trends news & features
Nicky Jobson looks ahead to the highlights in store for visitors to this year’s Leisure Industry Week
HCM issue 9 2014
Pete Banbury looks at the future of fitness education and learning
HCM issue 9 2014
Tech-savvy members are using apps and devices to take fitness into their own hands. Are you ready for the health tech revolution?
HCM issue 8 2014
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
HCM issue 7 2014
Kath Hudson reports on payment trends in health and fitness
HCM issue 7 2014
Are you a manager or a leader, and are you getting the best out of your team? Justin Tamsett offers his advice on employee motivation
HCM issue 7 2014
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
HCM issue 7 2014
The first ever London Technology Week – to run from 16-20 June – will be
bolstered by the inaugural Leisure Tech Expo (LTE), a one-day event designed
to showcase the latest industry uses for digital innovations.
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10 Jun 2014
With UK inactivity regularly making the headlines, Matrix Fitness puts its faith and finances into a two-wheeled solution
HCM issue 5 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
IHRSA Annual Convention & Trade Show, IHRSA 2014, Sally Hogshead, Gary Vaynerchuck, Dan Heath, Luke Williams
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
ukactive has launched a business performance benchmarking tool for gyms and
leisure centres, enabling them to compare how their facility is performing
against the industry average and rival establishments.
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29 Apr 2014
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.
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15 Apr 2014
Eric Vandenbeele presents an overview of the Belgian market, while Kristen Walsh highlights IHRSA's new Trends Report
HCM issue 4 2014
Kate Cracknell talks to the fitness entrepreneur and celebrity PT about data-based training, personalisation and driving a health-focused message
HCM issue 4 2014
Lauren Applegarth looks at a council scheme to open multiple sites, each with their own specialism
HCM issue 4 2014
A look at how fixed resistance equipment is being integrated into sports-specific training programmes
HCM issue 3 2014
The world's largest trade fair for fitness, health and wellness takes place in Germany next month
HCM issue 3 2014
Vera Kiss of The Futures Company unmasks the Millennial generation and explains what you need to know to be relevant to this market
HCM issue 3 2014
The UK's leading low-cost operator Pure Gym is rolling out the centralised chain management system from Exerp to facilitate its ambitious plans for expansion
HCM issue 3 2014
Henry Mason of trendwatching.com outlines the key
consumer trends for the fitness sector to run with in 2014
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
From activity trackers to fitness apps, we round up some of
the technology that's set to change the way we work out
HCM Handbook 2014
What's in store at the UK's largest trade beauty event taking place at ExCeL, London, this month?
HCM issue 2 2014
Luxury health club spas are increasingly offering wellness services just for men. Kate Corney examines this growing trend
HCM issue 2 2014
Camilla Parke of The Futures Company outlines some of the trends that will influence the health and wellness sector this year
HCM issue 2 2014
The new director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England talks to Steven Ward about his mission to tackle the ‘wicked problem' of physical inactivity
HCM issue 2 2014
Part one of a nine-part series detailing Alliance Leisure's process for
creating successful public leisure facilities
HCM issue 9 2013
trendwatching.com's Henry Mason identifies some of the key consumer trends for the fitness sector to run with in 2014, from Crowd Shaping to The Internet of Caring Things
HCM issue 1 2014
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