Health and Fitness Club Industry News
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USTA Partners with PHIT America to Get Kids Active and Healthy
Posted: May 27, 2021 in Suppliers
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The USTA has announced a partnership with PHIT America, a national charity focused on improving the physical and mental health of children in the U.S., by providing increased physical activity programs. As part of the partnership, the USTA will be the Presenting Sponsor of the new PHIT America “Play Tennis” program, designed to provide free tennis curriculum and youth equipment to after-school and out-of-school programs. Read More...
Crunch Signature Announces Its Newest Location in San Ramon, California
Posted: May 26, 2021 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Crunch Fitness announces a new express pop-up location in San Ramon, California. Crunch will swing open the doors for workouts at its brand-new Signature outpost on June 1st. Crunch San Ramon's express pop-up gym looks to provide members with top-of-the-line options to get a sweat on and have fun at the same time. The new pop-up gym includes state-of-the-art strength training, cardio equipment, a functional turf area and a designated zone for those looking to get individualized programs from Crunch's expert team of Personal Trainers. Read More...
Myzone Commended as Technology Company of the Year by 93 Judges in Fitness and Wellness Awards of Excellence
Posted: May 26, 2021 in Suppliers
NEW YORK, N.Y. - An expert panel of 93 judges has voted Myzone as the Technology Company of the Year at the 2021 Fitness & Wellness Awards of Excellence, hosted by FIT Summit. Sponsored by Life Fitness, this year’s judging criteria for the Technology Company of the Year Award was based on successful commercial expansion, future scalability, technological advancement, perception as an industry gamechanger, positive return on investment to the customer and the extent of industry collaboration. Read More...
Snap Fitness Partners with Escape Fitness for Club Equipment
Posted: May 26, 2021 in Chains, Suppliers
CHANHASSEN, MN - Snap Fitness has announced a partnership with Escape Fitness that specializes in free weights and functional accessories in select or new U.S., Canada and APAC Snap Fitness clubs. This comes after both companies have successfully partnered in the U.K. for the past several years. Read More...
Merrithew Partners with Resellers in Kuwait and Taiwan
Posted: May 26, 2021 in Suppliers
TORONTO, ONTARIO - Merrithew, a global leader in mind-body education and equipment, announces its partnership with Sports World Fitness Solutions, an experienced distributor based in Kuwait, to bring its industry-leading Pilates, fitness and mind-body equipment and accessories to commercial gyms, health clubs, hotels, sports facilities, hospitals, educational facilities and home users in the region. Merrithew has also developed a new reseller partnership with Gymco Sports Ltd. in Taiwan, one of the top 10 recreational and physical activity markets in Asia, in response to skyrocketing consumer and professional demand for high-quality mindful movement equipment and education. Read More...
Parkinson’s Foundation and American College of Sports Medicine Announce Exercise Recommendations for Parkinson’s Disease
Posted: May 25, 2021 in Other News, Suppliers
MIAMI, FL and NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Parkinson's Foundation and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) have announced new exercise recommendations to provide safe and effective guidance on physical activity to people with Parkinson's and to certified exercise professionals working with them. Read More...
ACSM Names Incoming Editor-in-Chief of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Posted: May 25, 2021 in Suppliers
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - ACSM announces that Andrew M. Jones, Ph.D., FACSM, has been selected as the next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE). Dr. Jones was selected through a rigorous application and interview search process from among a pool of talented and qualified candidates. Read More...
Life Fitness Joins Movement Live by Michelob ULTRA as Official Fitness Equipment Partner
Posted: May 24, 2021 in Suppliers
ROSEMONT, IL - Life Fitness is teaming up with Michelob ULTRA to encourage fitness lovers to get back to working out with friends this summer and to have some fun along the way. As the official fitness equipment partner of Movement Live by Michelob ULTRA, Life Fitness will help inspire fitness lovers to sweat together and encourage a more active lifestyle through invigorating workouts. Read More...
Peloton To Build First U.S. Factory
Posted: May 24, 2021 in Suppliers
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Peloton Interactive, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTON) has announced plans to build its first U.S. factory. After a rigorous selection process, Peloton selected Troy Township in Wood County, Ohio for the site of Peloton Output Park (POP), a state-of-the art factory that will be dedicated to producing Peloton's award-winning Peloton Bike, Bike+ and Peloton Tread starting in 2023. Peloton expects to break ground on the site later this summer. Throughout the multi-year development, Peloton will commit approximately $400 million to the facility. Read More...
Ecore Offers Continuing Education Unit on Solving Secondhand Noise with Savvy Flooring Specification
Posted: May 24, 2021 in Suppliers
LANCASTER, PA - In certain environments, among them healthcare facilities, multifamily housing and fitness centers, the noise of clanging, banging, footfall, voices and machinery can be pervasive and seemingly uncontrollable. Ecore, a company that transforms reclaimed materials into performance surfaces that make people’s lives better, now offers a continuing education unit (CEU) focused on unwanted sound as a public health hazard. Read More...
Gyms See Membership Increase as COVID Restrictions Ease
Posted: May 21, 2021 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Crunch Franchise CEO, Ben Midgley, discusses fitness center reopenings and how the industry is bouncing back as COVID restrictions ease. Read More...
Matrix Fitness Announces Integration with Ecofit
Posted: May 20, 2021 in Suppliers
COTTAGE GROVE, WI - Matrix Fitness, one of the world’s fastest-growing commercial fitness brands, has announced an integration partnership with Ecofit Networks, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider. The new partnership enables equipment reporting from any connected Matrix fitness equipment into Ecofit’s asset management system. Read More...
USTA Foundation Launches “Rally for the Future” Fundraising Campaign
Posted: May 20, 2021 in Suppliers
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the USTA, has launched the “Rally for the Future” campaign, designed to raise $20 million over the next three years to support more than 250 National Junior Tennis & Learning (NJTL) chapters across the U.S. Read More...
A New Era of Growth and Leadership at IHRSA
Posted: May 19, 2021 in IHRSA
BOSTON, MA - The worldwide pandemic has presented unmatched challenges for the health and fitness industry. As it ebbs, we are all critically focused on reopening, rebuilding, and reimagining our businesses and IHRSA. But Covid-19 has laid bare our strengths and weaknesses. On the club level, we now recognize the shortcomings in our business, leases, vendor contracts and membership retention. On the national level, the pandemic allowed the IHRSA Board to reflect on our past successes and reassess our future. As a result, we decided to make significant changes in our operations and goals and recruit new leadership to steer us into the future. Read More...
ACE and WIFA Launch New Opportunity to Support Women in Fitness
Posted: May 19, 2021 in Suppliers
SAN DIEGO, CA - American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the Women In Fitness Association (WIFA) reached a new milestone in their partnership with the launch of the WIFA Growth Grant, a scholarship that provides current ACE Certified Professionals the opportunity to build and grow their careers with a one-year WIFA membership. Read More...
Lou Gehrig Day: Celebrating a Legend of Baseball and a Face of ALS
Posted: May 19, 2021 in Other News
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Lou Gehrig was a renowned baseball player. He was one of the best hitters of all time, a seven-time all-star with a career batting average of .340 and just shy of 500 home runs. He earned the nickname “The Iron Horse” for his legendary durability, setting a record for most consecutive games played, 2,130, that stood for 56 years. He played his entire major league career, from 1923 to 1939, with the New York Yankees. Still, many people remember Lou Gehrig best for the disease that bears his name: Lou Gehrig’s Disease, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Motor Neuron Disease. Read More...
IHRSA Announces New Partnership With Fitness & Allied Healthcare Professionals Organization, MedFit Education Foundation and MedFit Network
Posted: May 17, 2021 in IHRSA
BOSTON, MA and COSTA MESA, CA— - IHRSA, a world-leading authority on the commercial health club industry, with the mission to grow, promote and protect the health and fitness industry, has formed a strategic partnership with the MedFit Education Foundation, dedicated to facilitating education and empowering professionals to work with those with medical conditions, chronic disease, disabilities and women’s health issues. Read More...
Crunch Memberships Up Over 5% Despite Pandemic
Posted: May 14, 2021 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Ben Midgley, CEO and Founding Partner of Crunch Fitness Franchise, discusses seeing membership grow in the past year due in part to people missing a feeling of community. Read More...
Life Time NoHo Opens as New York Expansion Continues
Posted: May 13, 2021 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Life Time, one of the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brands that continues to shape the way consumers move, work and live, digitally and physically, has opened its third New York City location in less than six months, and fourth in the city, as it continues to bring its Healthy Way of Life philosophy to New Yorkers. Life Time is investing in New York City with plans to bring six new clubs to the city by the end of 2022, despite industry bankruptcies and permanent fitness location closures as an outcome of the pandemic. Read More...
Community Gyms Coalition and IHRSA Commend Bipartisan Senate Introduction of Bill to Rebuild Devastated Fitness Industry
Posted: May 13, 2021 in IHRSA
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Community Gyms Coalition (CGC) and IHRSA, the global health and fitness association, groups representing more than 40,000 gyms and fitness studios across the U.S., applaud the bipartisan introduction of the GYMS Act in the Senate by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Jerry Moran (R-KS). The GYMS Act would provide direct support to rebuild the devastated fitness industry and save small gyms, fitness studios and fitness facilities from bankruptcy. Read More...
