Future Fit returns as education partner for Elevate 2026

Elevate has confirmed that The Future Fit Group (Future Fit), its official Education Partner, will once again lead a major strand of its education programme at the 2026 show. The ongoing collaboration delivers focused sessions designed to challenge thinking, spark debate, and support professionals navigating a rapidly evolving physical activity sector.

The Future Fit programme forms part of an ongoing education partnership with Elevate, now entering its fourth year. It has grown into a strategic collaboration that helps shape the show’s education agenda, addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing the sector, from obesity medications and workforce development to inclusion, leadership and long-term business sustainability.

This year, Future Fit’s content across the show’s flagship theatres brings together academics, clinicians, industry operators and specialist practitioners to bridge the gap between research, policyand gym-floor activation. Their sessions will tackle both immediate operational challenges and wider systemic issues shaping the future of fitness.

• Across the two-day event, Future Fit sessions will explore topics including:

• The impact of GLP-1 weight-loss medications on fitness business models: from practical coaching implications to long-term industry disruption

• Leadership in complex health systems: examining how collaborative, place-based approaches can help address widening health inequalities

•The fitness sector’s inclusivity gap: do current imagery, language and business models truly reflect ambitions to reach the inactive majority

•Sleep and recovery as performance tools

• Pre- and post-natal training: offering guidance on safe programming and postpartum recovery

• Retention strategies: focused on building resilient, sustainable fitness businesses