Tips & Trends

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• Here's Why You Want Fitness Design Professionals Helping with Your Home Gym

  Over the past few weeks we've discovered the value of staying at home, while desperately missing some of the benefits of daily life before the COVID-19 outbreak. In the "new normal" that we're all trying to navigate, there looms the possibility of another wave of virus concerns in the future.

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• Is Your Fitness Facility Ready to Reopen?

  5 Critical Fitness Facility Elements that Require Planning and Consideration