News and jobs updated daily on
www.healthclubmanagement.co.uk Edited by Jess Tasman-Jones. Email:
jesstasman-jones@leisuremedia.com Fitness First’s £20m investment
Fitness First is launching a capital investment programme of £20m in 2013 in an attempt to return the brand to UK market leader. The spend will cover essential maintenance,
major refurbishment and an investment of £4.5m in fitness technology, marking the largest phase of innovation in the company’s 20-year history. Products and features at clubs will include
hot yoga studios, cool-down air showers, interactive screens with virtual personal trainers and high definition screen treadmills on which members can run virtual routes in California, Europe and Africa. The gyms will host Diversity and Victoria
Pendleton fitness classes, with British Cycling Team-endorsed Wattbikes that offer exercisers feedback on their technique. The average spend on fully refurbished
clubs will be £750,000, with locations in Poole and London among the first to trial the new designs and training concepts. A further £1m has been invested in appointing more than 70 new club managers.
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Fitness First: Investing in “high calibre fitness staff” Managing director for the UK, Martin
Seibold, says: “High calibre fitness staff, unique equipment and a more interactive member experience will put us at the forefront of the UK fitness industry.” Fitness First is one of the largest health club
groups in the world, with more than 380 clubs in 15 countries. In the UK it has more than 85 clubs, with 50 in London alone.
Exercise could make NHS savings of £7bn
More than £7bn of savings could be made on the UK’s health spending if everyone undertook the recommended daily amount of exercise. The findings, from a new report by the London School of Economics and healthcare charity Nuffield Health, show that 70 per cent of UK adults do not currently meet the target of 150 minutes’ exercise a week. The report, ‘12 minutes
Increasing daily exercise cuts the risk of lifestyle related diseases
more...’, uses data from the annual Health Survey for England and suggests that, if each inactive UK citizen were to do just 12 minutes’ exercise each day, the UK could save £7bn in costs of associated NHS treatments, welfare and loss of earnings. Health benefits attainable by simply moving more include decreased levels of cholesterol
and risk of high blood pressure; cutting the risk of lifestyle related diseases such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; and better control of body weight. Active people are not only 7 per cent less
likely than inactive individuals to be obese, but they also reduce their risk of poor mental health by 6 per cent.
Council backs £13.5m leisure centre for Blackburn Facilities will include an eight lane 25m pool,
A £13.5m leisure centre for Blackburn has received backing from the local council to replace the ageing Waves Water Fun Centre. The council approved £8.5m for the
project, with Blackburn College providing the remaining £5m.
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15m x 7m training pool, 80-station fitness suite, aerobics studio, health suite with sauna and steamroom, two four-court sports halls, and a sports science lab for college use. Work is set to begin on the site in September.
“We like Air rather than weights. Our customers are female and mainly new to exercise so the smoothness and quietness of pneumatic resistance rather than weight stacks is ideal for our clients.”
Richard Hubbard Managing Director Gymophobics
Keiser UK Ltd 0845 612 1102
@KeiserUK
www.keiseruk.com
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