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A solution dubbed the 'world’s highest quality motion capture system' could help sports scientists, personal trainers and other professionals working across recovery and rehabilitation provide more accurate advice and exercise regimes. Created by motion capture specialist Vicon, the new Valkyrie system could
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Easton Leisure Centre in the UK has announced a 100 per cent reduction in heating costs of its 25m swimming pool this summer. Leading a pilot project set up by Bristol City Council and Everyone Active, 800 solar thermal tubes were installed on the roof in May, costing £89,000, which has cut its energy costs
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Fibr, a new social platform connecting fitness professionals with each other and potential employers has launched. Created by a team spearheaded by Neal Spruce – formerly of the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and CEO of Dotfit – it's designed to help school leavers and fitness instructors find the
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A £22m refurbishment of Altrincham Leisure Centre has been given the go ahead by Trafford Council. Sport England has supported its development under the council’s “Trafford Moving” strategy, which aims to provide sustainable and accessible leisure amenities to the community. Some of the new facilities will
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Edinburgh’s new Meadowbank Sports Centre has opened after a five-year, £47m build which saw the demolition of the original Meadowbank Stadium on the site. The original Meadowbank was constructed for the 1970 Commonwealth Games, which it hosted in 1970 and 1986. Owned by The City of Edinburgh Council and managed
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UK Active and Nike have launched the 2022 Open Doors programme. The scheme provides children and young people with the opportunity to connect, be active, eat well and have fun at twelve selected schools across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool during the summer holidays. The Tottenham Hotspur
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Twenty Four, a new automated gym and sports facility, where all equipment is self-powered, has opened in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The new addition is part of Urban Harbor, a 200,000sq m industrial area that is being transformed by Max Maier Urban Development to become Europe’s first climate-neutral urban district.
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The Rugby League World Cup's social impact programme has resulted in £25.8m of investment in local communities across northern England. According to an independent report, which looked at the social impact of the tournament, the event has already led to improvements in facilities, local economies and the
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A two-year research project will look to find ways to transform the UK's physical activity facilities into musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs that could be used by the National Health Service (NHS). Called Healthy Ageing Challenge, the project aims to design a system-based approach to better integrate leisure
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The best in the business from across the physical activity sector were honoured last night (30 June) as the winners of the ukactive Awards 2022 were announced at Birmingham’s ICC. The awards ceremony took place in person for the first time since 2019 due to the pandemic and saw the sector come back together with
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At UK Active’s Active Uprising event yesterday (30 June) in Birmingham, Hattie Jones, the head of consumer engagement, announced that UK Active, Sport England’s This Girl Can and CIMSPA are teaming up to make gyms, health clubs and leisure centres safer and more inclusive for women. Sport England also confirmed
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The London 2012 Olympic legacy investment designed to improve physical education at primary schools has failed, according to a study. Academics at the University of Winchester looked into the effects of £2.2bn worth of investment in primary PE since 2012, known as the Primary PE and School Sport Premium (or
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A special task force has been established to boost physical activity opportunities for people with disabilities. Part of UK Active’s inclusivity-focused Everyone Can programme, the task force will unite industry leaders, private operators and governing and representative bodies in partnership with organisations
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Form, a Vancouver-based tech startup that creates smart swimming goggles, has released a new collection of digital real-time workouts for swimmers called Plans. Following a period of development and research with world-class coaches, users can now benefit from digital swimming coaching from more than 20 fitness
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Mike Farrar has been announced as the new chair at UK Active. His tenure will start in August 2022 when he takes over the position from Tanni Grey-Thompson, following her six-year stint “I'm honoured to be named the new chair of UK Active and cannot wait to get started in delivering on the ambitious plans I've
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Key organisations from the UK’s leisure industry are lobbying the government for financial support to help operators manage the impact of rising energy prices. A newly-formed coalition sent a signed letter giving evidence on why the sector needs help and outlining the consequences if economic relief does not
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Oliver Lee OBE will be taking the position of CEO at Places Leisure from July. He will replace Paul McPartlan, who announced in April that he would be leaving the organisation. “I feel delighted, privileged, and humbled to be given this opportunity to join Places for People and to lead the leisure business and
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Connected performance wearable company Whoop has launched Whoop Unite for businesses. Whoop has built up its business-to-business operation since undertaking a Series F funding round of US$200m last August – when the tech unicorn was valued at US$3.6bn – and now has 200 corporate customers, including Hitachi
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According to The World Health Organization's recently-released research study, WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022, a third of children and almost two-thirds of adults in Europe are obese. The research found obesity causes 1.2m deaths each year across WHO's 53 member states in Europe. Researchers
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Strength training startup Grndhouse has launched a new app following 18 months of development. The app is available through Apple’s App Store and Google Play and will help users keep up their daily strength training schedule by making its sessions more easily accessible. “We want to be the leaders in
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The World Leisure Organization (World Leisure) has launched a podcast series as part of its 70th-anniversary celebrations called World Leisure Pathways – Past, Present and Future Conversations. A global NGO, World Leisure was first registered on 28 May 1952 with the goal of promoting leisure as integral to
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LA Fitness co-founder, David Turner, has acquired the assets and IPs of The Leisure Database Company Ltd out of liquidation via his company, Addleisure. It will trade as LeisureDB. The Leisure Database Company – led by David Minton – has been providing market intelligence and research-driven reports on the
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The Leisure Database Company (TLDB) has revealed its State of the Fitness Industry Report UK for 2022, following an audit of more than 7,000 facilities in the public, private and independent sectors. This is the first time the report has been published since 2019. Researchers found the market to be in
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A new physical activity programme called Big Sister has been launched in the UK to help girls embrace activity during puberty and reduce the rising numbers who turn away from exercise at secondary school. Big Sister will empower girls and support them through the challenges of changing bodies and monthly
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Strava, a leading social platform for athletes, has acquired Recover Athletics, a startup providing evidence-based prehab workouts to runners. The move gives Strava subscribers access to Recover Athletics’ app, which includes personalised injury prevention plans and exercises. “Recover Athletics addresses a
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