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Sqwod Daily

Your 5-minute audio rundown of the wellness industry — every weekday, in EN & DE.

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31 Jul 2026 Garmin's 25% fitness surge & recovery capital flooding in 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
06 Jul 2026 Strength training's longevity sweet spot, CrossFit builds a wearable & women's strength goes boutique Read ▶Listen· 5 min
03 Jul 2026 The IRL Comeback: Bodies, Boutiques, and Brick-and-Mortar Read ▶Listen· 5 min
02 Jul 2026 The 90-Minute Strength Rule Changes How You Program Read ▶Listen· 5 min
01 Jul 2026 Your Clients Want Less Lifting and More Cold Plunges Read ▶Listen· 5 min
30 Jun 2026 Your Biology Is Outvoting You Read ▶Listen· 5 min
29 Jun 2026 Scaling Before Ready: The New Boutique Playbook Read ▶Listen· 5 min
25 Jun 2026 The fitness industry is getting a biology upgrade Read ▶Listen· 5 min
24 Jun 2026 The infrastructure of legitimacy is being built around you Read ▶Listen· 5 min
21 Jun 2026 Hardware gets smaller; the fitness stakes get bigger Read ▶Listen· 5 min
16 Jun 2026 Investors double down on fitness Read ▶Listen· 3:02
12 Jun 2026 Studio M&A heats up Read ▶Listen· 2:47
11 Jun 2026 A big-box gym CEO heads for the exit Read ▶Listen· 2:35
10 Jun 2026 Creatine eats the supplement aisle Read ▶Listen· 3:11
09 Jun 2026 Pilates keeps winning Read ▶Listen· 2:51
05 Jun 2026 Longevity goes commercial Read ▶Listen· 3:03
04 Jun 2026 Longevity's $435M vote of confidence Read ▶Listen· 2:56