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Speaker 1: Celebrating the best of mid Canterbury with our friends at

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Speaker 1: EA Networks and this week we're going to crown the

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Speaker 1: best gym slash PT A lot of love for those

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Speaker 1: who like to watch us suffer coming through on the

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Speaker 1: facy page. Final full day to get your vote in

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Speaker 1: before we have a tally up tomorrow, so go and

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Speaker 1: pin it down on the how can I we Ashburton

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Speaker 1: Facebook page. Another of our front runners as it currently

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Speaker 1: stands is Fit for Life. You can find them in

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Speaker 1: that Allington shopping center where the old post shop used

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Speaker 1: to be. Stopped by for a catch up with angus

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Speaker 1: yesterday to learn what makes them a little unique.

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Speaker 2: Increase the memberships over the last three years from about

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Speaker 2: seventy to two hundred and now, so it's quite quite big.

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Speaker 2: The average age is about fifty six. The original owner

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Speaker 2: of for Life was Frank Connolly and he was working

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Speaker 2: with a lot of people that age as well, sort

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Speaker 2: of main around the physio side of things, and we've

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Speaker 2: just kept that going over the last three years.

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Speaker 1: Gives people like me hope because we might be able

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Speaker 1: to keep up.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah. So we're all about movement here.

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Speaker 2: It's not just about lifting heavyweights. It's about movement, moving better,

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Speaker 2: feeling better, being healthier too. Probably the main thing is

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Speaker 2: is that especially for our new members, they come in

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Speaker 2: and they feel comfortable and confident in this gym, where

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Speaker 2: gyms can be quite intimidating. They tend to come here

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Speaker 2: if they've never been in the gym before and not

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Speaker 2: feel as nervous. We also introduce them to all of

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Speaker 2: our existing members, so they're all ready sort of involved

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Speaker 2: with people that get to know people's names, so we

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Speaker 2: really consciously make sure that we're creating that community vibe.

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Speaker 1: We're not cuizzed on that day one. Now we're everybody's names.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, well honestly, our staff are fantastic at that.

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Speaker 2: So we're really good at remembering names, and because we've

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Speaker 2: got so many more members, we've got more names to remember.

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Speaker 2: It's the main thing I think for our members here

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Speaker 2: is that they feel safe, confident to come here and

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Speaker 2: it's very social