Stop Calling Gen Z Lazy: What Consistency Actually Looks Like on Campus Aug 03, 2026

There's a specific complaint that circulates in almost every campus recreation staff meeting sooner or later, usually delivered with a sigh rather than any real malice: this generation just doesn't have the same work ethic. It gets said about student employees who won't pick up an extra shift. It ge...

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Save the Date: Collegiate Fit Philly Is Coming This November events & experiences Jul 28, 2026

Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 7, 2026. Something new is coming to the Northeast, and it was built with collegiate fitness pros and students in mind.

Collegiate Fit Philly is a one-day, high-energy education experience for the people who bring collegiate fitness to life. Group fitness in...

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Why We Built Collegiate Fitness community & connection Jul 27, 2026

I didn't grow up around anyone who worked in higher education. I was a first-generation college student, which meant most of what I learned about how a university actually worked I learned by watching, asking, and occasionally getting it wrong. I started at UNC Charlotte in pre-pharmacy, which tells...

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Recovery Is No Longer a Trend: Why Campus Recreation Should Treat Recovery as Programming programming & industry trends Jul 20, 2026

Every industry has a tell for when a good idea is about to be ruined by its own popularity, and in fitness, the tell is usually a shopping list. Cold plunge. Infrared sauna. Percussion massage gun station. Compression boots. A vendor walks the floor, a director gets excited, a purchase order gets si...

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A Community Built for the People Changing Collegiate Fitness: Inside the 2026 Collegiate Fitness Directors Summit events & experiences Jul 14, 2026

Three days. One city. A community of leaders who spend their careers building belonging for everyone else, finally given a few days to build some of it for themselves.

That's the simplest way to describe what happened in Charleston this year. However, it undersells almost everything that actually m...

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Collegiate Fitness Trends: Fall 2026 Planning Insights programming & industry trends Mar 27, 2026

What happens when you put a group of collegiate fitness leaders in a room and ask one simple question: β€œWhat are you building for the fall?”

You get a conversation full of ideas, challenges, and real-time innovation.

Our first Fit Friday LIVE session inside the Collegiate Fitness Community brought...

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