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Saturday, 10 May 2008

Extreme Kettlebell Education and Escape Fitness

The Optimal Life Fitness Group has partnered with Escape Fitness to run all of their Kettlebell Education. We spent yesterday at Escapes training facilities, educating the sales team and giving them a little workout! They are now ready to offer gyms a full kettlebell package, the kettlebells and now the Extreme Kettlebell Educational Training.
I see this partnership as a great way to spread the word about quality kettlebells and education. I'm looking forward to the future and to seeing kettlebells make an appearance in gyms across the UK on a large scale. With both companies working together this gives us the best chance of ensuring the fitness industry has access to quality Kettlebell training.

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Monday, 5 May 2008

Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course - Holland

We have just run our 3rd 2 day Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course in the Netherlands for Fitness First. Held in Roosendall, we had 13 PT's attend the course. There are now over 40 EKI's in Holland some of which are also Advanced EKI's.
More news from Holland... We have just taken on Mark de Wit (EKI) as our Master Trainer for Holland. Mark has now taken over the organisation and running of EKI courses in Holland and also the sales and distribution of Extreme Kettlebells. The next EKI course in Holland will be on the 23rd - 24th of August. For more information on this course please either contact Mark on the details below or contact our sales team. If you are based in Holland and want any Extreme Kettlebells you can contact Mark directly and he will be able to deal with your orders.

Mark de Wit
mark@optimallifefitness.com

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Friday, 2 May 2008

Esporta Romford Extreme Kettlebell Instalation

After a Succesfull installation at Esporta Chislehurst, it was the turn of Romford. I spent a full day at the club working with the trainers and then the members. We installed the Extreme GYMBells into the club and immediately we had members taking an interest. Over 40 Members signed up for a free trial session with one of the trainers and I got a chance to demonstrate and talk to the members about the benefits of kettlebells. All of the instructors passed the course and were straight into using the kettlebells that evening, as you can see from the photos.

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Monday, 21 April 2008

Extreme Kettlebell at Fitness First France

The first trip to France for kettlebell training and installation has just taken place. We have installed Extreme Kettlebells into 4 of the Fitness First clubs in Paris, inlcuding the brand new club in St Germain. As well as the installations, the package included our 4 hour workshop. So in my best French, the personal trainers of Paris had their first introdcution into kettlebell training. A keen group of trainers got to grips with the basics quickly and were soon snatching and cleaning the kettlebell with ease.
Well done to the group, it was a pleasure working with you for the day and I look forward to hearing about the success you're having with kettlebells.

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Monday, 14 April 2008

Fit Pro Convention

2008 was the Optimal Life Fitness Groups first year at the Fit Pro Convention. With a van full of kettlebells we travelled up to Loughborough to set up for the convention. Once again, the huge inflatable Extreme Kettlebell was flying proud as you can see in the photo.

The team had a great 3 days on the stand and showing the crowd what Extreme Kettlebells can do on the demo stage. We even started to do our demos with the music from the Fit Pro shop! It made for a great 15 minute workout and something that we've carried on doing for all of our demo's.

For us, it was a good opportunity to speak to personal trainers from all over the UK. Since the Fit Pro Convention we have now started our Extreme Kettlebell National Tour, where we will be visiting Cities across the UK running our 2 day Instructor Course. To see the venues and dates for these please go to our calendar of dates

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Thursday, 3 April 2008

Esporta Chiselhurst Training and Installation

This week we were in Chiselhurst for the day to educate their Personal Trainers and install Extreme Kettlebells into the club. The trainers completed the 1 day 'Introduction to Kettlebell Training Course' They now have a full set of Extreme Kettlebells and are looking forward to getting all of the members into kettlebells. I actually went down there in the evening to introduce some of the members to kettlebells and run some short intro sessions for them. I hope the members will get to grips with the kettlebells as soon as possible. There are now Esporta trainers across the UK that have done the course and are now using kettlebells.
So if you're in an Esporta club at any point, look out for the kettlebell trainers.

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Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course Germany

TEAM GERMANY TAKE ON EXTREME KETTLEBELLS WITH STYLE!

This was the first EKI course we've held in Germany and it was a great success. The personal trainers worked harder over the 2 days and showed great commitment. Performance levels were very high and allowed for a high level of teaching, introducing the group to some challenging new exercises and kettlebell techniques. All of the trainers are part of The Fitness Company, Germany's largest health club chain and part of Fitness First.

Well done to all who took part.

'Great effort guys, I was really impressed to se such great commitment and enthusiasm, looking forward to seeing you back in Germany soon'.

We are now installing Extreme Kettlebells into Fitness Company clubs across Germany and

running workshops and EKI course across the country. The

Kettlebells are available for personal trainers who have done the course to use with their clients. The Fitness Company will be introducing a Kettlebell Triple Pack:- 3 x 30 minute personal trianing sessions to introduce customers to Extreme Kettlebells.