Trilantic North America, a leading private equity firm, recently announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Taymax Group Holdings, LLC (“Taymax” or the “Company”), one of the largest Planet Fitness franchisees with more than 50 club locations across the United States and Canada. Trilantic North America invested in partnership with Taymax’s co-founders, including CEO Tim Kelleher, and other key members of management. Taymax was founded in 2009 with the acquisition of one club in the San Antonio market. Since then, the Company has grown organically to 52 clubs across the greater...

John Ford, has served as CEO of Netpulse, the leading provider of customized mobile club apps, and recently named CEO of eGym North America.  Ford will be supporting the FIT-C mission of promoting the adoption of technology as a key to advancing and growing the health club and fitness industry. Ford began working in fitness technology at age 25 with the founding of Virtual Active, a virtual reality running, hiking and cycling experience in use in thousands of health clubs globally today. After the sale of Virtual Active to Netpulse, Ford joined them on their mission to bring cardio entertainment...

Crunch Fitness, the health club brand best known for exercise meeting entertainment through proprietary group fitness programming as well as cutting-edge training, is looking to expand its footprint in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Quebec and the Maritimes by the end of 2018. Since arriving in Canada last year, Crunch has over 20 corporate locations currently operating in Ontario with five more opening by the end of this year in Brantford, Oakville, Waterdown, Welland and Whitby. Additionally, Crunch Canada is rapidly growing its full-sized fitness business with over 20 franchises sold to-date and locations...

Industry Leaders Support Personal Trainers, Coaches, Educators and Researchers with Educational Content, Resources and Certification Opportunities  TECHNOGYM,  and the American Council on Exercise (ACE), the leading nonprofit exercise professional and health coach certification organization today announced a partnership aimed at helping fitness professionals maintain the most current knowledge of industry advancements available. Through this collaboration, TECHNOGYM hopes to grow its successful Master Trainer Network and advance the education outreach available for personal trainers, coaches,...

Basic-Fit, has announced plans to extend its virtual cycling offering across its network of over 530 clubs, supported by digital fitness specialist Wexer. Basic-Fit has already invested in producing its own virtual GXR class content, with a hi-tech production studio in the Netherlands creating around 28 new classes every two months. The roll-out of the new GXR Indoor Cycling classes will now be facilitated by a partnership agreement with Wexer, whereby Basic-Fit will exclusively use Wexer as the platform to deliver its virtual cycling classes. Rene Moos, CEO of Basic-Fit, explains: “At...

Power Plate, recently announced the launch of its new Prepare-Recover software, available for all 7 series models. The new software provides prescriptive direction on simple pre- and post-workout routines designed to improve the overall efficacy of the users’ workout. Prepare-Recover software was developed for member-based commercial fitness facilities offering cardio, strength, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and group exercise options, while being the perfect solution for at-home users to bookend their workouts.  The software is easily integrated into each of these different workout...