Garmin has released its Connect Fitness Report for 2022, which shows that users of its tech have returned to their pre-pandemic fitness habits.

Wondercise will announce a new fitness experience at CES 2023 in January that gathers online and on-site users together by connecting them in realtime and allowing competition on the same leaderboard during the same class.

Gyms and health clubs in Queensland now have essential status. Barrie Elvish gives HCM the background.

Much of the industry continues to fail when it comes to elevating women. Kath Hudson asks what can and should be done

Blok has launched a fundraising campaign on Crowdcube. The company’s goal is to reach £500,000 – ahead of a possible funding round in 2023.

Black Friday, which falls on 25 November, will be one of the busiest retail days of 2022, marking the start of this year’s Christmas shopping season. Now extending into ‘cyber week’ and finishing on Cyber Monday, it's a time when shops and companies offer significant discounts on their products.

The CEO of l’Orange Bleue talks to Frances Marcellin about its new-style gyms and preparing the company for European expansion

The co-founder of Reset in Cádiz, Spain, says the club has been designed as an escape, to enable members to follow a more balanced way of life

The founder of The Shredquarters is growing a self-funded franchise business with the aim of making it affordable for franchisees

Lululemon has released a new digital service, Lululemon Studio, for which the prerequisite to join is owning a Mirror fitness screen.

Centred Wellness – a travel and lifestyle platform connecting members with health and wellness services and products – has acquired Bua Fit, a UK marketplace providing outdoor and online fitness classes. The companies claim that the combined entity is estimated to be worth around US$25m.

Athlo, an app enabling consumers to sell unwanted classes has soft-launched in the UK. The platform was founded by Matthew Mansell to help consumers avoid wasting unwanted class slots and to enable operators to take an additional slice of revenue from classes they've already sold once.

Peloton has opened pre-orders in the US for its new connected rowing machine. Consumers can reserve a rower for delivery in December and have the option to test it in a 30-day commitment-free trial.

Amanda Rees founded Bold, digital strength and balance training for older people

Armah Sports CEO introduces his new smart club, B_fit, which uses AI, VR and Amazon Alexa

A new study by People Management Insights and Gympass looked at ways to deliver corporate wellbeing programmes by moving beyond a work-first approach

The gaming industry is the inspiration behind a new fitness concept launching in New Jersey. We talk to the Drop Fitness CEO about his innovative approach

From a boom in VR to deeper client personalisation, Lauren McAlister takes a look at trends the industry can expect to see accelerating as we head into 2023

Fitness powerhouse Rainer Schaller, CEO of RSG Group, has opened Heimat in LA, combining a luxury gym with a private members’ club

Scandinavian fitness chain SATS has reported Q2 results showing a 53 per cent increase in revenue of NOK 1,022m (£85,591,015). The group’s EBITDA also demonstrates a strong operating performance over the last 12 months as it is now NOK 83,000,000 (£6,965,182) compared with NOK -113 million (- £9,498,447) in the corresponding quarter last year.

Mindbody and Class Pass have released their 2022 Mid-Year Wellness Trends Report which reveals their predictions following two years of pandemic upheaval.

The co-founder of Happy Finish explains how the future of fitness could look with ‘digital-first’ wellness prescriptions and fully immersive experiences

Small group training is more popular than ever, driven by supply-side innovation and consumer choice, as Frances Marcellin discovers

A round up of recent research into mental health and highlights from the gamechanging Move Your Mental Health Report from the John W Brick Mental Health Foundation

Although 70 per cent of people with disabilities say they want to be more active, they are put off by the physical, logistical and psychological barriers

Fitness franchise companies are making deals and reporting brisk business. Kath Hudson finds out more

The inimitable Emma Barry, author of Building a Badass Boutique, gives us the benefit of her insights into customer behaviour and how it will shape trends; including hyper personalisation and micro segmentation

Leading software specialists reveal how they’ve solved specific tech challenges for individual health clubs

Can one operator succeed where another has failed? asks Liz Terry

Jane Kitchen reports from the recent Global Wellness Summit in Boston, US