Profiles at Wigan Life Centre
MembershipProfiles Health & Fitness Memberships provides you with a fresh outlook towards exercise. With a whole range of facilities on your doorstep we are there to provide the perfect environment for all your leisure demands. Our membership packages offer you a vast array of choices including the option to join one centre join them all, and with centres located right across the borough you’ll never be far away.
Gym Membership Packages
Technogym
An 80 station Health and Fitness Facility boasting the latest Cardio vascular and strength equipment. Incorporating VisioWeb, the latest in console technology giving the member simple navigation around the screen. The Visio includes an integrated TV screens, iPod function and a fan.
Wellness System
The Wellness System helps members to achieve their fitness goals. Members will engage on a health and fitness journey “Profiles Journey”.
The Profiles Journey
The Ultimate Member Health and Fitness Experience. Whatever your health and fitness goals are, you can achieve them at Profiles Health and Fitness. We have professionally qualified Fitness Instructors that are experienced in motivating and encouraging you to achieve your fitness goals. Regardless of your lifestyle we have the solutions to support you on your journey.
The First Step Programme
You will initially engage on an orientation of the fitness suite. You will be shown how to use both cardiovascular and resistance equipment safely and effectively. This includes treadmills, bikes, cross-trainers and weights. It’s a great opportunity to familiarise yourself with the facility and feel comfortable Motivational Lifestyle Consultation
Whether you want to get in shape, lose weight, injury rehabilitation, strength, balance, power or sports specific performance training, this 1-1 appointment with one of our Fitness Instructors is a great opportunity for you to build a rapport and assess what you want to achieve. You will receive a personal programme to help you achieve your individual health and fitness goals.
Follow Up Programme
Catch up with your personal Fitness Instructor to discuss your training
programme. An opportunity to learn new exercises, this will provide you with motivation and support to help you reach your goals. Review Programme
As with any type of training your body will adapt to the exercise. It is important to review your individual training needs and health and fitness goals on a regular basis. Your personal Fitness Instructor will re visit your long term and short term goals and provide you with a progression programme to take you to the next level.
As a Profiles member you will benefit from the:
Kinesis
Kinesis is the ultimate cable resistance equipment. It returns you to the origins of human movement, freeing you to re-discover the four fundamental physical abilities: endurance, balance, strength and flexibility.
Kinesis provides a unique workout that restores the right balance between mind and body, thereby helping to improve your quality of life. Kinesis is easy to use and is multi-purpose using three handgrips in different positions there are more than 200 different exercises are possible without having to make any adjustments.
Specific muscles (chest, back, abs, glutes and quadriceps) are exercised in the standard movements whereas the combined movements work several different muscles synergistically at the same time (front and back kinetic chains, core and multi-chain).
Kinesis is the ideal solution for a unique, personalised workout. Being so versatile, there is scope for both standard and combined movements.
Kinesis builds:
• STRENGTH
• FLEXIBILITY
• RESISTANCE
• COORDINATION
• POSTURE CONTROL
• BREATHING CONTROL
There are programs for general health and wellbeing, sport, and muscle toning, each of which is split into a further five specific routines, each with three different effort levels depending on your personal level of fitness.
Power Plate
Power Plate equipment is the premium vibration device powering a new dimension in wellness solutions for all ages, lifestyles and physical abilities. It uses the principles of Acceleration Training™ to stimulate the body’s natural response to vibration. These vibrations transmit waves of energy throughout the body, activating muscle contractions between 25 and 50 times per second, enhancing overall performance in sessions as short as 15 minutes a day, 3 times a week.
Acceleration Training™ on Power Plate equipment offers a host of benefits, ranging from an immediate improvement in blood circulation, to a variety of other measurable outcomes: such as increased muscle strength and flexibility, improved range of motion, decreased cellulite, increased bone mineral density, reduced pain and soreness and faster recovery.
ARKE
The new ARKE – Core Centric Training method, researched and studied by the Technogym Scientific Center, is the best solution offered by Technogym for those wanting to globally train these components, transferring the benefits of training in the gym into movements used in everyday life. It is a method intended for all users in terms of age, level of experience and goals, with the support of the
Personal Trainer. As well as guaranteeing excellent results in a short space of time it is a natural type of training which therefore minimises the impact on joints. Ideal for those wanting to train in an effective way, with the functions and potential of their body day by day with progressive development.
The ARKE Core Centric Training method: provides immediate and progressive results trains and develops the whole body from head to toe improves all movements through working on the Core.
As a functional training method, Core Centric Training enhances natural day-to-day movements and the effectiveness is based on freedom of movement and involvement of all physical components. It works all muscles. Rather than just working on appearance, the training targets the efficiency, effectiveness and correctness of movement produced.
Core Centric Training increases coordination, stability, balance, flexibility, strength and power. Speed-agility-reaction time and cardio-respiratory capacity are also gradually improved. The variety of exercises made possible by Core Centric Training allows people to progress from a basic level to an extremely advanced level of training.