The scene was set to scare our members and when they entered the GF room at 5.30pm on Friday the 13th March, it was with a little apprehension and uncertainty!!

The room was pitch dark, filled with smoke and smelled musty, laser lights showed glimpes of  scary monsters up by the stage and the wicked laughter of a vampire greeted us all!!

Our instructors hid in the room as our members came in and tapped people on the shoulder, rattled the punching bag chains, jumped out at them and sent many a child (and adults) heart-rate through the roof!

Graeme was dressed in a skeleton suit, Jess was the Grim Reaper, Stephanie was a Zombie, while Anna, Sarah & Ngaio were the Red Devils. Lisa and Brenda made great witches and Sue’s spider outfit was awesome! Dwayne looked like he had just come back from the grave – his face makeup was so real like!! – A big thank you to Jo Corke (our make-up artist) for making us look so ugly and scary!! – you did a fabulous job!

The order of our 1.5 hour Multi class was as follows.-
Balance 3 tracks, Combat 3 tracks, BodyVive 2 Tracks, Step 2 tracks, Pump 3 tracks and Jam 2 tracks. At the same time, RPM was in full swing upstairs for 45 mins.
We had our trainees up on stage with us this launch who did wonderfully well and didn’t show any signs of nerves. The outfits proved hard to stay on though – witch outfits are not designed for physical activity and Skeletons don’t like to wear microphones!!

We had a good turnout.  Sadly, the night had to come to an end and we had to take off the make-up and return to our normal selves. Gosh, it was so much fun to dress up and become someone else for the night!!.

A big thank you to our members for attending our launch, Jo Corke, our fantastic team of  instructors and trainees and to Jess for organising all the theme props.  It was a fun and very successful night. 

Lets enjoy the new releases over the next month – Step 75, Pump 69, RPM 42, BodyVive 10 and so on!
 

Once again (5th year in a row!), Peak Fitness & Health entered a team into the fun Community Event and helped to raise much needed funds for the HB Cancer Society.
We kept our theme name “Peak Fighters” but had a reasonably new team this year who brought enthusiasm and excitement to the event.

As always, it is held at the Tareha Reserve in Guppy Road, Taradale and runs for 24 hours – Sat lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime. We kept the same tent site and this proved to be a god send after the massive downpour of rain late Saturday afternoon.The track turned into a muddy mess!. Our side of the track was a lot better than the other side!!

Our team of 21 walked and ran around the track and clocked over 350 laps. We finished 4th out of 63 teams, behind Taradale High School, Kupa International Martial Arts and Plus Rehab. Our team raised $2,500 plus. The HB Cancer Society’s total as at lunchtime 8 March was $230,000 with the total still rising! This was an awesome effort.!!

The theme laps this year was “Mamma Mia”, “Thriller” and “Once upon a Time”. Peak Fighters had representatives on the track for all 3 themes and they looked great! Anna, Jo, Jade and Kendal did us proud as Abba girls! There was a dance off competition for “Mamma Mia” and although we never entered our team, we had a lot of laughs looking at the outfits and choreography of the other teams. Lisa dressed to scare at midnight when the “Thriller” lap arrived.

Graeme, our Yoga and Balance Guru arrived in the wee hours of the morning to take a stretch class for everybody at the event. This was just what we needed to relieve many aches and pains. The CHB Clowns sure did look funny trying to copy Graeme.

Breakfast and the smell of Bacon & Eggs was a welcome delight and this kept us going until the final lap at midday. Paula & Kendal entertained us by doing handstands and cartwheels up and down the track in the final stages of Sunday morning.

Everyone boxed in to pull down the tents, put the cargo net and Peak Fitness banner away for another year and sadly, but sleepily returned to their cars and drove home for a well deserved Sunday afternoon sleep. A big thanks to Jess & Dimi and their family for providing the tent this year – it was perfect!!

Well Done Peak Fighters – you rocked!!
Members of our amazing team this year are:
Carla Cameron, Paula Coppell, Jan Gordon, Christine Sheppard, Charlotte Oliver, Cherie Allen, Jenni Jones, Jo Corke, Anna Kay, Anna, Jade and Amber Brooks, Lisa Ju and daughter Jess, Brenda, Kendal & James Gowan, Jess, Dimi, Ben, Georgia and Rhiarne Hanara.

We are all ready for next year!!

Date:  Saturday 28th November 8.30 am kick off

Over a quiet social drink one evening Chris Owen set the ball rolling – what eventuated from one person ended up 4 strapping lads taking on an INDOOR ROWING MARATHON -  The training began and the date was set. 

Kick off at 8.30 am – the team set up – little tables for their energy replacement drinks, camel backs and lots of towels to mop up the sweat not to mention their support from their family and friends.

They all had a goal of under 3 hours which they all achieved – I must admit I have never seen as much sweat in the gym as what I saw that morning.

Coming of the rower was a bit of a challenge – tight hamstrings and well those rear ends definitely got worked over – but wow what an achievement – they can all now say that they have done a marathon – on a rower – I am starting to sense after their post marathon celebrations their maybe another shot at it next year – watch this space…

Congratulations to Chris for getting them started and to all the men for their amazing row – and many thanks to Diva’s for been the place to get them talking and started….

Check out the boys here…