Gym Equipment

Fitness Audits for Gyms

Safe equipment and qualified training assistance show that service and ambience are just right in your fitness studio. Our neutral audit seals demonstrate the quality of your gym or fitness center, for potential customers to see at first glance. We will test your equipment when it suits you best, quickly, and without complications. After passing the quality check, we will enter your studio in our list of certified fitness centers and document the strength of your services on our Web site.

Benefits at a Glance

With an internationally renowned audit seal from TÜV Rheinland you can:

  • Increase membership numbers on the basis of your equipment safety
  • Lower employee turnover
  • Boost your customers’ and partners’ confidence in the quality of your training offerings
  • Gain headway against the competition with our branch-independent fitness seal

An Overview of our Quality Check for Fitness Studios

Our Testing Criteria

  • Training assistance
  • Assistance and expertise competence
  • Infrastructure, rooms, entrances and exits, and requirements for apparatus
  • Hygiene
  • Special offers for groups
  • Customer relations and contracts
  • Additional services
  • Emergency management

Test Run-Through

  • Commission, including appointment
  • On-site auditing and evaluation of the examination documents
  • Criteria compliance check against PfG 1217 auditing guidelines
  • Certificate
  • Entry in the list of certified fitness centers
  • Documentation of your service portfolio on our Web site

Certification Benefits our Customers in more Ways than One

For the first time in Germany, a health insurance company, a travel agency, and TÜV Rheinland are working hand in hand to promote good health - in a unique co-operation between KKH-Allianz, TUI Vital, and TÜV Rheinland. Clients insured with KKH-Allianz and TUI Vital customers will now receive either a 10% discount or one-month free training per year at TÜV-audited fitness studios.

FIBO Innovation Award

In cooperation with Fit for Fun, TÜV Rheinland is once again presenting the FIBO Innovation Award in 2012. The award will be presented in three categories at the FIBO exhibition, the place where fitness fanatics come to meet.

  • Training equipment for fitness, rehabilitation and prevention
  • Health Promotion
  • Design

All exhibitors at the FIBO exhibition can take part.

In each case, 3 products will be selected by our expert jury and displayed at the FIBO exhibition in the innovation forum in Hall 7. There, our jury will judge the individual products and choose the winner of the FIBO Innovation Award 2012 in each category.

Jury

Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse

Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse

Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse (54) completed his degree in sport studies at the German Sport University Cologne. He is the head of the Centre for Health of the German Sport University Cologne (DSHS), head of the Institute for Exercise Therapy at the DSHS and was Pro-Vice Chancellor from 1999-2003. Furthermore, he is the Scientific Director of the Institute for Quality Assurance in Prevention and Rehabilitation (IQPR GmbH) and also chairman of the Research Institute for Disability and Sport (FiBs e.V.)

Matthias Lompa

Matthias Lompa

The sport scientist Matthias Lompa (43) has worked at TÜV Rheinland since 2008. Prior to that, he was a freelance auditor and coach. Since the start of 2011, he has been responsible for the Sport, Recreation and Fitness department at TÜV Rheinland. This is the fourth time that Matthias Lompa has scrutinised the submitted innovations as a member of the jury.

Heike Schönegge

Heike Schönegge

The Hamburg-based journalist and author, Heike Schönegge (48), started out as a trainer. Since 1993, she has been a pioneering editor at the fitness and lifestyle magazine, Fit for Fun. She primarily takes care of the topics aerobics, fitness and strength training in the Sport and Travel department there. She has published a range of books on the subject of fitness with the Südwest-Verlag publishing house in Munich.

Elmar Trunz-Carlisi

Elmar Trunz-Carlisi

Elmar Trunz-Carlisi is a sport scientist and the head of the Institute for Prevention and Aftercare (IPN) in Cologne. The company, which was founded in 1992, works as a partner and health care provider for health insurance companies, health insurers, enterprises and other companies in the health sector.

He has published numerous articles in popular and specialist magazines, on radio and TV. As author or co-author, he has so far published 15 non-fiction books, including 5 bestsellers, which have been translated into a total of 20 languages. The father of three works as a consultant and lecturer for health insurers, associations, universities and companies.