Leisure social health and fitness club

Joining a Fitness and Health Club is a great way of maintaining active lifestyle, spending your leisure time having pure fun and the best way to expand your social network. It is very important to know whether the club suits your personal interest, so before signing below the dotted line, consider all the pros and cons, before taking a decision.

The first and foremost thing to consider before joining health club or fitness club is its location. It is always better to have the club close by to your office or house, so that you will not have excuse of going regularly due to distance. Survey shows that those members who live far away from the health and fitness clubs, they do not go to health club on regular basis.

The next thing to consider is staff and customer care. Professional trainers and instructors should be certified. If you suffer from any pre-existing disease or physical limitations, in such circumstances, ensure your instructor will be able to handle and work with you. Look and watch out for the customer care of the health club and see if they answer your questions, clarify your doubts and are polite. If the health and fitness club have dietitians, physical therapists and massage therapists additional services, it is always better.

The next question to ask is the availability for what service you are looking for. Say if you are interested in learning tennis, see if they have the classes at convenient times suited to you.
The best way to know if the particular health and fitness club will work for you is to go for trial class. Most health and fitness clubs offer trial classes. During the actual trial class you will know whether you like the instructor, able to understand him and if you feel comfortable in the class, you can also know more about the pace of the class, music, if sufficient space available and other personal preferences you have.

Look out for the equipment the health and fitness club has. The equipment most is modern, clean and up to date. Also ensure they have enough numbers of all equipment so that you need not wait in queue for your workout. Remember treadmills and bicycles are the most used equipments in fitness and health clubs.

One of the important aspects of health and fitness club is social interaction. Most health and fitness clubs have space for social gathering with comfortable couches and chairs. A good health and fitness club is well equipped with coffee, tea and juice machines.

Other miscellaneous things to look out for are parking space, condition of bathroom and showers, and see if the whole facility is maintained well

Health & Fitness club

As the UK and Ireland's leading health & fitness operator, every year it inspires hundreds of thousands of members to achieve their health & fitness goals. There are 58 clubs in the UK and Ireland, and the business has also expanding into Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium. DLL is also a vital part of the local communities in which it operates, delivering tennis lessons to more than 10,000 children each week, as well as swimming lessons to more than 12,000 children. Operating at the premium end of the active leisure market, David Lloyd Leisure is nevertheless self-consciously non-elitist. The sheer breadth of facilities and programmes offered is unmatched in the sports, health and fitness sector.

Britain's biggest tennis operator, David Lloyd Leisure has over 520 tennis courts (of which more than half are indoor) which would stretch eight miles, if laid end-to-end. Its 75 swimming pools (of which 46 are indoor) comprise over ten miles of swimming lanes, while its gyms remain queue-free with over 8,000 individual fitness machines. An innovator in its field, David Lloyd Leisure has also led the way in recent years with the introduction and development of fitness classes with enduring appeal, such as Pilates and Spinning.

Employing 4,500 specialists, including over 350 fitness instructors and 200 tennis coaches as well as beauty therapists and nutritionists, David Lloyd Leisure's health and fitness expertise is also unparalleled.

Given the breadth of its operations, it is unsurprising that, at 100,000 sq ft, the typical David Lloyd Leisure club dwarfs its competitors (70 per cent of UK clubs occupy less than 20,000 sq ft). The model is flexible and the company is successfully developing smaller (25,000 - 35,000 sq ft) clubs in more urban areas, which act as satellites for the larger clubs.

HEALTH & FITNESS CENTER