Female Fitness Studio launches in Southbourne

SOBO Fitness, the newest addition to Southbourne, opened its doors earlier this week. The female only fitness studio offers small group training including pilates, yoga, HIIT, strength, kettlebell sessions and more. In addition to the gym, you will find a coffee and fresh juice bar.

Owner Lizzie, 38, who moved to the area from Bristol earlier this year with her husband and 2-year-old son has nearly 10 years experience in the fitness industry. She was looking for somewhere to train her clients (and herself) and noticed that Southbourne lacked in studios for women who didn’t want to train in big box commercial gyms.

Lizzie feels that women have training needs that are not met by the main stream and so she wanted to create something that incorporated the monthly and greater hormonal cycles that women experience.

Lizzie says; “Women don’t need their training to be dumbed down, we don’t need it to be made simpler, but we do need it to be suitable. Women want a safe space where they can be vulnerable and courageous, where they can come at any stage of their fitness journey and get the support they need to live with flow, strength and confidence.”

SOBO Fitness has a big focus on community. The coffee and juice bar provides a place to hang around afterwards and enjoy a fresh pressed juice, smoothie or coffee. It’s an opporunity to meet new friends and build connections.

SOBO Fitness will also offer community events which are free for members to attend where some of the best experts will share their tips on living a health and enriched life.

Lizzie hopes to create a space where women can embrace a truly transformational journey, lighten the load and make time to get out of their heads and into their body. She said; “When the mental load is too much, step into our space and let it all go, leave feeling lighter, brighter and ready to face the day.”

Having been on her own journey of physical transformation, grief, health anxiety and post-natal depression Lizzie knows only too well how physical fitness, great nutrition and the right community can save you from even what seem like the most impossible of circumstances.

You can get a free pass for any of the classes at www.sobofitness.co.uk/memberships

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