Welltodo Today: CrossFit Moves Past Controversy, John Legend Joins Headspace, The Plant-Based Challenge

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

New research shows gyms in England are successfully controlling COVID-19

New research from industry body, ukactive, has found gyms are almost risk-free environments for COVID-19, with an estimated 0.020 positive cases per 10,000 gym visits – results that are statistically insignificant. ukactive collated data from more than 1,300 gyms, health clubs and leisure centres to analyse the prevalence of the virus within the sector’s facilities.

Why Apple And Google Should Use Microsoft Flight Simulator Tech To Make A Fitness App

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is a huge technical achievement. It lets you fly across the globe, features over 37,000 airports and uses Bing Maps as its primary imaging resource. Its visuals mark a new level of visual fidelity for simulator software, satellite image-derived landscapes brought to life with incredible weather rendering.

How CrossFit’s new CEO Eric Roza plans to move past his predecessor’s controversial remarks

CrossFit’s new CEO and owner Eric Roza has assumed responsibility of one of the world’s largest fitness brands in the midst of a global pandemic, and shortly after CrossFit was rocked by a controversy involving allegations of racism and sexism within the company which alienated CrossFit gyms, athletes and sponsors.

Why Headspace’s John Legend Hire Will Amplify The Future Of Mindfulness

Last week, Headspace took a bold step forward into the rapidly emerging intersection of Wellness, Tech and Music by announcing a deal with visionary recording artist John Legend. Legend joined the meditation and mindfulness tech brand as their first Chief Music Officer.

Council Post: A New Vision For Financial Wellness

CEO & Founder of BrightPlan and a former executive at Cisco, is a longtime Silicon Valley innovator and business leader. Total Financial Wellness A Universal Need More U.S. employers are offering financial wellness programs, yet the increasing popularity of this employee benefit has raised an important question: What exactly is “financial wellness”?

The next challenge for plant-based meat: Winning the price war against animal meat

Finding the best ways to do good. The last couple of years have been consequential ones for meatless meat, as we at Future Perfect have documented. For all meatless meat’s success, however, advocates shouldn’t feel complacent. After all, meatless meat still makes up less than 1 percent of the annual meat consumption in the US – hardly a dent in how we eat.

Why Time-Not Just Money-Needs To Be Part of the Conversation About How To Make Wellness More Accessible

In an ideal world, digital media entrepreneur Amber Nash would love to go to therapy once a month. She’d also be thrilled to take a 30-minute daily walk outside and lift weights three times per week. But as a working mother of three, she simply doesn’t have time to consistently fit basic wellness practices like these into her life.