Posted 2:00pm
Healthy Minds, Healthy Bods is very proud of our Lazza today.
As part of their weight management program in Islington/Camden, Better Gyms run various fitness sessions during the week it is free to attend. One of these if a walk/exercise session on Highbury Fields on a Friday morning - 10:30am ro 11:30am. They walk from outside the Highbury Leisure Centre to the football area at the top of the Fields and have an exercise session. It is normally managed by Simon, one of the gym trainers - and he is fantastic can we add.
Lazza recently joined HMHB onto this session as many people who attend it are not actually on the program, and therefore would not be covered by the centre's insurance. But HMHB is very happy to sit back and let the centre do all the work. In fact, HMHB really use it for personal fitness.
However, this morning, with the group waiting outside - normally consisting of the older generation - at 10:30 a lady came out and said the session would not happen today as Simon was ill and they could not get a replacement. It looked as if most were going to go home. Up stepped our Lazza.
He volunteered to run the session, and we explained about our gym sessions in the week. It has to be said people were very reluctant to actually do it. They like Simon - which is understandable. They did not know Lazza really. No-one went home - but people had to be persuaded.
It could not have gone better. A mixture of using various exercises Simon does in the class, as well as introducing a few easy movements of our own, together with using humour and laughter (mainly taking the mickey out of himself) Lazza had them enthusiastic at the end. HMHB is very very proud of Lazza.
If only funders could see that, maybe we would get money!!!!
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