Sqwod Daily
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10 Sept 2026 Arketa opens its own studio, padel stacks revenue streams & wellness M&A heats up Read ▶Listen· 5 min
09 Sept 2026 The gym metric killing your retention & $50M on women's wellness, AI coaches your clients already hired Read ▶Listen· 5 min
08 Sept 2026 Pickleball as your best marketing & celebrity cash floods wellness shelves Read ▶Listen· 5 min
07 Sept 2026 Women's wellness just got a $50M vote, Oura's 74% growth & boutique studios eye Hyrox Read ▶Listen· 5 min
04 Sept 2026 $1k/week super gym opens & AI companions flood your clients' phones Read ▶Listen· 5 min
03 Sept 2026 Group revenue risk & the fix, $6.8T gets institutional, lights-out differentiation Read ▶Listen· 5 min
02 Sept 2026 Nestlé exits supplements, $22K gym charge & PE eyes recovery brands Read ▶Listen· 5 min
01 Sept 2026 Half of studios bleed cash (fix the math), fitness gaming heats up & a barn becomes a brand Read ▶Listen· 5 min
31 Aug 2026 Boutique fitness 'boom is over' & pricing rules that actually matter, World Gym's $6.9M quarter Read ▶Listen· 5 min
28 Aug 2026 13.8M doing Pilates & who's leading it, Oura's $16B IPO & booking wars heat up Read ▶Listen· 5 min
27 Aug 2026 Franchise unit economics broke 3 gyms, $12M bets on spiritual wellness & recovery consolidates fast Read ▶Listen· 5 min
26 Aug 2026 WHOOP's cycle-tracking bundle, Basic-Fit's comeback & adaptive fitness hunts a partner Read ▶Listen· 5 min
25 Aug 2026 Ex-Solidcore coach goes solo, Oura eyes $3B IPO & Ferrero buys 'clean' granola Read ▶Listen· 5 min
24 Aug 2026 Churn is a diagnostic, not a number & Strava's $500M wake-up call, Apple's wrist takeover Read ▶Listen· 5 min
21 Aug 2026 Hoops goes boutique, India's $14.8B coaching wave & a $113 Garmin drop Read ▶Listen· 5 min
20 Aug 2026 Pop-ups over leases, WHOOP goes wrist-optional & mental wellness gets acquired Read ▶Listen· 5 min
19 Aug 2026 Europe's budget gyms brace for consolidation, a high school gym goes PAYG & supplement shelves shift east Read ▶Listen· 5 min
18 Aug 2026 Planning permission kills a £1m expansion, Whoop eyes IPO & dumbbells hit the gallery Read ▶Listen· 5 min
17 Aug 2026 BODY20's group EMS class, AI eats franchise back offices & a shuttered gym as launchpad Read ▶Listen· 5 min
14 Aug 2026 P&G's $3.8B supplement bet & nostalgia programming is printing money Read ▶Listen· 5 min
13 Aug 2026 AI booked a Pilates class & broke the internet, Reebok hunts boutique cool & Peloton's low-lift community trick Read ▶Listen· 5 min
12 Aug 2026 Members bleeding $600/year on unused memberships, AI bots crashing your booking & Les Mills gets a new CEO Read ▶Listen· 5 min
11 Aug 2026 3-day splits beat 5-day grind & SlimFast's £5m wellness pivot tells you where clients' heads are at Read ▶Listen· 5 min
10 Aug 2026 AI just exposed your booking system, wellness tourism's open invitation & the 5-test client baseline Read ▶Listen· 5 min
07 Aug 2026 Front-desk culture is your brand, P&G bets $3.8bn on supplements & cops steal from a coach Read ▶Listen· 5 min
06 Aug 2026 Studio owner ≠ business owner, AI closes memberships & Pilates still has room Read ▶Listen· 5 min
05 Aug 2026 Apple Fitness+ lands in your gym & P&G moves in next door, plus €15k from one sweaty day Read ▶Listen· 5 min
04 Aug 2026 Spotify just hired your job, budget fitness prints €800M & an IPO prices the space Read ▶Listen· 5 min
03 Aug 2026 Cancellation policies are a safety issue, Garmin's roadmap heats up & AI coaching hits the poker table Read ▶Listen· 5 min
30 Jul 2026 Psilocybin rewires brains for a month, Reels hit 4.5B daily & Wall Street gets a fitness scoreboard Read ▶Listen· 5 min
29 Jul 2026 Subscriptions built for pitch decks, not members & a toilet that tracks your gut Read ▶Listen· 5 min
28 Jul 2026 Instructor pipelines as your real growth engine, AI coaching money & aging well's missed market Read ▶Listen· 5 min
27 Jul 2026 Garmin owns your coaching stack now, Bain's $1.2B supplement bet & AI marathon training Read ▶Listen· 5 min
24 Jul 2026 Garmin swallows TrainingPeaks, PE prices a gym at $170M & recovery becomes the new rep Read ▶Listen· 5 min
23 Jul 2026 Garmin swallows TrainingPeaks, a $200 Whoop rival & recovery becomes the whole pitch Read ▶Listen· 5 min
22 Jul 2026 The $7.5B EGYM–Playlist deal, Planet Fitness walks back its strength pivot & Hyrox goes global Read ▶Listen· 5 min
21 Jul 2026 Marc Lore's Wonder raises $650M, CorePower's CEO switch & ClassPass tilts toward studios Read ▶Listen· 5 min
20 Jul 2026 A longevity chain sells 200 territories, PureGym crosses to Ireland & the 'soft fitness' era Read ▶Listen· 5 min
17 Jul 2026 Interactive Strength buys Stepr, NYC's click-to-cancel gym law & investors still love Pilates Read ▶Listen· 5 min
16 Jul 2026 Eli Lilly backs Oura for GLP-1 care, the Megaformer knockoff suit & why fitness AI isn't paying off Read ▶Listen· 5 min
15 Jul 2026 Neko's $700M body-scan bet, Planet Fitness's lender drama & accountability beats motivation Read ▶Listen· 5 min
14 Jul 2026 Beckham's IM8 lands $1B, Whoop poaches a Nike CMO & DACH's fitness economy keeps growing Read ▶Listen· 5 min
13 Jul 2026 Underwater headphones for swimmers, fitness's 'autonomous age' & the wearable-data problem Read ▶Listen· 5 min
10 Jul 2026 Youth fitness booms, members want 'sustainable' workouts & red-light recovery goes mainstream Read ▶Listen· 5 min
09 Jul 2026 Basic-Fit buys deeper into Germany, TRX goes retail & GLP-1s reshape the supplement aisle Read ▶Listen· 5 min
08 Jul 2026 A budget Whoop rival with ECG, Pilates hits 10 studios & Rhone bets on real-world retail Read ▶Listen· 5 min
07 Jul 2026 Life Time bets on competition, Pilates keeps scaling & Hand & Stone rethinks the upsell Read ▶Listen· 5 min