 People attending Fenwick2’s gym and Healthy Horizons classes can now work even harder on their six packs.
Fenwick2 community health and well-being centre at Pike’s Hill, Lyndhurst, has benefitted from a donation of exercise equipment from New Forest District Council’s Applemore health and leisure centre on the Waterside.
The donation came about through Healthy Horizons trainer Lottie Kirwin, who works at both centres.
Applemore had a range of Easyline Technogym equipment that it no longer used and had room for, so it will now be used to enhance New Forest District Council’s Healthy Horizons scheme at Fenwick2.
The scheme runs for 12 weeks at a time for people referred by their GP.
It allows people with medical conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, chest complaints, heart problems, depression, stress or those recovering from operations to exercise in the Fenwick2 gym at a subsidised cost.
The equipment, delivered on May 9th, is suitable for all ages and levels of ability and can now be used by individual gym users at Fenwick2 as well as other visitors, such as people attending the dementia respite service.
“We are delighted by this gift and we have already started using it,” said Fenwick2 manager Wendy Bolt.
“I understand that this equipment is made by the official suppliers of equipment to the World Cup and the Olympics. We might not be quite up to that standard but we can still make good use of it for our private gym users and for our other clients. I’d like to say a very big thank you to Applemore for thinking of us.”
Fitness manager at Applemore, Richard Bell, said:
“The equipment is very mobile and so makes excellent use of space.
The pieces we have donated are enough to work all the major muscle groups in the body. The equipment was built to form a circuit and there was little point in selling it individually for home use, so we decided to donate it.”
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