Matt Charlton the CCM at Miranda has set his team a challenge: Wear the retail until you Sell the retail!
Reception Dude Aaron Brown and Dudette Amy Wilson are the first to take the challenge.
How many items can they talk about with members in one day?

two great groups over the last 2 months that I didn’t get a chance to post earlier!
Each time I take a group, I’m seeing greater and greater people going out to our clubs, armed with NYAA, RECIPE, 10 Essentials, the Strategy Map, Cycle of Service and plenty of H&S knowledge!
If you’re already in the club – support our newbies by encouraging these great habits within you all and let’s make the world a fitter place!

Cronulla Fitness First on the 26th April hosted a Zumba Master Class open to both members and their guests. This event had a great turn out of Zumba crazy members and even some very uncoordinated Body Pumpers. What made this event so great was the International Talent of Marcie, our guest Instructor all the way from Miami America!

Hey All,

On 1st May 2012 we raised a huge $130 in a space of 2 hours for the RSPCA Million Paws Walk. We will have the money box out all month and do another fundraising event to raise more money for the RSPCA.

A HUGE thank you to our Group Fitness Manager Karen Russell for riding the bike for 1 and ½ hrs, and Membership Consultant Ben Tau for doing 30 mins. We had a sign on the bike also “If you donate $10 I will sprint for 60 seconds” we had so many of our wonderful members and staff donate towards this great cause!!

Well done Team Jindalee!!

If anyone is interested in donating please contact jlccm@fitnessfirst.com.au

The Personal Trainers of QV Platinum have launched their ‘EXERCISE OF THE WEEK’ program. The series of short educational videos are available on their Facebook page weekly, and are designed to provide members with a large variety of new exercises and training techniques. The videos showcase our Level 1 personal trainers and also gives them an opportunity to develop their skills as a presenter. Week 1 is a series of short videos demonstrating different foam roller techniques.

To view our educational videos, visit our Facebook page
www.facebook.com/fitnessfirstqvplatinum

Glen Waverley ran a 90 minute Body Balance class as apart of our Celebration of Peace and Strength Event for ANZAC day. The afternoon also included a members afternoon tea after the Balance class as well as a Pump class at 4pm which was a full house! Over 70 people joined the celebrations in our Body Balance class. The atmosphere was wonderful. A big thank you to our instructor team of Steph Pollard, Matt Rosser, Shelle Cato and Gayle Wilson who all dedicated their time to the event. Also to Pree Benton for her contribution to the Pump class.

“PROBABLY THE TOUGHEST EVENT ON THE PLANET!”

A team of both members and staff fought their way through a hardcore 20km long obstacle course in Philip Island, battling through icy cold water, climbing over 9′ high walls and swimming through pools of mud, testing their strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie.

On Wednesday 11th April, Fitness First Victoria Gardens club held a members appreciation night to say thank you to their amazing members.

On this day we provided free health check, free posture and spinal check, sample tasting, free hair straightening and $10 personal training sessions that raised found for Leukaemia Foundation. We also had a raffle and provided many prizes for members to win, including one month complimentary membership, a massage voucher, boxing gloves and so on. Congratulations to Zoe Elrick for winning the top prize, a PlayStation 3!!

We would like to thank all the staff who helped with the event organising. We would like to thank all our members again for being so wonderful!

On Thursday the 5th April 2012, Rose our lovely GFM organised a charity Ride for the Royal Childrens Hospital. We had a sign up roster in which members and staff could book in for 15 minute minimum intervals with a gold coin donation. Together riding the whole day from 6am- 9pm. Members and staff motivated, laughed, encouraged and thanked each other for riding or just donating.
We had members and PT staff coming in in the morning and coming all the way back in just to keep the bike going. So a HUGE thank you to our fantastic members, staff and inparticular Rose our GFM for organising the great charity event, even getting all our participants and play zone kiddies easter eggs
It was great to have everyone scraping all there poo-change out of their gym bags and donating as much as they could. Also was great to see members and staff working together for such a great charity and together we were able to raise $505!

As part of International Fitness Week, Fitness First Brighton hosted a 4 hour charity class with 30 minute sessions of our most popular programs and a 90 minute Body Attack! We had 6 instructors who VOLUNTEERED their time to help out on the day! (9 were scheduled but injury prevailed)

We raised $472 for Impact Women, a charity that supports domestic violence victims.

We had giveaways, pt packs and protein samples to taste test. Members from all over Melbourne came to participate with 70+ starting off the 90 minute body attack challenge!

Huge thanks to Levi Kwong, Paul Meier, Claire Barker Hemmings, Sharyn Claire and Joe Barbalaco for traveling so far to be there and donating their time to such a worthy cause and having fun with our members. Community!