Health and Fitness Club Industry News: Chains
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Xponential Fitness Signs Master Franchise Agreement in Kuwait for Rumble, Club Pilates, StretchLab and CycleBar
Posted: October 26, 2022 in Chains
IRVINE, CA - Xponential Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: XPOF) announces it has signed a Master Franchise Agreement in Kuwait for its brands Rumble, Club Pilates, StretchLab and CycleBar. The deal, signed with Kuwait Real Estate Company, Aqarat, will result in the opening of a minimum of eight studios early in the initial 10-year term of the agreement, with additional studios to be developed based on market opportunity. Read More...
Life Time is #1 in Pickleball: 338% Monthly Participation Increase in Nine Months, 350+ Courts on a Path to 600+ by End of 2023
Posted: October 26, 2022 in Chains
CHANHASSEN, MN - As pickleball participation continues its explosive growth, so too have the number of permanent pickleball courts at Life Time (NYSE: LTH), one of the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brands. In fact, no other organization in America can say it owns and operates more permanent pickleball courts, now surpassing 350 across its locations with plans to top 600 by the end of 2023. Read More...
TITLE Boxing Club Unveils 2023 Vision and Growth Plans at Annual Convention
Posted: October 25, 2022 in Chains
SANTA MONICA, CA - TITLE Boxing Club, the world's leading boxing fitness brand that offers a full-body, authentic heavy bag workout, recently held its annual convention with a theme of "Eye on the Prize." As the first time the system has gathered since pre-COVID and pre-acquisition, this year's convention was filled with camaraderie, networking, brand announcements and dozens of franchise partner awards. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Newest Location in San Antonio, Texas
Posted: October 24, 2022 in Chains
SAN ANTONIO, TX - Crunch Franchise announces the upcoming opening of Crunch San Antonio, a $5 million, 40,000-square-foot fitness facility, with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities. Crunch San Antonio is owned by Undefeated Tribe. Read More...
IHRSA President & CEO Statement on Presumed Loss of Rainer Schaller
Posted: October 22, 2022 in Chains
BOSTON, MA - IHRSA President & CEO Liz Clark issued the following statement regarding news reports of the presumed loss of global health and fitness industry leader, Rainer Schaller, and his family while traveling in a twin engine, nine passenger plane from Mexico to Costa Rica on October 21... Read More...
Fit Body Boot Camp Attempts to Break the Guinness Book of World Records for a Cause
Posted: October 21, 2022 in Chains
CHINO HILLS, CA - In North America, nearly 12% of people live below the poverty line. Many of these are children without parents. This means millions of North American kids are left without Christmas every year. Because of this, Matt Wilber, Fit Body Boot Camp owner and West Michigan native, began his holiday charitable giving in 2013 when he opened his first Fit Body location in Grand Haven, Michigan with the purpose of helping others and inspiring them to change their lives. Read More...
Planet Fitness to Add Parkland, Florida Location
Posted: October 19, 2022 in Chains
TIMONIUM, MD - Planet Fitness, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers with more members than any other fitness brand, announces further expansion in the Sunshine State. A 19,703-square-foot space in Parkland, Florida that is currently a YouFit gym will close October 25. Planet Fitness will completely rebuild and equip the facility, for a total investment of $2.8 million with an anticipated December opening. Read More...
New York Sports Club (NYSC) Announces the Acquisition of Fhitting Room
Posted: October 18, 2022 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - New York Sports Club ("NYSC" or the "Company") and its family of brands, one of the largest privately held fitness operators in the U.S., announces the acquisition of Fhitting Room, a leading NYC based boutique fitness brand. As part of the acquisition, Fhitting Room founder Kari Saitowitz, a prominent marketing executive and brand strategist whose held leadership roles at Pepsi and American Express, was named Chief Marketing & Creative Officer for NYSC. Read More...
Life Time Debuts First Luxury Athletic Country Club in Brooklyn
Posted: October 18, 2022 in Chains
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Life Time (NYSE: LTH), one of the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brands, announces the opening of Life Time Dumbo, the company's first location in Brooklyn and sixth in New York City. Prominently located in the up-and-coming Dumbo neighborhood within the Front & York development, the 3-story, 77,000-square-foot healthy living destination will serve members from nine months to 90+ years with an abundance of health and wellness activities starting with its Kids Academy up through specialized ARORA programming for active agers. Read More...
Matrix Fitness Announces Partnership with Professional Running Coach Rick Muhr
Posted: October 18, 2022 in Chains
COTTAGE GROVE, WI - Matrix Fitness announces a new partnership today with esteemed running coach Rick Muhr as a new Matrix Brand Ambassador. As a brand ambassador, Muhr will deliver on the Matrix total solutions promise by strengthening connections via motivational speaking engagements and creating expert content applicable to health club owners, trainers and members. In addition, Muhr will consult with the development teams at Matrix to bring his coaching methodology and experience to their products and solutions. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Newest Location in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Posted: October 17, 2022 in Chains
WILKES BARRE, CA - Crunch Franchise announces the upcoming December 2022 opening of Crunch Wilkes Barre, a $4 million, 28,000-square-foot fitness facility, with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in the Northeastern region of Pennsylvania. Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, Crunch Wilkes Barre will offer top-quality cardio equipment and strength training equipment, a functional training area with indoor turf, group fitness and cycling studios, a personal training studio, 3D-body scanners, saunas, HydroMassage chairs, tanning beds, Infrared wellness pods, an outdoor functional training area, Kids Crunch and more. Read More...
Mayweather Boxing + Fitness Acquires KickHouse Franchise System
Posted: October 17, 2022 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - MW Fitness Holdings, LLC, the parent company of Mayweather Boxing + Fitness, announces it has acquired KickHouse Fitness, LLC, a leading kickboxing franchise system. The transaction combines the 65 current Mayweather Boxing + Fitness franchise locations with the 26 KickHouse franchise locations into a single group under MW Fitness Holdings, LLC, offering the opportunity to enhance franchisee systems and infrastructure across all areas of both businesses. Read More...
LA Fitness Named Best of Orange County 2022: Best Fitness Center/Boom Camp
Posted: October 14, 2022 in Chains
ORANGE COUNTY, CA - LA Fitness is back in the Best of Orange County rankings, and this year the readers showed it even more love, naming it the top fitness center. LA Fitness’ slogan calls it “one place for all the ways you work out” and with everything that this major gym chain has to offer, it’s not a big stretch to call it that. Read More...
North Castle Partners Extends CR Fitness Partnership with First Continuation Fund, Led by TPG
Posted: October 12, 2022 in Chains
GREENWICH, CT - North Castle Partners, a leading private equity firm that has focused on consumer businesses that promote Healthy, Active and Sustainable Living for more than 20 years, announces the closing of a single-asset continuation fund transaction dedicated to CR Fitness, a leading Crunch Fitness franchisee. This transaction continues North Castle's ownership of the company and reaffirms its commitment to supporting CR Fitness' long-term growth strategy. The new continuation fund acquired CR Fitness from North Castle Partners VII, LP ("NCP VII") and other existing investors. Read More...
Exos Launches The Game Changer and The Game Changer LIVE
Posted: October 12, 2022 in Chains
PHOENIX, AZ - Exos, an industry-leading coaching company, announces the company's launch of its newest digital application, The Game Changer, and corresponding immersive in-person experience, The Game Changer LIVE. The Game Changer is a six-week experience designed to get people to rethink what it means to sustain performance and career success in the long run. Read More...
Snap Fitness Continues North American Expansion with Multi-Unit Development Deal in Northern New Jersey and the Hamptons
Posted: October 7, 2022 in Chains
NEW JERSEY - Snap Fitness, the fitness concept centered around its ‘for the feeling’ mantra, focused on how exercise makes you feel versus how you look, announces that it has signed a franchise agreement to bring at least three locations to the northern New Jersey and the Hamptons area in New York. Snap Fitness will further expand into the region, specifically targeting locations in Morris County along with locations in the South Hampton area. Read More...
Xponential Fitness Gives Back this Autumn to Further Enhance the Health and Wellbeing of the Communities it Serves
Posted: October 6, 2022 in Chains
IRVINE, CA - Xponential Fitness (NYSE: XPOF), the largest global curator of boutique fitness brands, is leading the way with contributions to health and wellness causes beyond the four walls of its 2,000-plus studios. Further breaking down barriers and lifting up communities through social efforts, the company announces a variety of charitable initiatives slated for October and November across its brands, which include Club Pilates, Pure Barre, CycleBar, StretchLab, YogaSix, Row House, Rumble, AKT, STRIDE Fitness and BFT. Read More...
acac Timonium is Becoming Coppermine Fitness Beginning November 1, 2022
Posted: October 6, 2022 in Chains
TIMONIUM, MD - acac announces that beginning November 1, acac Timonium will be joining the Coppermine Fitness family. Coppermine has several facilities in and around Baltimore for active-lifestyle adults, youth sports and families, that include five fitness facilities and thirteen athletic programming facilities in the Maryland region. Read More...
Anytime Fitness and Stronger U Join Community Gyms Coalition Members Declaring Fitness is Essential Commitments for White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health
Posted: October 5, 2022 in Chains
WOODBURY, MN - Self Esteem Brands (SEB), parent company of a global portfolio of fitness and wellness brands including Anytime Fitness and Stronger U, applauds the announcement of the Fitness is Essential commitments made at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health by the Community Gyms Coalition (CGC), which represents more than 15,000 community gyms, clubs and fitness facilities across the U.S. that serve more than 25 million members. Read More...
Fitness Ventures LLC Acquires T&N Investments LLC and their Four Crunch Fitness Locations in Louisville Kentucky, Growing the Franchise to 35 Locations
Posted: October 4, 2022 in Chains
ORLANDO, FL - Fitness Ventures LLC, one of Crunch Fitness’ fastest growing franchisees, announces the acquisition of all four of the Louisville, Kentucky Crunch Fitness locations. The acquisition fast tracks Fitness Ventures already aggressive growth, with plans to open around 15 locations per year for the foreseeable future. Read More...
