Keep Active, Keep Dancing, Keep Fit just about sums me up!
I’m Julia and live in Holmfirth with my husband, where you’ll often catch us walking the hills at the weekends, or with my gardening gloves on or perhaps enjoying social life in our lovely and friendly town…
…as a young girl, I visited the local ice rink on a school trip, deciding right then that I wanted to be a figure skater! This took a bit of persuading when my parents realised that ice skating before school each day was only way to achieve this. After years of early mornings and competitive skating, I announced to my family that I was packing up my suitcase to go on tour as a Chorus Skater with the world famous ‘Holiday on Ice’!
Although I’d planned on one year of travel, somehow twelve years of skating around the world in sequins and feathers and having the privileged position of being Ice Dance Captain seemed to fly by, I hung up my ice skates, unpacked my suitcase one last time and retired from professional ice skating.
Keeping active was the natural thing for a retired ice skater and so I enjoyed going to a gym and dance classes, then through a volunteering role it occurred to me that I could shared my love of dance, movement and exercise with others if I trained to become a Group Fitness Instructor and possibly have a new ‘later life’ change of direction…
That’s how a fitness career in my early 50’s happened when I took myself back to the classroom and became a Level 2 ETM (Exercise to Music) Instructor, adding dance brands like FitSteps and DDMIX to my qualifications. My keen interest in helping Older Adults to become and stay active, gave me further qualifications in Strength & Balance and OTAGO giving me the knowledge and skills to adapt exercise for the Mature Adults.
I do hope you like what you have seen on the website and will join us at a Zest Active or a Chair Based Zest Active class in Holmfirth.
If you are interested to join a local class, then perhaps read what they have to say on my Testimonials page and if you like what you see, then contact me for a chat and come along to try – you have nothing to lose and so much to gain!
Keep active, keep dancing, keep fit…
Julia
Zest Active 