New week? Bring it on!

Here's what we've got planned for this week:

Fit In The Park, South Park Gardens:

• Mon 7 Sept: 9.30am with Heather (Family friendly - babies and children welcome)

• Thu 10 Sept: 6.15am with Heather

• Sat 12 Sept: 7.45am with Kate

• Sat 12 Sept: 9.00am with Kate

It's just £10 a class for our park sessions, or you can use your HA fitness class pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply reply to this email. You can then either use up a session on your HA fitness class pass or pay £10 online (we'll send you our details after you've booked). If you have a class pass, you need to send us a photo of it, and we can then manage your sessions from there.

If you haven't done so already, you'll also need to complete a health form which you can do here: https://forms.gle/FNkEocaCRKkSLCsL6.

The class will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session :)

Online Zoom Sessions:

We have a busy Zoom timetable for next week - perfect if you're short on time, in quarantine or even on holiday!

Please note the Thursday 6.15am class will be just in South Park Gardens (not on Zoom).

• Mon: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Mon: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

• Tue: 7.00am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Tue: 9.00am Fit In The Home with Kate

• Wed: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Wed: 7.00am Fit In The Home with Kate

• Wed: 12.30pm Cardio Pilates with Sophie

• No Zoom class for 6.15am on Thursday - join us in the park instead!

• Thu: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

• Thu: 7.30pm Cardio Core with Laura

• Fri: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Fri: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

It's just £12 a week for unlimited access to all of our Zoom classes. Simply reply to this email to book and receive the links.

Happy Training,

Heather x

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Saturday - training in the park!

Bookings open for Saturday’s classes with Kate in South Park Gardens:

• 7.45am

• 9.00am

Just £10 a class or use your HA fitness pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply email or message us.

You'll also need to complete a health form, which we'll send to you when you book.

The classes will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink.

Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms.

Bank Holiday weekend - class update

Just traveling back from a week away in the Peak District with the kids (and yes, we did remember to put them in the car before we left!).

I was hoping to get an email out to you all this afternoon, but have been stuck in traffic on the motorway and still not home ;-(

Anyway, bookings are open for for Saturday’s classes with Kate in South Park Gardens! Join us at:

• 7.45am

• 9.00am

You probably all know the drill by now: £10 a class or use your pass. Please email or message me to book your place in advance.

Bring your own mat and some water to drink. Don’t turn up if you have any COVID-19 symptoms.

Have fun! I should be catching up with emails and messages over the weekend.

Heather x

Book your place - Fit In The Park in South Park Gardens!

Bookings now open for the following Fit In The Park classes in South Park Gardens:

• Sat 22 Aug: 7.45am with Kate

• Sat 22 Aug: 9.00am with Kate

• Mon 24 Aug: 9.30am with Laura (Family friendly - babies, toddlers and older children welcome)

Our Thursday 6.15am class will be on Zoom on 27 Aug. This is just for one week. We'll then be back in the park on Thursday 3 Sept!

Just £10 a class or use your HA fitness pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply email or message us. You'll also need to complete a health form, which we'll send to you when you book.

The classes will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session. We look forward to training with you!

Farewell Antonio, but not goodbye - see you on ZOOM!!

Antonio’s last class in South Park Gardens this morning....

Good news is he’s back again on Zoom tomorrow morning at 6.15am.... . Drop us a line if you’d like to join him and haven’t signed up yet.

Heather x

Class news - Antonio

I have some good and bad news to share...

Antonio is flying back to his hometown next week. Sadly for us, this now won’t just be for a holiday. He’s decided to move back permanently so that he can spend more time with his friends and family in Croatia.

The really good news is that he is keen to continue his online Zoom sessions for HA fitness!

So it is farewell, but certainly not goodbye.

Antonio joined the HA fitness team in October 2016 and has run literally hundreds of sessions for us since then! He is well loved across all of our clients, never sick and 100% reliable. Even on a cold, dark winter’s morning when it’s pouring rain, Antonio will be there with a smile!

Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication to the team Antonio!!

Tomorrow’s 6.15am class will be Antonio’s last park session. So if you can make it, it would be great to see you there. All of his Zoom sessions will run as normal this week, so don’t worry if you can’t make it.

More announcements to come as to how our timetable will be evolving.

Heather x

That feel good feeling from training outside again!

Loved teaching our 7.45am and 9.00am sessions on Saturday in South Park Gardens. What a beautiful morning for exercising outdoors!

Everyone was happy to remain a safe 3 meters apart throughout the session. We were so socially distanced that you can’t quite see everyone in the photos. Can you spot a few of our clients underneath the shade of the tree?

Despite the distancing, we still successfully managed to chat, laugh and workout hard. Just like the old days!

We’re continuing to run our hybrid timetable of Zoom and outdoor fitness this week: Fit In The Park and Fit In The Home.

If you’d like to join us, just message or email me for details.

Heather x

Training - inside (Zoom) and outside (South Park Gardens)

It was such a lovely feeling to see everyone back in the park again!

This week we will be operating the same Zoom and outdoor booking system (and continuing to monitor numbers, so that we can offer you even better value for money going forward). This is what you could be doing:

OUTDOOR FIT IN THE PARK:

• Thursday 6.15am South Park Gardens (tomorrow)

• Friday 6.15am Wimbledon Park

• Saturday 7.45am South Park Gardens

• Saturday 9.00am South Park Gardens

Thursday and Friday will be with Antonio. Saturday will be with Heather as Kate is away.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply reply to this email. You can then either use up a session on your HA fitness class pass or pay £10 online (we'll send you our details after you've booked).

If you have a class pass, you need to send us a photo of it, and we can then manage your sessions from there.

If you haven't done so already, you'll also need to complete a health form which you can do here: https://forms.gle/FNkEocaCRKkSLCsL6.

The class will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session!

ONLINE ZOOM SESSIONS:

We still have a lot Zoom sessions going on for the rest of this week. Choose from:

• Wednesday 12.30pm Cardio Pilates

• Thursday 6.15am Fit In The Home

• Thursday 1.00pm Stretch & Restore

• Thursday 7.30pm Cardio Core

• Friday 6.15am Fit In The Home

• Friday 1.00pm Stretch & Restore

It's just £12 a week for all of our Zoom classes. Drop us a line to book on and receive the links.

Hope to see lots of you in the park this week!

Heather x

Back in the park!

And we’re back!! Our first Fit In The Park class at 6.15am this morning in South Park Gardens.

Well done to Antonio who was running this session, both in the park and on Zoom for our clients at home.

And well done to our amazing clients for joining us, following the social distancing rules and working out really, really hard. It was so lovely to see you all in real life!

Antonio is back tomorrow at 6.15am, this time in Wimbledon Park. Drop us a line if you’d like to join him. This session will also be taking place on Zoom.

Wow what a fantastic start to our outdoor sessions!

Training outdoors - please remember to bring your own mat

We unfortunately won’t be able to bring mats to our outside classes for you to borrow. Mats, boxing gloves, TRXs etc are all on the banned equipment list - soft materials being difficult to clean to a high enough standard.

So please bring your own mat if you’re joining us in the park. You don’t need an expensive one, just something you can lie on. Amazon is probably the best place to look. Please drop us a line if you’re unsure.

Covid-19 - keeping our clients safe at HA fitness

At the beginning of this year, when I was looking at professional courses and skills development, this one certainly wasn't on my to-do list!

It's just one of the many things we've been working on recently, to help our clients feel safe and confident in joining us for some outdoor fitness classes.

Training in the Great Outdoors again

Yes that’s right! The news we’ve all been waiting for. With the latest easing of restrictions, we can now head back into the park providing we stick to the COVID-19 Secure guidelines.

We will be announcing our new Zoom and Park timetable shortly.

Please bear with us while we update our policies, waivers and booking system over the next few days. We need to do this to ensure we are compliant with current legislation and our insurance companies. We will be doing everything we can to keep everyone safe whilst ensuring you have a great workout too!

See you in the park soon!

Park or Zoom classes? Tell us what you think!

I've been absolutely blown away by how many people have answered our survey about our Zoom and outdoor classes. Also how enthusiastic and supportive all of your messages have been. I literally have a tear in my eye. Thankyou!

I'll close the survey on Sunday night, so if you haven't done so already, here's the email and survey link:

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The question everyone has been asking me is “are you going to run classes in the park again?”...Shortly followed by “how will it work?”.... And also “will you continue with the Zoom sessions?”

My answer is usually some shade of the following: As a team we really enjoy running our Zoom sessions, and we’ve gained so much more time from not traveling to classes.

You, our lovely clients, have told us that you’ve really enjoyed our online timetable, and many of you are doing a lot more sessions than you were doing pre-lockdown!

So if everyone is happy, why bother going outside?

Well, venturing out to the park for a class gives you a break from your work and family environment. And there’s so much more space to move around. Not to mention the social side of being able to chat freely while you blaze through a set of squats and burpees.

In a perfect world, we'd have an extensive timetable, both on Zoom and in the park, for you to dip into each week. However, as I’m sure you can appreciate, we have to be realistic with our time and resources.

We’re aware that you’ll all have different preferences and one-size will not fit all. So, we’ve put together this short survey to help find out what you’d really like to see on the timetable. We can then use this to put together a plan of action.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Z55QB6C

It goes without saying that we’ll be observing all social distancing guidelines. And we’ll only train in groups outside when it is safe to do so.

Hope to see you on Zoom soon!

Heather x

Online quiz night - 18th May!

Tonight is Quiz Night!!!

We start at 8.30pm tonight. Zoom links to be sent out later today.

They'll be a mix of easy, challenging and silly questions, and of course time to chat too.

The prize will be the glory of everyone knowing your briliance!

We’re aware, as I’m sure you are, that Merton Foodbank is really struggling at the moment. So if you enjoy the quiz, and are able to make an optional donation, a link to the crowd funding page for the Foodbank will also be circulated.

All you need is Zoom and a pen and paper. Don't forget to pour yourself a drink and grab some nibbles too.

We'd love to see everyone there.

Need a hand? HA fitness personal training sessions available

As a team, we've been running PT sessions on Zoom since the beginning of lock down. And we've received a lot of amazing feedback as a result. Some of our clients are even booking in extra sessions!

You may have heard that there's been a change in what we, as a profession, can offer. We're now allowed to train people on a one-to-one basis, provided that it's outside and social distancing guidelines are observed.

However, after speaking to many of our clients this week, they've all said that they'd prefer to keep their sessions online for now. Well that suits us too!

If you're interested in starting some Personal Training sessions with our team, either on Zoom or outside, do drop us a line. We'd love to have a chat and see how we can help. Be it one or two sessions to set you on the right track, or regular weekly workouts tailored to your goals.

Training safe online during lock down

Four weeks ago, we headed into the unknown and announced that our Fit In The Park class wouldn't be outside, and instead would be streamed online into your kitchens and living rooms.

It was our 9am Saturday class, the busiest of our week, and a huge ask of our lovely Instructor, Kate.

Amazingly, over 20 of you tuned in for her session. And she nailed it!

Since then we’ve added to our timetable and made a few improvements to our set up.

With the current lockdown measures remaining in place for at least another 3 weeks, and life not going back to normal at any point soon, we'd like you to know that the HA team have got your back. We're ready and fired up to give you a physical and mental boost, six days a week, until we can all safely go outside again.

As before, you get all of our Zoom classes for just £12 a week (no commitment, you just pay on a weekly basis). Our week runs from Monday through to Saturday inclusive.

If you'd like to sign-up to next week and don't already have our payment details, just email me at heather@hafitness.com.

Happy training and stay safe,

Heather x

Online fitness - Easter timetable

We’re so egg-cited about how much you're all enjoying our cracking Zoom timetable, that myself and the HA team have decided to not stop hoppin' over the Easter Break. Here’s the plan:

FRI (tomorrow):

7am: Fit In The Home with Antonio (slightly later time)

12.30pm: Core with Heather (Sophie is still recovering)

SAT:

9am Fit In The Home with Kate

MON:

7am: Fit In The Home with Antonio (slightly later time)

1pm: Stretch & Restore with Heather

See you on Zoom!

Heather x

Lockdown challenge - The 100

Here's a little workout challenge to do at home.

The idea is, you take a break from work/family and do 20 press ups. Then take another break, later in the day and do 20 squats.

Your goal is to do 100 of each by the end of the day! Let us know how you get on...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) And Outdoor Exercise

OK, let’s talk about COVID-19 (do we ever talk about anything else at the moment?!).

First of all, I know that we have lots of health professionals as clients, who are far more knowledgable than I am. I also know that there’ll be lots of data nerds out there who’ll be able to out-quote me on all of the facts. I am by no means an expert.

However, I’d like to reassure you that the health and wellbeing of our HA fitness community are our priority.

I strongly believe that our immune systems can be boosted by living a healthy lifestyle. By that, I mean eating nutritious foods, reducing stress and enjoying exercise.

So do keep joining us in the park for some stress busting fitness fun. I have always said that exercising outside exposes you to far less germs than being in a gym.

Here’s what we're doing at HA fitness:

As Instructors, we’ll be washing our hands as often as possible (if we can get hold of alcoholic gel, we’ll use it). We’ll refrain from hands on exercise correction and handling babies or children. We won’t ask you to do any partner work where you have close contact with each other.

We’ll reduce the amount of equipment we use to a minimum. As we’re working outside all day, it’s difficult for us to sterilise our mats. However, please do feel free to bring your own mat or towel.

Here’s what we advise you to do:

Wash your hands before and after each class, and if you’re using your own mat, give that a clean too. Wave and smile at each other, rather than hugs and kisses. Eat well, get lots of activity and plenty of sleep to strengthen your immunity and build up your own personal defence systems.

Obviously, don’t come to class if you’re sick or believe you have come into contact with the coronavirus.

We hope to keep our full timetable running during this period, whist taking all of the appropriate precautions.

If you have either any concerns or helpful suggestions, please do drop us a line. Let’s focus on a united HA fitness effort to stay healthy.

Heather x

Joe Wicks Recommends Buggyfit!

Oooohh thanks Joe Wicks The Body Coach for encouraging parents and carers to come along to our Buggyfit postnatal classes!

Join us with your little one on Wimbledon Common every Tuesday morning at 11am for a powerwalk, strength training and some core workouts.

Wimbledon Buggyfit is the ultimate fitness class for new Mums. We've been training postnatal ladies in SW18 and SW19 for nearly 14 years!

Our classes are:

- Suitable for all levels of fitness, from the complete beginner to experienced exerciser

- Great for shifting post natal weight

- Ideal for toning your tummy, arms, bum & legs

- Convenient as baby comes too

- Safe as our instructors are all qualified & experienced in ante/post natal fitness

- Sociable and a great way to meet other new mums

- Not just a walk in the park!

Get in touch to organise your free trial :)