LM: What other services do you offer?
We also offer personal fitness training and are affiliated to hotels such as Al Raha Beach Hotel and Sheraton Hotel on the Corniche. We train the members of their gyms or their hotel guests. In addition, we offer VIP personal fitness training and nutritional advice where we are on call 24 hours a day and train them at a venue of their choice —– it could be their home, their office, the gym or outdoors somewhere. This is really targeted at busy managing director or CEO types.
LM: Is there much demand for corporate training programmes?
Yes, we have corporate fitness programmes involving team-building events and boot camp sessions to get people interacting. Sometimes we play games you used to play at school — the egg and spoon race, pin the tail on the donkey and hide and seek etc.
We can also offer companies a programme of services for their employees to include team-building exercises, personal training, medical and fitness testing and nutritional seminars.
In fact, we are in talks with ADNOC in regards to doing a one-year wellness programme for 3000 employees at its oil refining company.
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LM: What are your future plans?
We will soon roll out our group fitness product — a skipping, yoga, kettle bell and boxercise classes — and then we have our gym management and gym design division.
If someone has a gym they want us to manage, we put a manager in there to do bookings, sign ups, opening and closing the facility and arranging cleaners etc.
In addition, if developers come to us who want to install a gym somewhere, we’ll advise them on how to do it.
We will align ourselves with an equipment provider and tell the developer or owner what equipment they need to suit their workforce. We’ll design the gym, set it up for them, put membership systems in place and hire trainers for them.
LM: Where do you source your instructors from?
Abu Dhabi is short on instructors so at the moment I am also recruiting from Dubai.
Emirati women can only be trained by women and so there is a huge demand for female trainers, but they are scarce. In the future we will be running courses for people to get certified as personal trainers.
ABOUT ORIGINAL FITNESS CO.
The Original Fitness Co. is a total fitness solutions firm based in Abu Dhabi offering the following services:
• Boot camp fitness: unisex, women-only, kids and corporate.
• Personal fitness training: one-to-one, group and VIP training.
• Corporate fitness: team building, events, executive wellness programmes.
• Group fitness: coming soon and will include skipping, yoga, kettle bell and boxercise classes.
• Gym management
• Gym design
• Courses for instructors
The Original Fitness Co. is recruiting now and requires qualified female instructors in particular.
For more information visit www.originalfitnessco.com
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Nov 11, 2009 , United Arab Emirates
its really great what you do at OFC, its exactly what a lot of people are missing here: working outside gyms, great working out instructiins, interactions with other people. It gives a lot of people a chance to realise that they could become strong, more fit and more motivated cause as you are al...