People don’t just want functional
facilities. They want something that
looks attractive to relax in and maybe
FX LEISURE LEYLAND
swim a few lengths, which is why we
haven’t built a 50m swimming pool.” studio, a workout ‘movie room’
Instead, the latest club in the seven- T
he company’s new £4m flagship
club in Lancashire spans which shows popular films from the
strong portfolio offers a dimly-lit 20m 1,860sq m (20,000sq ft) and is past, and a jukebox so members can
indoor pool and an indoor/outdoor centred around a 110-station fitness line up the gym’s communal music.
wellness pool area, an Oriental-themed area with Life Fitness cardio and Equipment in the movie room
steamroom and a fi re and ice room, all resistance kit, plus a free weights includes Life Fitness recumbent
accented with funky coloured lighting. area with Olympic bars and bikes and Precor AMTs.
Each club offers a separate fi tness Hammer Strength equipment. Other facilities include a 20m
suite, usually themed, to give members Finishing off the vibrantly designed, indoor swimming pool, an indoor/
a different environment to work out in. open-plan gym is a stretch and abs outdoor wellness pool with a
Leyland FX Leisure, which opened in space including a Precor Stretch retractable roof, a Jasmine-scented
May, is the fi rst club to feature a movie Trainer and two Vibrogyms. steamroom and a menthol-infused
workout room, with a schedule of fi lms Separated from the main fitness fire and ice room. The facility also
for members to watch as they exercise suite are two exercise studios: an hosts a rent-paying Scott Charles-
– one of the features Taylor brought 18-person yoga studio and a branded hair salon, which is also
back from the States. There’s also a 30-person aerobics room. There’s due to offer beauty treatments in
jukebox on the gym fl oor, so members also a blacked-out, neon-lit cycling the next few months.
can pick the music played in the gym,
and a dedicated cycling studio, which
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