2017 STATE OF THE UK FITNESS INDUSTRY REPORT - OUT TODAY

The 2017 State of the UK Fitness Industry Report reveals that the UK health and fitness industry is continuing to grow. This growth is being primarily driven from the private sector, which has more clubs, more members and a greater market value than ever before.

There are now over 9.7 million fitness members in the UK which has boosted the penetration rate to an all-time high of 14.9%. 1 in every 7 people in the UK is a member of a gym.

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Goodbye waif. Hello weights.

 
 

Our stats were recently published in an article called 'Goodbye waif. Hello weights' by Sally Williams in The Times Magazine. The article features a number of female fitness role models and discusses the belief that "strong is the new skinny". See how we were quoted below:

  • "One in seven people in the UK is a member of a gym, according to a May 2016 Leisure Database Company report, a rise of 5.3 per cent on the previous 12 months". 

  • "You have bloggers, on-demand channels, trackers, wearables, apps, and many of them are now picking up on the fact that, for women, strong is good" says David Minton, director of the Leisure Database Company. "It's just in the new vocabulary". 

See original article via this link. 

Purchase and download our 2016 State of the UK Fitness Industry report here.