We kicked off September the way these calls tend to go: a little bit of catching up, a lot of real problems on the table, and way more good material than an hour can hold.

This time we skipped the go-around-the-room introductions and just dropped names, schools, and roles into the chat, which freed...

Somewhere in Texas, a campus recreation department figured out something that a decade of bodybuilding trophies never quite managed: if you want people to run a mile, tell them there's a donut hole waiting at the finish line. It sounds almost too simple to matter, the kind of gimmick that shouldn't ...

There is a particular kind of silence that falls over a campus recreation center around 9 p.m. on a Tuesday. The 6 a.m. spin class is a distant memory. The dinner rush of lifters has thinned out. What's left is a scattering of students on foam rollers, a couple of freshmen figuring out the assisted ...

Ask a collegiate recreation leader with twenty years in the field to sketch their career on paper, a straight line from entry-level position to their current role, and most will laugh before they even pick up the pen. The actual path rarely looks like a line at all. It looks more like a scatter plot...

We kicked off the fall semester the way we like to start these things: casually, a little chaotically, and with way more good material than an hour can hold.

Friday's Fitness Directors Monthly Meetup was the first of the season, and about fifteen fitness pros from across the country jumped on at so...

There's a particular kind of coordinator or assistant director who becomes, almost by accident, the most generous mentor in their entire department, the one every student staff member wants supervising them, the one whose one-on-ones somehow always run long because the conversation kept being worth ...

Ask a member services desk to describe the worst complaint they've fielded this month, and you'll get an answer that sounds almost too small to matter: the pool is two degrees too hot. Not an injury. Not a facility hazard. Two degrees. And yet the member delivering that complaint is rarely actually ...

Mark your calendar for Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21, 2027. FitExpo is back, and registration is already open.

The Southeast Collegiate Fitness Expo presented by IFTA brings together roughly 600 collegiate fitness leaders from more than 50 campuses for three days of hands-on learn...

Every spring, some version of this happens. Three (or more!) of your strongest instructors graduate in May. One of them was teaching four classes a week and covering subs for everyone else. You knew it was coming, and you still walk into August short, rebuilding the schedule around whoever is left a...

Somewhere in a filing cabinet, or more likely a shared drive nobody has cleaned out in years, most collegiate recreation departments are still sitting on a library of promotional photography that tells on them. Sweat mid-drip. Faces contorted somewhere between effort and pain. A cheerful, oblivious ...

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...

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...