Tips & Trends

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  27

  SEP 2021

• 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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  12

  AUG 2021

• Mother Nature, Here We Come! Outdoor Fitness Is Here to Stay

  Treadmill fatigue is real and after a year or more of self-quarantine, and the ongoing threat of Coronavirus transmission, getting outside is VERY welcome. While the pandemic accelerated nationwide awareness of fitness alternatives, it has also given way to an outdoor fitness boon.

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  29

  JUL 2021

• 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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  12

  MAY 2021

• 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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  28

  APR 2021

• 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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  27

  JAN 2021

• Opening Up, Securing the Supplies, and Staying the Course

  As vaccines are deployed and progress is discussed about battling the pandemic while businesses, gyms, restaurants, schools and retail locations open back up, the challenging balance between the two efforts is the dominant topic of conversation.

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  30

  DEC 2020

• Adapting and Advancing - How 2020 Changed Us All

  At the end of the gauntlet that has been this year, there seems to be a surge of anticipation, the tense moment that comes before the starter's gun, that we're all feeling right now. Very few, if any, are sad to see this year draw to a close, and the anxiousness to "get on with it" in 2021 is palpable.

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  14

  OCT 2020

• The Future of Fitness in the Age of COVID

  With re-openings and re-closings happening in waves across the country, all tied to COVID transmission concerns and rising infection rates, everyone is trying to figure out how to work around and through COVID concerns to get back to a sense of normalcy.

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  17

  SEP 2020

• New Multi-Family Fitness Models: How Some Communities are Flexing Through the Pandemic

  During the last several months, fitness and wellness options can be considered a necessary remedy to 2020's heightened stress levels and a vital sanctuary from ever-changing activity restrictions - with so many gyms and rec centers swinging between closed and open with extremely limited access.

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  31

  JUL 2020

• Is Your Health Half as Important as the Car You Drive?

  With many people staying home or turning back to the home to get their workouts in, the questions are relevant ones as Covid-19 has changed a lot of people's outlook about training at home.

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  16

  JUL 2020

• Behind Closed Doors: Proactively Building New Protocols for Safer Fitness Facilities

  Every day brings a new set of updates as the numbers and the nation respond to the Coronavirus pandemic. Facility teams from every market segment are grappling with how to adapt in order to keep tenants, residents, members and guests safe, especially when visiting commonly used fitness facilities.

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  24

  JUN 2020

• Public Safety Measures Matter to Bring Communities Back

  As doors start to reopen, every indoor gathering place is carefully considering if and how larger groups can safely convene inside. From schools and restaurants, to offices and rec centers, and every type of facility in between, public safety measures are being recommended and implemented to help community members feel safer while virus transmission concerns linger.