{"id":9537,"date":"2023-09-21T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=9537"},"modified":"2023-09-25T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T01:21:49","slug":"ihrsa-statement-on-passing-of-fitness-international-co-ceo-president-louis-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/chains\/ihrsa-statement-on-passing-of-fitness-international-co-ceo-president-louis-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"IHRSA Statement on Passing of Fitness International Co-CEO &#038; President Louis Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Fitness-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"LA Fitness\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Fitness-300x109.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Fitness-200x73.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Fitness-800x292.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Fitness.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LA Fitness<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOSTON, MA<\/strong> &#8211; <em>IHRSA President &#038; CEO<\/em>, <strong>Liz Clark<\/strong>, issued the following statement regarding the announcement of the passing of <em>Fitness International Co-founder<\/em>, <strong>Louis Welch<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLouis Welch was an instrumental leader in the fitness industry since he co-founded LA Fitness in 1984 in California, growing it to more than 700 locations in the United States and Canada. As co-CEO and president of Fitness International, LLC, he also oversaw the expansion of Fitness International to include three additional brands: Esporta Fitness, City Sports Club, and Club Studio, which just launched in early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLouis was a private person, but his record of success was well-known, and everyone watched what he and his leadership team did. His business mindset and entrepreneurial spirit will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur condolences to his family and to the Fitness International team, which, led by Executive Chairman Chinyol Yi, will undoubtedly continue to provide steady and innovative leadership for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOSTON, MA<\/strong> &#8211; <em>IHRSA President &#038; CEO<\/em>, <strong>Liz Clark<\/strong>, issued the following statement regarding the announcement of the passing of <em>Fitness International Co-founder<\/em>, <strong>Louis Welch<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9537\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}