More Than 12,000 Convene in San Diego for IHRSA 2019
Posted: March 21, 2019 in IHRSA
IHRSA: Success By Association
BOSTON, MA – Fitness industry professionals from nearly 80 countries were in San Diego, CA for IHRSA 2019, the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association’s 38th Annual International Convention & Trade Show, held March 13 – 16, 2019.
IHRSA attendees experienced the cutting edge of fitness industry equipment and technology during the two-day Trade Show and early morning workouts, attended education sessions given by industry experts, worked out and power walked, networked and socialized.
See the IHRSA 2019 Highlight Video
IHRSA 2019 by the Numbers:
- More than 12,000 health club operators, suppliers, and fitness industry professionals;
- Attendees traveled from nearly 80 countries, taking advantage of simultaneous Interpretation for the keynotes and sessions into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese;
- The exhibit hall, with nearly 400 exhibitors, burst at the seams with vitality and motion throughout the two-day Trade Show and early morning workouts;
- Over 150 education sessions, networking opportunities, exercise classes, workshops, and new this year, Fireside Chats;
- More than 25.2M social media impressions, reaching over 4.2M people from posts mentioning IHRSA and the #IHRSA2019 hashtag.
Highlights included:
- Keynote presentations from Chris Riddell (sponsored by Myzone), Mel Robbins (sponsored by Technogym), Rohit Bhagarva (sponsored by Matrix Fitness), and Denise Lee Yohn (sponsored by Gympass);
- The 10th annual IHRSA Women’s Leadership Summit headlined by Sarah Moshman (sponsored by Club Automation +CSI Spectrum), Award-Winning Filmmaker and director of “The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things”;
- The standing-room only 23rd Annual IHRSA Financial Panel moderated by Rick Caro;
- The 22nd Annual IHRSA ILC Industry Leadership Summit (sponsored by ABC Financial) and Reception;
- The 14th Annual BASH for Augie’s Quest which raised over $1.9 million for ALS research. During the BASH, IHRSA President and CEO Joe Moore was awarded the 2019 Augie’s Quest Leadership Award;
- Jason Reinhardt of Go M.A.D. Fitness was elected as IHRSA Board Chair for the 2019/2020 year;
- Four new directors were welcomed to the IHRSA Board: Chris Smith, Chris Stevenson, Frank Lawrence and Greta Wagner. Missy Moss, Ray O’Connor, Larry Conner and ex-officio Derek Gallup were thanked for their service as they leave after this year.
2019 Award Recipients:
- The Outstanding Community Service Award was presented to Midtown Sanctuaire of Montreal, Canada;
- The IHRSA Woman Leader Award was presented to Francesca Schuler, CEO, In-Shape Health Clubs;
- The Associate Member of the Year Award was presented to MINDBODY.
For more information about IHRSA’s annual industry awards, including open applications, please visit ihrsa.org/awards.
IHRSA 2019 Resources:
- Audio (MP3) recordings of select IHRSA 2019 educational sessions will soon be available for sale at ihrsa.org/publications. A pre-order form can be downloaded;
- Official show images are available for a limited time at thephotogroup.com, access code: IHRSA19PRESS, or take a look at the IHRSA 2019 in Photos & Videos recap article;
- IHRSA Live video interviews of IHRSA 2019 exhibitors.
Update IHRSA’s 2030 Global Membership Initiative:
During IHRSA 2018, the association set an industry goal to reach 230 million global health club members by the year 2030. During his IHRSA 2019 presentation, Derek Gallup, IHRSA ex-officio, noted that the health club industry served 174 million worldwide health club members in 2018, a 7% increase over 2017’s 162 million. Gallup also presented the ten countries with the highest number of health club members as a percentage of population as well as the ten countries with the greatest increase in membership penetration rates.
Gallup noted that the biggest competition for health clubs is not other fitness facilities, but the living room couch (i.e. inactivity). “Only 6% of the world’s population has a health club membership,” noted Gallup. “As an industry we can and must do better. It is our mission to increase the number of people globally who are physically active.”
IHRSA 2019 Sponsors:
IHRSA gratefully acknowledges all of the sponsors that helped to make IHRSA 2019 possible: 9Round Franchising, LLC; ABC Financial; Active Management; Airex AG; Aktiv Solutions; American Council on Exercise (ACE); ASF Payment Solutions; Augie’s Quest; Balanced Body; ChinaFit Trade Co. Ltd.; Club Automation + CSI Spectrum; Club OS; Eleiko Sport, Inc; Fitness Brasil; Fitness Business Canada; Fitness Industry Council of Canada; Fitness Master, Inc.; First Degree Fitness / GDINA; Fitness Master, Inc.; Freemotion Fitness; Functional Remedies; Genavix, Inc.; Gympass; HydroMassage; InBody; Intenza/HealthStream Taiwan Inc.; Iron Grip Barbell Company; JumpSport Inc.; Keiser Corporation; Les Mills Shared Services Limited; Lumen; Management Around Sports; Master Lock Company LLC; Matrix Fitness; Merrithew; MINDBODY, Inc.; Motionsoft, Inc.; MYE Fitness Technologies; Myzone; NormaTec; Perfect Gym Solutions S.A.; Polar Electro, Inc.; Precor Incorporated; SportsArt; Stealth Detox Performance Water; Styku; Technogym; Texas Capital Bank; The Helix Company; Torque Fitness; Total Gym; Trainerize; True Fitness; TSG; TuffStuff Fitness International, Inc; Twin Oaks Software Development, Inc.; Upper Hand; VersaClimber / VersaPulley; Virtuagym – Digifit BV; WaterRower and Zumba Fitness LLC.
