Functional Fitness @ Walnut Grove Studio

Today was my first Suspension Training since the beginning of lock down. The new gym is pristine and the Covid-19 precautions so thorough that I could not have felt safer in the building. From entering to leaving I felt confident that there was no risk of infection and it was a real joy to be exercising again under Jo's eagle eye.

Jo is amazing at what she does! Suspension training is a new and exciting discovery.

I have been seeing Jo for P/T since 2015. I am definitely not a ‘gym girl’ and at times it’s been a real struggle. I initially went to her because I had painful knees and wanted to become fit enough to trek to see the mountain gorillas in Uganda, which I achieved, with a lot of encouragement from Jo. Until Covid I was generally seeing her once a week and doing a suspension class weekly, but as I holidayed a lot, I missed many weeks. For the last few months I have had the consistency of 3 P/T sessions a week and what a difference this has made to my fitness, my strength and the dramatic reduction to the pain in my knees. I’m even almost enjoying being a gym girl! I still do 2 of the sessions by Skype but for the other I now go to the wonderful new gym. And, for the future, when I go away I can still be ‘driven’ by Jo, working remotely. Something good to come out of Covid! Many thanks Jo. What I really like about you is that you focus on the individual and their needs and don...