Woodland Workout

Getting outdoors to train is an ideal opportunity to mix up your training/running and add in a few strength exercises. Keeps it a little interesting, and might keep you warmer on a chilly day!
Try adding some exercises into your run session. Off road better, as if on the pavement or in Tescos car park might look a bit odd!

Run for 10 minutes, then do 1 set of the following

10 burpees
10 squats
10 press ups
10 lunges
10 low to high planks
10 squat jumps

Run for another 5-10 minutes and do the same circuit

Jog home! Or back to the car. Job done!

Forest Fit

Welcome once again to the Forest Fit Blog!

Sessions are still at the same times, Sika Trail, Wareham Forest on Monday evenings at 6:30pm, Wednesday Mornings 9:30am, Saturday mornings 9:30am. Whatever the weather we are there! Come and join us for a great workout and some fitness fun!

Forest Fit t-shirts will be available very soon, and are with the printers at the moment. We will let everyone know as soon as they are done and then orders for sizes can be taken.

We have our Facebook page for our regulars and newcomers alike http://www.facebook.com/groups/178559475514564/

Check us out and join the gang.

Outdoor is the new gym

The guys who wrote this article need to come and see all Forest Fitters, and then they will have all the evidence they require to know that outdoor exercise is the best for you!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110204130607.htm

Last two sessions have been raining hard, but still plenty of people getting a great workout and loving it!

Summer at Forest Fit

Training is going well, and everyone is getting stronger, fitter, leaner and meaner! 

Just to remind you guys and all you newbies who want to come and give us a try.

Sessions are still at the Sika Trail, near Wareham and the times are:

Monday evenings, 6:30pm
Wednesday mornings, 9:30am 
Saturday mornings, 9:30am

Lots of great people coming to train with us and the sessions are still a fantastic mix of varied training methods, circuit style, aerobic efforts, strength training, core stability and general conditioning. 
If you want to come and give us a try then speak to Steve or Charlie. You can email Steve through this blog or you can get both of us on Facebook, check the Forest Fit group page. http://www.facebook.com/groups/178559475514564/

Don't just get fit, get Forest Fit! 

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Training continues to go well, everyone getting fitter, stronger, leaner and meaner!

The Monday evenings down at Wareham Rugby Club are proving to be very popular and complement very nicely what we do down at the Sika Trail.

Come and give us a try, meet some great people, get fit and have fun!!

For more info contact me or Charlie Tipper via this blogspot, or you can find the group on Facebook.

Wednesday Session

Well done to everyone who came yesterday. We got the best of the weather I think.

Nice easy jog warm up followed by some good strength work, upper body, then legs, interspersed with some short runs, keeping moving as there was a chilly breeze. One hill loop and back for lots of abs and core work, more runs, jog to logs for lots of pull ups and log throws to finish.

Very enjoyable session, everyone worked hard and had fun!

Charlie and I are now on a mission to find more logs. They seem to be a little thin on the ground! Although plenty of heavy ones, as we discovered yesterday!

See you all Saturday.

Happy New Year

We wish everyone who comes to Forest Fit a very happy, fit and healthy 2012. And also those who are thinking of coming to Forest Fit, best wishes. Come and give us a try, it's great fun and a brilliant way to get yourself in excellent shape. Outdoor exercise is proven to be 30% more effective in developing fitness over indoor-based activities, especially aerobic fitness. ie. your heart and lungs will thank you more for it!

Updated Times for Forest Fit

3 weekly sessions

Monday evenings 6:30pm at Swanage and Wareham Rugby Club

Wednesday mornings 9:30am, Sika Trial car park, Wareham Forest.

Saturday mornings 9:15am, Sika Trail car park, Wareham Forest.

See you all there!

800m Times

Each week at Forest Fit we are putting everyone through their paces on a Monday evening at Swanage and Wareham Rugby Club. Great fun tough sessions!

The session ends with a timed 800m run, and we are keeping a record of everyone's times and they can see how they are progressing as they come along and train with us, trying to beat the time set in the previous week. Here are the times so far.

http://www.stevebpt.co.uk/ForestFit800mTimes.pdf

If any of Team Forest Fit notice times missing or names not on the list please let me know. Times for last week need updating, so once I have those in I will upload to the web! See you all at the next session!

Sandbags

So another Monday night is on its way. Really looking forward to putting the members of Team Forest Fit through their paces!

We have some new sandbags to replace the ones that split last week and have loads more exercises planned and a great variety of fun and tough challenges that Charlie and I will introduce over the coming weeks.

We hope the Monday nights will complement well what we are doing at the Sika Trail on Wednesdays and Saturdays and I am sure that Team Forest Fit will continue to get fitter and stronger!

Monday night a hit!

Thank you to all our Forest Fitters who turned up to train with us on our first night at Swanage and Wareham rugby club. Took me back a bit, training under floodlights. It was a really great session, 21 attendees with some new faces, welcome to you all.

Mr Gary Dighton was there. Gary is a former national time trial cycling champion and rides regularly for Poole Wheelers. He wants to add some variety to his winter training and it was great to have him along. We will be incorporating al sorts of different exercises, training ideas and keeping it moving along to support what we do at the Sika Trail, Wareham Forest.

Big thanks to the rugby club for allowing us to host it there. It's a great facility and I urge anyone who hasn't been to go down there and support their local rugby club. I know if my boys are interested in rugby when they are older, I'll be more than happy to take them along.

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/swanagewareham/

http://www.poolewheelers.com/

12 months of Forest Fit

Our anniversary! Me and Charlie have been delivering training sessions from Wareham Forest for12 months now and we are loving the sessions and everyone who is coming along to train with us. Great bunch of guys and gals and it is amazing to see all of you getting leaner, meaner, faster, stronger, healthier and fitter!

The sessions are always great fun, and challenging. We are still concentrating on making sure everyone is keeping good form with each exercise, pushing themselves when they need to, and generally looking after everyone who trains with us.

Spread the Forest Fit word as we continue to develop what we do. Forest Fitters are making it a great place to be to exercise and get exactly what you need from a workout!

For those new to exercise we welcome you to come along and give it a try, you will surprise yourself and have a lot of fun. Over 160 people have come along over the last 12 months and the majority of those continue to train with us on a regular basis.

Monday Night Circuit Training

Forest Fit is going on a trip! Monday nights are now moving to Wareham. Swanage and Wareham Rugby Club to be precise.

http://www.stevebpt.co.uk/CircuitTrainingFlyer.pdf

Same time: 6:30pm. Starting on 31st October

For one hour of excellent exercise, great fun and good times! Still only £5 per session.
There will be the added bonus of access to the changing facilities and water will be on tap to keep those water bottles filled up. We might even have some logs!!
Loads of exercises and the usual top quality training provided by Charlie and Steve.

The other sessions will continue at the Sika Trail as per normal. Wednesday mornings, 9:30am and two Saturday sessions. 9am and 10:30am.

We look forward to seeing everyone there and welcome to all newcomers. More information to follow when we have details. Here is a link to Google maps with directions for Swanage and Wareham Rugby Club

Forest Fit

FOREST FIT MISSES YOU

Come back and join us!

Over 150 people have now trained with us. Every single person adding great camaraderie to every session.

Help us break our session record of 21 attendees.

1st session wednesday back after the holidays saw 16 join us with some regulars away on holidays still. We work hard to offer all different forms of training making each session varied concentrating on quality technique in all execises used to make us all toned, aerobically more efficient, lean and strong.

The Wednesday session at 9.30, and Saturday sessions at 9am & 10.30am have regular athletes who are without question getting fitter and we are upping the tempo accordingly. The Monday night session every week @ 6.30pm is where we have achieved our biggest turn out so far! More evidence people love training outdoors.

We hope to train with you again soon,

Kind Regards,

Charlie & Steve

http://www.bodyinmotion.co.uk/home/?page_id=1052 Mobile 07866 411240

http://www.stevebpt.co.uk/ Mobile 07806 478354

Summer Latest

The Future's Fit : The Future's Forest Fit

20 people attended the 9am session yesterday :-)

Can we beat our monday night record of 21?

Next saturday September 3rd,there is ONLY ONE Ffit session @ 9am

Then we are back to normal 4 sessions every week :

Monday @ 6.30pm

Wednesday @ 9.30am

Saturdays @ 9am & 10.30am

We look forward to training with you again soon.

Charlie & Steve

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Monday nights have really taken off and it's an excellent way to start the working week, or to finish off a long hard Monday in the office!
The 4 sessions are working really well and it's great to see so many regular faces who have been with us over the last few months getting lots fitter, stronger, leaner and meaner! And also we continue to see plenty of new faces as well which is great news as Forest Fit gathers momentum and is proving to be a popular way to train.
Outdoor training is proven to significantly improve weight loss and increase aerobic fitness quicker than working solely in the gym. Forest Fit offers some great strength training as well as a host of aerobic activities like the infamous hill running challenges that we do on a regular basis.
We hope you are all enjoying the Forest Fit experience and both Charlie and myself will continue to develop what we provide and keep the training varied and interesting in the future.
Everyone is getting fit, and not just fit but 'Forest' Fit!

New Session

******* NEW FFIT SESSION every MONDAY NIGHT throughout the Summer starting MONDAY the 9th of MAY. PLEASE pass this on to your buddies Guyz x
For more information contact me or Charlie through this blog or you can find us on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_178559475514564&ap=1

See you there Forest Fitters!

Wareham Forest Duathlon

http://www.tripurbeck.com/blog/race-details-sika-wood-duathlon-10th-april/

Check Purbeck Tri Club's website for more info. I will be there, having a little run out and a social. Nowhere near race fit but it is a lovely venue to race and should be good fun!
Lots of Forest Fitters will be taking part. Speak to me or Charlie if you want more info!
See you there.

Forest Fit on Facebook

Here we are. For those of you who are using Facebook, we now have a page on there with info and updates.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_178559475514564&ap=1

It's lovely now training in Wareham Forest with the sun out and weather warming up. Everyone in the groups getting fitter and stronger. Great fun!!

Latest News

Hello everybody, and massive thank you to all Forest Fitters who continue to train with us and support us! You make it the great fun that it is. And yes, we like to make it a little tough now and then! :-)

Just to let you know that there is no Forest Fit on Saturday 26th February, due to Wareham Forest being overrun with rally cars! The Sunseeker Rallye is down again for another weekend of racing. So unfortunately, rather than get mown down by a boy racer, we have decided to cancel this week.
Have no fear, we are back with a vengeance the following Wednesday and return to normal session times.

One for the future, we will be introducing another 2 session times, more information to follow, and we are looking at a few surprises with the training along the way!!!! Keep coming, keep getting fitter and stronger and enjoy exercising in the outdoors!