Wellbrook Fitness

Today we held a tea and cake fundraiser in aid of Charis Cancer Care.

We are so grateful to all our wonderful clients who baked, attended, made donations, donated raffle prizes and bought raffle tickets.

Special thanks go to the following local businesses for their generous raffle prizes -
The Royal Hotel Cookstown
Enhance - Permanent Makeup
Wanda Hughes
Spirit gift shop
The Mill Wheel Bar
allens pharmacy
Helen Flowers
The Chuck Wagon - Cookstown
The Wee Olive, coffee, breakfast and lunch
Glenavon Cookstown

Also special thanks to those who gave their time to help set up, keep the tea, coffee and cake flowing, provide beautiful background music 🎵, sell raffle tickets and help clear up afterwards. And to those who organised chairs, tables etc.

We really have a truely amazing Wellbrook fitness community ❤️

Over £1600 of raffle tickets were purchased and £100’s made in donations. Final total to be confirmed but we are beyond grateful and proud to be able to support this wonderful local charity.

Let’s talk Osteoporosis -

After age 50, approximately 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men will sustain an osteoporosis-related fracture in their remaining lifetime. Women will spend more time in a hospital for osteoporosis-related fractures than for breast cancer and heart disease combined. That statistic is worth reading twice. Breast cancer and heart disease are the two conditions that dominate the public conversation about women’s health, yet osteoporotic fractures generate more hospital days than both of them put together. A hip fracture in someone over 65 carries a one-year mortality rate of approximately 20 to 30 percent, and roughly half of those who survive are never functionally independent again. These are not rare outcomes. These are the real facts.

Men!! You are not exempt. Up to a third of men over 50 have either osteopenia or osteoporosis, and most of them have no idea because men are rarely screened and bone health is culturally framed as a women’s issue. It is not a woman’s issue; it is a human issue, and the fracture consequences in men are at least as severe.

Your skeleton is not the steel frame of a building. It is a living organ that is being dissolved and rebuilt continuously by specialized cells that never stop working. Right now, as you sit here reading this, osteoclasts are carving small trenches into your bone, dissolving the mineral matrix with acid and enzymes, and osteoblasts are following behind them, laying down fresh collagen and orchestrating its mineralization with calcium and phosphate crystals.

So if bone regenerates, then why do people get osteoporosis?

Because the loss of estrogen & progesterone shifts the breakdown/build balance, shifting it towards faster breakdown, unless you counteract this by starting to send a stronger rebuild "signal". That signal is muscle contractions (muscle is attached to bone, when it contracts it pulls on those bones). This is why progressive resistance training can reverse osteopenia & osteoporosis over time.

Food for thought………..

Final Call!

Only 2 spaces remaining 🚴‍♀️

Our One Off Beginners Spin Course starts tomorrow 16th July at 7.30pm

This is the only beginners course we are planning to run so let the heat put you off. (It’s cooling down from next week anyway)

Can’t attend this week because you’re on holiday. No problem we can catch you up in week 2.

Just over a week to our Beginners Spin Course.

We have a few spaces left so get in touch to secure yours 🚴‍♀️

Have you always wanted to try spin but worried your not fit enough for it? Maybe you tried it before but felt out of your dept? Or maybe you’ve been advised to do it for rehab? Maybe you’ve had a hip or knee replacement or other injury?

We are giving you the chance to progress your -
✅ Confidence
✅ Technique
✅ Strength
✅ Power
In the comfort of a one off beginners course.

When - Thursday 16th July for 6 weeks
Time - 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Cost - £40

We have very limited spaces available so get in touch to secure yours or reach out if you’ve got any questions