Virtual Fitness Classes a first for Bluewater Leisure Centre

The Bluewater Leisure Centre in south western Victoria has announced that it will be launching a range of Les Mills Virtual Group Fitness classes from 1st December.

The virtual classes will boost to the facility’s regular ‘live’ group fitness classes with an extra 65 classes available for members and guests each week.

With the fully automated system allowing for a greater variety of classes to be available at different times of the day, Bluewater Leisure Centre Manager John Clark said the introduction of Les Mills virtual was the result of wanting to provide more options for the Shire of Colac Otway community to access a greater range of group fitness classes.

Clark explained “Council and Bluewater are striving to provide our residents with more options and better accessibility when it comes to health and wellness. Through this innovative system we will be delivering an incredible amount of class options at a very broad range of times.

“We’re really excited to introduce this technology to Bluewater. No other neighbouring regional council has taken these steps so it’s great Colac residents have access to this system much earlier than larger surrounding towns such as Ballarat and Geelong, and even metropolitan Melbourne.”

The new classes on offer include BODYPUMP®, BodyCombat, RPM, as well Sh’Bam and BodyBalance.

Clark said he hoped the new range of classes would increase visitation from current members and attract a new customer base who might have never tried group fitness before.

He added “we trialled the technology with a group training session last week and participants loved the classes.

“We won’t be removing any of the live classes from the current timetable. We are simply making it easier to access group fitness and providing an exciting range of class types.”

In addition to Virtual Group Fitness, Bluewater has begun reorientation of the gym floor to make room for additional functional training equipment to keep up with industry trends and deliver best practice products and services to the community. 

To find out more about Les Mills Virtual, click here to contact Les Mills Asia Pacific via their entry in the Australasian Leisure Management Supplier Directory.

Images: Les Mills virtual BODYPUMP® (top) and personal training at the Bluewater Leisure Centre (below). 

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