GYM & FITNESS
Fitness News
The History Boys!
A pair of fitness fanatics from Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis & Squash Club have chalked up a hugely impressive 80 years of combined circuit training – and have no intention of stopping just yet! Chris Law, aged 64, from Codsall, and Paul Davies, 69, from Wheaton...
Management of the gym is through our Head of Fitness, Paul Fothergill and a team of fully trained staff including Brendon Turner, Billy Hughes and Adam Guest.
They can show what this gym can do for you and can offer personal training sessions to suit everyone. Functional training, TRX, Boxercise and Kettlebell sessions are specialities of these experienced motivators.
All new adult members have the opportunity to meet the Head of Fitness and benefit from a free session worth £35 to design a programme, complete a fitness test, consultation or just to be pushed for a session.
Our gym caters for all types of members, whether just looking for a short workout in an air-conditioned, friendly environment every week or something more strenuous using all the latest technology and range of equipment and weights.
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The club has invested in the most up to date, state of the art Cardio Vascular equipment. The Matrix Cardio equipment is said to be the best in Britain and allows each member, if they wish, to record his or her own training programme. These machines have a large HD screen with numerous “distraction applications” such as Virtual Active, Facebook and You Tube plus the ability to customise your own playlist.
Alongside bikes, rowers, treadmills, ascent-trainers and a climbmill is a complete range of resistance equipment and free weights, dumbbells (2kg to 40kg) and kettlebells.
The fitness/dance studio offers a balanced programme of high and low impact classes catering for every age group from juniors to adults. Classes include Boxercise, Pilates, Functional Training, Suspension Training, Tabata, Core and Dynamic Fusion classes.
Equipment List
In The Gym
- 3 benches
- 4 treadmills
- 1 stair master
- assisted pull ups/dips
- 2 cross trainers
- 2 cable machines
- 1 smith machine
- 1 lat pull down
- 1 chest fly
- 1 shoulder press
- 2 row machines
- 1 weighted row
- 4 bikes
- 1 hip abductor
- 1 multi hip machine
- 1 leg press
- 1 hamstring curler
- leg extension
- box jump
In The Pit
- 22 bikes
- weight rack
- bench press
- boxing bag
- fast bag
- squat rack
- Preacher curls
- 2 benches
- 1 cables
- 5 box jumps
- 1 dead lifts
MEET THE TEAM
More Motivation, More Guidance, More Results.
BRENDON TURNER
PERSONAL TRAINER
Over the past 15 years Brendon has guided and motivated many people to achieve their weight loss, strength and fitness related goals. His passion for fitness has its origins in his football experience at West Bromwich Albion and Kidderminster Harriers. Since those early days Brendon has declared himself a student of health and fitness and has dedicated his time to identifying fun, specific and effective training and diet techniques to help his clients stay motivated and challenged.
“My goal is to teach people how to take control of their health through exercise and nutrition. Many years of experience and training have helped me to develop a range of practical and productive exercise and diet strategies to help people achieve their goals. It sounds dramatic but people don’t realise how quickly their appearance and the way they feel can be improved with a few dietary tweaks, some specific exercise and a little motivation.”
He can be contacted on 07854006529
PAUL FOTHERGILL
HEAD OF FITNESS
Paul was co-founder of Energize back in 2000 and is now Head of Fitness at Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis & Squash Club. “Fitness is about balance, so balancing clients training around their lives is the secret to a successful training regime.” For fifteen years Paul has delivered results using all types of training from simple running miles to the latest developments in exercise science. He believes that exercise should be part of everybody’s life but one size does not fit all and learning what works for each individual is the exciting part!
Paul can be contacted on 07825665794.
BILLY HUGHES FRCms
PERSONAL TRAINER
Billy is a passionate personal trainer, strength and conditioning coach dedicated to making a difference to people’s health and wellbeing. Through his personalised training sessions, he will help you achieve your goals – whether they include a reduction in body fat, improvement of movement patterns, increase in lean muscle or a full body transformation.
Billy is always working on improving his own understanding of an ever-growing fitness industry. His training methods have been influenced by high level coaches such as Charles Poliquin, Delroy McQueen and Brendon Chaplin.
Billy’s qualifications include:
- Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)
- Functional Range Assessment (FRA)
- Be Activated Level 1 and 2
- Level 4 Strength and Conditioning Coach (Brendon Chaplin)
- Level 4 Olympic Weightlifting Coach
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma In Sport
- Level 3 Personal Trainer
- Level 2 Fitness Instruction
- Certificate in Advance Stretching
- Foundations of Periodization & Program Design (Poliquin)
- Fundamentals of Designing Hypertrophy Programs (Poliquin)
- Tennis Speed Workshop (Daz Drake)
- Powerlifting Level 1 (Delroy McQueen)
- Programme design and training theory (Phil Learney)
- Applied fat loss (Phil Learney)
- Business acumen (Phil Learney)
He can be contacted on 07585604465
ADAM GUEST
PERSONAL TRAINER
Adam has a real passion for helping you reach your goals, He specialises in running and Meta-fit classes in addition to delivering extensive personal training to members and visitors. Adam has previously competed in body building competitions training extensively as well as several tough guy events and thrives on helping people achieve their goals.
Adam is always aiming to better his clients and provide a platform for people to take control of their physical wellbeing and how it should be incorporated into every day life, in order to live a balanced lifestyle.
He can be contacted on 07592 639576
GABBY BIRNAT
PERSONAL TRAINER
Gabby is a former European Taekwondo champion with a level 3 Personal Trainer Qualification. Gabby is also a spin instructor, she loves teaching classes bringing her passion for dance, mixed martial arts and strength training together in dynamic classes which are now available to our members. Gabby will be teaching 2 classes every Sunday, the first is ‘Total Body’, this is a fast moving class, inspired by mixed martial arts, kick boxing, boxing and Taekwondo.
Gabby’s qualifications include:
- Level 3 personal trainer
- Les Mills
- Body combat
- Body pump
- Spin
- Training through Menopause
If you are interested in training with Gabby please contact her on 07770576937.
Energize Circuits
A form of body conditioning or resistance training using high-intensity aerobics. It targets strength building and muscular endurance. These circuit classes are very popular week in week out.
“The classes are a great way of getting to know other members at the club and everyone supports each other.”
Energize Training
End the week similar to how you started, 45 mins of High Intensity Training (HIT), as hard core as you wish, you decide the intensity level. Well attended and suitable for the experienced athlete and beginners alike!
Energize Workout
Great start to the week, 20 mins of pad work and a series of simple exercises finishing with a core workout. Well attended and suitable for first time exercisers and hardened athletes alike!
Energize Boxercise
An all over body, fast moving, energetic, stress busting workout . Combining both aerobic and anaerobic exercise to burn up to 500 calories. Circuit based fun punching exercises suitable for all people over the age of 15 of all levels of fitness.
“A year ago I’d never heard of boxercise. Now its my way to de-stress, have fun and tone my bingo wings! Don’t think you have to come with a partner, there is always someone to partner and have a chat! Ability and fitness doesn’t matter, you just go at your own pace with friendly encouragement and motivation from Reece” – Monica
“Boxercise is a great class, it has a bit of everything, hard work but you finish it feeling like you’ve had a proper workout. Highly recommended!”
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