Welltodo Today: Technogym Is Taking Over, Is Athleisure Dead? Smartwatches In China

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

Bose’s new exercise headphones are ready for a world without headphone jacks

While they aren’t as noteworthy as the company’s ditch the 3.5mm jack and push more people toward Bluetooth, as rumored.Bose on Sunday announced the new SoundSport and SoundSport Pulse, a couple of wireless earphones aimed at active types.

Lululemon founder says athleisure is over – now it’s all about ‘streetnic’

Lululemon/Facebook Lululemon founder Chip Wilson thinks athleisure is over. He says it’s actually been gone for a while. “There’s been a collapse of what someone would call the ‘athleisure market,’ which is what some fashion magazine in New York would have done that 10 years ago, 10 years behind,” Wilson said in a phone interview with Business Insider.

Smartwatches could be really big in China

Smartwatches in the US and Europe have fought an uphill battle for the past coming of years, coming from a place of so-called uselessness and ugliness. With the Apple Watch, Android Wear’s collaborations and fresh Pebbles, smartwatches are just about starting to look desirable again. Soon, it won’t just be the very rich or the…

How Wellness Helped Technogym Generate $581.2 Million In 2015

There exists a wellness company, nestled away in Cesena, Italy that is plotting to take over a part of Americans’ daily activities. To be clear, it is a wellness company, not a fitness company, which is an important distinction for Technogym founder Nerio Alessandri who founded the company in 1983 at […]

A major shift in the fitness world is underway – and it could be the future of the industry

Boutique fitness is notoriously expensive. Even though they have made wellness trendy, pay-per-class workouts like Flywheel and Barry’s Bootcamp are often criticized for their lofty price tags (and inherent elitism). (The cycling studio SoulCycle often gets the brunt of this criticism even though its pricing is par for the course in New York).