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An independently-owned fitness club in Somerset, voted the best health club in its region at the 2012 Members’ Choice Heal th Club Awards, has taken advantage of a £100,000 investment to re lo c ate its gym to larger facilities. The Fitness Hub Gym in


Portishead has moved less than a mile down the road to a converted warehouse, which has been transformed into a brand new fitness facility. The personal investment came from the


The club has benefitted from a £100,000 investment A new rope and functional fitness rig


gym owners, former world champion kick boxer Andy Cleeves and his wife Claire. The new facilities include a women-only


gym area, a spacious main studio, group cycling studio, cardio, power and resistance zones, plus changing rooms and showers.


has also been installed and there is an extensive timetable of classes, including regular boot camp sessions. A variety of sessions is on offer seven days a week: four sessions out of the 31 available are included as part of the membership. The Fitness Hub also sponsors several local athletes and raised more than £20,000 for local charities in 2012.


Cambridge club introduces CrossFit


Functional Fitness specialist Jordan Fitness has helped bring CrossFit strength and conditioning programmes to Cambridge, at a new independently-owned club, CrossFit Stags and Does. Run by personal trainers


Duncan Boltt and Dino Sperling, CrossFit Stags and Does is the first CrossFit gym in Cambridge, with 1,2oosq ft of space dedicated to high- intensity workouts using functional fitness techniques including Olympic lifting. The gym currently has a community of


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Fitness Hub relocates


The CrossFit Stags and Does team at the Cambridge club


more than 60 members. The ethos of the club is to push its members hard to achieve individual fitness goals. Jordan Fitness was chosen by CrossFit Stags and Does to supply oversized medicine balls, slam balls, battling


ropes, powerbands and kettlebells to the club. Co-owner Duncan Boltt says: “I’m a long- time user of Jordan Fitness equipment for functional training. “We always get new people wanting to use


the battling ropes in particular. The workout they offer sets us apart from other facilities”.


Pulse 8 invests in Total Gym’s GRAVITY kit


Pulse 8 Health and Fitness Club in Wokingham, Berkshire, has installed eight Total Gym GTS units to offer GRAVITY small group and team training at the site. The club is owned by entrepreneur John


Barley, who also owns the adjacent, award- winning Nirvana Spa facility.


June 2013 © Cybertrek 2013 The equipment is situated on the club’s


mezzanine level, and has been added as part of a club-wide revamp. Pulse 8 now offers two GRAVITY small group exercise classes: GRAVITY Tone and GRAVITY HIIT. GRAVITY Tone is a low impact class, while HIIT is a high- intensity interval training programme.


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