We are two weeks in to the Hang Tough Challenge and we’ve already had some incredible times. Over the last few days we’ve been receiving a lot of questions about the best technique for hanging from the pull-up bar, but isn’t it just a matter strength? Well…no, hanging from a pull-up bar puts the stress of your whole body weight on your hands and arms, so you better do it right!

Here are a few tips to help you get ultimate hang-time;

Stretch…

Make sure you warm up your muscles by increasing your heart rate, and stretch thoroughly before attempting to hang from the bar. Make sure you stretch your biceps and triceps, and loosen the muscles around your shoulders. Read more →

The wait is finally over; Pure Gym Gateshead is officially open! Located in Jackson House in the centre of Gateshead, Pure Gym has been designed to help you reach your health & fitness goals – whether you’re a gym pro or a complete novice!

Inside Pure Gym you will find a vibrant and spacious gym floor, excellent changing facilities, modern showers, and our functional training zones with Kettlebells, Power Plate ® & TRX Suspension Trainers! Plus, Pure Gym Gateshead is filled with over 220 pieces of the latest gym equipment to cover all of your fitness requirements!

So get on down to Pure Gym Gateshead today, and experience world class gym facilities at an affordable price, with no contract!

One lucky Pure Gym London Wandsworth member, Katharina Urban-Oberberg beat those January blues by winning £1000 in our Refer a Friend competition.

At Pure Gym, we like to reward our members who refer their friends and family to join one of our gyms, with an exciting prize. Since starting the competition, we’ve given away high street vouchers, holidays and more recently a brand new Ford Fiesta!

Our new Refer a Friend competition is a two week all-inclusive holiday to Jamaica!! To be our next lucky winner and escape this brutal cold weather, all you have to do is refer your friends! Log into the members area, click on ‘refer a friend competition’ to get your unique referral code and pop in your friends name and email address.

Following on from our great win at the 2011 Health Club Awards, we’ve decided to enter 
ourselves again!

Lucky Manchester Urban Exchange Pure Gym member, Yvonne Nguyen has been given an early Christmas present- a brand new Ford Fiesta, won simply by recommending a friend to join the no contract, low cost, 24 hour gym.

The refer a friend competition, aimed to reward existing customers for recommending the gym to friends and family, has included some fantastic prizes such as holidays abroad and now a car. Read more →

…Stay fit and healthy during this festive time.

We understand that this is the time of year where everyone wants to get trim for Christmas and food temptation is all around us, but that doesn’t mean we have to forget about our fitness goals.

Here’s a scary fact for you! An average person consumers around 8,000 calories on Christmas Day!

We at Pure Gym we want to make sure that you enjoy Christmas, but also stay healthy…we wouldn’t want all your hard work to go to waste! Here are our Top 10 festive tips to keep you going:

1. Plan ahead. If you know you are going to have a heavy night or a lot to eat just make sure you balance that out with a detox day or a session at the gym in between.

2. Food swaps or alternatives are always a good way to keep control of what you’re eating. If you’re baking a Christmas cake, why not use a lower calorie sugar or decorate it with some seasonal fruit such as clementines?

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With all the festive good-will out there, we will be leaving Scrooge at home and keeping our gyms open as normal over the Christmas period.*

We all use Christmas as an excuse to over indulge in luxury and delicious food…but here at Pure Gym we would also like to make sure that you are still achieving your goals (whilst enjoying Christmas of course)…so we will remain open 24/7 in case you needed some time out or a good seasonal workout to burn off those mince pies and of course the turkey!

Whatever your plans are over this festive period, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2012!

We hope to see you at the gym during this holiday ready for 2012!

*Please note that Pure Gym Edinburgh Ocean Terminal will be closed from 5pm on Saturday 24^th December until 7am on Monday the 26^th December, as the shopping centre will be shut.

Great news, on Wednesday night we attended the Health Club Awards at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham, and found out that we not only won the silver award for Best Medium Chain, but also Gold for Northern Irelend (our Belfast club) and Bronze for Scotland (our Glasgow club)

Eight of our clubs were shortlisted in the awards, and it is great being recognised for all of the hard work we have put in over the last few years – we are priveliged to have such a dedicated and passionate team of staff working for us across the country!

The awards are unique in the health industry as winners are decided by members of health clubs who are asked to complete a questionnaire rating their own club on the level of service, facilities and value for money. Over half a million pieces of data were crunched from over 16,000 customers earlier this year, and we thank all Pure Gym members who voted for us!

Simon Brown, MD of Awards For Business who run the scheme said “Belonging to a good health club is a rewarding experience. Members probably spend more time there than they realise and it’s become an integral part of their lifestyle. For the club it’s not easy to get every aspect just right. It requires a lot of hard work from staff and a belief that members should have a great experience each time they visit. We maintain that clubs who truly offer the best service and experience are recognised and rewarded”.

Come on, who guessed correctly? Let’s be honest now!

As you can see our fantastic prize is in fact a brand new Ford Fiesta. To be in with a chance of winning this car, all you have to do is refer a friend…simple as that! You have until the 12th December 2011, so that’s three months.

Good luck from Pure Gym!

*Terms and Conditions apply; see members’ area for details

Guess the prize…

Pure Gym is running a new competition, which will run until the 12^th December 2011! However, this time it’s different… Instead of us telling you what our amazing give away is like previous competitions we’ve ran, we are letting you, the members guess!

Since our competitions began, Pure Gym has had over 70 winners for all of our referral competitions. These included, fantastic holidays to New York, Las Vegas, Mexico and most recently Jamaica! On top of this, we have given away £1000 cash and vouchers but this is the big one!

What do you think is next?? All you have to do is post on our Facebook page or tweet your answer with the following hash tag – #PureGymPrize with your best guess!

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