Sports & Recreation

This year brought plenty of new large gym chains and smaller fitness startups to the Richmond scene, providing lots of potential starting points for that New Year’s resolution.

A new yoga studio dedicated more to spiritual health than physical fitness is moving into an old public bath house in Shockoe Bottom, where it will also incorporate the medical side of yoga.

With four light-proof, sound-proof and fully enclosed tubs, a West End chiropractor is getting ready to launch his second business, adding another flotation therapy spa to the Richmond market.

A Richmond native has returned home with plans to open a hot yoga studio in Shockoe Slip in a recently redeveloped building dating back to the 1880s.

A strained calf muscle is all that stands between a local baseball glove company and a chance to see its product on the sport’s biggest stage.

After her Midlothian barre studio shut down this summer, a VCU grad decided to keep the workouts going and will reopen the space as her own gym.

Amid staff turnover and its third-party management firm’s merger, a 100-year-old Lakeside country club will revert to managing day-to-day business own its own, with help from some new talent.

Adding another name to the growing list of barre group fitness gyms, a pair of friends recently kicked off classes in a West End shopping center.

As cyclists start their race through the city, the nonprofit that organized the event is depending on a final spurt of business to push it over the fundraising finish line.

Richmond businesses – from Fortune 500s to downtown bars – are rolling out the red carpet for international cyclists and the audience they’ll bring with them.