We’ve got Christmas hula hooping, ballet-based classes, tough and muddy trail runs, Santa runs and cycles, discounted bootcamps and, err, loads and loads of yoga. December definitely seems to be a yoga-heavy month, but in our Christmas party overloaded states we are not complaining. Plus quite a bit of it’s FREE! Knew that’d get your attention. Now where’s the mulled wine?
FREE Yotopia Yoga Class
6 Dec, 8.30am (yep that’s tomorrow, get in there quick)
Reebok FitHub Covent Garden
The guys at Yotopia Yoga are hosting a free class at 8.30am this Friday at Reebok Fit Hub in Covent Garden. Wipe that December hangover out of your eyes and get down there. We haven’t got many details but we do know you need to email Reebok fitness ambassador caroline.dean@reebok.com to reserve a spot.
FREE Zero Calorie Advent Calendar
Daily throughout December
zerocalorieadventcalendar.com
To be honest, all my advent calendars were zero calories as my mum never let me have those chocolate ones (meanie), however this is a much better idea than cardboard pictures of donkeys and baby Jesus. Each day throughout December the online calendar will provide you with a fitness-related offer or discount, a workout and a healthy recipe – all for free. Bonza. Check it out here.
FREE Sleek Technique class
7 Dec, 9am. 12 Dec, 19.00
Reebok FitHub Covent Garden
Yay, more free stuff! Sleek Technique’s ballet body workouts, developed by Royal Ballet trained professional dancers Victoria Marr and Flick Swann, are usually only available via interactive online classes but this month they’re holding free sessions at Reebok FitHub. A combination of ballet barre technique and body sculpting exercises, the sessions are great for improving posture, flexibility and sculpting a long lean dancer-like physique. Hey, if Angelina Jolie’s body double is a fan, who are we to argue. To book, drop into Reebok FitHub Covent Garden, tweet @sleektechnique or drop an email to info@sleektechnique.com
London Santa Run
7 December, on the day entry £30 INCLUDING SANTA SUIT!
Battersea Park
www.209events.com
Well it just ain’t Christmas unless you whizz around a park dressed like a fat man in red is it? Around 2,000 Santas will take part in this 6k run round Battersea Park to raise money for Disability Snowsport UK, a charity helping people with disabilities to access snowsports. Entry includes a rather fetching Santa suit and the suggested amount to raise for charity is just £25. Go on, you know you want to! For a list of more Santa runs taking place across the UK visit www.santadash.co.uk
Santa Cycle for Charity
7 Dec, Free just bring a present for a child in a hospice
Whole Foods Market, Richmond
www.wholefoodsmarket.com
What you doing on Saturday? Lying on the safe watching repeats of Come Dine with Me? Get off your ass, get on your bike and head on down to Whole Foods Market in Richmond. Together with Njinga Cycling, they’re organising a fancy dress Santa Cycle and riding 19 miles to children’s hospice Shooting Star Chase in Hampton to deliver some presents. Everyone’s welcome, you just need to wear a costume and bring a gift or two to give to the children and teenagers with life-limiting conditions at the hospice. For details and to register your interest visit www.njingacycling.com
15% off January Bootcamps at Frame
Until 30 December
www.moveyourframe.com
Now we’re not tight or anything but we do love a good discount. Particularly when it’s fitness related. Frame is offering 15% discount on all January bootcamps (with the exception of RE-BOOT camp) as long as they’re booked before 30 December. Your sober, virtuous January self will thank your drunken, partying December self for this we promise. They’ve got dance bootcamps, pilates bootcamps, emergency bootcamps, kickstart bootcamps and much more. More details here.
Xmas Pop-up Hula Hoop Event
9 Dec, 6pm, 7pm or 8.30pm, £12.50
Bethnal Green, East London
www.fitness-freak.com
Ooooohhhhhh yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh, we went to the last pop-up hula hoop event hosted by Fitness Freak and it was bloomin’ good fun. Taught by Marawa the Amazing – she can hula 133 hoops in one go that’s how amazing she is – it’s basically 45-mins of trying to swing a hoop round your hips, arms, ears, torso to a Christmas soundtrack. Your abs will KILL afterwards – hooping and laughing are both great for the core.
FREE Bikram-inspired class with Olga Allon
10 December, 18.00-19.00
Lululemon Covent Garden Showroom
info.lululemon.co.uk
This free class is first come, first served so get there early for an hour of yoga with Olga, studio director of Hot Bikram Yoga. It ain’t going to be too hot and sweaty, instead it’ll be a cosy room temperature and you’ll certainly get warm as you move through some of the 26 traditional bikram postures. Plus Olga’s really lovely. To see more free events at Lululemon including Pilates Flow on 14 December and Seasonal Energy Vinyasa Flow yoga on 28 December visit info.lululemon.co.uk
Yoga Inversions Workshop – Getting Upside Down from the Inside Out
14 Dec, 13.30-15.30, £20
Frame Shoreditch
www.moveyourframe.com
Suitable for all levels of yogi, this two-hour workshop teaches you how to master some of those tricky – but bloody impressive – upside down yoga postures. From crow to handstand, simple to super-challenging, overcome your fear and pick up a few new party tricks to show off on the dancefloor – sorry, sorry, we mean new asanas to incorporate safely into your yoga practice.
Lunges & Lycra Onzie Competition closes
20 December
See the comp here
Have you entered our competition to win a pair of Onzie leggings yet? If not, why not?!? All you need to do is send us a photo of what fitness means to you using the hashtags #fitness and #onzie. You can email them to charlotte@lungesandlycra.co.uk or tweet them to us @lungesandlycra We’ve got some corkers already – check out our Facebook gallery here!
Brutal 10, Longmoor Camp
28 Dec, 8k (£10) or 16k (£20)
Hampshire
brutalrun.co.uk
As the name ‘brutal’ suggests, these are tough, hilly, muddy runs using natural obstacles including dunes, water holes, streams, hills, hills and err hills! It’s going to be hard, it’s going to be cold, but it’s also going to be a great way to end the year. Go on, blow away the Christmas cobwebs.
Know of any other fantabulous events? Pop them in the comments below or whizz them over to charlotte@lungesandlycra.uk. Cheers!
Great round up, as always!
Thank you so much for featuring ZCAC, we’re very pleased to be in such great company!
I’m going to the hula class next week, leggings or sequin hot pants – that is the question.