Tips & Trends

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• 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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• 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.

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• Fitness Experts Managing Your Fitness Center Can Raise Engagement and Build Healthier, Happier Results

  A fitness center can have the newest and most innovative equipment around. But if no one is using it, does it matter? How do you not only attract clientele but also thoroughly engage them enough to entice them to come back, stick around, and sing the praises of the fitness center amenity?

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• Mother Nature, Here We Come! Outdoor Fitness Is Fresh, Fun and Rewarding!

  Treadmill fatigue is real; it’s time to get active outside! If you have unused or under-used open space around your community, it’s a great time to look at creating new versatile outdoor fitness spaces for all types of fitness activities.

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• Stretching is Vital for All Types of Fitness Training - Stretching Equipment Can Help

  You've seen it in the wee hours before your local 5K starts, coaches and athletes at the Olympics are obsessed with it, yoga instructors guide you through it, and it happens continuously on the sidelines of major competitions. It is stretching.

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• 5 Fresh Ideas to Jump-Start Fitness this Spring

  With Spring officially here, the weather getting warmer, and pandemic restrictions starting to ease a bit, new additions to encourage more exercise engagement are on the rise.

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• Inclusive and Equitable Training Options - Are Your Fitness Facilities Meeting the Need?

  In high schools and colleges all across the country, training athletes of all types is a year-round commonality. What has been spotlighted recently, is that the training facilities for different types of athletes (specifically different genders of athletes) might not share the same commonality.

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• Celebrating Small Spaces for Rejuvenation and Fitness

  Fitness and wellness for employees has become a top priority for employers across the nation, and the attention to keeping workplaces healthy and low stress has sparked innovative solutions for smaller spaces.

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• Using On-Demand Fitness Options to Keep Fitness Routines Compelling, Personal, Convenient and Custom

  Over the past few years, technology has allowed personalized coaching programs to become digitized, creating virtual classes and viral followings for certain fitness programs. However, the fitness fervor dies down when complaints surface about subscription fees that rival premium gym fees, limited libraries of stale content or inconvenient class times for true virtual participation experiences.

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• The One Piece of Fitness Equipment that Literally Everyone Uses

  If you think it's a stretch to consider the floor a piece of equipment, consider this: 66% of every fitness facility visitor spends at least 20 minutes doing exercises on the floor.

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• How Fitness Facilities Can Create Community through Accessability, Inspiration and Excellence

  You can see it on the faces of those who visit. You can sense it in the energy in the room. This is a place of engagement, belonging, action and progression.

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• Can Trendy Products Truly Transform Your Fitness Center?

  Fitness is driven by motivation. It's a fitness facilities' biggest challenge: how to capture the motivation to lose weight, work out, feel healthier, have fun, etc. in order to keep people coming through the doors (and coming back).