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Schools are not doing enough to promote careers in the health and fitness
industry to young people, according to research carried out by health and
education charity Central YMCA.
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18 Nov 2011
Junior equalities minister Lynne Featherstone has called for health club
operators to stop using "models with perfect bodies" in marketing materials as
it could potentially deter people from joining clubs.
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26 Oct 2011
The Gym Group are one of the fitness
industry's success stories of recent years
and right from the outset have been working
with IDASS.
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08 Sep 2011
FitPro and children's television brand LazyTown have joined forces in order to unveil a new resource designed to help increase the number of young people getting active and healthy.
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18 Aug 2011
European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA) is one of the eight associate partners of the European Union's (EU) new "MOVE" project.
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27 Jul 2011
The health and fitness sector has weathered the recession well, with public operators showing particular resilience, according to the 2011 FIA State of the UK Fitness Industry report.
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01 Jun 2011
The number of people with health club memberships in the US reached 50.2 million in 2010, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA).
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06 Apr 2011
Health and fitness operators have "much work to do" if they want to improve consumers' perception of them, according to the first ever national Net Promoter Score (NPS) study conducted on the sector by Leisure-Net Solutions in partnership with The Retention People.
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18 Mar 2011
Leisure consultancy DP Associates, which so far has operated largely in the attractions sector, is looking to expand its services into the fitness industry.
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09 Mar 2011
European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA) is to host its first executive leadership programme in Barcelona this summer.
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07 Mar 2011
The effects of the economic downturn were felt to different degrees across the leisure market in 2010.
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19 Jan 2011
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has established a Joint Consultative Forum with a number of royal medical colleges and faculties as part of efforts to increase the number of exercise referrals from GPs.
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14 Dec 2010
Pedro Ruiz, CEO of Portugal's largest health club chain Vivafit, has warned that up to a third of health clubs in the country could be forced to close due to the government's decision to increase VAT on fitness from 6 to 23 per cent.
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01 Dec 2010
Confidence in the future of the fitness industry remains high among fitness professionals, according to a report by research company Leisure-net Solutions.
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24 Sep 2010
Health club operator Fitness First Australia (FFA) has announced that Grant Twible has been named director of fitness to oversee the management of its 93 facilities.
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06 Sep 2010
Research companies Leisure-net and The Retention People (TRP) have joined forces to launch a new customer service survey for the health and fitness sector.
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04 Aug 2010
The winners of this year's Fitness Industry Association's (FIA) FLAME Awards were announced at the Ball of Fire ceremony held in Cheltenham on Wednesday (14 July).
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16 Jul 2010
Training provider Premier Training International (PTI) has reported a 48 per cent increase in the number of people that have applied to study for health and fitness qualifications.
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13 Jul 2010
An initiative designed to establish a pan-European set of standards for trainers in the health and fitness sector is entering its final phase.
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01 Jul 2010
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) is inviting feedback from the industry as it seeks to draw up a comprehensive future strategy for the fitness sector.
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15 Jun 2010
Australia's health and fitness sector has been dealt a blow after the Copyright Tribunal decided to increase copyright fees for the use of music in group exercise classes.
news •
24 May 2010
SkillsActive and the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) have unveiled the seventh Working in Fitness survey, which is one of the largest studies of its kind in the UK.
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20 May 2010
New research carried out by consultants The Parthenon Group has suggested that the health and fitness sector may be facing a slow recovery from the recession.
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06 Apr 2010
The property values of hotels, restaurants and pubs all suffered heavy falls during 2009, while the emergence of new budget health club chains gave the fitness industry a much-needed lift.
news •
18 Jan 2010
Fitness operators in the public sector are more confident of their future prospects now than they were last year, according to a state of the industry report from sporta.
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14 Oct 2009
SkillsActive, the sector skills council for active learning and leisure has unveiled the results of the sixth Working in Fitness survey.
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24 Sep 2009
A new fitness club chain - nuyuu fitness - is set to launch later this year as the result of a £2m partnership between businessman James Caan and former LA Fitness national sales manager, Ben Silcox. The new chain has already acquired three LA Fitness gyms in Slough, Berkshire; Livingston, Scotland and East Grinstead in East Sussex.
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16 Sep 2009
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has appointed John Searle to the newly created post of chief medical officer (CMO).
news •
15 Sep 2009
The International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) and the European Health and Fitness Association (EHFA) have reached an agreement over each association's role in Europe.
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07 Jul 2009
SkillsActive's sixth UK Working in Fitness Survey - one of the largest annual surveys of people working in the UK health and fitness sector - has been launched online.
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18 May 2009
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