West London private school invests in £14m leisure facility
POSTED 11 Dec 2015 . BY Jak Phillips
The spacious new gym features a range of Precor fitness equipment
An independent day school on West London’s fashionable King Street is about to unveil its new £14m sport and fitness facility.
Due for completion in January 2016, the two-floor sports centre for Latymer Prep and Latymer Upper School will replace the old 1970s centre which has recently been demolished. While the new sports facilities will be used primarily by the schools’ 1,390 students and sporting clubs, they will also be used as part of local community partnerships as well as offering parents a sports and fitness facility.
In addition to a main sports hall, 25m (82ft) swimming pool and three fitness studios, the facility features a 169sq m (1,819sq ft) gym. Precor supplied the equipment for the suite, including five Next-Generation Experience Series Treadmills which have been fitted with Preva networked fitness. There is also the Precor Discovery Strength range – comprising a converging shoulder press, seated leg press and diverging pulldown, along with an Icarian incline lever row, Icarian superbench – and three Concept II rowers.
“Precor has a reputation for quality and after sales service and the equipment suited our sporting and IT requirements,” said Tallan Gill, director of sport at Latymer Upper School.
“Latymerians take their sport and exercise very seriously and it was important for us to have equipment that matches our high quality training and expectations.”
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West London private school invests in £14m leisure facility
POSTED 11 Dec 2015 . BY Jak Phillips
The spacious new gym features a range of Precor fitness equipment
An independent day school on West London’s fashionable King Street is about to unveil its new £14m sport and fitness facility.
Due for completion in January 2016, the two-floor sports centre for Latymer Prep and Latymer Upper School will replace the old 1970s centre which has recently been demolished. While the new sports facilities will be used primarily by the schools’ 1,390 students and sporting clubs, they will also be used as part of local community partnerships as well as offering parents a sports and fitness facility.
In addition to a main sports hall, 25m (82ft) swimming pool and three fitness studios, the facility features a 169sq m (1,819sq ft) gym. Precor supplied the equipment for the suite, including five Next-Generation Experience Series Treadmills which have been fitted with Preva networked fitness. There is also the Precor Discovery Strength range – comprising a converging shoulder press, seated leg press and diverging pulldown, along with an Icarian incline lever row, Icarian superbench – and three Concept II rowers.
“Precor has a reputation for quality and after sales service and the equipment suited our sporting and IT requirements,” said Tallan Gill, director of sport at Latymer Upper School.
“Latymerians take their sport and exercise very seriously and it was important for us to have equipment that matches our high quality training and expectations.”
It’s been five years since the fitness industry reopened after the last lockdown – long enough
to look back on the impact the pandemic had on the sector and what might come next.
Wattbike has announced a new integration with EGYM, which enables the bikes to contribute to
the Cardio BioAge score of individuals via a VO2 max result.
Les Mills has launched a reformer Pilates workout. The 45-minute workout blends traditional
reformer movements and more contemporary exercises, choreographed to music.
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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stage of RiminiWellness 2026: Phil Heath, Lee Haney, Ronnie Coleman and Hany Rambod. [more...]
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