How to Start Exercising in a Gym to Improve Mental Health

If you’re finding exercising in a gym a daunting thing to start but want to improve your mental health then here’s how we can help. Especially when your self-esteem isn’t great to begin with, it can be a struggle to start going into a gym where it might feel comparative or as if people may […]

Improving Fitness: The Importance of Tracking Steps and Tips for How.

Most people know how much difference increasing and tracking steps make to improving fitness but do you know why it’s so important? On Your Feet Britain is run yearly in association with Active Working CIC. Aimed at desk workers, the campaign encourages to ‘move more and sit less’ to improve their fitness and health. Held […]

One Year On Simply Gym’s Transformation

In a week we celebrate a whole year since we re-opened from the last national lockdown. We don’t want to focus on when we went into lockdown but more the day we were released and the journey we’ve been on in that time. Some of the things we’ve done in the last year have been: […]

International Women’s Day – Our Own Story

Happy International Women’s Day! Written by Connie Summerfield As Simply Gym’s latest recruit in the marketing department and a long-term member, I thought I’d share with you and celebrate my personal fitness journey to inspire more women to get into the gym and get fit. We all start somewhere and my journey into fitness really […]

Simply Essential – Simply Gym Walsall

Hi people! My name is Sunita, I’m a senior massage therapist at Simply Essential located within Simply Gym Walsall. With 15 years of experience in the field of massage therapy alongside rehabilitation I have gained a great deal of knowledge, modalities and techniques which I implement into my treatments. I specialise in over 10 treatments […]

PT Spotlight – Sophie Duke

Our next PT Spotlight is Sophie Duke from Coventry Cannon Park! Sophie has recently written a book about the nutrition, take a look below!   🚀🚀 𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 🚀🚀 My lockdown nutrition eBook – 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒, that I spoke about a few weeks back, is FINALLY ready to launch! I NEVER thought it […]

PT Spotlight – Craig Bethell

Personal Trainer Spotlight First up on our personal trainer spotlight is Craig from Simply Gym Walsall. Hi my names Craig Bethell. Coming back from lockdown I want all of our members to know that, I am a personal trainer who aims to give clients the best results possible. To achieve the best version of themselves, […]

Avocado – Whats their benefit?

Avocado, it’s a trend for sure, 10 years ago you would of never heard of anything like it. First fun fact. Did you know avocados are a fruit rather than a vegetable?!? Mad. This is mainly based on the aspect that it is because it’s a berry and its based on the botanical criteria for […]

Importance of Stretching

Simply Gym- Older couple working out in living room

Its one of those things. Its invaluable but it often time consuming, and sometimes we just tend to forget about.We look at the importance of stretching can have on your body and the benefits which it can bring to your workouts. It is a common understand by stretching it can help bring greater flexibility to […]

I Am Strong Challenge – Heat Things Up

With the weather getting a little worse, and morning and nights being a little colder and darker. Its important to keep the intensity up during the colder months. With our penultimate challenge, we challenge you to heat things up a little. Whether its your own circuit or a class which increases your heart rate a […]