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Revamped gym opens at Horwich site
Fitness suite at trust-operated centre includes 80 stations supplied by Life Fitness
By Pete Hayman
A extended fitness suite has
opened to the public at
Horwich Leisure Centre in
Bolton, Lancashire, as part of a
larger £250,000 refurbishment
of the facility.
Renovation work was
undertaken by the Bolton
Community Leisure Trust and
Life Fitness, which has led to
the creation of a 456sq m
(5,005sq ft) gym boasting three The gym space has been created in the centre's former creche
different spaces and 80 stations.
A new entry-level gym space The second fitness space Vice-chair of the Bolton
has been created in the centre's incorporates a wider range of Community Leisure Trust
former crèche, which has been Life Fitness strength and CV Richard Saunders said:
designed to cater for disability equipment, while the third area "Horwich Leisure Centre has
groups, schools, junior clubs for more advanced members seen significant improvements
and elderly people, as well as boasts an extended free over the last five years and
offering cardiac rehabilitation weights area and a separate this new gym is another major
programmes. personal training area. leap forward."
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Trust has created a new gym at tion Department was originally
its Vocational Rehabilitation funded by the government via Medicine Ball
Department in Papworth the Department of Work &
Training
Everard, Cambridgeshire. Pensions but is now funded by
The £40,000, 156sq m insurance claims.
Kettlebell
(1,700sq ft) fitness suite has The process is part of the
Training
been created by converting government's Rehabilitation
two unused office spaces and The facility boasts 14 stations Code, which ensures access
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includes 14 exercise stations to rehabilitation services Nutrition
supplied by Cybex, the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI). without affecting the outcome
Sports
majority of which have been Other facilities include a of the insurance claim for the
credited at Stage 2 by the physiotherapy room which injured party.
Conditioning
Core Stability
Council backs £12m wellbeing centre designs
and many more
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council facility, which will boast a 25m, eight-lane 0845 1 90 90 90
has approved William Saunders Partnership's swimming pool, a learner pool, an 80-station courses@premierglobal.co.uk
designs for a new £12m health and wellbeing fitness suite and a health suite.
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centre on a site next to the town's existing Dance studios, a climbing wall, wet and dry
Jubilee Pool facility. changing facilities and multi-purpose areas also
The Newark-based architects were appointed form part of the proposed centre, which is
by the council to draw up plans for the new scheduled to open in 2011.
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