Tips & Trends

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• How an Unstaffed Fitness Center Becomes a Cultural Hub of Corporate Wellness

  Many office buildings and corporate headquarters have embraced well-being and fitness as part of their investment in their employees. When you're in the business of health, like regional hospital and "health care system" resource Denver Health, your employees have a higher understanding and appreciation of corporate wellness, and expectations for a fitness facility can be high.

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• Top 5 Mistakes Managers Make When Purchasing Fitness Equipment

  Facilities managers of all kinds, and in all environments, should be sure to consider these five commonly overlooked issues in the design and equipping of fitness spaces. Here are our top 5 mistakes managers make when purchasing fitness Equipment.

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• Campus Fitness Fosters Energetic Culture and Community Hub

  Student recreation and campus fitness centers across the country are integral to campus life. Usually the rec center doubles as a hangout location for students, with the opportunity to grab a quick workout between classes or before heading home to the dorms.

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• Holidays and the Fitness High Season

  At the beginning of a new year motivation is at its highest, and fitness is continually at the top of the list of priorities for the coming months. Websites and social media streams are full of tips for setting and keeping fitness-minded resolutions, and gyms and fitness facilities are the busiest they'll be for the foreseeable future. How do fitness facilities managers take advantage of the "high season" and keep clients coming back?

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• The Importance of Fitness Flooring if Often Overlooked

  Arthur B. Dodge III, CEO and president of flooring innovator ECORE International, Inc. boldly states that "Everybody interacts with a surface. Everybody has a floor that they walk on, play on, run on. Very few people take a second to think about it." He knows that the products he's innovating to create are not top-of-mind, but he's working to make them less invisible.

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• Fitness Center Customization Key to Standing Out

  In today's instant gratification world, impressions are formed in the blink of an eye and are rarely changed over time. People judge spaces of all sorts, from houses to restaurants and colleges to backyard sheds based on how it looks and "feels" when you're there.

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• Design Enhancements to Improve Indoor Workouts

  It's that time of year again, when the leaves start to fall, the sweaters come out and you start taking your morning cardio indoors. It can be depressing to leave behind the wide-open outdoors for a queue to use the best treadmill at the fitness center, but there are new options and features that might make the wait worth your while and hope to improve indoor workouts.

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• How to Plan a Fitness Facility on a Budget

  Four Tips to Stretch Your Budget - How to Fulfill Your Fitness Needs when Money and Time are Tight

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• Outdoor Fitness Equipment Planning

  During the summer months, the outdoors becomes an ideal place to continue your fitness routine while taking in some fresh air and sunshine. Baseball diamonds fill up, soccer fields are overflowing, and trails become crowded with runners and bikers.

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• The Importance of a Full-Service Fitness Provider

  In today's on-demand world, it seems so easy to ask Google to find whatever you need, and more often than not Amazon Prime will put it on your doorstep in two days' time.

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• How Active Offices Recruit Better Talent

  Keeping employees happy and engaged is more important now than ever. After all, it is far more challenging and expensive to replace workers than it is to develop existing ones. man works out at office redefines corporate wellness. Happier employees are more productive, which helps businesses stay profitable.

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• Fitness Facility Makeovers

  From as small as 750 square feet to as large as you can imagine, tenants, customers, students and members are flocking to fitness spaces that are convenient and accessible, just to put some more movement in their routine. Designing and creating these open-use fitness spaces is funneling revenue, goodwill and great returns to those who are thinking “outside the box” and transforming part of their space into a modern hub of well being.