new
opening HALL OF FAME
route to the gym areas, which seeks to acknowledge the continuing success of university athletes after they have graduated. The fi rst inductees were Eric Liddell and Katherine Grainger, who
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have gyms named after them, but the roll call has now expanded to encompass other sporting greats: Sir Chris Hoy, the Olympic cycling legend; Gregor Townsend, Scotland and British Lions international rugby player; Graeme Randall, World and Commonwealth Judo Champion; Jon Duncan, world orienteering champion; Bob Braithwaite, Olympic shooting champion; and Julie Fleeting, Scotland’s greatest female footballer. “More graduates will be added in years to come, rejoicing in their success and serving as an inspiration to current students,” says Jim Aitken MBE, director of the CSE.
ust before the start of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the University of Edinburgh unveiled its Sports Hall of Fame, situated on the main
A spacious 367sq m studio with
sprung wooden fl oor and high specifi cation sound system is located on the fi rst fl oor, to support the CSE’s dance and exercise classes and workshop programme, which encompasses 60 different sessions each week. The new Vew-do, Zumba and Body Blitz classes are proving especially popular with the CSE’s clientele. While the main CV and circuit gyms
have retained their original usage, they have both been incorporated into the redesign and updated with the new colours and new equipment. The 389sq m CV gym now features Precor branding, as well as Precor treadmills, cross-trainers, AMTs, steppers and bikes, all with personal viewing screens showing CSEtv. The 368sq m fi xed weights gym has
been renamed the Eric Liddell Gym, in honour of the 1924 Olympic athletics hero, and has been kitted out with Precor’s Experience Strength C-line resistance circuit, creating a fl agship facility for the range. There’s also a dedicated 440sq m circuit gym on the top fl oor, targeted more as a group exercise space. Also ideal for warm up/cool down and sprint performance, it offers Precor’s Cardio Theater audiovisual entertainment system, a 30m running lane, Concept2 rowers and Precor cross-trainers and bikes.
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The main CV gym at the CSE
has been incorporated into the redesign and has been updated with new colours and equipment
As part of the overall redevelopment,
a number of dedicated niche spaces have also been created, such as the Katherine Grainger Rowing Gym, named after the university’s Olympic rowing legend, and a cycling studio known as Velo-city. A boxing gym, a grappling room and further rooms to support the university’s personal training service have also been created. Another benefi ciary is the university’s
Fitness Assessment and Sports Injury Centre (FASIC), Scotland’s foremost sports medicine provider, which has gained a further four clinical treatment bays. CSE has also opened a commercial retail outlet operated by its preferred clothing supplier Kukri Sports.
high style, low cost Students and staff alike now have access to what can only be described as one of the best gyms in the country. Anne Ewing, a fi fth year medical student, explains: “The new gym facilities are amazing. The space, light, layout and quality of equipment are fantastic and really inspiring – I love it.” Uptake in the new academic season has been extraordinary. The CSE set
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a record for new memberships, taking a staggering 735 registrations in just one day. Around 80 per cent of its 15,400 members are students, with the remaining 20 per cent made up equally of staff and graduates, as well as the local community. Students have a selection of
membership options, including an annual fee of just £98, off-peak memberships, semester-only or even the opportunity to pay just £3 for one- off visits. Staff and graduates are also offered favourable rates. As a dual-use site, the public can also
join this high quality establishment for just £28 a month with no joining fee. The recent extension has taken the
sport and exercise facilities into the 21st century. Sitting alongside the university’s existing 27-acre city centre playing fi eld site, an outdoor education centre on the banks of Loch Tay and a dedicated sports-related academic building, it’s easy to see why the University of Edinburgh is Scotland’s leading sporting university.
healthclub@leisuremedia.com julie fi sher
november/december 2010 © cybertrek 2010
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