Meet the Leeds 'Grannies with Guns' at Slim Fit Life in Horsforth

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The 'Fun Fit' class at Slim Fit Life Gym in Horsforth has helped 'Grannies with Guns' develop muscles, their fitness levels and their social circle!

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00:00I'm Trisha Jeffcott, I'm the owner of Slim Fit Life and Horsford Fitness Classes on Horsford

00:05Town Street and we've been here about 12 years so yeah we're just providing a service to

00:10keep all our ladies fit and healthy.

00:12Unfit is a little play on words, it actually is just short for functional fitness and one

00:17of the key things we need to be aware of is as we get older, keeping our mobility, keeping

00:22our fitness levels up, keeping our strength is so important you know, we might just suddenly

00:27bend down to get something out of a cupboard and we realise that our knees are not working

00:31as effectively as what they thought we were expecting them to.

00:34So yeah being able to do your squats, being able to get up and down, if we do those on

00:37a regular basis when we need to do it by you know reaching up into a cupboard to get something

00:42out or tying something behind our back, anything like that is all about mobility and strength.

00:47So functional fitness, everything we do is designed to keep those joints flexible and

00:51our muscles strong.

00:52We don't do the same exercises every single time you come, I try to sort of jazz it up

00:56a little bit for them.

00:57But an example would be holding a weight out in front of you and rotating it because that

01:01helps to maintain wrist strength which we need to be able to open jars.

01:05Doing the step ups up and down on the step and doing it carrying some weights because

01:08when we're carrying our bags up and down in and out of shops, being able to carry weights

01:12in our bags, another way of exercising and keeping those leg muscles strong.

01:17The fitness level for us all has improved drastically.

01:24You know I do Pilates here as well.

01:27People walk past and I always say why don't you come in?

01:31It doesn't matter what you look like or how old you are.

01:35So I do do Friday Zumba every week but one week it was cancelled and fun fit slotted in which

01:41is what we've just done now and it's absolutely brilliant.

01:45I had a desk job and I worked long hours so very sedentary role really and I had a lot of

01:53back issues so this has really been fantastic because I feel that I'm much more flexible

01:58than I ever, well since my twenties, touching my toes, all that kind of thing.

02:04I had cancer and I kept coming here through the treatment and Trish really got me through

02:10it with the exercise.

02:12I mean now they're saying that exercise is good when you're going through chemo and it

02:16really helped for me.

02:18I mean it's not just the exercise which gives you a lift as well for your body, it's a social

02:24side.

02:25We've made lots and lots of friends here.

02:28When some of the ladies came into one of the class and they were laughing because the grandchildren

02:32had been teasing them over the weekend and they'd been out with their arms out quite proud

02:37that they had nice toned arms and some of them have been making reference saying oh look

02:41granny look at those guns and they're really proud and so they should because they do work

02:45incredibly hard when they come to the gym and one of the biggest things that I really

02:49love about it is at the end of the class all my ladies are saying oh we're going across

02:52the road for a coffee and so they're getting out the house, they're socialising and it's

02:56all part of that whole community spirit which is amazing.

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03:02It's okay.

03:04I feel my joy.

03:05I hope that this was going to be a bit more cos.

03:07I think so.

03:08I hope you've got to be a little more natural.

03:09I think so.

03:11I'm all of a grateful for your kids all this time.

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