Spider-Woman!
Probably the bravest Ladyzone member in Widnes??? Meet Caroline Hall – like a real life spider woman she bravely abseiled in Yorkshire this summer to raise money for her son who has Myasthenia Gravis, a muscular condition. She says coming to Ladyzone helped her get fitter and prepare herself which inspired her to go for it!! Well done Caroline! – You are an inspiration to us all!
Book early for the Christmas party!
The event last year was fantastic and definitely not to be missed – don’t forget your disposable cameras! The date and venue has been confirmed for Saturday 5th December at St Michaels, Ditchfield Rd, Widnes.
Weekly Weigh-ins Starts in October
With (dare I say it) Christmas approaching, we will be holding a weekly weigh in session for all members who are wanting to slim down in time for Santa. The sessions are completely free for everyone and will be kicking off on the 5th October! Come and see us to get your name on the list! Now that the kiddies are back to school you can all get back into the gym and make that Christmas party dress look and feel great!! See you all VERY soon! (Back to Top)
LEEDS (PUDSEY)
LadyZone Pudsey Christmas Party
I know, I know. Summer is not even over and we’re already talking about Christmas. But I also know how booked up you ladies get and so we’re getting organised early this year (thanks to Helen!). The party will be on Friday 11th December at the North Sea Chinese Restaurant and includes a 4 course banquet (with vegetarian option) and dancing for £26. Friends and family welcome but numbers are limited so put your name down (and cough up...!) as soon as possible.
Free Spine Check Day
Alana Edwards from Body Resolve will be starting a chiropractor and sports massage practice at LadyZone and is offering members/friends/family the opportunity of a FREE spine check consultation on Tuesday 2nd September all day until 8.00pm. If you’ve ever had any major back or joint pain, or even just a few niggles, this is a great chance to get yourself checked out. To book your free consultation, call Alana on 07732 053005.
Great North Run
LadyZone member and all-round lovely, Rebecca Thresh is doing the Great North Run in aid of Cancer Research and is looking for sponsorship. It’s a half marathon so she has been training hard. Rebecca is a cancer survivor herself so it’s a charity that means a lot to her so I’d really appreciate giving her as much support as we can. You can either sponsor her in the gym or online at www.justgiving.com/rebthresh
We are on the ball this year and have already booked our Christmas party!! We were a little late last year so only had nibbles in the gym. This year we are putting on a great party and have booked Rusticos restaurant in Wakefield for the 4th December. We have had a massive response from the ladies and already have 60 names down. To avoid disappointment, make sure you get your name on the list and join the army of Ladyzone members who are going to be terrorizing the streets of Wakefield this winter!
Well done to Andrea Butler who has completed her sky dive at the age of 70 and has raised over £3000 for the holy land. We are all so proud of you.
£300 Raised!!
Our Ladies night was a huge success we have raised over £300 with money still coming in. We had manicurists and Holistic Therapist on the night offering our members mini treatments for £5 with all money donated to the Ruby Trust Fund. Ruby is a little girl who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is currently receiving treatment at Alder Hey Hospital. We would like to thank all our members for coming down and supporting the event.
Ladies still to come this year with LADYZONE:
• Hollywood Theme Party
• Open Week
• 10 Week Christmas Challenge
All events are starting soon so keep your eye on the notice board!
Well done to our brave members Carole Gaunt and Andrea Brown who managed to drag some of the Ladyzone Shipley staff (Corinne, Michelle & Stephen & Leanda) over the 25 mile Yorkshire 3 Peak Challenge last month! We all had a great day, got stuck in a few bogs and pushed our fitness to the limits. Special mention must be given to our amazing members - Carole Gaunt finished in an amazing 9 hours 36 minutes and Andrea Brown who finished in 9 hours 57 minutes – even running most of the last mile to get in under 10 hours – amazing for a woman who at the start of the year weighed 2 stone more and had never climbed a mountain!!! We have also collectively raised over £600 for the British Heart Foundation – massive thanks to the ladies who sponsored us!!
Gym Party Recognise any of the faces on this picture??? Nice outfits ladies!
Ladyzone Sponsor Local Junior Team
Ladyzone are proud sponsors of Orpington ladies under 14's FC! Our aim is support the local football club to increase activity for young people in Sport. For more information about the football club please visit http://www.orpingtonfc.co.uk/
Record Launch
Since opening at the end of June Orpington has had a record launch which is exceptional considering the time of year and economic situation. The atmosphere amongst the members is fantastic and so much so they are already organising the Christmas Party which is being spearheaded by our highest attending member - Carol Battersby!
Blessing has STAR QUALITY!
Well done to Blessing Braimah, she really is our star employee! Considering working for Ladyzone is her first job in fitness she has already made a significant impact on our members, so much so that some of them want to take her home!! Blessing has an intriguing story... born in Nigeria, she trained as an International Gymnast and whilst on a visit to the UK she liked it so much she decided to stay. She studied hard and is now a fully qualified fitness professional and is an inspiration to everyone, staff, members and management! (Back to Top)
SHEFFIELD (ECCLESALL RD)
Open Week
Both Sheffield gyms are holding an open week in September so ladies can experience the gym for FREE and enjoy some fantastic offers. OPEN WEEK starts on Tuesday, September 1st. We will be welcoming ladies of all ages and sizes to come along to one of our sites in Sheffield for a free trial and free health check. We will also be giving out free gifts and a chance to win free membership in our prize draw. The week should be lots of fun and is a great opportunity to introduce your friends and family to Ladyzone!
Mountain Bike Winners!
Ever wonder who wins our competitions?? Well they do exist and here they are! Ladyzone ran a competition for three lucky readers of Westside, Sixer and Southside magazine to win a Rockrider Mountain Bike from Decathlon Sports Store - Sheffield. Congratulations to Fiona Swift (Left - Sixer magazine winner), Liz Gregory (Middle - Southside magazine winner) and Nicola Pearce (Right - Westside magazine winner) – we hope you enjoy riding your new bikes ladies!
Dig deep ladies of Middlewood and sponsor staff member Lucy Hook. On the 6th September she will be dyeing her hair pink and setting off through the streets of Sheffield on the ‘Great Yorkshire Run’. The race is 10km long and winds it’s way from the city centre to Sheffield Wednesday’s football ground and back again. All monies raised will be in aid of Bluebell Wood Childrens Hospice – for more information about the charity click visit http://www.bluebellwood.org/ and to get involved in the race yourself go to http://www.greatrun.org/
Open Week
Both Sheffield gyms are holding an open week in September so ladies can experience the gym for FREE and enjoy some fantastic offers. OPEN WEEK starts on Tuesday, September 1st. We will be welcoming ladies of all ages and sizes to come along to one of our sites in Sheffield for a free trial and free health check. We will also be giving out free gifts and a chance to win free membership in our prize draw. The week should be lots of fun and is a great opportunity to introduce your friends and family to Ladyzone!
I’ve talked before in newsletters about how relying on willpower to curb your craving for unhealthy food is setting yourself for a failure. The same is also true of committing to exercise. As I’ve said many times before, willpower is an unreliable emotional fuel that runs down, leaving you no better than you were before.
Hopefully this isn’t the case with your membership at LadyZone, but I’m sure it has happened before. How familiar does this sound? January 1st, you don the seldom worn tracksuit, and pound the pavement, sweat through a few exercise classes, or dare I say it, join a gym! However by Jan 31st, your willpower has snapped and you’ve gone back to couch potato status. I’ve certainly done it! When you try to change out of sheer willpower, you’re headed for certain failure. Permanent success doesn’t come from forcing yourself; it comes from programming yourself and your environment to do better. That is how you accomplish what you really want to do.
Programming an active lifestyle means incorporating exercise into your day to day life so that you can do it with as few changes or disruptions to your routine as possible. You set your life up so that exercise is as normal and routine as brushing your teeth.
It will come as no surprise that the number one excuse people give for not exercising is “I don’t have time.” If that’s what you’re thinking, my question for you is “Do you have time not to exercise?” If you don’t exercise, you are saying, in effect that you have time to stay overweight and that you have time at some point in your future for a long list of horrible diseases that exercise is known to prevent. If you don’t have time for exercise, ask yourself if you have time for heart disease, stroke, cancer or diabetes. If you don’t exercise with some degree of regularity, you are making a decision to compromise your quality of life today and in the future.
So let’s agree right now that you will schedule specific times during this week to exercise. Then I want you to protect that time just as you do your other important activities of daily living. For example, you would not even consider getting up in the morning and going to work without getting dressed, doing your make up or brushing your hair. You would never say, “I don’t have time to do my hair” or “I don’t have time to get dressed so I will wear my pyjamas to work.” Making time for exercise, then protecting that time – that is what is required here if you expect to start losing weight. No matter how hectic your life is, no matter how chaotic your schedule, you can make time, especially when it only takes half an hour at LadyZone. Bottom line: no excuses. What matters if you are to succeed is that you make the time and then you use the time.
Your decision to exercise must become so important that you are willing to carve out time in your schedule, several times a week, every week, to do it. That is what I want you to do. Take out your diary and write in times in which you will exercise. My rule for you is this: keep those appointments just as you do your other appointments with your doctor, dentist, and hairdresser. Let nothing interfere, absolutely nothing.
At first, exercising will bring on some pain and discomfort but this will subside as your brain counters these unpleasant feelings by producing natural chemicals called endorphins. The more you exercise, the stronger these pleasurable sensations become. You might not like exercising at first, but keep at it and before you know it, exercise will become the rule, rather than the exception in your life. Remember that your weight and overall health are sustained, positively or negatively by the lifestyle and environment you have set up. Creating a new physically active environment is critical to keeping your positive momentum going.
Planning and scheduling exercise is essential to your success because it provides structure, so as not to leave exercise to your own trial and error methods. A good exercise programme should be structured enough with time-protected exercise sessions so that it props you up and propels you forward during times when you don’t feel like exercising. You can’t miss your exercise session because it is already structured into your week. Scheduling exercise is an important self-discipline in achieving permanent weight loss and control.
Set up your environment for success by keeping a fresh set of workout clothes in your car and driving via the gym on your way from work. Or lay out your gym gear ready to jump into first thing in the morning so you don’t have to think about it. It just involves adjusting your lifestyle to make more room for exercise and to make it easy to exercise. Have cues or reminders in your environment – e.g. your exercise clothes in plain view or a route home that takes you via the gym. This makes it easy to fall into exercise with as little trouble as possible. (Back to Top)
MEMBERS AWARDS
LEEDS (PUDSEY)
Best Review Results – This month’s award goes to Denise Drury who has lost 3 ½ stone altogether. We’re really proud of your Dee!
Best Monthly Attendance – Of course it’s Pauline Flynn (27 visits), but well done as well to Christine Kennedy (22), Sally Phillips (21) and Pat Blackburn (21). (Back to Top)
WAKEFIELD We have a few ladies with some FAB!! results.... Kath Al-Khattat has lost 13lb in just 6 weeks and altogether since joining us in March she has lost a whopping 2 stone and 39 inches and still losing!
Sandra Skidmore who featured on the last news letter is still going strong and since her last review 6 weeks ago has lost another 16cm and 9lb.
Jynette O'brien has lost 5lb and a special mention To Sandra Oxley and Val Allerton who have been with us from the start and are into their 2nd year now....Sandra has lost 7lb since her last review and Val has lost 6lb 9oz!! (Back to Top)
STOKE ON TRENT Member of the Month – Sue Betton - 2.5 Stone, 28 Inches & 4% Body fat…WOW Well Done!!
Mother Daughter Weight Loss Team - Angela Chesters – 20 Inches, 2 Stone & 4% Body fat & Kayleigh Chesters who has lost 12 inches, 3 % Body fat and 10lbs well done ladies keep up the FAB work.
Best Attendance- Sonia Gelder with 26 visits (Back to Top)
BRADFORD (SHIPLEY)
Members of the Month - Caryl MacCuish has lost 1 stone and 58cm! Beth Pollard for bringing her weight loss to 20lb and 100cm since joining!! And well done to Lucy Waller who lost a further 6lb this month, bringing her total loss to 17lb and 67cm.
Best Attendance for July was Anne Howes coming 25 times! (Back to Top)
LONDON (ORPINGTON)
We're working out very Hard!!!! - but there are no results to publish yet! Our first 6 week reviews will be published in August - wish us luck!
Member of the Month – Angela Marriot has managed to lose 3.7kg in 9 weeks! Angela, we know you're as delighted with your results as we are!
Highest Attendance –
Congratulations to Pauline Hart who has won a Ladyzone Hoody for attending Ladyzone 204 times so far this year!! That’s approximately 25 times each month!!
Pauline is 48 and has been coming now for over a year.
Pauline says:
“I find it so easy to incorporate the 30 minutes into my daily routine. I shop at Somerfield next door and always tie the two in together. I’m lucky because I like doing exercise so I used to do exercise videos at home every day but now I use Ladyzone instead and find that it’s so much better than any workout video I’ve ever tried. The Ladyzone workout allows me to do both cardio and resistance training in only half an hour so I stay fit and stay toned. Thank you Ladyzone.”
Well done also to Ruth Mellor and Betty Rhodes for their high attendance so far this year. They have each won a Ladyzone embroided polo top. (Back to Top)
SHEFFIELD (MIDDLEWOOD RD)
Member of the Month - Pauline Richmond has lost 3 Stone in 4 months! We’ll repeat that again... 3 Stone in 4 months!
Here’s what Pauline has to say:
“I am 67 years old and have some health problems, but since I have been a member at LadyZone my self-confidence has increased 100%, my sleeping pattern is much better and there has been a considerable improvement in my health both from inside and outside. I thoroughly enjoy my 3 times per week attendance at Ladyzone and wish I had done it a long time ago, but I guess it’s never too late to start!!!” (Back to Top)
WIDNES (HALTON)
Member of the Month - Jenny Smith attended 16 times this month, lost Another 17.5llb and 39cm in 8 weeks. Fantastic!
Other great Results - Donna Edge lost 14llb, 4.1% body fat, and 39cm. Denise Turnstall lost 13lb, 0.6% body fat, and 39cm. Susan McCormick lost 13lb, 0.8 % body fat, and 11cm. Alison Gray lost 12llb, 2.7% body fat, and 30cm. June Gray lost 20lb, 2.4% body fat, and 11cm (Back to Top)
Yorkshire 3 Peak Challenge 
Gym Party
Blessing has STAR QUALITY!
Open Week 
