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Opening June 5

June 4, 2020 fittwell_x6m5ti No Comments Uncategorized

Hello Everyone,
First of all I would like to thank you all so much for your patience as we work to get Fittwell Centre open and ready to adhere to all required protocol as well as extend our hours.

We will be Opening on Friday, June 5th at 7:00am.
We are not allowed to offer 24 hour access at this time so our hours will be as follows:
Monday – Friday 7:00am – 10:00pm
Saturdays 9:00am – 5:00pm
** We Promise we are working very hard to make 24 hour access available as soon as possible**

All workouts need to be booked ahead of time. So we can keep everything organized. Please send the time you are wishing to book to candice.fittwell@gmail.com, I ask for you patience as I work to book your time and respond to your request. We will not be accepting bookings through Facebook or Instagram.
Below are the 75 minute workout slots we will be offering at this time, the gym will be cleaned between each workout slot and we can fit in 15 members per time slot:
Monday – Friday
7:15am – 8:30pm
8:45am – 10:00am
10:15am – 11:30am
12pm – 1:15pm
1:30pm – 2:45pm
3pm – 4:15pm
4:30pm – 5:45pm
6:00pm – 7:15pm
7:30pm – 8:15pm <note this is our only short workout slot
8:30pm- 9:45pm

Saturdays:
9:30am 10:45am
11am – 12:15pm
12:30pm – 1:45pm
2pm – 3:15pm
3:30pm – 4:45pm

We will be booking up to June 19th. This will give us time to assess if the workout times are enough for most of our members and if the hours we are offering are sufficient.
We will not be hosting group classes at this time but they will be returning soon.

What to Expect:
– We ask that you self assess before coming to the facility, we will do a run though of the required COVID-19 screening questions before each workout time.
-We will have designated workout stations to ensure social distancing measures can be adhered to.
– As is usual Fittwell standard, we require everyone to clean their equipment after use.

-Bring Your Own Water Bottle From Home (avoid drinking directly from fountain)
If you have forgotten your water from home please ask staff and we will provide you with a single use water bottle if we are able

-Bring Your Own Towel From Home
Fittwell towels are for disinfecting equipment before and after use only

-If Possible Come Ready in your Workout Gear
Try to change and shower at home
Leave as many personal items as possible at home or in your vehicle

-Take your Shoes Home
We are asking ALL members to remove their shoes from the facility after every workout
All Shoes not removed from the change rooms and front shelves will be removed by staff at the end of June

-Bring Yours Own Yoga Mats and Resistance Bands
We will continue to provide our regular easy to clean mats for all members
We have removed ALL: Yoga Mats, Foam Rollers, Resistance bands and All but 1 exercise ball to ensure everything provided to use is safe and sanitary

We look forward to seeing you all very soon

Covid 19 Update

May 5, 2020 fittwell_x6m5ti No Comments Uncategorized

Hello Everyone!

We are hopeful that you are all doing well and staying healthy.

We wanted to let everyone know that we are not one of businesses eligible for reopen Monday, May 4. However, we are happy to announce that during this time we will making sure to get a few things updated before our valued members return.

– We are still renting out our professional spin bikes as well as sets of dumbbells. If you are interested please let us know and we can check our available stock and arrange a time for pick up.

– We will be doing a few repairs and re upholstery on some equipment

– The entire facility will be receiving a deep clean by one of our local professional cleaners

– We have plans to set up a huge variety of online fitness classes through Fitness On Demand. It is an app that can be downloaded on your phone or other devices. We will be offering this at discount cost to anyone who was an active member with us when we shut down (March 20.) We will also offer a very reasonable price to those who were not members but would like an amazing variety of workouts they can do at home which are guided by some world famous fitness trainers including Jillian Michaels.
We will have exact price details for you as soon as possible. We are working hard to get this up and running as we plan to continue this as an option for members and non-members even after reopening.

We continue to plan for our future behind the scenes so that you can return to Fittwell Centre feeling confident about us as your gym.

Are Glute Activation Exercises Important?

June 14, 2019 fittwell_x6m5ti No Comments Uncategorized

Having strong gluteus muscles are important for your body’s overall strength including stabilizing your core muscles and knees. Strong Glutes also prevent muscle imbalances which can impair mobility.

For many individuals glute muscles remain “inactive.” This means the muscles are weak and your body is relying on other parts to take over physical movements.

Performing Glute activation exercises before exercising (especially on a leg focused workout) helps “wake up” the muscles so you can then begin to strengthen them properly and avoid having other potentially stronger muscles take over your movements.

Exercises to try on your own to activate glutes:

Side Donkey Kicks: Down on hands lining hands up under shoulders and knees under hips, extend one leg straight out beside you. Working with your body’s natural range of motion, lift your leg up then slowly lower back down to floor before repeating the movement. Perform 3 sets at 10-15 reps per side.

Bent Knee Donkey Kick: Down on hands lining hands up under shoulders and knees under hips, keep knee bent and flex your foot, lift your knee to hip level. Lower knee back down and repeat the movement. Perform 3 sets at 10-15 reps per side.

Hip Thrust: Lie on your back and line your feet up under knees. Keeping shoulders and feet against floor press your hips up (raising hips as evenly as you can.) Squeeze your butt gently at the top of the movement. Lower hips back down slowly and as evenly as possible. Perform 3 sets at 10-15 reps per side.

Try these exercises before your next leg work out and optimize the results of the one of the most critical muscle groups in your body.

-Candice Bone-