Top 10 Fitness Trends for 2025!

Insights from ACSM on what’s driving the future of fitness and wellness. Incase you haven’t seen it - here’s a preview:

Here are some spine-chilling marketing facts that could give anyone in the industry goosebumps:

Freemotion from iFIT selected Pocket Rocket Academy to support their new product installation at Fusion Lifestyle’s Kingsmead Leisure.

Paul Russell, Pocket Rocket Academy Tutor encouraged the team to work together, explore the new Freemotion equipment on the gym floor, and provided a learning experience that encompassed PT and Small Group Training as well as member interaction.

Over the last few weeks the gym team at Achieve Lifestyle have been undergoing various training workshops with Pocket Rocket Academy to better help and support their members following a complete refurbishment of their fitness suite with Life Fitness equipment.

TIME is the latest innovation from Pocket Rocket Academy, designed specifically for Local Authorities and Leisure Trusts. It's not just another program—it's a game-changer. TIME tackles the industry's toughest challenges: retention, adherence, visit frequency, onboarding, and most importantly, enhancing the overall human experience.

Pocket Rocket Academy has launched a new package within its learning and development portfolio - “Coaching Excellence” explores and encourages different layers of interaction on the gym floor, when and how these layers should be applied, and what to consider in regards to different member types.

With approximately 13 million women in peri /menopausal stages in the UK alone, there’s a significant demographic that stands to benefit from incorporating exercise into their management plan. Despite this, the activity levels among menopausal women tend to decline with age, leaving many susceptible to the health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle.

It’s National School Sports week and what better way to acknowledge this than sharing a few insights from the recent Active Lives, Children and Young People survey conducted by Sport England.

Just 47% of children (3.5m) are meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in an average of 60 minutes or more of sport and physical activity a day.

In this FitPro article, Keith Smith explores some factors that contribute to the optimal planning and executing of an optimal learning and development pathway. The learning and development pathway supports our journey towards our career goals, our professional outcomes and our industry objectives.

In recent years, the world has seen an uplift in social and technological changes, as well as unprecedented global events - posing a few challenges for those of us trying to maintain our mental health 😌

There is a profound difference between soft skills and character skills. Understanding the significance of nurturing both sets of skills for personal and professional growth, is paramount to our success in the workplace.

Keith Smith explores how personal trainers can influence the client experience and positively drive client behaviour, leading to increased client adherence, retention and success.

Following an always neuron stimulating conversation with my good friend, colleague, and mentor, Keith Smith, I found myself looking through some old certificates this morning

The latest McKinsey & Company research has revealed six wellness-related trends that have been gaining momentum and in true rocket style we have come up with our own captions for these trends and related these back to the wider health, wellness and fitness industry -

In today’s digital world, and as technology dominates almost every aspect of our lives, we are seeing less and less face-to-face learning and development taking place. 

Opposed to working in isolation, marketing and face-to-face learning and development go hand in hand to create a strong alignment that breeds success.

Pocket Rocket Group has launched a new Academy service dedicated to providing quality education to the health, fitness and wellness industry.

Through an established, trusted and well respected network of pure educators, Pocket Rocket Academy is set to deliver authentic experiences that drive retention of staff and members.

Back in October, we were privileged to deliver our DISCO workshop at the Active IQ team community day, hosted at Hilton Hotel in London's West End.

This session was specifically created for Active IQ to meet their business needs and with a bit of gold dust and scattering of sequins we led the team through a variety of value based activities - aligning their personal values with those of the business.

On 3rd and 4th October Fitronics hosted ConnectCX, a customer experience focussed event in partnership with Proinsight, and the annual CoursePro Summit for leisure industry professionals.

Across these two days Fitronics was joined by industry renowned speakers….

Over the last few years, our industry has seen major changes, with many new or emerging fitness trends coming to light.

Now, consumer behaviours are shaping the way we ‘do fitness’ and once again our industry needs to be ready for change.

Following this years’ EVOLVE event on Human Experience and in partnership with Active IQ, Pocket Rocket Group and Burnley Leisure & Culture; Excelsior held an educational experience day on 18th October to support Senior Management and Leadership of Leisure Trusts and Health Club Operators with their Recruitment, Retention and Revenue strategies.