HEALTH & FITNESS


New look gym for Branston Golf and Country Club


Branston Golf Club in Burton, Staffordshire has reopened its health club following a comprehensive redevelopment. Te 225sq m gym has been re-equipped


with Precor equipment and includes 25 cv stations, 16 pieces of strength equipment and three resistance machines. Facilities include a 17m swimming pool,


sauna, steamroom, aroma rooms and an outdoor hot tub. The club also offers a 1.5km (0.93m) outdoor jogging route. Details: http://lei.sr?a=c1s6T


New kids’ concept for David Lloyd


Health club operator David Lloyd Leisure is to invest £1.35m in rolling out its DL Kids concept for families, with a new facility in Dublin being the latest major investment in this area of the business. The £750,000 purpose-


built DL Kids facility at David Lloyd Dublin Riverview, Clonskeagh, will open to both members and non- members in September. DL Kids Dublin will fea-


ture three multi-purpose activity rooms, a sports hall, play frame, soft play zone, outdoor area, DL Kids ‘cafe- bar’ and lounge, providing children aged 0-11 years with a range of programmes running throughout the year specifically designed to complement the way they learn. It’s part of an expansion of the success- ful model, with an additional £600,000


DC Leisure has been appointed to run the facility


£12.5m West Brom centre on track for 2014 opening


Construction work on the new £12.5m West Bromwich Leisure Centre is on track and the facility is expected to open to the public by September 2014. Te steel structure is now in place and


the pool tanks have been cast and tested for the new centre, which will include a 25m pool, learner pool, sauna and steamroom and a four-court sports hall. A 100-station fitness suite, two dance


studios/activity rooms, indoor children’s adventure play area and café are also planned. Details: http://lei.sr?a=8A5l4


The case for and against barefoot running


Te case for and against barefoot running is examined in the latest issue of Health Club Management magazine. Although barefoot running shoes only


make up 10-15 per cent of sports shoe sales, it’s a fast growing sector and experts claim many people turn to barefoot running as a result of injury due to heel striking in con- ventional running shoes. Tose against it claim it leads to run-


ners developing a different set of injuries. Details: http://lei.sr?a=H1l8I


4 Te first purpose-built David Lloyd Kids facility opened in 2010


earmarked for DL Kids upgrade initiatives at UK clubs this year – including Derby, Knowsley, Nottingham and Warrington. Te David Lloyd Leisure Group operates 81


clubs in the UK and a further 10 clubs across Europe. Details: http://lei.sr?a=e7s2C


GLL will operate new Rugby leisure centre


Te Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Centre, Rugby’s new leisure centre, is on track to open its doors on 31 August. Te new centre replaces the


Ken Marriott Leisure Centre, which has been demol- ished aſter serving the town for 40 years. The new centre has been


designed by B3 Architects and has been built on the site of the leisure centre’s car park. Facilities include two


swimming pools, a 100-sta- tion gym, a climbing wall, six-court sports hall, space for dance classes and martial arts, a coffee shop and space for future expansion. Charitable social enterprise GLL will oper-


ate the site under the brand “Better”. The decision to close the Ken Marriott


It will be on of the best equipped disability sport centres in the region


Leisure Centre followed studies which showed the building had reached the end of its useful life and needed substantial invest- ment and refurbishment – or replacement. Details: http://lei.sr?a=d3e6L


New model predicts effect of diet and activity on kids


Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed a mathematical model that pre- dicts how weight and body fat in kids respond to changes in diet and physical activity. To create the model, data was analysed from children between ages 5-18 and compared their


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital


predictions against actual changes in children as measured in other studies. In their findings, the NIH observed that


children could be eating more calories for each pound gained when compared to adults. Details: http://lei.sr?a=y9u9R


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