Group Fitness, Bedford and Sackville Nova Scotia

Bedford and Sackville, Nova Scotia boast a large variety and range of group fitness options. Most have some group classes included in their memberships, however if you are looking for speciality group classes those often cost extra on top of the membership

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Trena’s Studio has numerous pole dancing and dance classes for people interested in dancing their way to fitness. Classes average about $12.00 to $15.00 per class.

Crossfit Exertion is located just off Hammond’s Plains Road. Crossfit has moved from a gym model into a quasi sport, with the introduction of the Crossfit games. Crossfit offers a workout of the day (WOD) where you compete against others on a series of exercises for time. It averages about $100.00 per month for a membership.

Goodlife Gym located on Larry Utech in Bedford and also in Sackville, are big box gyms offering a base membership of about $50.00 per month. If you are looking for speciality group classes you are looking at a lot extra ($299.00 for six weeks of TRX or $199.00 for boot camp) on top of your membership.

Palooka’s Executive Fitness offers everything for Yoga to boot camp and TRX classes with the choice of 15 classes per week. 

Sackville Sports Stadium has everything for water fitness classes to spin and Zumba. The membership gives you access to these classes. The price is around $10.00 per class. They don’t offer speciality group classes.

With numerous and different options for fitness in Bedford and Sackville people looking to get in shape in a group setting have many different places to try out.

Devin Sherrington is an award winning master personal trainer and owner of 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his children Reign and Journey. 

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Garmin GPS by Devin Sherrington

One of my favorite pieces of fitness gear is my Garmin GPS watch.

Now I am a bit of a tech junkie but this one has to be the coolest things ever!. It has a huge number of options but the basic ones are the coolest.

You start the timer, run your route and the stop it when you're done. Then you plug it into your computer and see you top speed, average speed, top and average heart rate, how many hills you climbed, what your pace was, and exactly how far you ran. Plus you can look while your running and see how far you have come, your pace, etc.


But that's not the coolest part!

Once you've set up some of your courses (it shows you a GPS map of the course on the watch and the computer after you've run it) then you can choose trainer option and complete against yourself from the last time you ran, all in real time. You see you're in front, or behind your last pace, right down to the meter. No more remembering land marks and times.

This watch is about the coolest thing for exercisers, and it gets better. It also lets you do the same thing if you are biking too, so you can track all of the bike rides you been on.


The only possible draw back I can see is that I may give myself a heart attack trying to beat my old time and pace! So if you see me in Fall River running, looking like I'm about to die from the pace, that Garmin is the reason why!

I got mine at Costco. You can look at a page about it here, Garmin Forerunner.

Have fun tracking your runs!

Devin Sherrington is an award winning master personal trainer and owner of 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his children Reign and Journey.

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360fit Blog by Edwina Penney

I decided last year I was going to do a triathlon. Crazy, I know, but not impossible. Of course I decided that the end of last year. I did a practice Triathlon, sprint distance with Halifax Triathlon club and near thought I would die.

It was the most exhilarating time I remember feeling for years. I felt alive. I knew this would not be an overnight thing, I knew I have to train and get ready for this.

When the season was over, I would train over the winter and be ready for next season,
Well this is the end of the next season and guess what, I am not ready.

I did accomplish a lot, I rode a century ride, 100kms. I felt awesome. I actually cried that night, harder than I ever did because I was in awe of what I did. I want that feeling again. So why is it the end of the season and I have yet to do an official triathlon.

Nerves – no, fear – no, afraid of failure – no, weight – YES!

I cannot seem to get this weight off and it is holding me back. I am allowing it to hold me back.
I work out like crazy, so why am I not thin? I am fearless when it comes to accomplishing what I want physically. I did mud hero, I do bootcamps at 360fit, I rode 100kms. I did 2000 jump squats in a hour. I am going to do walking lunges for 2k.

Why cannot I could not lose weight?

I asked that question one night at 360fit, talking to Zach and Ben, Ben looked at me straight in my eyes and said “it’s your food.” I had no idea what he was talking about. I ate healthy, not perfect, well maybe not even close to perfect. But who is?

I am diabetic and menopausal… I blamed these things. I even tried not to work out because I thought maybe I can lose weight not doing any exercise, I was miserable. I love working out, I love bike riding. This love/hate relationship I have with food is my problem. It’s my addiction. It’s my nightmare.

There are so many diets out there, my head spins…what do I do, low fat, low carb, high protein, soup diet, Ideal Protein, Weight Watchers, U weight loss. Believe me I have tried them all through the years. Did they work? No! If they had I would not be writing this blog,

So here it is. I told Ben I would eat what he told me for 30 days. No cheats. Ok, had a rough start. 30 days, no cheats. We shook on it and I am going to openly on this blog give Ben Costigan my word. No cheats.
I love excuses and I am a master at it. Just in case I have anyone fooled. Who am I really fooling? Yea I know…only myself. So here it is, starting Friday Aug 23rd. One month, and no cheating. I have my weight, 202.6. I know…I am closing my eyes as I type that.

But I promised Devin Sherrington, owner of 360fit, I would bare my soul. This is going to be an eye opener.

So tonight, I pick up a few things, and I move on. Tomorrow I begin fresh. No cheats and 100% of me to eating clean, following what Ben says and learning in the process.

Edwina Penney, Dartmouth
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360fit Testimonial by Jessika Rose

The staff at 360fit fit are wonderful, they are very nice, helpful and motivating, (not to mention nice to look at).

I love the boot camps, they are a great way to address all the muscle groups and have fun doing it. Working out as a class keeps you motivated to go to a set schedule when you can, and it’s always fun to have a competitive edge with the person next to you doing the same thing.

Boot camps are always different so you never get bored of doing the same thing over and over again. The plyometric exercises mixed with using kettle bells, medicine balls, ropes, and TRX and more is an awesome variety!

Jessika Rose Dartmouth Nova Scotia
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