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20th edition  28 - 31 May 2026 Expo Centre & Riviera di Rimini (Italy)
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From Fitness to Stress Management

How clubs can truly influence people's wellbeing

For too long, fitness has thought it could improve people's lives by simply making them exercise.

The industry is undergoing a profound transformation because we are beginning to have tools, skills, and technologies that allow us to intervene on something much broader, the physiological balance and the real state of the person, not just their performance.
Chronic stress, difficulty in recovery, sleep disturbances, high cortisol levels, difficulty in weight loss, energy decline, up to more complex forms of fatigue and burnout, are no longer dynamics far from the gym world. These are conditions that enter clubs every day, often without being recognized, even more often without being managed.

Technologies based on biofeedback and neurofeedback allow us to make visible states that until recently were only perceived, enabling people to develop a greater capacity for self-regulation.

If this information is integrated with data related to training and lifestyle, a completely different possibility opens up, not just to propose exercise, but to accompany the person towards a state of more stable and sustainable balance over time.

This intervention moves precisely in this direction, understanding how to integrate different tools, from training to stress monitoring, how to read signals related to overload and recovery, how to transform this information into concrete actions within a club, and what role the professional should have in this new scenario.

The issue is not living longer, but living better the time we have available, and fitness today has the opportunity, and partly also the responsibility, to contribute in a real way to this process.

It doesn't just concern one age group, it concerns everyone, even the youngest, who are growing up within completely different stress dynamics compared to the past.
The point is simple.
If fitness continues to deal only with training, it will remain relevant only to a certain extent.

If, instead, it starts to truly take care of the person, it can become something much bigger.
And fitness that doesn't evolve in this way will be left behind.

28 May , 15:00 - 15:45

Hall A1 - Performance Arena

Sector

FITNESS

Tipology

Talks

Tag

Wellness Business

Speaker

Igor Castiglia

Igor Castiglia

Industry Expert