Dame Mary Peters Opens New Ulster Fitness Suite

Dame Mary Peters this week opened a new state of the art fitness suite at the University.

The Olympic gold medal winner  - who also holds an honorary doctorate from the university ¨C was the guest of honour at the official opening of the ¡®Wellness Suite¡¯ at the Jordanstown campus

The new facility ¨C which is available to students, staff and the local community ¨C features the latest Technogym work-out machines,  and includes weights and exercise facilities for users with disabilities.

Dame Mary said:

"I wish everyone who is involved in the project every success. "This is a wonderful facility - and I'm going to come and use it."

Sport and Recreation Supervisor Margaret McConnell said that the new ¡®Wellness Suite¡¯ offers many opportunities for people looking to improve their health and fitness:

¡°With the new facilities at the Sports Centre, there is something for everyone as we have brought the highest standard of fitness equipment available here to Ulster. And having a great Olympian launching the new suite is a great honour for the University.

¡°Among the high quality facilities available, we have the Kinesis Wall which is the first of its kind in Ireland. It allows freedom of movement without restriction and you get a great work-out with it as well as having fun.¡±

Along with the 26 cardiovascular fitness machines, the ¡®Wellness Suite¡¯ also offers users an on-line personal trainer.

Each fitness machine has a slot into which an electronic card can be slotted to record and track each of the training sessions and ¨C when linked-up to a computer hub in the gym ¨C can produce graphs, tables and charts to show the progress of fitness programmes.

¡°These facilities can be used by anyone from athletes or professional teams along with their fitness instructors to anyone wanting to just track their own personal work-out,¡±  Margaret said.

The shoulder press, chest press and lateral pull-down machines are IFI (Inclusive Fitness Initiative) accreditation for use by people with disabilities.
The Kinesis Wall also has the added attraction of having a video-screen training companion, where you can select video instruction on different exercises to carry out.

Gym user Alison Bell, who is  Business and Governance Manager at the University¡¯s  Office of Innovation, said that the new facilities would be a great boost.

She said: ¡°I use the gym at lunchtimes and I think the new equipment is fantastic. I couldn¡¯t ask for more being an employee of the University and having this on your doorstep is great.

¡°And there¡¯s more to come as well when the electronic self-monitoring system gets up and running ¨C which means things are only going to get better.¡±

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