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With just over a month to go until Elevate
descends onto the capital, final preparations are
underway to ensure the trade event is ready.
product innovation •
07 Apr 2016
Elevate takes place in May, bringing together experts from all disciplines for the UK’s largest physical activity trade event
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Pregnant women who work out may pass a propensity to be active on to their child
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Matrix Fitness looks ahead to the 2016 Olympic Games, and encourages everyone to find the sporting hero inside themselves
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The outgoing IHRSA chair reflects on the learnings from her 12-month tenure, and challenges the fitness sector to think bigger and think differently
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Elevate will be an important opportunity for
professionals to learn more about exercise, health
and performance.
product innovation •
15 Mar 2016
Dance, yoga and Pilates classes will be made available to NHS staff as part of a new
£600m fund designed to ensure Europe’s largest single workforce is fit for purpose.
news •
09 Mar 2016
NHS England has today (1 March) announced plans to create 10 ‘healthy new towns’
across the country which will explore and test creative solutions for 21st century
healthcare challenges.
news •
01 Mar 2016
Childhood obesity strategy further delayed, with sugar tax and physical activity unlikely to feature
The government’s long overdue childhood obesity strategy is facing further delays, with
the document now not expected until after the EU referendum.
news •
26 Feb 2016
The government should significantly rethink its taxation of gym memberships to get to
grips with the UK’s physical inactivity pandemic.
news •
08 Feb 2016
We’re consistently wrong about how much physical activity people actually do – and it affects our own inclination to exercise. Hannah Shrimpton reports on the findings of Ipsos Mori’s research
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is calling on employers to drive a radical overhaul of
offices to encourage physical activity around the workplace and help tackle the UK’s health
woes.
news •
28 Jan 2016
The government must take bold steps to make inroads in tackling Britain’s burgeoning
childhood obesity and inactivity problem, which has ballooned after more than a decade of
policy inertia.
news •
26 Jan 2016
The government’s new strategy for sport and physical activity in the UK suggests that
physical activity “in its broadest sense” is now a key policy issue, according to ukactive
executive director Steven Ward, who says more must now be done to ensure the specific
issue of physical inactivity is addressed.
news •
17 Dec 2015
The NHS must make use of its funding lifeline in George Osborne’s Spending Review to
invest in physical activity initiatives that will help safeguard its future, according to
ukactive executive director Steven Ward.
news •
26 Nov 2015
The physical activity sector has spent millions of pounds investigating the secret to
motivating the inactive and encouraging healthy lifestyles. However, one academic
believes that drugs could in fact be the key to curtailing sedentary habits.
news •
05 Nov 2015
Physical activity should be embedded into every aspect of society, says ukactive, which
will today (5 November) publish a new call-to-arms Blueprint urging the government to
make overcoming inactivity a top-tier public health priority.
news •
05 Nov 2015
Spending all day sitting down may not just be bad for your backside: it could also do
serious damage to your kidneys, according to new research.
news •
23 Oct 2015
Three quarters of the public want the government to invest more in making cycling safer,
according to a new report from cycling charity Sustrans.
news •
22 Oct 2015
Tanni Grey-Thompson has called on Public Health England (PHE) to bring added substance
to its exercise initiatives by making physical activity one of its main priorities for the
upcoming year.
news •
21 Oct 2015
Hitting the weights provides a major boost to breast cancer survivors trying to regain
muscle and bone strength lost due to cancer treatment and physical inactivity,
according to new research.
news •
13 Oct 2015
ukactive chair Tanni Grey-Thompson has issued a strong rebuttal to a Times
article which appeared to suggest that Coca Cola’s membership of the physical activity
trade body had influenced its position on obesity.
news •
09 Oct 2015
A brand new industry event aiming to bring together a wide range of sectors to tackle the
physical inactivity crisis will take place at London Olympia next year.
news •
06 Oct 2015
The World Health Organisation has sets its sights on overcoming the growing physical
inactivity epidemic by outlining a 10-year strategy to get Europeans moving more.
news •
17 Sep 2015
Nuffield Health and think tank 2020health has started work with Wood Green School in
Witney on a new pilot which hopes to change the way schools approach health and
wellbeing.
news •
09 Sep 2015
New scientific research concluding that physical inactivity, not diet, is the biggest cause of
childhood obesity has come under fire after it emerged that the study was funded by
Coca-Cola.
news •
14 Aug 2015
Technology must be placed front and centre in initiatives to get communities moving if the
health and fitness sector is to overcome the UK’s inactivity epidemic, according to a new
white paper.
news •
13 Aug 2015
City commuters are being offered free metro tickets in exchange for a quick workout as
part of an innovative public health project.
news •
23 Jul 2015
Young adults who shun exercise and spend large amounts of time in front of screens are
twice as likely to have poor cognitive function in mid-life, according to a study.
news •
21 Jul 2015
Just two weeks of not using their legs causes young people to lose a third of their
muscular strength, placing them on par with someone 40-50 years their senior, new
research has found.
news •
14 Jul 2015
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“We introduced good mood messaging, communicating the idea of exercise being ‘for the feeling’”
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With the industry experiencing a huge swing towards strength training, researchers recommend continuing to make the case for cardio
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