Refreshing Your Class Timetable for Autumn

Our Group Exercise timetable has grown massively over the last 10 years, with the aim of offering a wide variety of classes that keep you active, motivated and engaged. None of this would be possible without our fantastic team of instructors, who consistently deliver outstanding sessions week after week.

To ensure our programme remains fresh, relevant and responsive to member needs, we occasionally make changes to the timetable. These updates are influenced by member feedback and demand, as well as instructor availability. Many of our instructors balance teaching with full-time careers and family commitments, so bringing everything together is often quite a challenge – something our Fitness Manager, Katy, knows all too well!

With that in mind, we’d like to share some exciting changes that will take effect from 7th September, designed to further enhance our already excellent Group Exercise offering.

New Junior Classes

As highlighted in our last newsletter, we’re delighted to be launching two brand-new junior classes:

• Junior Dance Fiesta – Tuesdays (replaces the previous termly “course”)
• Junior Boxercise – Fridays

Alongside these, our popular Saturday Family Circuits class has been renamed Family Fitness and will now run every week. Together, these additions provide more opportunities for our younger members and families to stay active, have fun and build healthy habits.

For more information on these junior classes (e.g. age ranges, etc.), please do refer to our more detailed blog here.

More Les Mills Shapes

For our adult members, we’re pleased to announce the addition of two new Les Mills Shapes classes to the weekly timetable:

• Thursday evenings with Garry
• Friday mornings with Katy

Since its introduction in April, Les Mills Shapes has quickly become another very popular programme, so we are very happy to be able to expand the schedule and give you more opportunity to experience this highly effective and innovative workout.

Farewell and Thank You

Some of the remaining timetable changes are the result of instructor availability and logistics, which are all part of keeping a busy timetable running smoothly.

Sadly, both Alex (Thursday evenings) and Matt (Monday evenings) have recently moved away from Bedford, meaning their classes have been reassigned within our existing instructor team. We’d like to thank them both for their contribution to our fitness community and wish them every success in the next chapter of their lives. Alex’s new adventure takes her all the way to beautiful Barcelona!

A New Chapter for Combat

Finally, our much-loved Combat warrior Susan has decided it’s time to hang up her gloves and step back from teaching Combat classes.

Carrie will take over the Wednesday morning Combat session, while Susan’s Wednesday evening class will transition to Dance Fiesta. We know many members have been asking for an evening Dance Fiesta class, so we’re confident this will be a popular addition. Better still, it means we still get our weekly Wednesday evening Susan fix!

Booking Information

All of these changes will come into effect from 7th September, with classes available to book through the app up to six days in advance.

We’d Love Your Feedback

As always, member feedback plays a vital role in helping us shape and develop our timetable. While we can’t guarantee we’ll be able to accommodate every suggestion, your thoughts and ideas are incredibly valuable in helping us create the best possible experience for all members.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please get in touch with our Fitness Manager, Katy, at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you in class soon!