Group Fitness in EuropeIn 2012, EuropeActive started to systematically conduct research on multiple topics in thehealth and fitness sector. The first publication in this series was the book titled The state ofresearch in the global fitness industry. This publication was based on a systematic search andreview, summarising 5,348 studies in total.In 2018, the most comprehensive study on personal training in Europe was published byEuropeActive and Edelhelfer (Gronau and Titze, 2018). This study provided an extendedprofile of personal trainers in Europe, based on almost 3,000 respondents.In the fitness sector, whilst group fitness is an important activity that is offered by manyoperators and used by millions of members, there remains a lack of knowledge on thissubsector. The present study is one of the first to conduct research on this topic. This book is amust-read for all who are involved in group fitness (management).Dr. Jan Middelkamp is a fitness entrepreneur, behavioural researcher (PhD) and a previousCOO of multiple international fitness chains (www.janmiddelkamp.com).EuropeActive is the not-for-profit organisation representing the whole of the European healthand fitness sector in Brussels (www.europeactive.eu).Drs. Peter Wolfhagen earned his master’s degree in human movement sciences, he is theresearch director at BlackBoxPublishers and published many books.Jos Eemstra is the development director at BlackBoxPublishers and specialised in groupfitness management.