​Log into free online fitness classes during the lockdown

Free online video classes are being delivered by Bury's Live Well and Leisure services to everyone who wants to maintain their physical and mental wellbeing during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The classes are delivered live via Facebook (see https://www.facebook.com/BuryLeisure/) to a timetable posted in advance, but are also available afterwards for people to revisit and share if they can’t make the live session.

Instructors are all fully qualified and come from Bury's gym, studio classes, Live Well and BEATS teams among others.

The sessions are designed to boost general health through exercise, continue the rehabilitation of those with injuries or long-term conditions, and just to give everyone a chance to share a fun activity with friends they are mussing during lockdown.

Remember to read the information on the timetable about ensuring you have enough space and are medically fit enough to do the exercises.

The classes are already proving very popular, as some of our customers can testify:

Sheila and her partner Chris – who are in lockdown together in Bury – are keen advocates.

Sheila is a Bury Leisure member and attends weekly zumba classes at Castle. When she saw the classes were going to be on Facebook she started doing zumba sessions and pilates.

Chris has a heart condition, so she encouraged him to do less strenuous sessions such as the chair-based classes and Otago, joining in with him at the same time.

Both of them are enjoying it so far, seeing and hearing familiar instructors and learning new skills from those they didn’t know.

Meanwhile, Shelley Graham - another Bury Leisure member - sent us a poem about it:

I run.

So I'd be okay when lockdown was announced.

Or so I thought.

I ran.

Until my right knee said I couldn't.

Two weeks turned into three.

Turned into four turned into six.

I can't run.

A phone call out of the blue

Diana from Bury Leisure.

Are you okay?

A courtesy call, we're putting classes on our Facebook page.

In my cellar every day

With familiar faces

With familiar moves

How I have missed them

How I cried when I realised how low I had become.

Thank you Bury Leisure and all your wonderful instructors xx

ENDS

Press release issued: 6 June 2020.