David Lloyd Leisure has teamed up with Universal Music UK to launch an exclusive music app aimed at boosting performance during exercise.

Sportswear giant Nike has signalled its ambitions to dominate the wearable tech and fitness app market with the opening of a research and development lab in San Francisco, California.

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The health and fitness sector is being presented with a once in a lifetime opportunity to create 'wellness cities', says Kate Cracknell

In the final part of his series looking at member retention, Dr Paul Bedford takes a look at the reasons why members leave

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

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

2014 will be the year that operators decide whether they want to play a recognised role within the health sector, says ukactive's David Stalker

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

What's in store at the UK's largest trade beauty event taking place at ExCeL, London, this month?

Kath Hudson looks at how clubs are turning pilates into a successful secondary revenue stream

A free school in Luton is the first in the UK to be set up by a leisure trust. Rhianon Howells finds out about its healthy approach

Whether it's payroll support, scheduling or task allocation, Sean James says today's CRM systems can play a key role in staff management

Can human energy expended on CV equipment realistically be converted into electricity to run your club?

Camilla Parke of The Futures Company outlines some of the trends that will influence the health and wellness sector this year

Technogym debuted the world’s first Google Glass controlled treadmill at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas last week.

A host of new and innovative wearable tech devices have been unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014.

In a new series for Health Club Management, Gymtopia founder Ray Algar reports on a gym shoe donation project in Brazil

New research shows how physical activity can help in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes

The CEO of LA fitness talks to Kate Cracknell about the recent launch of its premium LAX brand

Microsoft has chosen fitness brand Body Training Systems to provide video workouts for Xbox Fitness on the new Xbox One, being released tomorrow (22 November).

Austrian fitness app Runtastic has launched a new feature that provides runners with stories as they work out, in an attempt to keep them motivated and entertained during their training sessions.

How badly is broken equipment affecting your club? Kath Hudson reports on the cloud-based solutions that can cut downtime

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

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has opened the GSK Human Performance Lab - a science facility that will look to "deepen the understanding of human performance".

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

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

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

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

US scientists have discovered that exercise has an impact on neurons in the brain that make it more resilient to stress and anxiety