It's always nice to do something with a friend.

From Feb 14th - 17th we'll be doing our Bring-A-Friend-Free week.

How does it work?
Simple! ..sign up for a class and add your friend too. We'll comp the class for your friend.

* Please remember hold a spot in class.
** One friend per week only.

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Wow, what a great Saturday morning kettlebell drop-in! I decided to take Craig's drop in class as I was in between clients.

We had an awesome turnout for the first session! Guys and girls were sweating and working super hard- it was an 800 calorie class this morning (with all the quads we did, it might have inched us closer to 1,000!)

Quite a few new faces in the class, new to kettlebell that is, but of course some of our die-hard clients were there too.

Easter Weekend Hours
Just a quick reminder that we will be closed the following days for Easter:
- Good Friday,  April 2, 2010
- Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010
- Easter Monday, April 5, 2010

We will still have our 10am RealRyder ride this Saturday morning - sign up online to hold your spot! The perfect way to get ready for chocolates and mini cream eggs!

What a success the inaugural Meltdown event was last night, March 26, 2010 at Core.

We had a fantastic turnout, we sold out! The feedback has been phenomenal and it great way to welcome Craig Guthrie to Core Essentials.

It was also great to see that over half of the people involved had never touched a kettlebell or ridden the RealRyders.

Well there are only five more days to the  first ever Meltdown at Core Essentials on Friday March 26. The response has been phenomenal. We are super psyched for the evening.

We have DJ Scott Rideout from True North DJ Services, he'll be spinning and mixing tunes all night long!

We've got some great prizes up for grabs. The grand prize being one free registration to our weekend Fitness & Wellness Fall Retreat. This includes accommodation, meals and of course fabulous workouts and nutrition.

Today is a very exciting time at Core Essentials.

We've been planning on expanding our existing fitness space into the ground floor since January and today the demolition of the space started.

As you can see the space is quite a mess at the moment, but when construction is finished we'll have new showers, two new toilets and about 1,000 square feet of new workout space.

We have been having a blast with our RealRyders! We are so pleased to see others are too, check out these reviews on the RealRyder:

The RealRyder ABF8 was just named the "HEAD OF THE CLASS Award Winner" as the best indoor cycle out of 30 bikes including the Star Trac Spinner NXT, the Schwinn Evolution SR, and the LeMond Revmaster Pro in an independent review :Fitness Professor Review Cardio:Spin Bikes

We had a great night at the customer appreciation evening at Bicycles Plus this evening. They had a wonderful turn out of clients and friends.

We brought two of the RealRyders with us and had a chance to showcase them to road cyclists. The response was great and once the serious cyclists got on the bikes they could understand how useful they could be for training during the off season.

Thank you to Mike, our amazing Monday night instructor, his wife Ciara for their enthusiasm in showing people the bikes and for their ongoing support.

I love the idea of bringing a friend to workout. So for the month of February you can do just that!

February is 'Bring A Friend FREE' month at Core Essentials and I thought I would explain this a little better for everyone.

So here it is: You can bring the same friend once this month, but if you happen to be here 3-4 times per week, you can bring a different friend each time you come- how fun!

My husband thought I should send out something for Valentine's Day...

It's hard to believe that January is almost over, the month has flown by!

I am sending out a blog this month because we have a new newsletter software that is a wee bit more challenging than I thought it would be; so it's going to take some more tutorials before you see the new newsletters. I will send one out mid-February with the March listings. Now that I’ve given you a date, I am committed to learning the software before then!