Go Tri Improve your Front Crawl sessions are back!
The sessions will be running at Leasowe Leisure Centre every Wednesday 8-9pm starting Wednesday 18th January.
These sessions are designed for those who can already swim unaided but wish to turn their breast stroke into front crawl or improve their front crawl technique and generally enjoy swimming with confidence.
Active Wirral are proud to bring these sessions to you in partnership with British Triathlon.
The Wirral Walking Festival is back!
The Wirral Walking Festival highlights the variety of walks that take place in Wirral during Spring/Summer each year. The Wirral Walking Festival includes short strolls, long-distance treks, nordic walking, mixed ability running, and much more!
*To avoid disappointment, we recommend checking the relevant group’s website and social media to confirm that walks are taking place before setting off.
‘Be Part of the Movement’ is a new campaign to encourage Wirral residents to make sport and physical activity part of their everyday life.
Funded by the Government’s Welcome Back Fund it will showcase the borough’s facilities and open spaces as safe places to improve health and wellbeing especially as communities continue their recovery from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The campaign is part of Wirral Council’s new Sport and Physical Activity Strategy approved by the authority’s Tourism, Communities, Culture and Leisure Committee in January.
The strategy lays out the council’s ambition to ensure that all Wirral residents have the opportunity, environment and support they need to lead active, healthy, and happier lives, and recognises the important role sport and physical activity plays in improving physical and mental health, supporting the economy, reconnecting communities, and rebuilding a stronger society for all. More than 1,000 people and organisations contributed to the development of the strategy.
The vision for the strategy is to now make sport and physical activity part of everyone’s everyday life and is based on four key themes:
Cllr Helen Cameron, chair of the Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee, said: “It is incredibly important to keep active whatever your circumstances and this a great way to help to stay healthy for longer.
“There are lots of ways you can be part of the movement with Active Wirral. Whether you are someone who is already active or you want to find out how to start moving in ways that work for you, there will be something for everyone.”
The campaign’s mini website, ActiveWirral.com is where individuals, organisations and community-led groups – Motivators – will be able to access a toolkit to support their participation and Be Part of the Movement.
It also includes information on the new Sport and Physical Activity Strategy for people to learn more about our vision for the next five years, as well as a news feed plus ways to get involved here Get Active – Active Wirral.
The campaign will highlight how people can find out more about getting healthy and active.
As we enter 2021, we are once again delighted to be able to offer all our customers the opportunity to receive 60 Day Free Access to Les Mills on Demand*.
Although the current national lockdown means that our facilities are closed and we cannot offer Les Mills into our leisure centres just yet, we are able to offer all our customers the opportunity to keep fit and healthy online with Les Mills On Demand, the perfect way to complement our own Invigor8 Live Fitness Classes!
After FREE access for 60 days, Wirral Leisure customers will then be able to subscribe to the platform at the reduced prices of just £7.94 per month, a 30% discount (usual price £11.94pm).
In addition to this fabulous offer, the Invigor8 Fitness Instructors will also be including a selection of LIVE Les Mills Classes in our weekly free live classes on the Invigor8 Facebook page. These classes are only available to watch live at the stated time and will not be saved to the video library so try not to miss them!
What is Les Mills On Demand?
LES MILLS On Demand gives you the best, authentic Les Mills workouts anywhere, anytime, on almost any device. The workouts have been customized and made available to you as online videos. Many of the workouts are only 20-30 minutes – ideal for in-home – and they’re just as challenging and rewarding as going to the gym. In addition, LES MILLS On Demand provides workout schedules customized to your level of fitness, Les Mills Nutrition knowledge to improve your training and videos to get the most out of your workout regimen.
How Do I Sign up?
You can sign up here. When you sign up you will receive 60 days completely free (Unless you have previously signed up and used your 60 days). When the 60 days are up you will then automatically begin your first month of Les Mills On Demand.
Contact:
For any Les Mills On Demand queries please email: support@lesmillsondemand.com
For general Wirral Leisure queries please email: bookingsandinformation@wirral.gov.uk
For Cancellations please view the Les Mills How do I Cancel my Subscription Page.
Monday 16th November – Sunday 22nd November
From Monday 16th November we are going to be focusing on the importance of everyone’s wellbeing and do what we can to help. Our Wellbeing Week will be ran by our amazing team of Invigor8 fitness instructors who are offering over 20 Wellbeing sessions throughout the week in addition to our usual class timetable of over 40 Exercise Classes. In total we have over 60 classes and activity session for you to access from home. All sessions are completely Free and available to members and non members, all you need to do is head over and ‘Like’ the Invigor8 Facebook Page to make sure to don’t miss out!
Wellbeing is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.” We think it is much more than that though. Wellbeing is so important to our overall health. By looking after our wellbeing and doing things to help improve our it we are working on our overall health which in the long run helps us to overcome difficulties and challenges.
Ways to improve our Wellbeing include connecting with people (this can simply be over the phone or by checking in on friends over text), being physically active, learning new things and so many other ways. We will each find our own things that help improve our wellbeing.
The benefits of having a good wellbeing are endless – we cant wait to help you along with your wellbeing journey with some fantastic sessions.
We are offering a variety of classes and sessions on our Facebook Page, outdoors, on video chat and over the phone. Our Instructors our running Wellbeing sessions such as:
Our aim is to improve the wellbeing of our customers and Wirral residents alike. We all know that everyone needs a helping hand to keep motivated, active, healthy and happy but especially during these very different times and the ongoing Covid 19 restrictions that are affecting people’s lives. Sometimes we forget to check in on ourselves and our wellbeing, we hope that our focus will allow you to take some time for yourself and work on your own wellbeing and that of your friends and family.
If you have any questions or require further information please contact us on 0151 606 2010 (Mon – Fri 9am to 5pm) or email us at bookingsandinformation@wirral.gov.uk
We look forward to seeing you at a session
To view our timetable on Facebook, click here.
As well as our Wellbeing online classes we also offer a wide range of other online exercise classes including HIIT, Revs Cycle, Insanity, Les Mills and more!
View our online exercise timetable here
As all 50 plus women know it gets harder with age to keep your body in tip top condition. As we age our workouts need to be adapted and tweaked so we continue to get the same benefits from our fitness regime.
50 plus goal is to add some weight training to your weekly routine. Muscle is a fat burning machine that keeps your metabolism working to burn calories. By adding strength training to your weekly routine 3 or 4 times a week you will hold on to the muscle you had in your 20s and 30s.
Find a class that you really love that incorporates some weight training or buy a resistance band and dumbbells that you can use at home. If you don’t want to use weights just using your own body weight as resistance is enough to see some real results.
Squats, lunges, and press ups will all give you the following benefits.
You will change the shape of your body
You will boost your metabolism by retaining or building more muscle
You will increase strength, becoming more functional
You will build strong bones and combat osteoporosis
You will improve joint stability and reduce the risk of injury.
So, go on what are you waiting for – start throwing your weight around today!
Like us on Facebook
Walking is simple and is one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier.
Sometimes overlooked as a form of exercise, walking briskly can help you build stamina, burn excess calories, and make your heart healthier.
You do not have to walk for hours. A brisk 10-minute daily walk has lots of health benefits and counts towards your recommended 150 minutes a week of exercise.
Our 1 Mile happy walk can be done indoors or in your garden, with mood boosting music and a qualified walk instructor to give you maximum benefit from your workout.
Anyone can do it and it only takes approximately 15 minutes a day.
Why not set your self a challenge to walk, 3- or 5-miles next week!
Join us live on Facebook or reply at a time to suit you.
Wirral Leisure is proud to announce the launch of its community We Are Undefeatable programme.
Running in partnership with Sport England and the national campaign for We Are Undefeatable this new initiative is aimed at people who are living with a long term health condition and would like more support to be active.
Headed up by Sonia Carty who has worked for Wirral Council for 16 years. Passionate about our local residents with health conditions in finding what works for them to start to be more active.
‘Seeing the smiles on the faces of others as they achieve even the smallest of goals is quite simply…….why I do what I do’
Over 1 in 4 people live with at least one long-term health condition and these numbers are rising.
You are twice as likely to be inactive if you have a health condition, however being active can help to manage over 20 long-term conditions such as depression and type 2 diabetes; it reduces the risk of developing some conditions by up to 40% and can delay the onset of and reduce the severity of many health conditions.
As we’re being asked to stay at home more than usual, it’s more important then ever to stay active. Our team can work with you on helping you be active during this time.
The national campaign “We Are Undefeatable”, supported by 16 of the leading health and social care charities, aims to inspire and support people living with health conditions to build physical activity into their lives, in a way that their condition allows, and to celebrate every victory big or small.
The campaign is inspired by, and features, the real-life experiences of people with health conditions getting active despite the ups, downs and unpredictability of their condition. Read more here .
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | 11 months | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | 11 months | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | 11 months | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
