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15 Proven Ways to Increase Group Fitness Class Attendance
Group fitness attendance gets treated as a marketing problem. That framing works for about two weeks. The "we have a new class" email doesn't fix the underlying question: does this specific member have a specific reason to be in that room this Tuesday? The fifteen approaches [...]Read more
Why Members Stop Coming to Group Fitness (And How to Keep Them Coming Back)
Get a member on the phone as they're canceling, and they'll give you something: schedule conflict, moved, work changed. Probably some version of true. But those aren't the real reason. The real decision happened weeks earlier, probably on a Tuesday when they worked hard, nobody [...]Read more
The Ultimate Guide to Performance Tracking in Group Fitness
Group fitness has always run on social energy. Performance tracking adds one thing: a number, visible on a screen during class, that tells each person how hard they're working relative to their own baseline. Most facilities underestimate what that visibility does to a room before [...]Read more
How to Launch a Successful Indoor Cycling or Treadmill Performance Program
Performance program launches rarely fail because the technology didn't work. The platform usually works fine. What goes wrong is that instructors weren't ready to coach to live data, members didn't know what they were walking into, and nobody had actually planned for what the [...]Read more
Everything You Need to Know Before Buying Group Fitness Technology
A vendor gave you a demo, the product looked great, and now you're trying to figure out whether it's actually the right call. Most facilities that regret technology purchases didn't ask the wrong questions. They didn't ask enough of them before signing. What You're Actually [...]Read more
September 2026 Updates
This month's updates bring more ways to compete, more control over the member experience, and greater system reliability, with new distance race challenges, expanded equipment compatibility, and performance improvements across Spivi. New: Race Challenges Bring even more [...]Read more
The ROI of Group Fitness Technology: Is It Worth the Investment?
The rep gave you the demo and quoted a price. The real question is whether it pays for itself. Here's how to run the math honestly for your facility. Start With What Churn Is Actually Costing You Most operators think about churn as a percentage. The dollar figure hits [...]Read more
How Universities Are Using Technology to Increase Campus Recreation Participation
Campus rec centers have better equipment than most commercial gyms within three miles of campus. The facilities exist. The problem is the student who walked past your group fitness studio a dozen times this semester and never went in. Better equipment doesn't fix that. What gets [...]Read more
Apple Watch vs. Heart Rate Straps: Which Is Better for Group Fitness?
Before the warm-up starts, take a quick look at the room. Apple Watches on half the wrists, sometimes more. It's been on since morning, and most members would use it in class without a second thought if the platform connected. Chest straps have been the standard for a decade. [...]Read more
The Complete Guide to Fitness Technology for Boutique Studios
The boutique model runs on a different logic than any other part of the fitness industry. When someone pays $35 or $40 per class, they're not buying access to a facility. They're buying a specific experience, and that experience has to justify the price every single time. Fitness [...]Read more