Welltodo Today: Apple Digs Into Fitness, Activewear Innovation Labs, Tonal Launches Live Classes

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

More activewear brands are creating innovation labs to pursue new technologies

In the last three years, brands from Adidas to Pangaia to Allbirds have developed new materials that push the limits of activewear performance.

Can Companies Focusing On Sustainability And Wellness Ever Get Very Big?

Large consumer product companies have been successful because they deliver great products that function well or taste great at attractive prices that almost everyone can afford. But over the last several years, consumers have indicated they want products that deliver on personal values. Two concepts keep on trending: sustainability and wellness.

Vegan Meat Alternatives Found To Benefit Gut Microbiome In New Study

A recently published study delving into the impacts of vegan meat alternatives on the gut microbiome has produced positive results. It took two groups of people and instructed one to replace weekly meat intake with plant-based alternatives. The outcome was that those who ate the vegan options had an increase in butyrate-producing microbes.

Spas and wellness centers grapple with the latest pandemic spike

The spa industry had been hoping that the June decline in Covid-19 cases would stick, and that people would be coming back in full force.

Peloton rides into the corporate law firm ‘wellness’ market

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The new Apple Watch once again emphasizes fitness.

The Apple Watch has posted steady growth for Apple in recent years, which the company wants to grow further. On Tuesday at its annual product event, Apple unveiled new versions of the Apple Watch – called the Apple Watch Series 7 – with slightly larger screens.

Tonal adds live classes to its strength training workouts

Wall-mounted fitness startup Tonal this morning announced that it’s bringing live courses to it portfolio of strength training workouts. The company did a soft launch of the live offering back in December of last year, though at the time, it wasn’t live, so much as prerecorded – “live, on tap…