About

The Active Life Centre @Coxhoe is hub for sports clubs & teams plus local groups with plenty of indoor and outdoor facilities available for the whole community to enjoy.

We take a lead role in the development of affiliated sports clubs, teams and other local groups to create new sporting opportunities in the area.

If you'd like to hire the Sports Hall or newly resurfaced 3G outdoor pitch for a 5-a-side football game, have a game of Squash, Table Tennis or Badminton with your friends, please call us to reserve your time slot.

Our fully equipped gym includes treadmills, stationary bikes, rowing machines and crosstrainers, as well as a full range of resistance machines. Our separate free weights room provides a range of dumbbells, barbells and benches.

• Membership includes full instruction on using the equipment
• Qualified and friendly staff
• Personal Fitness Programme is included
• Step-by-step, into your exercise programme

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Fitness

We offer a variety of classes with the best instructors! We are adding new classes to our timetable all the time, so check back often to see what’s on offer.

If you are an Active Life member you can book your classes online here, or via the FitSense app on Apple Store or FitSense app on Google Play.

• Improve flexibility
• Lose weight
• Tone & strengthen your muscles
• For all fitness levels and ages

Keep An Active Life

If you want to…

• Improve flexibility, posture & de-stress. Try BODYBALANCE™ or Pilates
• Lose weight. Try Spinning, BODYCOMBAT™, or FitSteps!
• Tone & strengthen your muscles. Try BODYBALANCE™, Kettlebells, or Zumba Step
• Get a high intensity and calorie-burning workout. Try Kettlebells, or Spinning
• Try a gentler workout because you’re new to exercise how about Zumba, Fitsteps, or Active Life Circuit

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And for all fitness levels and ages - our new Spinning classes - the future of group cycling. Not to be missed!

We recommend you reserve a space in all of our classes up to one week in advance by calling us on 0191 377 1789

Class Information

Active Life Circuit

A combination of cardiovascular and resistance exercises in a circuit based routine, interspersed with some simple group aerobics. The circuit can easily be adapted to suit any fitness level or ability. A great class for general fitness, ideal for the over 50's, beginners or those wanting an enjoyable low impact work out. Refreshments available afterwards.

Kettlebells

Kettlebells is the single most effective Kettlebell fat burning workout - designed to shape and sculpt your body with rapid fat loss and a lean toned body. This type of class will help improve overall fitness and endurance, help achieve a leaner body, increase strength, improve posture and endurance. It’s fun, super quick and super effective! It’s a stimulating, invigorating, safe and easy-to-follow, calorie blitzing, fat blasting program and you will love the lightening quick results!

BODYCOMBAT™

BODYCOMBAT™ is a high-energy martial arts-inspired workout that is totally non-contact. Punch and kick your way to fitness and burn up to 740 calories* in a class. No experience needed. Learn moves from Karate, Taekwondo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira and Kung Fu. Release stress, have a blast and feel like a champ. Bring your best fighter attitude and leave inhibitions at the door.

Pilates

Pilates is a system of controlled exercises that engage the mind and condition the total body. The blend of strength and flexibility training improves posture, reduces stress and creates long, lean muscles. Pilates takes a balanced approach so that no muscle group is overworked and the body moves as an efficient, holistic system in sport and daily activity. A training session designed to tone, increase core strength and stability, activate your core and pelvic floor muscles effectively, help you learn thoracic breathing, strengthen and tone your muscles whilst correcting postural imbalances.

T.B.C. (TOTAL BODY CONDITIONING)

T.B.C. - Total Body Conditioning - is a thoughtfully tailored circuit class that blends strength exercises with bouts of high intensity interval training. This class format is the surest, most effective, and efficient way to achieve the results that most people desire from their gym sessions. You will receive plenty of coaching on correct technique and lots of positive encouragement throughout the class, giving you the best chance to succeed and reach your goals. If you follow a balanced exercise and nutrition programme, this class will help you improve your overall fitness, scoring a leaner, stronger, and more energised body. Giving You What You Need, to attain The Results You Want.

MetaPWR

MetaPWR develops strength and power not from ‘traditional’ gym strength training, but by carefully selecting equipment that will offer both resistance and explosive/ballistic exercises. Combining this with plyometric and non-plyometric bodyweight exercises promotes muscle adaption and growth, heightens your metabolic rate, and helps burn body fat. The use of weighted equipment also helps with bone density.

H.I.I.T. (High Intensity Interval Training)

‘Simple & Sinister’, this workout is quick & highly effective. HIIT offers a tremendous boost in human growth hormone resulting in the preservation and building of lean muscle and the burning of more calories during and up to 24 hours after session. This class will work the body the way it was designed to function. The 30 minute session can be used as a stand alone session or a great finisher to a strength or cardio session.

FitSteps

Fitness that’s Strictly Fun! Inspired by Britain’s most successful entertainment show, FitSteps is the newest dance fitness class for everyone. Dance Cha Cha, Rumba, Salsa, Jive, Quickstep, Waltz, Paso Doble, Samba, and Tango. It’s so much fun you won’t even realise you’re getting fit!

BODYBALANCE™

Ideal for anyone and everyone, BODYBALANCE™* is the yoga-based class that will improve your mind, your body and your life. During BODYBALANCE™ an inspired soundtrack plays as you bend and stretch through a series of simple yoga moves and embrace elements of Tai Chi and Pilates. Breathing control is a part of all the exercises, and instructors will always provide options for those just getting started. You’ll strengthen your entire body and leave the class feeling calm and centered. Happy.

Spinning

A Indoor Bike Experience class on the Spin Bike is as fun as riding outdoors and it will get you fit - very quickly. This instructor-led, interval based, Spin ride will call on your entire body. Your upper-body musculature, legs, core abdominal and stabiliser structures, neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems are all activated delivering functional fitness benefits that exceed any group cycling programme ever created. Each ride enables unprecedented full-body muscle conditioning within a cardiovascular indoor cycling workout. No Boredom. No Wasted Time. No Wasted Sweat.

Zumba Step

Combining the awesome toning and strengthening power of Step aerobics, with the fun fitness-party that only Zumba brings to the dance floor. This incredibly fun class will increase cardio and calorie burning, while adding moves that define and sculpt your core and legs.

Zumba Sentao

Zumba Sentao is like nothing you've ever seen before! It combines strength and resistance training, with the usual Zumba flair, all centered around a chair. Sentao tones muscles, strengthens the core and burns calories galore!

Zumba Toning

Zumba Toning uses lightweight toning sticks to help you up your game! This exhilarating and challenging class gives a great total body workout, while still having all the fun of a Zumba Fitness-Party.

Pound

Using Ripstix®, lightly weighted drumsticks engineered specifically for exercising, POUND® transforms drumming into an incredibly effective way of working out. Instead of listening to music, you become the music in this exhilarating full-body workout that combines cardio, conditioning, and strength training with yoga and pilates-inspired movements.Designed for all fitness levels, POUND® provides the perfect atmosphere for letting loose, getting energized, toning up and rockin’ out! The workout is easily modifiable and the alternative vibe and welcoming philosophy appeals to men and women of all ages and abilities.

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  Football

  Inside

  Our sports hall may be booked for 5-a-side football leagues and casual team play for all ages.
  Indoor 5-a-side (full hall) Peak (After 4pm M-F and on weekends): £50
  Indoor 5-a-side (full hall) Off-Peak: £40

  Outside

  We have an outdoor year-round use floodlit 3G pitch available for members and community users of the Active Life Centre @Coxhoe. The pitch may be booked for an hour, 7 days a week (subject to availability).
  Outdoor 3G pitch (5-a-side) Peak (M-F after 4pm): £45
  Outdoor 3G pitch (5-a-side) Off-Peak (M-F before 4pm): £35
  Outdoor 3G pitch (5-a-side) Weekends (S/S 9am-4pm): ONLY £20

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  Netball

  Wednesdays 6:30pm-8:00pm. £4/session

  From burning calories and lowering body fat, improving muscle tone and hand-eye co-ordination, and developing the body’s cardiovascular system, taking part in Netball is great for you in so many ways.
  
  Sessions provide a gentle re-introduction to the game for women over sixteen and are led by qualified coaches. You can just turn up, sessions are pay and play, and you can expect to cover basic skills like passing and footwork and play in a fun and friendly match. It doesn’t matter if you don’t feel that fit, you can take the session at your own pace and there a position on the netball court for everyone.

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  Walking Netball

  Tuesdays 1-2pm. Friday 11-12am.

  Just like walking football, this session is for people who want to enjoy netball but without the full physical exertions.

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  Squash

  45 minute sessions: Adults: £9.00

  There is a squash court available for members and visitors to the Active Life Centre @Coxhoe to use.
  
  It is available in 45-minute slots, 7 days a week (subject to availability). Racquets and ball hire included in hire charge.

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  Badminton

  Racquets and shuttlecock hire included in hire charge.

  There are 4 badminton courts available for members and visitors to the Active Life Centre @Coxhoe to use. Courts may be booked for an hour, 7 days a week (subject to availability).
  
  Badminton Peak (M-F after 4pm, and on weekends): £12 per court
  Badminton Off peak (M-F before 4pm): £9 per court
  Badminton Club (2 courts): £3 per person
  

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  Table Tennis

  £8.50 per table

  High energy, full of fun. Try it. Bats & ball hire included in hire charge.