OLYMPIA Leisure Centre was the primary centre to profit from Belfast’s £105m leisure transformation programme, which noticed the power turn out to be a contemporary twenty first Century advanced.
In addition to being outfitted with a state-of-the artwork gymnasium, train studious, and swimming swimming pools, Olympia Leisure Centre can be the house to an opulent spa the place you may replenish your energies after a exercise.
Flawless outside pitches are complemented by indoor sports activities services, with house for soccer, basketball, badminton and extra.
The centre, which is run by social enterprise GLL, presents a variety of health courses that cater for all needs and ranges of means.
If it is a chew to eat you are after, each members and non-members can seize a espresso, sandwich, or no matter else takes their fancy on the in-house café operated by social enterprise, Loaf.
Olympia Leisure Centre Supervisor, Kerry Craze, gave an perception into simply a few of what the centre presents.
“Olympia has now been working for 5 years, and inside that we’ve had over a million visits,” she stated.
“The constructing is exclusive within the sense that it’s connected onto the West Stand of Windsor Park, house of the Northern Eire soccer group.
“In addition to having the same old facilities such a gymnasium, pool, sports activities corridor, multi-purpose room, and pitches, now we have the one spa expertise inside our Belfast leisure centres.
“The spa consists of therapy rooms that provide a variety of components therapies, a spa pool, saunas, steam room and heated loungers to loosen up and rewind after a busy day.
“Not solely does our multi-purpose room cater for almost all of our 30-class timetable, now we have quite a lot of courses starting from spin, boxing, energy pump to holistic courses together with pilates and yoga.
“We’ve a well being group that run cardiac and most cancers rehab programmes and we additionally share this house with Belfast Metropolis Council’s neighborhood companies programme.
“Our 4 courtroom sports activities halls caters for badminton and basketball, that are bookable by the Higher app.”
Kerry stated the 120-station gymnasium is presently present process a £25,000 refresh with “extra to return over the subsequent few months”.
“The perfect factor about being a member and even working for Higher is understanding that cash is reinvested into the centres on the coronary heart of our neighborhood,” she enthised.
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