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01 Oct 2026 Whoop's stockout lesson for your programming calendar, community raises $24K & McDonald's bets big on GLP-1 Read Listen· 5 min
30 Sept 2026 86% of gyms grew — are you in the other 14%? & Asia's wellness boom & Oura's IPO on ice Read Listen· 5 min
29 Sept 2026 Equipment intel goes infrastructure, Garmin muscles into recovery data & PureGym's £1.4B lesson Read Listen· 5 min
28 Sept 2026 Beauty-wellness crossover is a business model, Ronaldo bets $10.1B on wearables & The Picklr's hard lesson Read Listen· 5 min
25 Sept 2026 Failed payments are silent churn, UK Pilates hits £1.1B & Australia's fitness boom Read Listen· 5 min
24 Sept 2026 Magic AI lands $11M for US studios, Peloton's comeback & a cautionary tale on selling yourself Read Listen· 5 min
23 Sept 2026 Your house rules mean nothing if you won't enforce them — male fertility's $13M bet & AI mirrors crowd the floor Read Listen· 5 min
22 Sept 2026 50+ isn't a niche — it's your growth lane, Oura's IPO & cannabis recovery gets serious Read Listen· 5 min
21 Sept 2026 AI just got a $5.96M coaching license, a $685M European gym shake-up & connected Pilates goes global Read Listen· 5 min
18 Sept 2026 Hyrox x Orangetheory kills the format war, Jordan's jumping into gear & HealthKart's $300M IPO Read Listen· 5 min
17 Sept 2026 Big-box Pilates kills boutique's last excuse, $5M backs longevity & Oura's IPO wobbles Read Listen· 5 min
16 Sept 2026 Athlete brand deals redefined, wearable science leveled up & $1M chasing allergy care Read Listen· 5 min
15 Sept 2026 Fitness had its best year ever — now what? Oura's $16B IPO & AI betting on 'before the injury' Read Listen· 5 min
11 Sept 2026 Planet Fitness blinks first, Health Age is your new retention hook & Japan's 1,000-gym niche bet Read Listen· 5 min
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
03 Sept 2026 Group revenue risk & the fix, $6.8T gets institutional, lights-out differentiation 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
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