The Ultimate Gym Athlete 2014

On Saturday 26th July at Pure Gym in Rochdale , a small and determined crew helped by Pure Gym manager Sean Palmer set up a eight discipline fitness challenge known at the World Gym Challenge - the fastest time of which is known as the Ultimate Gym Athlete.

The first report deals with what exactly is a Gym X Training Circuit (GymXTC™) and tries to unravel what makes Gym X Training Circuits appealing to anybody who may be thinking about taking it up.

The UK WGC Gym Athlete

Surrounded in controversy it seems, but if there ever was a term used to describe the gym member who takes part in the World Gym Challenge, there is never such a more appropriate phrase as gym athlete. A Gym Athlete is somebody who is a member of World Gym Challenge.com website , of any fitness level and is filtered into a level of fitness by their finish time in the World Gym Challenge. By defining your level of fitness in the World Gym Challenge we then race down a set course in search of finding somebody of equal fitness, or by increasing years of training in progressing up The Ultimate Gym Athlete Leader Board.

In search of gyms to support the UK Gym Athlete.

It seems like swimming in glue when it comes to finding venues to host assessment in Gym Challenges. So when Rick Gannon from Pure Gym contacted us and offered the use of a gym studio, we leapt at the chance and something like three months of planning went into the execution of creating the Race Day.

The UK Gym Athlete Sporting Platform.

Trying to find out information on Gym X Training Circuits is quite hard to come by. The website www.worldgymchallenge.com was created to find out the split timings it takes to train towards various goals that are achievable according to your own personal levels of fitness. The problem is on paper, in its rawest form Gym X Training Circuits looks easy. And to a degree it is. To complete the challenge at any level even the Advanced would appear easy. And that is where the trouble and mystery starts, because once you have tried it and completed it , you then check the results of others who have done the same course and then the penny drops. What may have taken you over 30 minutes to complete , will in some cases be completed in under 15 minutes by others.

Time Delayed Racing/ Mixed Gender Racing/ Deadlocked Racing/Mixed Sport Racing/ Spouse Racing

Breaking boundaries in existing sports is something that WGC has liked to do since its conception. We are we believe the only sport that will allow anyone individual to race another individual with a time delayed start at the start point. This will allow any combination of athletes to race each other in the same race at what ever level of fitness you are you are having first completed the World Gym Challenge , so its husband vs wife .. rugby vs football player - brother vs sister even Advanced vrs Intermediate and once you find your ideal race partner in whatever category you can race them you maye even be lucky enough to find your perfect match , we call that Locked Racing - somebody who can complete this challenge in the same time as you.

How to find your WGC Gym Athlete perfect training partner ..

As soon as you have finished a verified challenge, those that closest to your challenge times are automatically listed in your challenge folders along with all of your results which can be searched online.

Personal Trainers

Must be able to complete the challenge in under 20 minutes for Male and under 22 minutes for Female, when that is achieved, you will be given direct access to your clients results in your own personal folders which are stored online.

The World Gym Challenge

Whatever your level of fitness The World Gym Challenge is for you. It was developed to give you the gym member something else to train towards in performance and means every time you turn up at the gym you have a reason to train and can benchmark your performance. Results are published immediately online and can be viewed on most smart phones that connect to the internet. That means any member from any gym can see the results from any challenge using their phones and the searching the internet - results can be displayed in any gym on the screen for members to look at too .

Please do contact us at info@worldgym challenge.com for further information.

Race Report 2 will look at the actual day and the performance results of those who took part ..