HealthClubs.com

This site makes it easier than ever for anyone to locate IHRSA member health clubs in the United States, Canada, and internationally. Fitness minded men and women can visit the site to find quality health clubs at home and while travelling. Healthclubs.com displays maps with the location of clubs in given communities. Visitors can also search for clubs that offer specific programs or amenities (e.g., tennis courts, swimming pools, etc.).

  The Gyms That Want You to Leave ASAP

A new group of fitness clubs based around the idea of biohacking say their short workouts provide the strength benefits of traditional weights in a fraction of the time.

  The Pandemic Is Turning Americans Against the Gym. That Could Be a Good Thing for the Nation's Health

Jack Raglin, a kinesiology professor at the Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health, has been a weightlifter for 45 years. But he stopped going to the gym during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now has “no interest in going back to the university weight room.” That doesn’t mean he’ll stop exercising—only that he won’t be hitting the gym. Raglin started working out at home during the pandemic, using weighted clubs for strength-training. “I intend to [use] them for the rest of my life,” Raglin says.

 A Heavy Lift For The Fitness World As Home Workouts Replace The Gym

Because of the coronavirus shutdowns, gyms and fitness studios are facing the same challenges as many other businesses around the country: forced to lay off employees, pleading for leniency on rent or insurance payments coming due.

 Gardening is just as good for you as going to the gym

A good excuse to cancel your next class.

 Hate the gym? Grow a garden instead.

Even small amounts of light physical activity help reduce your mortality risk.

 Speak-Easy Gyms: Where People Exercise In The Gym-Prohibition Era

With governments ordering some public places to close during the pandemic, "speak-easy gyms" are popping up across America — and some have even managed to increase their memberships.

 The case against luxury gyms like SoulCycle

The rich are getting fitter while the poor are falling behind.

 The Fitness Shift That Should Worry Every Gym Owner

More exercise omnivores are opting for expanded online workouts and services like ClassPass.

 The Trendiest Fitness Class Now: Working Out Alone at Home

Virtual fitness classes have grown past the novelty phase, with millions of people using apps and internet-connected gear to exercise at home. Gyms are fighting back.

A Fitness Empire Quietly Rises on YouTube

One of the nation’s hottest gyms isn’t a gym. And it’s free.

A Gym Chain Is Banning Cable News. It’s for Your Health

Go to the gym and you will see them everywhere: the talking heads on CNN and Fox News, as ubiquitous as sports coverage in bars. But one fitness chain has cut them off, implying that cable news coverage is not conducive to a “healthy way of life.”

A Star Among Stars - We'll Miss You, Jack

A legend has died, Jack LaLanne at the age of 96. He was a health and fitness guru who practiced what he preached. In 1936 at the age of 21, he opened the nation's first fitness gym in Oakland, California.

Are microstays at hotels and gyms the new face of business travel?

Sanctifly is an app that allows business travellers to use gyms, pools, spas and wellness-oriented lounges at airports or nearby hotels while travelling. It was launched by Karl Llewellyn, who was inspired to create the app when it struck him that there is very little time for people to take care of their health and wellness while travelling.

Boutique Fitness Studios Are Remaking Urban Neighborhoods

Wellness, not drinking and dancing, now defines the character of many city blocks.

Fitness Clubs Are Becoming Hotels – and Vice Versa

In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a number of big hotel companies add fitness or wellness brands to their portfolios. The reason is simple: High-end consumers are now prepared to spend money on making themselves look and feel good.

From Workout to Take-Out: Gyms Offer Healthy Meals

For exercisers short on time, services are stocking gym fridges with ready-to-go, preservative-free meals.

Gyms Ditch Machines to Make Space for Free Weights

As boutique-style workouts become the norm, the ranks of cardio and weight machines are thinning.

Life Time Wants to Develop New Muscles Beyond Health Clubs

The high-end fitness company has struggled with medical clinics. Now comes office space.

Malls Never Wanted Gyms. Now They Court Them

Retailer woes, fitness industry boom turn former pariahs into anchor tenants.

Meet the world's fastest-growing fitness chain

Step inside an Anytime Fitness gym and you’ll likely notice more of what it lacks than what is there. No massive machinery, mobs of people, or grunting bodybuilders trying to outdo one another.

Most People in the Gym Don't Know How to Use Battle Ropes

They've been misused, misunderstood, and mistaken as a fad workout tool.

Stretched Thin

Personal trainers are frequently overworked, undertrained, and underpaid by their gyms. And you thought you were feeling the burn.

Taking Night-Life Cue, Gyms Lower the Lights

Darker lighting may also help with focus, according to some fitness professionals. “You stop looking across the room to see what someone else is doing,” said Natalie Sessions, the founder of SwitchFit, a new fitness bookings app in New York and Los Angeles.

The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes

Gyms provide ritual and community, serving as a sort of religion. They also promote values American culture already worships—capitalism and overwork.

The Race To Become Boutique: The Health Club Dilemma

In other words, today’s commercial health clubs are seemingly faced with two paths forward: become boutique-y or become budget.

We make exercise way too complicated. Here's how to get it right

Incredibly, with all the science that has been done on how to exercise, what we know about what works for fitness is almost embarrassingly simple — yet we have invented myriad ways to cloud, over-complicate, and obscure these basic, common-sense truths...

Your Gym’s Tech Wants to Know You Better

From cardio equipment that can talk to your Apple Watch to sensors that track your movements, a new slate of technology embedding itself at your health club.