Tips & Trends

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• Date Posted

  7

  NOV 2024

• Time for a Fitness Refresh? Three Steps to a Stunning and Successful Remodel

  If you are looking to make your amenities more competitive and compelling, a refresh of the fitness and recreation spaces on property can be an effective upgrade priority with rapid results.

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• Date Posted

  29

  AUG 2024

• Fitness Facelift On a Budget? Flooring May Be Your Answer

  Have you looked closely at your fitness center flooring? It's the first impression that helps define any area and the one element of any space that is often overlooked and everyone interacts with. It is estimated that 66% of every fitness facility visitor spends at least 20 minutes doing exercises on the floor - so shouldn't it be a focus point?

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• Date Posted

  19

  FEB 2024

• Relaxing Recovery Options Are Becoming Must-Have Multifamily Amenities

  R n R is the new rock n roll, and consumers are adding recovery routines into their daily fitness and wellness activities like never before. One of the wellness priorities that seems to have been spurred by the pandemic is self-care and the need for down-time for both physical and mental recovery. Those priorities, in turn, have resulted in communities providing access to recovery activities and assets that have become a priority demand.

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• Date Posted

  18

  JAN 2024

• Safer Surfaces for Senior Living

  From outdoor walkways to pool decks and common areas to living rooms, senior living communities are addressing the finer points of resident safety and comfort from the ground up. It's a simple solution really, and it starts with the flooring.

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• Date Posted

  9

  NOV 2023

• Build Healthier Communities and Increase Lease Revenue Using Group Fitness

  During the peak of the pandemic, many people were forced to find ways to balance work and life pursuits, and community inclusion, closer to home. Even though some of that balance has shifted back to the workplace, achieving a balanced and healthy lifestyle is more important to people than ever before, and they are looking to their home communities to provide more support for those priorities than in the past.

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• Date Posted

  4

  OCT 2023

• Look Before You Leap - Pros and Cons of Top Multifamily Fitness Trends

  We all know that capitalizing on trends is a necessity when it comes to keeping property amenities fresh and community members happy. The latest equipment, coolest machines, and best training tools can help lift the community brand and experience for those residents with fitness and wellness priorities. However, some popular trends in the fitness arena have their downsides too, which don’t often get solid consideration in the debate.

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• Date Posted

  31

  AUG 2023

• Now is the Perfect Time to Recharge and Refresh for the Year Ahead

  As Labor Day is upon us and the summer days start to wane, it's a great time to refocus, recharge and start thinking about the year ahead, which will be here before we know it. Many of us are already working through 2024 budget scenarios, planning for a stronger, fitter, better year than the one we leave behind us.

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• Date Posted

  27

  JUL 2023

• Sought-After Senior Living Communities Have These Three Things in Common

  For your community to be among those with a waiting list of qualified residents hoping to get in, there are three key areas to address (and one of them is not an out-sized budget)

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• Date Posted

  3

  APR 2023

• Is Your Rec Center Ready to Meet Current Demands and Capture the Next Wave of Trends?

  Whether you manage or operate a college recreation or municipal recreation center, you know the challenges in trying to evolve your space to meet the ever-changing fitness and wellness trends sweeping America. Since many of these facilities may be 10, 20 even 30 years old, accommodating todays' workout enthusiast is an ever-changing battle. This becomes an even bigger challenge when you combine these trends with the fixed amount of space most facilities are working with.

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• Date Posted

  2

  MAR 2022

• Navigating Supply Chain Challenges? Flexibility is Key

  Since the start of the pandemic, the global supply chain has been turned upside down. From toilet paper scarcities and empty grocery store shelves, to raw materials shortages, to port and transportation delays, the supply chain chaos doesn't seem to be subsiding any time soon.

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  9

  FEB 2022

• Designing Fitness Centers that Delight!

  How do you build or refresh a fitness and wellness space to inspire and excite? The details can be more daunting that you think, and the right team of fitness design experts can help you create best-in-class results.

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• Date Posted

  29

  OCT 2021

• Is Your Fitness Center an Asset or a Liability to Your Property?

  The most compelling communities, attracting the highest quality tenants, have top-notch amenities - including an updated fitness center. The problem is, new buildings don't stay new forever. So how do you stay competitive when the ground-breaking is long behind you? Strategically updating your fitness and wellness amenities can be the answer.