We were absolutely buzzing to be back at the Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke Red Dress Fun Run at Stormont Estate, leading the official warm-up for the second year running!
The Red Dress Fun Run is one of their biggest fundraising events of the year, and being part of it has quickly become a calendar highlight for us. This year's event saw around 600 participants turn Stormont Estate into a wave of red on Sunday 22nd March!
Read MoreHad the best time at Decathlon Belfast last Saturday for their annual Play Days event. Hosting a Kickass Bootcamp workout for adults showcasing all the awesome strength training equipment on offer was my intention. In reality, so many mini Bootcamp Superstars turned up we shifted to playing head shoulders knees toes & cones & singing Lava Chicken from the Minecraft Movie instead!
Read MoreAt Fitness Belfast, we’re proud to support some of Northern Ireland’s most forward-thinking organisations in looking after their teams. One partnership that’s especially close to our hearts is with FinTrU, where we’ve been delivering workplace wellness since 2018.
Read MoreAt Fitness Belfast, we’re passionate about helping workplaces put movement and wellbeing at the heart of their culture. That’s why it’s always a privilege to be part of the Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke (NICHS) Work Well Live Well Awards – an annual celebration of organisations across Northern Ireland committed to creating healthier, happier workplaces.
Read MoreNestled in Belfast City Centre beside the site of the old Dublin Road cinema 😭 is Bankmore Square. The perfect spot for an al fresco lunch, an outdoor meeting, and for some TRX rowing, bench burpeeing outdoor Kickass Bootcamp fun as part of Bankmore Squares Summer Events programme.
Read MoreWe're excited to announce the continuation of our long-standing partnership with the Education Authority Northern Ireland for three years now, Fitness Belfast has been proud to provide their staff with a comprehensive online Yoga Fundamentals programme as part of their commitment to employee well-being.
Read MoreWe were thrilled to be a part of the recent Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke Red Dress Fun Run, and even more excited to lead the warm-up for all the amazing participants!
Read MoreAt Fitness Belfast, we're absolutely thrilled to be sponsoring the Castlewellan FC 2011 Girls team – and for very good reason! These talented young athletes have just achieved an incredible feat by not only entering the South Belfast Youth League for the first time, but winning the Under 13 2011 Girls League One for the 2023/24 season!
Read More“Working from home or the office - which one is better for you? Both set-ups present positives and negatives. What remains crucially important, however, is movement during the week.” - thrilled to have contributed to this Health & Wellbeing article in the Belfast Telegraph
Read MoreAnd to celebrate Christmas, we have two special free / donation events coming up to round off 2023 – our Outdoor Kickass Bootcamp Christmas Jumper Special and our 8th Annual Walking in a Winter Wonderland! Both are always such a laugh, and I’d love to see you there!
And of course, tis the season of pressies, and so our awesome, no expiry, Gift Cards are here to be the perfect gift for someone in your life.
Read MoreAt Fitness Belfast, we love helping teams discover how even the smallest movement can have a big impact on how they feel at work. Recently, we had the pleasure of partnering with AXA Northern Ireland for a morning of chair yoga and movement sessions in their stunning new offices at The Ewart on Bedford Street.
Read MoreAbsolutely bowled over yesterday to get the news that we’ve made the shortlist in FIVE categories at the upcoming Northern Ireland Health & Fitness Awards 2023! 😳
This year, we’re thrilled to have been named a finalist in the following five categories:
Best Corporate Wellness Programme – Fitness Belfast Wellness at Work
Gym of the Year – Fitness Belfast Studio
Male Personal Trainer of the Year – Gary Milligan
Online Personal Trainer of the Year – Gary Milligan
Best use of Digital Technology
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is a statutory body with over 3000 employees, that provides, maintains, and manages over 160,000 social housing homes and for over 250,000 people all over NI. They offer a great package of financial, health, and work/life balance benefits to their team - even an Award Winning Online Yoga programme :)
Read MoreIt’s been a busy but super engaging Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 for us here at Fitness Belfast, and on Thursday, we were thrilled to host ‘taster’ sessions for our popular Tailored Wellness at Work Yoga Fundamentals, and Kickass Bootcamp programmes on-site at Andor Technology in Belfast.
Read MoreSuper proud to be involved with Belfast Ravens for another Northern Ireland Women's Football Association season! This is our fifth season of sponsorship, and for still a fairly new team, to have survived and thrived through COVID etc, AND added a third team! It’s really hat’s off to the super dedicated team and management!
Read MoreBig thank you to the team at Abacus Talent Group for joining me at the Fitness Belfast Studio for a Yoga For Positive Mental Health workshop this week. This fun & educational workshop combines foundational yoga postures with calming breathing techniques that help reduce stress & anxiety, and help promote positive mental health.
Read MoreI’ve been lucky enough to work with Education Authority Northern Ireland - EANI - since late 2020, and I’m delighted that we’re kicking off 2023 together with two brand new programmes: Chair Yoga for Desk Workers, and Yoga for Positive Mental Health.
Read MoreA big thank you to Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke for inviting me to speak and host an interactive hands-in-the-air-like-you-just-do-care chair based yoga & movement session session, as part of last weeks Recognition Event for local workplaces involved in the Work Well Live Well programme at The Rabbit Hotel.
Workplaces from across Northern Ireland – including NI Blood Transfusion Service, Ulster GAA, Rathcoole Primary School, Harvey Group and Orchardville – came together for the event on 7 December 2022 to celebrate their commitment to improving employee health and wellbeing.
Read MoreWe recently had the pleasure of helping the team at AXA Northern Ireland settle into their incredible new surroundings at The Ewart on Bedford Street, with a morning chair yoga/movement session.
Read MoreLast Tuesday morning we partnered with Vital Nutrition for Workplace Wellbeing LIVE at the Mac, Belfast. An event to showcase a full spectrum of workplace wellbeing providers, each highlighting the importance of nutrition, stress reduction, diversity, inclusion, and movement in employee wellbeing. And breakfast!
We were honoured to join the incredible line up of speakers from Diversity Mark, Vitalis Health, as well as Jane from Vital Nutrition, and showcase stands from NICHS, Linwoods and Inspire Wellbeing, sharing our “5 Top Tips to get your team movin’, groovin’ & feeling great”, and then putting them into practice with some grooving in the room – a fun, short chair yoga & movement workshop.
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