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Welcome to our NEW Shropshire Leisure Time fitness and wellbeing page.

Our Shropshire Council Leisure Centres are now open again, take a look at the individual centre pages for details.

Health & Fitness App

We are also excited to announce the launch of our Shropshire Leisure Time App for booking sessions at your local leisure centre. In order to help you learn how to use the app, we have created an online document.

Our instructors, Pam and Lucy, have been working hard to produce some more online classes for you to take part in.

It's important that we all maintain a level of activity for the benefit of our physical and mental wellbeing, so we have put together some links and advice for staying active through these challenging times. Stay safe and make sure you make the most of your daily outdoor activity sessions. Our team has created this information signposting resource to support you and your family to keep as active, healthy and challenged as you can in the current situation.

Exercise classes from our instructors:

Pilates in the theatre – with fairy lights

Pilates, with its emphasis on improving general fitness and wellbeing, is ideal for people of all ages and ability. A low-impact form of exercise, it has been shown to develop strength, balance, flexibility, posture and good breathing technique.
  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: mat

Pilates in the theatre

Fitness Pilates session- concentrates on stretching the body, core strength, posture, balance and flexibility.

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: mat

Pilates in the sports hall

Fitness Pilates session- concentrates on stretching the body, core strength, posture, balance and flexibility.

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: mat, optional weights (dumbbells/bottles or tins)

HIIT in the squash courts

High intensity interval training – intense bursts of exercise followed by short recovery periods.

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: 2 mop heads or anything that resembles pom poms

Full Body Tone Workout in the fitness suite

Full Body Tone class designed to boost your metabolism and burn body fat. Designed to condition, tone and sculpt your whole body.

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: mat, towel, step/chair, weights(dumbbells/bottles or tins)

Body Tone Mop Workout in sports hall

Full Body Tone class designed to boost your metabolism and burn body fat. Designed to condition, tone and sculpt your whole body.

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: mop

Full body workout

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: Swiss ball, dumbbells (or tins etc), mat or towel

Step workout

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: Step

Aerobics with Lucy

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: None

Body condition with Pam

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: Dumbbells or something similar
  • (this video is in two parts the main session and cool down)

Body condition with Pam Pt. 2

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: Dumbbells or something similar

HIIT with Lucy

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: Skipping Rope & Mat/Towel

Chair based workout

  • Instructor: Lucy
  • Equipment required: Chair

Boots band workout

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: Band, Dumbbells or something similar

Boots band workout pt.2 cool down

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: Band, Dumbbells or something similar

Let’s Move – Body conditioning class

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: No Equipment needed

Let’s Move – Body conditioning class pt.2 cool down

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: No Equipment needed

Drum & Thump workout

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: Stability ball (or chair & cushion) Drum sticks (or wooden spoons)

Aerobics for all

  • Instructor: Pam
  • Equipment required: No Equipment needed

Important safety information:

Participation in online exercise classes is undertaken at the risk of the participant and in the full understanding that this is undertaken voluntarily.

Shropshire Council is not responsible or liable for any injury or harm sustained as a result of interaction with live, recorded or stored content contained within, the health and wellbeing pages and or, other Shropshire Council social media channels.

Your health:

It's your responsibility to ensure that you are fit to exercise, are in good physical condition and have no health concern or injury that would be aggravated or would be the cause of any injury sustained, during or as a result of participating in these online activities either directly or indirectly. You should cease exercise immediately if you feel unwell or experience any discomfort or pain.

Your environment:

It's your responsibility to ensure that your chosen exercise environment is safe and appropriate for the purpose, including:

  • There is enough space to perform exercises safely and move freely without obstacles or hazards
  • Any equipment you use is safe and in a suitable condition
  • There are no distractions
  • Your environment is a suitable temperature with good ventilation
  • You have water available

Useful Links to NHS external websites:

  • NHS fitness videos: A great resource providing simple, easy to understand exercise video with different levels depending on your experience.
  • NHS Live Well Exercise website: Many of the home workouts available on here are only 5- 10 minutes and can break up longer periods of being sedentary.
  • Get running with ‘Couch to 5K’: Only for people with some conditioning who have checked with a health professional that running is an appropriate activity.
  • The Strength and Flex Routine that compliments the Couch to 5km is also a useful tool for improving the all-round fitness of people with no health issues.
  • Keeping the Kids Moving: Some excellent resources on this website to keep children active.

* Always follow the guidelines and advice re: participation provided by the NHS Exercise websites.