Double Olympian Kate Haywood launches fitness business
POSTED 03 Sep 2014 . BY Jak Phillips
Haywood was Britain’s leading female breaststroke swimmer for more than a decade, winning medals at World, European and Commonwealth level
Double Olympic swimmer Kate Haywood has swapped the famous rings for REPs by embarking on a new career as a fitness instructor.
Former BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Haywood – who represented Team GB at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games – has launched Straightline Energy fitness sessions, which will be held across parks in Wandsworth, London.
Haywood has taken her knowledge of fitness and nutrition from her days as an Olympic athlete and, having qualified as a REPs trainer, developed an extensive training programme to get Londoners fit and healthy. The sessions are designed to challenge and push those who are either new to fitness or seeking to reach new goals. They cover strength, speed, endurance, aerobic and anaerobic training.
“We saw an opportunity to create a fitness training programme that can bring Olympic-style training to residents in South West London,” said Haywood.
“The sessions are designed to get people outdoors and really challenge themselves; being trained by an Olympic athlete gives people access to a level of expertise and professional quality of training that is not readily available to amateur athletes or those embarking on a fitness regime for the first time.”
According to research which tracked more than 147,000 people for 30 years, 90-120 minutes
of strength training a week may deliver some of the biggest long-term health rewards.
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physical activity recommendations and placing greater emphasis on strength, balance, reducing
sedentary behaviour and, for the first time, supporting people taking weight loss medications.
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Double Olympian Kate Haywood launches fitness business
POSTED 03 Sep 2014 . BY Jak Phillips
Haywood was Britain’s leading female breaststroke swimmer for more than a decade, winning medals at World, European and Commonwealth level
Double Olympic swimmer Kate Haywood has swapped the famous rings for REPs by embarking on a new career as a fitness instructor.
Former BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Haywood – who represented Team GB at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games – has launched Straightline Energy fitness sessions, which will be held across parks in Wandsworth, London.
Haywood has taken her knowledge of fitness and nutrition from her days as an Olympic athlete and, having qualified as a REPs trainer, developed an extensive training programme to get Londoners fit and healthy. The sessions are designed to challenge and push those who are either new to fitness or seeking to reach new goals. They cover strength, speed, endurance, aerobic and anaerobic training.
“We saw an opportunity to create a fitness training programme that can bring Olympic-style training to residents in South West London,” said Haywood.
“The sessions are designed to get people outdoors and really challenge themselves; being trained by an Olympic athlete gives people access to a level of expertise and professional quality of training that is not readily available to amateur athletes or those embarking on a fitness regime for the first time.”
According to research which tracked more than 147,000 people for 30 years, 90-120 minutes
of strength training a week may deliver some of the biggest long-term health rewards.
The UK's four Chief Medical Officers have published a refreshed edition of Physical activity
guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers' report, updating the evidence that underpins the nation's
physical activity recommendations and placing greater emphasis on strength, balance, reducing
sedentary behaviour and, for the first time, supporting people taking weight loss medications.
Places Leisure has exchanged contracts to build and operate a flagship £60m water and leisure
destination on behalf of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.
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Panatta brought together four of the most influential figures in bodybuilding history on the
stage of RiminiWellness 2026: Phil Heath, Lee Haney, Ronnie Coleman and Hany Rambod. [more...]
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy. [more...]
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