How do you like to keep active? What activities do you enjoy the most?

Fitness has always been part of my life, but my main focus now is CrossFit which is a mixture of Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics and HIT training.

Why do you feel it is important to lead a physically active lifestyle?

I believe a physical lifestyle helps you in your everyday life doing basic things like lifting, carrying, even basic things like getting out of a chair without going ‘oohh’ and holding your back. Also, mentally it’s a great benefit keeping you positive in everyday life.

How does the Active Hub platform support your physical movement?

I think the active games is good for people who don’t do any fitness as 30mins a day is encouraging without being too hard so some people would dismiss it straight away and say its too hard. Now the hub has started active August which is more for people who do fitness and its encouraging so they push themselves to complete the 100km, maybe some of the people from the fitness games may even take it up.

How has participating in team events helped increase your engagement with other colleagues?

We do team events in CrossFit and even if we’re doing normal classes we still work in twos and threes and we all encourage each other to push ourselves, with this we get stronger, more flexibility and of course more stamina with a healthier heart and lungs.

Has having the Active Hub in place via your employer enabled you to lead a more active lifestyle?

It’s only just started so watch this space. Hopefully its encouraging with some solo events and group activities like sportive’s etc. it will be good, and of course with prizes.

What is your current active goal?

My current goal is to keep fit and get fitter so I enjoy life with my grandkids, and I can keep up with them.

I think we all need to make fitness part of our lives not just a quick fix to lose some weight for an occasion, that way people might start enjoying it.