Burnley Leisure is boosting exercise participation and building community through skill-based fitness in partnership with BOX12

Testosterone shots, GLP-1s and wellness – HCM talks to industry leaders about their plans for 2025 and examines current opportunites, threats and trends

Group exercise is the engine room of the sector, relying on its talent to deliver. Abi Harris asks industry experts how we can engage the next generation of instructors

Global corporate wellness platform, Wellhub, has acquired Fitprime, a key player in the Italian corporate wellness market.

A Kickstarter campaign is underway to fund a fully automated wearable nutrition tracker which takes photos of food and calculates its calorific and nutritional values.

AI-driven software is enabling hyper personalisation for members, while also allowing operators to build powerful communities, as Julie Cramer reports

Politicians are turning to weight loss drugs to control obesity in the population. Kath Hudson polls the experts on the impact

Strength training app, Ladder, has secured more than US$100 million investment to support new growth initiatives and reach a global audience.

New technology is supporting the development of ‘workout builders’, which use AI to design customised exercises to enhance member results

Developments in technology are helping to power immersive, multi-sensory experiences. We look at the benefits for both members and operators

Wellness expert Oliver Patrick talks about the longevity opportunity and how to deploy tech innovations to gain a competitive advantage

The Gym Group’s CEO gives HCM a progress report, a year after he made the move from the world of media to the fitness industry

Fred Fitness – claiming to be the first gym to offer AI-driven, personalised workouts – will make its debut in Santa Monica in January, with plans for rapid expansion via franchising.

Peloton has announced that Peter Stern – co-founder of Apple Fitness+ – has been appointed its new CEO and president, effective 1 January 2025.

David Langridge applauds YouTube for restricting access to toxic fitness content for teenagers. Eric Durak says operators must gear up to welcome GLP-1 users

The PureGym founder and the developer of VOR are working together on a new AI workout builder to help personal trainers scale their businesses

We talk to suppliers about how they create flexible and fit-for-purpose gym floors

Fitness On Demand – which is part of Lift Brands – has announced it will partner with heart rate data app, G Beat, to add functionality to its wellness platform.

Fitness technology and corporate wellness company, EGYM, has secured US$200 million of growth capital to expand its global fitness and healthtech platform.

The co-owner of Volt gym tells us about building an independent, community-focused brand and what’s in store following a major investment

With one in six people in the world set to be aged over 60 by 2030, the demand for healthy ageing and longevity services is expected to rise. We talk to operators active in this space and ask how their premium offerings can filter down to the mainstream

From brain training and body sculpting, to ‘gesture tech’ and binaural beats, HCM predicts the trends that will impact and shape the sector

The entire gym and beyond is now connected by EGYM Genius, enabling customised workouts tailored to drive retention

Xcel Leisure Centre has strengthened its outreach pathways with the region’s first Technogym Biocircuit

With gym-goers now able to track and analyse every part of their fitness journey, we look at how this impacts outcomes

Dr Cedric Bryant considers how the industry can best use language to broaden its reach

The HCM Summit, which will be held in London on 24 October, has announced EGYM as its Platinum Partner for the next three years.

Steph Eaves asks suppliers how the increased interest in strength training is changing the focus of their business

The co-founder of Sanctum talks about inspiration and going global with the unique, spiritual workout that originated in Amsterdam

Unacknowledged trauma can make it hard to make lifestyle changes finds Kath Hudson