Welltodo Today: The Slack Of Fitness, Gyms Reopen In Wales, The Big Business Of Sleep

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

Meet the ‘Slack of Fitness’-A Trainer-Led Answer to Fostering Community During Quarantine

When boutique fitness was still alive and well, trainers spent as much time fostering community as they did curating banging playlists and designing sweaty workouts. That is until COVID-19 and the resulting quarantine measures put businesses like Barry’s Bootcamp, SLT, and Mile High Run Club on pause.

The dark side of wellness: behind a Netflix series on a murky industry

“Wellness”, like its signature vague branding, has a loose, unfixed meaning. It can describe the pursuit of greater stability. It can mean a $4.2tn, high-growth industry of products and services from goat yoga to health boutiques to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop jade vaginal eggs.

Why every brand now needs to behave like a health and wellness brand

In ancient times-say, March 2020-this was a trite, passing nicety. Today, with kids going back to school and the virus still raging out of control, it is a real question, and your response has real consequences. Are you healthy enough to hug? Do you do the elbow bump?

Does makeup have a place in a pandemic?

This story is part of a group of stories called Leonard Lauder, the current chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies, noticed that people were buying a lot of lipstick during the economic downturn of the early 2000s.

Why Planet Fitness Will Survive the Recession | The Motley Fool

In this Industry Focus: Consumer Goods episode, Emily Flippen and Motley Fool contributor Dan Kline discuss the latest quarterly results from Planet Fitness . They go through the company’s financials and membership numbers, and talk about how it has done in the space compared to the competition, the challenges it’s facing, how it’s positioned in the world of COVID-19, and much more.

Gyms, pools and play centres reopen in Wales

Gyms, swimming pools, leisure centres and play centres are reopening as lockdown continues to ease in Wales. A personal trainer in Cardiff said he was excited to get back to the gym, but had found it “amazing” to see how the industry had adapted to working online.

Could This Be The Start Of A New Golden Age Of Fitness?

The closures of gyms and health clubs earlier this year caused traditional gym-goers to re-evaluate how to stay active. This resulted in a number of new habits being formed like in-home workouts. Now, few people have an excuse to not workout. Could this create a new golden age of fitness?

Why We Buy In to the Big Business of Sleep

Industries from travel to tech are catering to the restless