I just felt it was pretty special and wanted to share with you, some of the genuine friendships, respect, and trust that has formed in our group. It is probably like the friends you make in a workplace or other aspects of your life, but I love it as it was part of my ideal community I wanted to create in my groups. People brought together with the common interest of exercise, their reasons for wanting to exercise are a wide variety, their fitness, their age, their jobs, their size, their earnings, their backgrounds are varied. But the commonality of exercise is the same.

I love a good challenge and being part of a team. The basics of working hard with a great group of people is fun - whether it is pruning pine trees, hiking great NZ trails, surviving working at an American Summer Camp, training for a half marathon together… it is a journey you have with these people, where you have learnt something about yourself and created that everlasting bond.

In our group training, being a part of the team makes exercise that can be mundane much more fun and enjoyable. What makes our bootcamps special in contrast to a gym is you get the opportunity to build great friendships with your teammates, and can train towards a goal or event where you may try something you haven’t done before.

I love the team spirit environment and I really enjoy seeing the bonds form that extend beyond exercise. The ones that lead to coffee dates during the week, dog sitting another's dog, house sitting, supporting one another businesses.

The brilliance of exercising in bringing people together, is firstly it doesn’t matter how you look, makeup and designer clothes don’t make you stronger or faster. Secondly everyone has different strengths, so whether you are the strongest in one area or trailing in another, you are inspired by someone and a inspiration to another. Everyone is on a even playing field.

If friendships and fun are something you value, and you’ve been looking for an opportunity to get outside and train, we have a fantastic group waiting for you to join!

Sunday Run group has been created to bring social runners together to run every week in a group environment, and to explore some of the best run scenery of Hamilton. Our start locations will vary as we explore different central locations around Hamilton starting and finishing at a cafe where possible. Come along, meet some new people, there will always be a 5km loop and those wanting longer can carry on. - we want to show runners the benefits of a good warm up on your running and - a few run skills along the way - a good stretch and banter at the end.

come join us for a run, send me a email today anna.a_pt@yahoo.co.nz

Cheers Anna and the Fitness is fun team