June
New floors
They smell very strongly of rubber atm but they feel really nice to put your hands on, and as we do a lot of supporting our bodies off the floor work, this is welcome. Supporting percentages of your bodyweight with your hands on the floor will make you glow in the dark. Actually it just makes you generally harder and more flexible. Kind of like rubber… yes I AM indeed comparing our bodies favourably to the properties of rubber. Moving swiftly on and I recommend you DON’T google the words “rubber body” in search of a suitable picture to put here.
Monkey Bars
Summer is the time when we hang out in playgrounds with our sprogs a little more so here’s where we get to show off. Because the way we train here creates really hard hands, grip, and core strength, as a side effect a lot of us can do monkey bars without even trying. Even those of us who could never do them as kids and only realised they could do them a few weeks ago messing around in the gym.
New Open Gym Times
Check it. You gotta scroll down. Groupies only. You can be one.
Breaking news: Ski-erging is universally LOVED by Lifting Women
This is a lie. 
It is however, proving to be a potent accelerator to how much work we can get done in 45 minutes. The combination of high tension kb and bodyweight strength with cardio sprints is basically the unicorn of fitness training. It’s making us be better parents, helping straighten out our office-squashed bodies, tempting us with the bug of how delicious the shower and snack feels afterwards.
ERG ARMY Training Camp
There’s still time to sign up for ski and row erg training. If you’re thinking “not for me thanks”, for any self-doubt reasons, know that last year we had class member’s 70 year old dad join because he had nothing to do that weekend and quite fancied getting fit. It is truly transformative for anyone. We have rowers, you don’t even need to stand up (I lie you do) 😉 Look here
Next month – Sports Day is coming
Careful now. I’m a sports day hater, like a lot of you. So this is less of what you remember from school and more about what you know about me. It’s an opportunity to get all of my members together, celebrate our bodies on spacehoppers and with eggs and spoons, eat and drink together, and pray we don’t get rained on. If you’re reading this, you’re curious, and local, drop me an email and you’ll be warmly welcomed to come and join in.
April and May
Eating chocolate
What’s going on in April? Easter Eggs. That’s what’s going on. Easter is important for Juno because we love a good carb-fuelled training session, it helps us lift faster and heavier and makes our life way better.
Who loves cardio?
The eagle-eyed among us will notice that we have some new cardio equipment. It’s pretty big, so you’d have to have eyes like mine without my one contact lens not to notice. But the point is, I’m very picky about cardio equipment because our cardio has to be purposeful and as efficient as possible at making us better humans. We’re going to be learning how to move our bodies on this equipment as part of our new Lifting Women group training blocks over the spring/summer. Have you ever thought about *how* you move your body when you’re doing cardio and using cardio based equipment? It’s same but different to lifting kettlebells – technique makes you better at it, makes it work better on you, and makes you able to do it for longer.