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BRING ON 2008!
Any one interested in private Pilates session please contact Nicola on 07939283682 . Another service the gym is offering will be advanced personal training sessions. The cost will be £25 for a 1 hour session and £125 for a block of 6 sessions. Please contact Scott by either email, phone or in person if interested. You can pick your own trainer from our fitness team.
New class starting on 24th June. Kettlebell training on Saturday morning at 7.45 – 8.45 am with Nicola. Please phone or come in to the gym for details.
We would love to hear from you if you have any comments or suggestions, by letter email or whilst at the gym.
Just to remind you of our opening times over the summer are;
Monday-Thursday 7.30am-10pm
Friday 7.30am-9pm
Saturday & Sunday 7.30am-4pm
Two articles you might find interesting
SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
Mental stress can hurt you in a variety of different ways. It can raise heart rate and oxygen consumption, harming your exercise efficiency and causing particular workouts to feel tougher than they actually should. It can increase muscle tension, reducing stride lengths( if you are a runner) and making your legs and arms considerably less “springy“ and powerful. Stress prevents you from mentally managing your tough workouts; instead of relaxing and focusing on the task at hand, you are preoccupied with stressful thoughts and emotions, so the equality of your performance decreases.
If you feel stressed out prior and during your training sessions, what can you do to control the stress?
There are a number of techniques to help you.
1. Be aware of how positive and negative thoughts, self talk and imagery affect you personally
2. Use centring, positive self- statements to decrease the chances of slipping into negative thoughts.
If you are interested in managing your stress more effectively, begin by keeping track of the things you say to yourself about your training. You may want to write these things down. Over a period of time you will find that your over all performance in the gym will improve..
IN THE GYM
Does muscle stretching really enhance recovery?
This can be partly answered with reference to research carried out on chickens!!!! When chickens’ wing muscles are artificially stretched, protein synthesis rates inside the wing muscle cells increase appreciably, which will boost recovery.
Research carried out on humans has shown that stretching increases muscle growth and inhibits atrophy. Periodic stretching stimulates the transport of amino acids into muscle cells, accelerates protein construction within the cells and thwarts protein degradation.
In addition, stretching seems to prepare muscles for the more quiescent activities which follow strenuous workouts and reduces stiffness experienced 24 hours after a workout.
Let us start by firstly thanking you all for your fantastic support during 2007! We now have 2008 in front of us and with this, a new year for fitness and health.