henry Mason of trendwatching.com outlines the key consumer trends for the fitness sector to run with in 2014

From activity trackers to fitness apps, we round up some of the technology that's set to change the way we work out

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