Sport and Fitness have never been closer..................... like two best mates! These two best buddies, sport and fitness, have some really great industry 'best practices' when it comes to looking after the enthusiastic members of the public and, there are some improvements that need to take place.

​I love listening to people in the fitness industry. There is a tremendous amount of expertise and experience out there. Talent, enthusiasm and innovation. I guess you get this culmination of attributes in any young industry. After all, fitness, like social media and coffee shops is still in its infancy. Then again, when it comes to gym fit out, I would say the industry has hit that irrational adolescence phase of growing up..........

​This statistic is somewhat alarming. Quite worrying. But when I saw the figures for women I was staggered. One in two women over the age of fifty, in the UK, will break a bone. ONE in TWO!

​When a minor sporting injury occurs, whether it is a child, adult or elite athlete, there are two things that need to happen. Prevention and cure. In fact, it is cure first and then the prevention of a possible repeat injury.

​A tremendous amount of money and technical resource is spent on the advancement of sports and fitness equipment, remember when we used tennis racquets made out of wood? The usual commercial drivers are user safety or player performance. It baffles me that a Gym Manager or Head of PE that have such a good understanding of the human body act with such poor judgement when it comes to performance flooring. That is exactly what a functional floor is. A performance floor.