A scheme to improve the public health and wellbeing facilities at BH Live Active, Queen’s Park in Bournemouth is set to begin next month.
Venue operator BH Live plans to invigorate the venue with new Life Fitness equipment including resistance and cardio machines, free weights, a functional rig and lifting platform. The layout and flooring will be improved too.
New activities, to inspire more people to take part in physical activity, include its gym based group exercise classes; More Power, More Primal, More Pulse and More Play. These will be part of a refreshed group exercise programme and gear towards the latest industry trends of functional fitness. The introduction of MyZone will enable customers to maximise on their training through trackable technology.
The improved space will also enable more health referral programmes, including cancer survivorship and activities for younger people, to run. This will broaden the overall offer at the venue and encourage more people to become more physically active.
Its Terrace café will be refurbished, and new lighting installations and energy saving initiatives across the venue will improve ambience and reduce CO2 emissions by more than half over the next five years.
“This investment will create better public health and fitness facilities for the local community and enable us to broaden our activity programme, says Mike Lyons, BH Live’s Director for Sport and Leisure.
“This supports our mission to encourage more people to enjoy a more active lifestyle and experience the health benefits that this brings.”
Work is scheduled to begin in October and complete by the New Year. It will be carried out in phases to minimise disruption and the venue will remain open throughout.
Customers will be advised of the renovation programme and they can also use the facilities at neighbouring venues including Littledown, Stokewood, Sir David English and Pelhams.
Find out more about the venue and investment at bhliveactive.org.uk
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Notes to Editors:
Planned BH Live investment at the venue is circa £430K
The gym is approx 385sqm
The club has more than 18,500 monthly attendances. Customers can access the venue either on a pay as you go basis or through membership.
Customers can try the venue for free by downloading a free guest pass from bhliveactive.org.uk
About BH Live Active, Queen’s Park
In January 2016 BH Live, acquired the lease to operate the former Fitness First club as part of its health and wellbeing expansion strategy across the south of England.
It was renamed to BH Live Active, Queen’s Park.
Based in the Queen’s Park area of Bournemouth, the venue is popular with the local community and features a gym, aerobics studio, spin studio, swimming pool, sauna, steam room, Terrace Café and crèche.
There are more than 90 weekly exercise classes to cater for all abilities.
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For more information about BH Live please contact:
Elizabeth Symmons, PR & Corporate Communications Executive
E: press.office@bhlive.org.uk
T: (01202) 055562
About BH Live
BH Live is the south coast’s leading operator of leisure and event venues; a social enterprise that designs and builds engaging experiences to inspire people and enrich lives.
With 3.4 million visits a year and over £39 million turnover, the organisation is changing lives – placing it at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy.
In 2016/17 BH Live hosted more than 500 events, sold over half a million cultural, sporting and entertainment tickets. They had 2.9 million activity attendances in its leisure centres and welcomed 100,000 conference and exhibition delegates into its venues. This contributed an estimated £44 million to the local economy through business and cultural tourism. For more visit bhlive.org.uk
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