Health Club Management January 2010

edited by katie barnes. email: katiebarnes@leisuremedia.com
lightweights
SUMO RUN WORLD
RECORD ATTEMPT
The organiser behind the Battersea Park Sumo
Run will attempt to break the Guinness World
Record with its 5km run this June.
All participants have to do is turn up, put on an
infl atable sumo suit and jog around the fl at, green,
5km-long course.
You can enter as an individual or in teams.
Individual registration costs £25 per person
before 1 April. Teams of four or more members
get a £5 discount per member before this early
bird cut-off. The money will cover the sumo suit,
which you get to keep, as well as helping to raise
funds for the charity Gemin-i.org – a charity that
specialises in developing innovative solutions to
improve education in both the developing and
developed worlds. Participants are also asked to
raise a minimum of £250 each in sponsorship to
enhance fundraising efforts for this worthwhile
charity. Details: www.sumorun.com
CHESS BOXING:
Chess and boxing. The two seem
the most unlikely bed partners, but
A KNOCKOUT
somehow seem to work together in
a hybrid sport called chess boxing,
NEW SPORT
which combines up to 11 alternating
rounds in the ring (three minutes)
and on the board (four minutes).
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Competitors have 12 minutes
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to complete a whole ‘speed chess’
game, and can win by knockout,
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checkmate, a judge’s decision, or if
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their rival goes over the 12 minutes.
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the fi rst match in 2003, having been
FAT CLUBS FOR
inspired by fi ctional depictions of
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POLICE PLODDERS
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artist and fi lmmaker Enki Bilal.
Metropolitan policemen who are overweight
could be given a ‘fat club’ membership as
ﬁ tness by royal appointment
part of a corporate health scheme to cut sick
leave by more than a third.
Up to 16,000 staff will be offered health
The loyal servants of Buckingham Staffed by a personal trainer, the check-ups to evaluate their body fat, blood
Palace have been provided with their gym is said to feature a heavy weights pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. Based
own top-of-the-range gym, to help area, CV equipment including rowing on the results of these tests, they will then
relieve the stress of being at the beck machines, bikes, cross-trainers and receive a personalised report including
and call of the Royal Family all day. treadmills, two wet rooms, a stretch recommendations on how to improve their
The gym – built in the Royal Mews, area and a yoga ball training section. fi tness and general wellbeing.
in a converted hay store previously Buckingham Palace has its own To support these efforts, gyms and
used to store food for the monarch’s Lifestyle Committee and already canteens in borough headquarters will be
horses – will be available to the palace’s offers its staff sporting facilities such upgraded to provide more up-to-date fi tness
450 workers, including footmen, as squash and tennis courts, as well as facilities and healthy food options.
chauffeurs, chefs and cleaners. a football and social club.
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