Rockyford residents aim for health

Claudette Lacombe  – Submitted

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The Rockyford Fitness Club wants to make it easy for local residents to keep fit.

The Club plans a two-pronged approach to the challenge. First, create a club that can financially sustain use of the gym area of the community center and have members join each other in fitness activities.

To get this part rolling, the club set up spring fitness classes with professional instructor Tristen Desmet.

“If we can pay the rent on the gym, we can use it year round for anything related to fitness,” says Club President Claudette Lacombe. “With that in place, we have fitness equipment waiting to go on the stage and provide Rockyford residents a place for individual workouts.” She emphasizes that the club cannot move equipment onto the stage until membership reaches a point where they can rent the space for at least one year.

“The last thing we want to do is move heavy, complicated equipment into the space and then find we don’t have the membership to maintain use of the space,” she explains.

The goal is to have 40 paid members by September 2010; membership fees are $30.

For now, members will have access to the community center gym Tuesday to Thursday 2-8 p.m. to organize group activities.

“Besides the organized fitness classes, we thought we might get together and follow a Palates CD together or something. The key is to get together, have some fun and feel better for it,” Lacombe says.

The club already has a president, secretary, Mary Marshman, and treasurer, Kim Salt, and holds meetings in the library.

“It’s safe to come to a meeting now; all the executive positions are full,” laughs Lacombe. The next meeting is April 27, 7 p.m.

For more information, to register for a spring class or become a member, contact Claudette, 403-533-0008.