Nearly there....

Thank you so much for all of your enthusiastic messages about when we'll be back out in the park again!

Our first session in South Park Gardens will be at 6.15am this Thursday, unless you hear otherwise from us. There are still a number of legislation issues that we're waiting for clarification on from our governing body (CIMPSA).

In the meantime, don't forget to sign-up and join our Zoom sessions (£12 for a week or £44 for the whole of December). You can purchase online here.

Kate will be getting everyone working up a sweat tomorrow at 9.00am, so make sure you join her in your living room/kitchen or garden. If you aren't receiving the Zoom links, drop me a line.

I'd like to thank the whole of the HA fitness community for your continued support during this pretty challenging year!

Heather x

Our live online timetable

Focusing on what we CAN do, rather than what we can't, here's our Zoom timetable for the rest of the week.

Kate is fired up and ready to train you in your living room, kitchen or garden at 9am tomorrow morning. Why not get your whole family involved!

Our Zoom sessions are just £12 a week. Or £44 for the rest of November. Every week you'll get unlimited access to:

• 8 HIIT/Bootcamp classes

• 3 Stretch & Restore classes

• 1 Cardio Pilates class

• 1 Cardio Core class

• 5 Amazing Personal Trainers.

You'll also be able to join our 28 Day Lock down Challenge (join us today and find out about my sleep confessions!). Our private HA Facebook group is also where we'll be saving a few workouts a week for you to do in your own time.

If you're new to our Zoom classes, you're very welcome to join us for a week for FREE. Just drop me a line to let me know.

If you'd like to sign-up, head over to our purchase page, or drop me a line for more info.

The HA team have got your back. We'll get through this together.

Heather x

I'm doing this for me

With so much going on, there's all the more reason to ensure we look after our mental and physical health at the moment.

So here’s my idea. A 28 day lock down challenge. Everyday you take time out to do something to boost your fitness. It could be anything from a run, walk, HIIT workout, Pilates class or stretch session.

Over in our private Facebook group, I’ll be sharing fitness inspiration ideas and hopefully make you smile over the next 28 days.

Each day I’ll give you a little nudge to help motivate you to be active. It won’t be full blown workouts (you can join us on Zoom for that!), just little prompts and activities to keep you inspired.

Along the way, there may well be awesome days, overwhelming days and exhausted days. But the idea is, everyday you’ll hopefully go to bed thinking, today I did something for me today.

Fancy joining us? Message us and I'll send you a link to the private group. You just need to be signed up to our Zoom sessions (either weekly or for the whole month) to have access.

Drop me a line if you have any questions.

Training online - further update

We’re still awaiting a full update from our governing body, however I can confirm tomorrow’s class at 6.15am will be on Zoom.

The HA team will be working extra hard over the next 4 weeks to connect, inspire and motivate you all in the best way we possibly can!

• 5 highly qualified instructors

• 13 live online classes a week

• Everything from High Intensity HIIT, to Core, to Stretch and Restore.

• £12 per week all inclusive. Or £44 for the rest of November.

Sign up on our website here!

http://www.hafitness.com/purchase

We'll try our best to keep you both physically and mentally fit throughout lock down.

Training outside - fitness update

It's now looking pretty certain that we will no longer be outside from Thursday (although not 100% confirmed).

Time to sign-up for our Zoom live online timetable! Benefit from 5 very different highly qualified instructors running sessions live into you kitchen/living room throughout lock down.

13 classes a week. Monday through to Saturday. Early mornings, late mornings, lunchtimes and evenings. Everything from High Intensity HIIT, to Core to Stretch and Restore.

The timetable will be updated on our website later today. It will look the same, but will just have 6.15am on Thursday and 9.00am on Saturday included.

£12 per week all inclusive. Or £44 for the rest of November.

Sign up on our website here!

http://www.hafitness.com/purchase

We'll try our best to keep you both physically and mentally fit throughout lock down.

Happiness is....training with you both indoors and outdoors!

Cracking morning so far! Loved seeing so many of you on Zoom at 6.15am this morning.

Looking forward to working out with a few more of you in real life in South Park Gardens at 9.30am.

And then I’m slowing things down with a deep stretch on Zoom at 1pm.

Happy days!!

Our all inclusive ZOOM & Park package!

With my children back at school (after 6 months of being by my side!), I've finally got some headspace this week to make some positive changes to our little business.

For the past month we've been running a hybrid timetable of both online and in the park classes. It's worked well, however, I’ve realised that the original pricing structure could do with a few tweaks. I'd also like to offer a more blended approach to our Zoom/Park timetable.

So today I'm really excited to launch a couple of new packages. These will hopefully offer much better value for you!

Head over to our new Purchase Page for all of the details!

http://www.hafitness.com/purchase

Back to school, back to training!

Everyone welcome at Fit In The Park tomorrow!

Join us in South Park Gardens at 9.30am for some fitness fun. Babies and children welcome.

Message or email us to book your place!

New week? Bring it on!

Here's what we've got planned for this week:

Fit In The Park, South Park Gardens:

• Mon 7 Sept: 9.30am with Heather (Family friendly - babies and children welcome)

• Thu 10 Sept: 6.15am with Heather

• Sat 12 Sept: 7.45am with Kate

• Sat 12 Sept: 9.00am with Kate

It's just £10 a class for our park sessions, or you can use your HA fitness class pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply reply to this email. You can then either use up a session on your HA fitness class pass or pay £10 online (we'll send you our details after you've booked). If you have a class pass, you need to send us a photo of it, and we can then manage your sessions from there.

If you haven't done so already, you'll also need to complete a health form which you can do here: https://forms.gle/FNkEocaCRKkSLCsL6.

The class will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session :)

Online Zoom Sessions:

We have a busy Zoom timetable for next week - perfect if you're short on time, in quarantine or even on holiday!

Please note the Thursday 6.15am class will be just in South Park Gardens (not on Zoom).

• Mon: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Mon: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

• Tue: 7.00am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Tue: 9.00am Fit In The Home with Kate

• Wed: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Wed: 7.00am Fit In The Home with Kate

• Wed: 12.30pm Cardio Pilates with Sophie

• No Zoom class for 6.15am on Thursday - join us in the park instead!

• Thu: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

• Thu: 7.30pm Cardio Core with Laura

• Fri: 6.15am Fit In The Home with Antonio

• Fri: 1.00pm Stretch & Restore with Heather

It's just £12 a week for unlimited access to all of our Zoom classes. Simply reply to this email to book and receive the links.

Happy Training,

Heather x

P.S. Follow all of our news, fun stuff & photos on facebook at HAfitnessLtd.

Saturday - training in the park!

Bookings open for Saturday’s classes with Kate in South Park Gardens:

• 7.45am

• 9.00am

Just £10 a class or use your HA fitness pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply email or message us.

You'll also need to complete a health form, which we'll send to you when you book.

The classes will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink.

Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms.

Bank Holiday weekend - class update

Just traveling back from a week away in the Peak District with the kids (and yes, we did remember to put them in the car before we left!).

I was hoping to get an email out to you all this afternoon, but have been stuck in traffic on the motorway and still not home ;-(

Anyway, bookings are open for for Saturday’s classes with Kate in South Park Gardens! Join us at:

• 7.45am

• 9.00am

You probably all know the drill by now: £10 a class or use your pass. Please email or message me to book your place in advance.

Bring your own mat and some water to drink. Don’t turn up if you have any COVID-19 symptoms.

Have fun! I should be catching up with emails and messages over the weekend.

Heather x

Book your place - Fit In The Park in South Park Gardens!

Bookings now open for the following Fit In The Park classes in South Park Gardens:

• Sat 22 Aug: 7.45am with Kate

• Sat 22 Aug: 9.00am with Kate

• Mon 24 Aug: 9.30am with Laura (Family friendly - babies, toddlers and older children welcome)

Our Thursday 6.15am class will be on Zoom on 27 Aug. This is just for one week. We'll then be back in the park on Thursday 3 Sept!

Just £10 a class or use your HA fitness pass.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply email or message us. You'll also need to complete a health form, which we'll send to you when you book.

The classes will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session. We look forward to training with you!

Training - inside (Zoom) and outside (South Park Gardens)

It was such a lovely feeling to see everyone back in the park again!

This week we will be operating the same Zoom and outdoor booking system (and continuing to monitor numbers, so that we can offer you even better value for money going forward). This is what you could be doing:

OUTDOOR FIT IN THE PARK:

• Thursday 6.15am South Park Gardens (tomorrow)

• Friday 6.15am Wimbledon Park

• Saturday 7.45am South Park Gardens

• Saturday 9.00am South Park Gardens

Thursday and Friday will be with Antonio. Saturday will be with Heather as Kate is away.

To enable us to comply with the new Covid-19 regulations, it's really important that you book into each class in advance. To do this simply reply to this email. You can then either use up a session on your HA fitness class pass or pay £10 online (we'll send you our details after you've booked).

If you have a class pass, you need to send us a photo of it, and we can then manage your sessions from there.

If you haven't done so already, you'll also need to complete a health form which you can do here: https://forms.gle/FNkEocaCRKkSLCsL6.

The class will be socially distanced. You will need a mat or towel to lie on, plus some water to drink. Please don’t come if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. And don’t forget to wash your hands before and after the session!

ONLINE ZOOM SESSIONS:

We still have a lot Zoom sessions going on for the rest of this week. Choose from:

• Wednesday 12.30pm Cardio Pilates

• Thursday 6.15am Fit In The Home

• Thursday 1.00pm Stretch & Restore

• Thursday 7.30pm Cardio Core

• Friday 6.15am Fit In The Home

• Friday 1.00pm Stretch & Restore

It's just £12 a week for all of our Zoom classes. Drop us a line to book on and receive the links.

Hope to see lots of you in the park this week!

Heather x

Back in the park!

And we’re back!! Our first Fit In The Park class at 6.15am this morning in South Park Gardens.

Well done to Antonio who was running this session, both in the park and on Zoom for our clients at home.

And well done to our amazing clients for joining us, following the social distancing rules and working out really, really hard. It was so lovely to see you all in real life!

Antonio is back tomorrow at 6.15am, this time in Wimbledon Park. Drop us a line if you’d like to join him. This session will also be taking place on Zoom.

Wow what a fantastic start to our outdoor sessions!

Training outdoors - please remember to bring your own mat

We unfortunately won’t be able to bring mats to our outside classes for you to borrow. Mats, boxing gloves, TRXs etc are all on the banned equipment list - soft materials being difficult to clean to a high enough standard.

So please bring your own mat if you’re joining us in the park. You don’t need an expensive one, just something you can lie on. Amazon is probably the best place to look. Please drop us a line if you’re unsure.

Park or Zoom classes? Tell us what you think!

I've been absolutely blown away by how many people have answered our survey about our Zoom and outdoor classes. Also how enthusiastic and supportive all of your messages have been. I literally have a tear in my eye. Thankyou!

I'll close the survey on Sunday night, so if you haven't done so already, here's the email and survey link:

- - - -☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️- - -

The question everyone has been asking me is “are you going to run classes in the park again?”...Shortly followed by “how will it work?”.... And also “will you continue with the Zoom sessions?”

My answer is usually some shade of the following: As a team we really enjoy running our Zoom sessions, and we’ve gained so much more time from not traveling to classes.

You, our lovely clients, have told us that you’ve really enjoyed our online timetable, and many of you are doing a lot more sessions than you were doing pre-lockdown!

So if everyone is happy, why bother going outside?

Well, venturing out to the park for a class gives you a break from your work and family environment. And there’s so much more space to move around. Not to mention the social side of being able to chat freely while you blaze through a set of squats and burpees.

In a perfect world, we'd have an extensive timetable, both on Zoom and in the park, for you to dip into each week. However, as I’m sure you can appreciate, we have to be realistic with our time and resources.

We’re aware that you’ll all have different preferences and one-size will not fit all. So, we’ve put together this short survey to help find out what you’d really like to see on the timetable. We can then use this to put together a plan of action.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Z55QB6C

It goes without saying that we’ll be observing all social distancing guidelines. And we’ll only train in groups outside when it is safe to do so.

Hope to see you on Zoom soon!

Heather x

Online quiz night - 18th May!

Tonight is Quiz Night!!!

We start at 8.30pm tonight. Zoom links to be sent out later today.

They'll be a mix of easy, challenging and silly questions, and of course time to chat too.

The prize will be the glory of everyone knowing your briliance!

We’re aware, as I’m sure you are, that Merton Foodbank is really struggling at the moment. So if you enjoy the quiz, and are able to make an optional donation, a link to the crowd funding page for the Foodbank will also be circulated.

All you need is Zoom and a pen and paper. Don't forget to pour yourself a drink and grab some nibbles too.

We'd love to see everyone there.

Need a hand? HA fitness personal training sessions available

As a team, we've been running PT sessions on Zoom since the beginning of lock down. And we've received a lot of amazing feedback as a result. Some of our clients are even booking in extra sessions!

You may have heard that there's been a change in what we, as a profession, can offer. We're now allowed to train people on a one-to-one basis, provided that it's outside and social distancing guidelines are observed.

However, after speaking to many of our clients this week, they've all said that they'd prefer to keep their sessions online for now. Well that suits us too!

If you're interested in starting some Personal Training sessions with our team, either on Zoom or outside, do drop us a line. We'd love to have a chat and see how we can help. Be it one or two sessions to set you on the right track, or regular weekly workouts tailored to your goals.

Training safe online during lock down

Four weeks ago, we headed into the unknown and announced that our Fit In The Park class wouldn't be outside, and instead would be streamed online into your kitchens and living rooms.

It was our 9am Saturday class, the busiest of our week, and a huge ask of our lovely Instructor, Kate.

Amazingly, over 20 of you tuned in for her session. And she nailed it!

Since then we’ve added to our timetable and made a few improvements to our set up.

With the current lockdown measures remaining in place for at least another 3 weeks, and life not going back to normal at any point soon, we'd like you to know that the HA team have got your back. We're ready and fired up to give you a physical and mental boost, six days a week, until we can all safely go outside again.

As before, you get all of our Zoom classes for just £12 a week (no commitment, you just pay on a weekly basis). Our week runs from Monday through to Saturday inclusive.

If you'd like to sign-up to next week and don't already have our payment details, just email me at heather@hafitness.com.

Happy training and stay safe,

Heather x

Online fitness - Easter timetable

We’re so egg-cited about how much you're all enjoying our cracking Zoom timetable, that myself and the HA team have decided to not stop hoppin' over the Easter Break. Here’s the plan:

FRI (tomorrow):

7am: Fit In The Home with Antonio (slightly later time)

12.30pm: Core with Heather (Sophie is still recovering)

SAT:

9am Fit In The Home with Kate

MON:

7am: Fit In The Home with Antonio (slightly later time)

1pm: Stretch & Restore with Heather

See you on Zoom!

Heather x