Health and Fitness Club Industry News
Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Crunch Fitness Extends Business Relationship with ABC Fitness Solutions
Posted: June 21, 2021 in Chains
LITTLE ROCK, AR and NEW YORK, N.Y. - ABC Fitness Solutions, LLC (ABC), a leading provider of technology and related services for the fitness industry, and Crunch Fitness, the health club brand known for making serious fitness fun through innovative programming and an inclusive atmosphere, has announced the extension of their technology partnership as Crunch accelerates their growth throughout the pandemic. ABC will continue to provide strategic support and innovative technology to help Crunch optimize business functions such as revenue-cycle management, membership management and club administration. Read More...
OLC Celebrates its 60th Anniversary
Posted: June 21, 2021 in Suppliers
DENVER, CO - On June 15, 1961, mere years after growing up and playing on a dirt road called Colorado Boulevard, Stuart Ohlson hung up his shingle and started Stuart Ohlson and Associates. Working from an office he designed just across the street from East High School, he and his staff were soon busy with a series of residential and commercial commissions. Today, that firm has grown and become what is now called OLC | Ohlson Lavoie Corporation. Celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year, OLC is an architecture, interiors and aquatics four-office firm based in Denver with offices in Orlando, Cairo and Tokyo. OLC now specializes in recreation, health and wellness, hospitality and aquatic projects. Over the course of those 60 years, OLC has helped change the skyline of Denver, influenced how we exercise and has changed the lives of its employees, business associates, clients and those who live, work and play in its buildings. Read More...
Booming Pickleball Popularity Takes Center Court at Life Time
Posted: June 21, 2021 in Chains
CHANHASSEN, MN - Pickleball is taking the nation by storm, growing more than 21% during the past year and showing no signs of slowing down. 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 announced that it will rapidly expand its pickleball programming to become the top destination and authority for the sport. Read More...
Raising ALS Awareness Around the World on International ALS/MND Day
Posted: June 21, 2021 in Other News
CAMBRIDGE, MA - In America, we work to spread awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, for the entire month of May as part National ALS Awareness Month. However, there is also one single day when the entire world comes together to share the story of this devastating disease, as well as the global effort to both find treatments for it and support those living with ALS. Read More...
Milena Stephens Named PTR Director of Education and Diversity
Posted: June 21, 2021 in Suppliers
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Milena Stephens has been promoted to Director of Education and Diversity at PTR Headquarters. In her new position, Milena will design, implement and manage PTR’s education for Level One, Level Two and specialty courses. To continue to expand tennis’ reach, Milena will work with PTR’s successful diversity programs suchas the PTR ACE Program, Wheelchair and Adaptive Programs and the Junior Apprentice Program set to release this fall. Read More...
An Open Letter to the Health & Fitness Industry
Posted: June 18, 2021 in HFA
BOSTON, MA - IHRSA 2021 in Dallas, October 13 - 15, is our time to relaunch the momentum of growth for our industry in a BIG way! We will be “Celebrating the Industry’s Revival,” and we need you there! Uniting for our common cause is arguably more urgent and vital than it has been for the last 16 months. Now is the time to pull together and get business flowing again for us all. With travel restrictions lifting and a flood of clubs already indicating they are coming, we are confident the turnout to this year’s convention and trade show will be strong! We will take every precaution to keep you safe and we will make a promise to deliver to you the ideas, the technology, equipment and customers that will help you to turn the world’s appetite for fitness into your business growth. Read More...
Medical Fitness Association Welcomes Evolt as an Industry Partner
Posted: June 18, 2021 in Suppliers
PINEHURST, N.C. - The Medical Fitness Association welcomes Evolt as an Industry Partner. Evolt is a digital body composition analytic company. Using BIA technology, it’s the only product on the market that offers personalised calorie and macronutrient recommendations based on an individual’s true lean body-mass. This innovative technology provides a digital health tracking platform for the user as an intuitive data analytics platform. Read More...
Integrating Digital into Member Lifestyle
Posted: June 18, 2021 in Suppliers
CHANHASSEN, MN - Across the country, clubs are busier than they’ve been in a year or more. Live instructor classes almost at capacity, personal trainers booked out again and the buzz is that clubs are back big time. That’s the good news. The less good news is that clubs lost 500,000 employees during 2020 and operators now report problems juggling the need to re-hire and find staff and instructors with member demand for more classes on the rise daily. But, as things heat up in person at clubs this summer, one answer might still be the very thing that connected clubs and members for the past year: Digital. Here’s how... Read More...
EVCS Collaborates With LA Fitness to Install EV Fast Chargers at Its Fitness Centers
Posted: June 17, 2021 in Chains
ARCADIA, CA - EVCS, one of the largest electric vehicle (EV) fast charging network operators on the West Coast, has announced a collaboration with Fitness International, LLC, a leading health club operator in the United States, to install fast charging stations at LA Fitness locations throughout Southern California. Read More...
Fitness Industry Asks Congressional Leaders to Support GYMS Act
Posted: June 17, 2021 in HFA
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sixteen organizations, led by IHRSA, the Global Health & Fitness Association, and Community Gyms Coalition (CGC), released a letter calling on Congress to include H.R. 890 and S. 1613, the Gym Mitigation and Survival Act (GYMS Act), as part of any future economic recovery legislation. In addition to IHRSA and CGC, signatories to the letter included... Read More...
