HEALTH CLUB MANAGEMENT Welcome to
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p80 EuropeActive outlines plans for a healthier Europe
p56 Boosting mental wellbeing through exercise Contents
03 Editor’s letter Clubs that ignore the tech trend will increasingly lose out. It’s time to reinvent ourselves to ensure we remain relevant, says Kate Cracknell
08 Letters Clubs must strive to become welcoming, community-focused ‘health hubs’, says Malcolm McPhail, CEO of Life Leisure
10 News round-up Sports Direct set to enter the health club market, Virgin Active poised for £1bn IPO, Technogym named official Commonwealth Games supplier, and independent site theclub at Cadbury House launches a sugar sin bin
18 International news A second SHF heart wellness centre opens in Singapore, and Fitness First announces a US$140m expansion across Asia over the next five years
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21 People news Professor Greg Whyte joins the ukactive Research Institute Scientific Advisory Board
22 IHRSA Europe update Senior research manager Melissa Rodriguez outlines the findings of the 2014 IHRSA Global Report
26 ukactive update Steven Mann explains why exercise research needs to be conducted in real-world community locations
28 Diary dates The ukactive FLAME conference takes place in July, and the Color Run comes to Birmingham in August
30 Everyone’s talking about... Mental wellbeing Mental health is often treated as the poor relation to physical health. How can health clubs address this?
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32 Interview Sean Thornton The joint MD of 3-1-5 Health Clubs talks to Julie Cramer about creating an exclusive family of X-Force ‘negative training’ facilities in the UK
38 Small is beautiful Microgyms are taking London by storm. Kate Cracknell tries out a class at three recent new openings: The Beat, Psycle and Fitness Mosaic
44 Fit for the job A scheme to get more disabled people into fitness careers, created by the charity behind the Aspire National Training Centre, is gathering pace. Rhianon Howells reports
48 This is not goodbye Why are gyms making such a mess of the leaving process, and how can they do better? Kate Cracknell asks the experts for their advice
June 2014 © Cybertrek 2014
p38 We try out a class at three of London’s hottest new microgyms
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