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Strength Exercise

When most people think of strength exercise, they think of huge men lifting massive weights in a gym. But in fact many exercise routines promote strength which has long lasting...

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Fitness Activities

Many group exercise classes are designed to improve health through doing high intensity activity where you are out of breath, sweating and have difficulty holding a conversation. These are often...

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Dancing

Dance is an excellent way to keep fit whilst having fun. When you’re concentrating hard on the dance moves, you forget that you’re actually giving yourself a good workout! There...

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Steady Steps Plus

Steady Steps Plus classes are ongoing weekly exercise classes for those that would like to improve and maintain their strength, balance, and fitness.

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Steady Steps Falls Prevention

Steady Steps is a 24-week course of weekly classes and home-based exercise aimed at adults age 65+ who feel unsteady on their feet. These programmes are delivered by specialist Postural...

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Easy Movers

Easy Movers is a circuit style exercise class to help people maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle. Each class includes a variety of low impact exercises using resistance bands and body weight to improve your cardio fitness, stamina and strength.  The class is ideal for those looking to maintain a healthy weight or those who have health conditions.

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Referral Success Story

Through participating in an exercise referral, one resident was able to improve her mental wellbeing, physical health, and lose an impressive amount of weight in 12 weeks.

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Pilates

Join our Pilates session every Tuesday 7:15pm-8:15pm at Thythorn Hill community centre in Wigston. A low-intensity exercise session that aims to improve your posture, balance, flexibility and body awareness whilst...

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Tai Chi

Tai Chi is a moving meditation in the form of a series of gentle exercises that create harmony between the mind and body. Regular practise will improve your wellbeing.

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Parklands Leisure Centre

Get active and keep fit at Everyone Active’s Parklands Leisure Centre Oadby, Leicester’s premier leisure facility with gym, swim and kid-friendly facilities. The 115-station gym has all the latest cardio and resistance equipment, as well as free weights, while there’s also a 25m swimming pool that hosts all our award-winning swimming lessons, alongside other aquatic activities. Alongside these, there’s also a multi-use sports hall, as well as our Play World Soft Play and Fun Climb Centre. We also boast an innovative outdoor training area, group fitness studios that host a range of sessions, as well as a café in which you can relax.

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Fit to Dance

Our Fit to Dance classes are aimed at people aged 55+ who want to improve/maintain their health and fitness. Fit to Dance combines routines from various dance styles including line dancing, contemporary and ballet to offer a varied but fun exercise class.

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Huncote Leisure Centre – Everyone Active

Huncote Leisure Centre offers a multitude of different facilities to satisfy everyone’s fitness and activity needs, both indoors and outdoors. Alongside our ultra-modern gym, spacious and versatile sports hall, group fitness studio and a café, here at Huncote Leisure Centre, we also boast outdoor team sports facilities, including a full-size football pitch. So why not come on down and see what we have to offer?

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