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Nigerian site for Star Trac A new fitness suite opens at the Sandra Villa Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria, this month. Owned by News Engineering
Nigeria Ltd, the 86sq m club offers a gym equipped with CV and strength equipment from Star Trac. Tis is complemented by a swimming pool and a group exercise studio, with spa treatments also available. Te club will be open to the
public, on a membership basis, as well as to hotel guests as a complimentary service. Membership is competitively priced at 150,000 Naira a year – around US$1,000.
West Wood pilates studios Ireland’s West Wood Health Clubs has expanded its group exercise and pilates activities with the creation of dedicated pilates studios at two of its sites in Dublin: Clontarf and Leopardstown. Each studio has been equipped
with 20 Total Gym GTS machines, which were launched at LIW 2011. A further 20 are planned for the chain’s Sandymount site. Te equipment was installed last
month, with training throughout April ahead of a launch this month. Total Gym will be used to offer
the traditional and evolved pilates programming offered by the GRAVITY Training System. If the floorspace is needed for larger mat- based classes, the units can be folded for storage in a matter of seconds, to a footprint of just over 0.5sq m.
including Excite CV and a full strength range
The Conrad Macao, Cotai Central – part of the Conrad (Hilton) chain of hotels, in partnership with Sands China Ltd – opened last month, including a health club and spa. Aiming to provide ‘one of a kind’
experiences, the new luxury resort targets
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the affluent traveller. With its 430 rooms and 206 suites housed in a 39-storey tower, it’s the largest hotel in the Conrad chain and the largest resort on the Cotai Strip. The 620sq m fitness centre is equipped
with state of the art Technogym equipment, including Vario, Excite CV and a full strength range. There’s also a functional training room offering yoga and pilates, as well as a sauna, steamroom and whirlpool. Meanwhile a pool deck offers an outdoor heated pool. There are also nine cabanas with day beds, plus food and beverage service. The Bodhi Spa offers 10 spa suites
Orangetheory: international expansion Technogym has kitted out the fitness suite,
The Ascente Group, franchisers of Orangetheory Fitness – the US-based heart rate-monitored interval fitness concept – will expand the franchise internationally, beginning with Canada in 2012. “This is just the beginning of our
international expansion. We’re looking for additional targets including South America, Europe, Asia – we’ve had interest from Australia and the UK already,” says Terry Blachek, partner at Orangetheory. David Hardy, president of Franvest
Capital Partners (FCP), has secured the rights to Orangetheory Fitness in Canada. FCP is already invested in International Fitness Holdings, which operates 23 clubs in Alberta. Hardy is also president of the Fitness Industry Council of Canada, and serves on the board of IHRSA.
with full changing and wet facilities, and a treatment menu that brings together ayurvedic, Aboriginal and Asian elements. There are 14 other hotels in the Conrad group with spa and gym facilities.
Aſter Canada, the fitness concept could expand into South America, Europe and Asia
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