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GLL to launch Better Gym at former Olympic Village
POSTED 06 Jul 2015 . BY Jak Phillips
The new gym is just a javelin's throw away from the famous Olympic Velodrome Credit: DCMS
Work is well underway on a new GLL Better Gym in Stratford, east London, on the site of the 2012 Games Olympic Village.

The £900,000 low-cost offering, which is located in the heart of East Village in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is expected to open on 10 August.

Leisure design and build specialist Createability is currently creating a 10,000sq ft (929sq m) health club with 130 Technogym stations. There will be a functional training area with an XCube functional frame and a free weights zone comprising dumbbells, squat racks, bench presses, a lifting platform and Technogym pure strength plate-loaded machines.

The gym will also feature a 2,000sq ft (186sq m) studio offering a range of classes including cardio, aerobics, dance, HIIT, strength, calm, group cycling and circuits.

“Better Gym Stratford has been carefully designed around our passion for fitness and focuses on offering world class fitness equipment at an affordable price,” said Better Gym Stratford GM Guntis Uzarins.

“It will offer self service sign up and fast track access as well as showers, spacious changing rooms and lockers to create easy-access to exercise for local residents and workers.”
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NEWS
GLL to launch Better Gym at former Olympic Village
POSTED 06 Jul 2015 . BY Jak Phillips
The new gym is just a javelin's throw away from the famous Olympic Velodrome Credit: DCMS
Work is well underway on a new GLL Better Gym in Stratford, east London, on the site of the 2012 Games Olympic Village.

The £900,000 low-cost offering, which is located in the heart of East Village in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is expected to open on 10 August.

Leisure design and build specialist Createability is currently creating a 10,000sq ft (929sq m) health club with 130 Technogym stations. There will be a functional training area with an XCube functional frame and a free weights zone comprising dumbbells, squat racks, bench presses, a lifting platform and Technogym pure strength plate-loaded machines.

The gym will also feature a 2,000sq ft (186sq m) studio offering a range of classes including cardio, aerobics, dance, HIIT, strength, calm, group cycling and circuits.

“Better Gym Stratford has been carefully designed around our passion for fitness and focuses on offering world class fitness equipment at an affordable price,” said Better Gym Stratford GM Guntis Uzarins.

“It will offer self service sign up and fast track access as well as showers, spacious changing rooms and lockers to create easy-access to exercise for local residents and workers.”
RELATED STORIES
Tessa Jowell: London’s Olympic legacy ‘a failure’


A “once in a lifetime” opportunity for the London 2012 Games to inspire a generation of young Brits to participate in sport has been lost due to “wicked and negligent” government cuts, according to former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell.
“Glittering jewel” of culture to be created by LDA Design at London’s Olympic Park


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