Health and Fitness Club Industry News: Chains
Friday, May 15th, 2026
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...
Gold’s Gym Names Fitness Superstar Simeon Panda Global Brand Ambassador
Posted: April 27, 2022 in Chains
VENICE, CA - Gold's Gym, one of the most iconic names in fitness, has named bodybuilder and fitness mega-influencer, Simeon Panda, as the new face of the brand. The partnership bridges the famed, Venice-born gym's storied past to the future of the evolving brand. Panda, who has more than 17 million social media followers worldwide, joins past bodybuilding icons like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and Franco Columbu who have famously chosen Gold's Gym as their muscle-building home. Panda is a longtime regular at The Mecca, the name given to the flagship Venice Gold's Gym for its global status as the center of the bodybuilding world. Read More...
Gold’s Gym SoCal Opens New Facility in Northridge
Posted: April 6, 2022 in Chains
LOS ANGELES, CA - Gold’s Gym SoCal has officially opened the doors to Gold’s Gym Northridge, a new 40,000-square-foot facility in Northridge, Calfornia. With the Northridge opening, Gold’s Gym SoCal’s footprint has expanded to 21 operating facilities across Southern California. With two additional locations currently under construction, the SoCal group is on track to have a total of 23 gyms open by the end of this year. Angel and his brother, Willy Banos, Gold’s Gym SoCal COO, have established a prominent reputation as Southern California’s premiere gym operators since they opened their first Gold’s Gym franchise location in North Hollywood in 1987. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Celebrates Legacy of Joe Gold on his 100th Birthday
Posted: March 11, 2022 in Chains
VENICE, CA - In commemoration of what would've been Joe Gold's 100th birthday, Gold's Gym brought together icons of the past and the future to celebrate the incredible legacy of community he created in Venice Beach. The Gold's Gym fitness empire has created a multi-generational enduring legacy beginning in 1965, with an iconic heritage that few brands today can parallel. Uniting legends such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno to the modern-day stars like Simeon Panda, Gold's Gym has spanned decades of history to become one of the world's largest fitness chains, without losing touch of the Venice roots at the heart of the brand. Read More...
Gold’s Gym SoCal Plans to Substantially Grow and Elevate its Network by 2025, Beginning with Upcoming New Openings and Upgrades for Existing Facilities
Posted: October 7, 2021 in Chains
LOS ANGELES, CA - Gold's Gym SoCal has announced plans to significantly grow its network over the course of the next four years, beginning with three new gym openings set to occur by early 2022, in addition to expanding and renovating eight existing gyms between now and the close of 2022. This news follows the recent opening of a new, state-of-the-art 44,400-square-foot club in La Mirada, the 20th facility currently open and operating under Gold's Gym SoCal, the iconic global fitness brand's largest U.S. franchise group. Read More...
Matrix Fitness Awarded 2020 Gold’s Gym Vendor of the Year for Equipment
Posted: August 17, 2021 in Chains, Suppliers
COTTAGE GROVE, WI - Matrix Fitness, one of the world’s fastest growing commercial fitness brands, was awarded the 2020 Gold’s Gym Equipment Vendor of the Year at the recent Gold’s Gym Global Convention on July 19 - 21, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Introduces the “Gym of the Future” with Berlin Flagship Campus
Posted: April 27, 2021 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym, a world leader in strength and performance, has announced the opening of its company-owned flagship campus in Berlin, Germany, where brand owner RSG Group GmbH is headquartered. Identified as the "gym of the future," the 55,000-square-foot Berlin campus is RSG Group's proof of concept, meeting point and inspiration for all future Gold's Gym locations. The state-of-the-art Berlin facility was designed with insight gained from a Gold's Gym social media partnership with fitness legend Lou Ferrigno that surveyed the public for what they wanted in the "perfect gym." Read More...
Paul Grzymkowski Passes Away at Age 72
Posted: April 13, 2021 in Other News
Fitness industry veteran and icon, Paul M. Grzymkowski passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on April 1, 2021 in Woodland Hills, California. He is survived by his devoted wife, Joanna Gunst Grzymkowski; brother Peter Grzymkowski; and sisters Margaret Halstead, Christine Grzymkowski and Karen Grzymkowski, as well as aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and his godchildren. Paul and his twin sister Christine were born on March 5, 1949 in Rochester, New York to Mary (Jacula) and Peter Grzymkowski. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Crofton Debuts Mr. America Reality Show
Posted: April 8, 2021 in Chains
CROFTON, MD - As top athletes prepare to compete in the 2021 Mr. America competition, the reality show, "Mr. America's Gym. Eat. Repeat: The Road to Mr. America", provides an insider's look at the physical and emotional impacts and challenges that each experiences. Each 30-minute show is filmed in the hometowns of the six competitors, beginning on April 9 - 10, 2021 at Gold's Gym in Crofton, Maryland. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Partners With Lou Ferrigno to Get The World’s Feedback On What Makes The Perfect Gym
Posted: December 15, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym has joined forces with actor and former IFBB Mr. America and Mr. Universe, Lou Ferrigno, to reflect on the brand's legacy and to start a conversation about what the perfect gym of the future should look like. Gold's Gym was founded in 1965 and recently acquired by global fitness leader RSG Group. Read More...
