The independent health club at Ribby Hall Village resort in Lancashire is to open two new fitness studios by the end of this month as part of the site’s ongoing refurbishment programme.

Owner and CEO Paul Harrison typically reinvests 75 per cent of Ribby Hall’s profits into updating its facilities and has also upgraded the resort’s spa facilities this year. Following previous upgrades to its Technogym-equipped gym, the latest £250,000 investment in two new studios provides additional space for fitness classes and crèche facilities.

The first floor of the new two-storey extension includes a new Mind & Body Studio which will overlook The Village’s nine-hole golf course, boating lake and surrounding woodland trail. The space will also include a night sky and star effect ceiling, under-floor heating and mood lighting to complement the club’s new Aerial Pilates classes. Other classes being introduced within the new studio include Aerial Yoga, X-Pole Dancing, Hatha Yoga and Trigger Point Pilates plus Ashtanga Yoga.

The new ground floor studio will offer crèche facilities during the daytime and will be used as another alternative group training studio for smaller groups during evenings and weekends.

“It’s important that we continue to provide new and additional activities for our membership and I believe our two new studios are going to be a fantastic new addition to The Health Club,” said duty manager James Mitchell.

“The studios will enable us to add even more fitness classes to our timetable and we can’t wait to see and hear what our members think of new facilities and group exercise classes.”