Growth is on the cards for Fitness and Lifestyle Group as it adopts a premium value market positioning. Its CEO and MD talks to Kate Cracknell

Wave Active CEO Duncan Kerr on uniting local health leaders and Living Longer Better joint director Muir Grey on how physical activity impacts healthspan

The CEO of Plymouth Active on the area’s strategic plan to use physical activity with public health to tackle inequalities

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) in the UK is expanding a pilot on suicide prevention, using the Flow Neuroscience brain-stimulation headset, following remarkable early results.

Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands show that smartwatches fail to differentiate between excitement and stress

Smartwatches are consumer gadgets, not medical tools say researchers from Leiden University, after a study found that wearables can’t tell the difference between stress and excitement.

A hospital redevelopment in the UK is set to create an age-friendly wellness neighbourhood designed to support people as they get older and serve as a benchmark in the UK.

As access to medical memberships grows, Liz Terry says we must be ambitious in drawing on expertise from both the clinical and wellness worlds

The industry veterans are gearing up to launch a longevity concept franchise called Zenergie, as Kath Hudson reports

The Everything App has launched aimed at getting UK health workers and their families active with on-demand, live-streamed and in-person fitness and wellbeing activities.

The UK government has got behind Joe Wicks’ latest initiative – Activate, a new animated series of five minute workouts for kids.

The CEO of Mytime Active is delivering fitness and wellness interventions both within facilities and in the community. He explains all to Kate Cracknell.

The exercise physiologist and research scientist is leading on brain health at Orangetheory. She talks to Kath Hudson

A ten-year plan for health has been published for the UK, with a pivot to prevention at its heart. Kath Hudson gives a briefing and also reports on Joe Wicks’ allied kids’ fitness initiative

How can health club operators support younger members with their mental health? Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi offers his perspective

Combining step-tracking with mindfulness training boosts long-term motivation to exercise, according to a new study from the University of Bath

A driver of mental and physical health, vagus nerve protocols have huge potential to support health club members, as Kath Hudson discovers

A look at the results of the 2025 ACSM survey.

A deep dive into the Latin American market, courtesy of the Health & Fitness Association.

Kath Hudson reports on the first UK Health and Fitness Market Report.

A summary of the Health & Fitness Association’s research into the global market.

Karsten Hollasch and Steffen Gausselmann talk us through the key findings of the 12th European Health and Fitness Market Report.

For many people the relentlessness of the hustle culture is costing our happiness. Tim Jack Adams, founder of wellbeing consultancy GreenX7, says most of his clients comment on experiencing a lack of sleep and a lack of fun. He says play isn’t just frivolous, it’s essential, especially with mental illness on the rise.

Colin Waggett, Tom Leverton, Elaine Jobson and Liz Clark are among the line-up of CEOs giving their take on current issues, such as how to influence governments and whether the recovery trend is here to stay.

HCM Handbook editorial director, Liz Terry and Kath Hudson predict key trends, influences and opportunities set to shape the sector, including vagus nerve resets, diagnostics and social prescribing.

A study by researchers at the UK's University of Bath has found that daily mindfulness training increases people's overall intentions to stay active in the long term when tracked their steps.

Price increases and openings are driving growth in the European market, according to a report from Deloitte Germany

With a mental health crisis among young people, how can the industry help? Kath Hudson asks the experts

Seven Lion Yard’s founder tells us how her holistic wellness centre in London addresses the mind-body connection

A game changing report from NHS England could transform the fitness sector, says Liz Terry