Echelon Launches New Care Division, ActiveMD
Posted: November 11, 2024 in Suppliers
Echelon
CHATTANOOGA, TN – Echelon, a global fitness and sports leader, has launched ActiveMD, a certified wellness division that is focused on care by providing a group of licensed physicians to manage customers’ weight loss, immune system function and help boost metabolism.
Echelon has been a leader in connected home and commercial fitness equipment, providing world-class fitness content to consumers worldwide. Recently, the company has expanded its offerings to include strength training and wellness, recovery, nutrition, sleep, and weight loss. Echelon aims to offer the most comprehensive, well rounded health solutions to its customers.
Now, for the first time, Echelon’s ActiveMD division will be able to help consumers achieve their weight loss goals more easily, more affordably, and with full medical oversight. Brands like Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro® and Rybelsus® will now be an accessible component to each person’s wellness journey. As an added benefit to existing Echelon Members, they will receive exclusive savings on these weight loss solutions, and new customers will receive a complimentary 1-year FitPass Membership with first prescription. By combining managed weight loss, nutrition, healthy immune system builders like B12, state-of-the-art home fitness equipment, and a variety of live and on-demand fitness classes, Echelon is now a holistic company focused on complete health and total wellness of its community.
“We are focused on integrating health care into our business so that we create a holistic approach to health and wellness, supporting customer needs throughout their journey. Weight loss has become a significant component to managing a person’s overall wellness,” said Lou Lentine, CEO of Echelon Fitness. “By combining GLP-1s, immune health regimine, and metabolism boosts with Echelon Fitness programs that focus on the individual’s goals, ActiveMD will help you lose unwanted weight and stay healthy without losing muscle mass.”
“The obesity epidemic has reached crisis levels, with over 40% of the U.S. population having obesity and another 30% in the overweight category. We must use our position as industry leaders to provide solutions for those seeking help. Pairing GLP-1 weight loss with resistance training can help maintain muscle mass and maximize health benefits. ActiveMD/Echelon Fit’s programs are the perfect complement to GLP-1s for those seeking to lose weight while maintaining muscle mass and strength.” Dr. Tzvi Doron, board-certified family physician and diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
A May 10th, 2024 KFF Health Tracking Poll found that about one in eight adults (12%) say they have taken a GLP-1 agonist – an increasingly popular class of prescription drugs used for weight loss. The share who report ever taking these drugs rises to one in five (22%) who have been told by a doctor that they are overweight or obese in the past five years1.
