Enjoy first look as former Gilbridge Police Station cells transformed into state-of-the-art gym

Sunderland Echo

Co-owner Brent Gilpin talks about the creation of The Cell health and fitness centre at Sunderland's former police station.

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00:00 (machine whirring)

00:02 - I feel like I'm gonna be detained, is that right?

00:05 - Yeah.

00:06 (machine whirring)

00:09 - Okay then Brent, we're obviously

00:13 in the old police station here.

00:15 So what's being done to incorporate the theme

00:17 into the design of the gym?

00:19 - So we've tried to keep in as much

00:21 of the imagery as possible.

00:22 We've used the bars to frame the signage.

00:24 We've used bars to showcase the spin cell.

00:29 We also kept the color scheme to match in.

00:31 So we've gone for the police blue, ice whitey blue color

00:34 to match in.

00:35 And across our branding,

00:36 we're gonna follow through as well.

00:38 Within this old space,

00:39 we've kept the cement kind of concrete effect as well,

00:43 which we've done into the walls

00:44 to keep as much of that imagery as possible.

00:47 The lighting will always stay pretty dark.

00:49 We're gonna keep it so it's a bit dungy

00:51 and have that deeper cell feel.

00:54 - I understand this is where people were actually held

00:55 before they went up to court, is it?

00:57 - Apparently so, yeah.

00:58 This is where people were kept entertained

01:00 or people causing a wee bit of trouble

01:03 came and kept them here for a bit of time

01:04 before they get to the next part.

01:07 - And so what sort of sessions

01:08 are gonna be run from the gym?

01:09 - So we've got a mixture of police-themed classes.

01:12 We've got yard strong, which is a strength-based class.

01:15 We've got the Met Club,

01:17 which is a metabolic conditioning class,

01:19 which is a little bit like the boot camp style of classes,

01:22 which is designed of slight higher intensity,

01:25 some strength work, and some metabolic conditioning,

01:27 which is your cardio-based stuff.

01:29 We've got some of the spin classes, which is hop pursuit.

01:32 We've also got parole, which is an info-based class.

01:35 - And if anyone were to get involved

01:36 in any of these classes, what should they do?

01:38 - Easiest way is to either follow us on Instagram,

01:42 we're The Cell, or follow, go through the website.

01:46 It's the cellfitness.co.uk.

01:49 (machine whirring)

01:52 (bell ringing)

01:55 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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