One way lots of people have been coping during lockdown is getting back into fitness! Keeping your body healthy can be a great solution for those of us struggling with our mental health right now too. There are dozens of independent gyms and fitness studios across South London that are encouraging locals to stay fit and healthy during quarantine. We thought we would share 18 of our favourite independent fitness and yoga businesses that are still thriving!
FIT SW11
Battersea
Ran by Battersea local Michelle, FIT SW11 are offering free, online fitness classes via their Facebook page to keep locals fit and healthy during lockdown. Michelle’s bubbly personality and enthusiasm during her online classes have kept locals motivated and giving them their weekly dose of sweat therapy. FIT SW11 are not only keeping their locals busy, they are also donating to Age UK, as well as raising money for the London Marathon 26.2 campaign, with 26 different exercises locals can try out at home.
FIT SW11
Catford Pilates
Catford
Catford Pilates are now offering online private and matwork classes for their members to continue their journey into looking after their body even during lockdown. Owner Rebecca believes in the ethos of mind-body connection and how it can enrich our lives, helping her clients to transform their bodies and help them appreciate their bodies for what they can do. Once you sign up, you can follow 3 different matwork pilates classes a week, all with unlimited replay, perfect to keep you body ticking over and bending in all the right places!
Catford Pilates
Fitness for Mummies
Brockley
Fitness for Mummies are still going strong, taking their fun and energetic workouts to the screen for you to make progress without leaving your living room. They are providing online classes via Zoom, with a wide variety to choose from, including boxercise, Insanity and bootcamp. As the name suggests, many of their classes cater to new mothers who are perhaps struggling to get back into fitness. For these clients, they have the tailored postnatal fitness class: a gentle, but effective way to keep your body moving. Fitness for Mummies are also continuing personal training sessions online too, if you’re looking for a more personal fitness journey.
FITNESS FOR MUMMIES
Fitology Hub
Brockley
Fitology Hub is a women’s only training hub that has successfully created a supportive and safe environment space where women can become stronger and more confident; this is a sentiment that has carried them through into online classes too. After your free virtual consultation, the team at Fitology Hub will work with you to create tailored home workouts to keep your body and mind healthy, making sure this lockdown will not hinder your progress. Fitology Hub has also been using Facebook and Instagram to post quick and easy workouts, an ideal solution for busy key workers that don’t want their fitness pushed to the side, or even for locals looking for a quick fix to feel accomplished and motivated again.
Fitology Hub
Battersea Yoga
Battersea
Battersea Yoga is now offering online yoga and mindfulness classes for those of us wanting to look after our minds as well as our bodies. They cover several types of yoga classes for all levels like Hatha, Yin, Dynamic and more. Not only can you tune into and follow their online classes, but take this time to delve deeper into mindfulness and attend an online workshop. Some of the topics these workshops have already covered are Women’s Circles and Conscious Sexuality, with lots more to experience. Battersea Yoga are focused on creating a community that’s so much more than showing up to class, organising virtual events like their yoga quiz and cooking workshops to help locals feel connected.
Battersea Yoga
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Fybre Fitness Hub
Battersea
Fybre Fitness Hub wants to be a part of your fitness and wellness journey during this strange time and that’s why they are now offering virtual Zoom classes, where members won’t have to miss out on getting top quality training from the safety of their home. Their range of classes you can participate in include the popular HIIT workouts, as well as yoga, pilates and strength & conditioning. The staff here are more dedicated than ever to give classes with a personal touch that will help you achieve your goals in a safety and satisfying way.
Fybre Fitness Hub
Holistic Body Focus
Clapham
Holistic Body Focus are now offering online classes 5 days a week to take care of their members and help them repair their mind-body connection that could have been severed during lockdown. Not only is staying at home perhaps affecting our physical health, but our mental health too, and that’s why the team at HBF are providing ‘restorative’ pilates classes for those of us seeking a moment where we can switch off the outside world. They are also offering High Intensity Power classes if you want to feel more fire!
Holistic Body Focus
Blackheath Yoga
Blackheath
Blackheath Yoga is not letting quarantine slow them down, giving their members multiple classes each day to try, allowing you to be flexible about when you want to fit your practice into your day. The trainers here are open-minded and love experimenting with different practices that their members will love, from classics like Vinyasa and Hatha, to Pregnancy yoga and Dynamic flow. You can pay as you go from only £5 per class and participate via Zoom.
Blackheath Yoga
Inform Pilates
Forest Hill
Ran by founder and owner Brenda, Inform Pilates is her passion project, learning all she can about pilates and how it can better the lives of locals. Even during lockdown, Brenda has been hard at work researching new ways to improve her classes and therefore enrich her members’ experience. She has been running 4 classes a week, inviting eager individuals with any ability to give a go. Brenda has a Level 3 Matwork Teacher Training qualification and a Level 3 Pre and Post Natal Qualification.
Inform Pilates
Pepilates
Wimbledon
Pepilates have moved all of their classes online via Zoom, making sure physical wellbeing will be at least one thing that members will not suffer a lack of during lockdown. They give you your daily fix of pilates with a range of movement so that the classes are constantly evolving. Even through the screen, their highly-trained instructors are determined to help you through every step of your journey, whether that be physical or mental. Their methods are also faithful to the creator of pilates: Joseph Pilates himself and his core beliefs of revolutionizing movement.
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Croydon Yoga Hub
Croydon
The online classes at Croydon Yoga Hub still hold the business’ core values of keeping their sessions intimate and informative, so that you can have the best and most valuable experience out of every movement. They offer simple beginners and Hatha classes for those wanting to ease into their practice, and more fulfilling sessions like Jivamukti Spiritual Warrior for those missing the peace and power they felt leaving a class at Croydon Yoga Hub.
Croydon Yoga Hub
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The EDPT
Dulwich
The EDPT is qualified personal trainer intergrating a wide range of successful methods to fit into a personal plan to meet your personal goals and make them achievable! Coach Carter is currently providing online personal training that are high quality programmes designed to be challenging and fulfilling, helping you reach the best version of yourself. Just a few of the services they provide also include nutritional planning, weight management and fight conditioning.
The EDPT
Vivi Nation
Tooting
Not only are Vivi Nation providing workout ideas on their social media to help locals maintain their fitness goals during lockdown, but they are now selling their innovative subscription boxes for those who are struggling to get the nutrition they need. They are offering several types of subscription boxes, from the Recovery Box, to the Nutritional Box and boxes tailoring to cyclists’ and runners’ recovery needs. You can also support this independent by purchasing their exercise clothing for when you go on your daily runs.
Vivi Nation
Hannah Upton Yoga
Bromley
Hannah Upton Yoga are providing live online classes twice a week for their clients to get the best simulation of their usual beloved practices. The team here believes the journey is just as important as the destination, helping you each step of the way to surprise yourself with what your body can achieve without leaving your home. The classes advocate a building of both mental strength and physical strength to create the ultimate harmony.
Hannah Upton Yoga
Yourstyle Fitness
Woolwich
Yourstyle Fitness are providing a 4 week online home workout and self-care program to make sure you keep healthy and active during quarantine. The team at Yourstyle are eager to work with individuals looking to transform their lifestyle to improve both mental and physical health, getting the most out of each session. Trainers will work personally with you to evaluate your eating habits and encourage you to attend their online studio classes where you can feel connected to others with the same goals as you.
YourStyle Fitness
Blackheath Bootcamp
Blackheath
Blackheath Bootcamp are confident that quarantine does not have to get in the way of your fitness progress. They are offering online classes via Zoom that will make you feel fitter, stronger, healthier and better! You can sign up for single classes to try out their techniques, or if you’re looking to transform your body, try their Shred Program, with a high success rate. Blackheath Bootcamp are always incredibly proud of what their clients manage to achieve with the right mindset and guidance.
Blackheath Bootcamp
Level Six Studios
Peckham
Level Six Studios believe yoga is just the beginning to a journey of mindfulness and body nourishment. They are now live streaming their popular classes for members and non-members alike to try, including Yin Yang and Dynamic Vinyasa Flow, where you can get feedback in real time on your progress. You can also tune into classes like a Seated Massage Workshop, to help soothe either your own body or a body of someone you love.
The Yoga Room
Deptford
The Yoga Room is not only giving yogi’s live streamed classes to try, but anyone can tune into their recorded classes for free via their YouTube channel. Some of their classes include Energising Power Flow and HIIT to Savasana, a wide variety for sure! If yoga is the practice of balancing the mind, body and soul, The Yoga Room is the application of that philosophy to your lifestyle, whatever the world may throw your way. The team here are more enthusiastic than ever to keep their practice going and encourage peace into your home.
The Yoga Room Deptford
Yogarise London
Peckham
Even at home, you can still enjoy the classes at Yogarise with your favourite teachers. From beginners classes to the more challenging and dynamic classes (think Vinyasa Flow, Hatha, Iyengar and more) the team at Yogarise are experienced, qualified and, importantly, fun in their approach to taking classes. Their online timetable is packed with a mixed bag of classes, from Dynamic Flow, to Yin + Meditation and Beginners Yoga: there’s something for everyone!
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