YMCA EPPING Summer 2018

Fitness Challenges

Fitness challenges are a great way to motivate yourself to come to the gym and/or to push yourself once you are there. We will be starting a new challenge in January 2019 so make sure you join in!

Bring a Friend for Free Working out with a friend can be a great motivator as the people who joined in our Bring a Friend for Free challenge found out. Congratulations to Brianna and Priyanka who both won a free personal training session!

12 Days of Christmas Have you joined our 12 Days of Christmas challenge? All you need to do is find a bauble in the gym, do the challenge and write your name on the bauble. And if you get them all before Christmas you will have earned an extra piece of pudding. Some of our members are well on their way!

Amended Christmas Classes

There will be some changes to the fitness timetable over the Christmas break (see below).

16 – 22 December: Classes as normal

24 December – 1 January: See amended timetable below

2 – 6 January: Classes as normal

Mon 24 Dec Thurs 27 Dec Fri 28 Dec Sat 29 Dec Mon 31 Dec

6:05am Boxing (1hr)

8:00am Bootcamp (1hr) Fitness Consult Bootcamp (1hr)

8:30am Fitness Consult Super Saturday

(1hr)

9:00am PrYme

9:30am Abs, Butts &

Thighs (30 mins) Yoga (1hr)

Zumba (1hr) Bootcamp (1hr)

Teen Gym (1hr) Abs, Butts &

Thighs (30 mins)

10:00am PrYme (30 mins) PrYme (30 mins)

10:30am (30 mins)

4.00pm Teen Gym (1 hr)

5:00pm Boxing (1 hr)

Holiday Trading hours The Centre will be open every day except for the public holidays over the Christmas break. However, there will be some changes to the opening hours. See below.

Sat 22 December 18 : OPEN 8am-6pm Sun 23 December 18: OPEN 8am-1pm Mon 24 December 18: OPEN 8am-1pm Tues 25 December 18: CLOSED Public Holiday Wed 26 December 18: CLOSED Public Holiday Thurs 27 December 18: OPEN 6am-6pm Fri 28 December 18: OPEN 6am-6pm Sat 29 December 18 : OPEN 8am-6pm Sun 30 December 18: OPEN 8am-1pm Mon 31 December 18: OPEN 8am-1pm Tues 1 January 19: CLOSED Public Holiday Wed 2 January 19 : OPEN 6am-9pm Thurs 3 January 19: OPEN 6am-9pm Fri 4 January 19: OPEN 6am-9pm

Holiday Health & Fitness Classes 16 – 22 December: Classes as normal 24 December – 1 January: Amended timetable (above) 2 – 6 January: Classes as normal

Gymnastics key dates Last day of classes for 2018: 15 December 2018 First day of classes for 2019: 14 January 2019

Learn to Play key dates Term 4 2018 ends: 14 December 2018 Term 1 2019 begins 29 January 2019

Indoor Sport key dates Last games: Week beginning 16 December 2018 First games for 2019: Senior comp - Week beginning 20 January 2019 Junior comp - Week beginning 4 February 2019

Karate key dates Last day of classes for 2018: 22 December 2018 First day of classes for 2019: 14 January 2019

On Saturday 17th November YMCA Epping hosted a Free Family Fun Day. Members and the local community were able to enjoy heaps of free activities including gymnastics, jumping castle, indoor and outdoor sports as well as face painting, balloon animals and a rowing challenge. Congratulations to the winners of the rowing competition. Michael and Will both rowed 250m in 47 seconds and Antonio did it in 49 seconds!

End of Year Presentations

YMCA Epping’s Gymnasts celebrated a very busy year with a presentation day afternoon on Saturday. Congratulations to everyone on a great year, with special congratulations going to our prize winners.

WAG White: Encouragement - Katia Hales Consistent Effort - Joanna Lim Most Improved - Jessica Griffin WAG Red: Encouragement - Ella Krenich Consistent Effort - Anneka Hoskin Most Improved - Tanya Agarwal

WAG Development Encouragement - Jessica Lim Consistent Effort - Chloe Krklinski Most Improved - Keziah Hoskin MAG Levels 1 - 3 Encouragement - Alexander Kim Consistent Effort - Phoenix Pearce Most Improved - Jeremy Harrison

MAG Development: Encouragement– Julian De Burgh Consistent Effort - Joshua Coble Most Improved - Henry Kozlovsky Ken Benson Award Aiden Lo Lisa Read Award Michaela Barnert

Kindergym Our youngest gymnasts have also had a big year with everyone learning new skills and making new friends and some progressing on to Colours next year. We look forward to seeing you all in 2019.

End of Year Disco

Our Learn to Play and Gymnastics members celebrated the end of the year with a fun disco and sausage sizzle. And it went off with a ‘pop’… literally! The amazing DJ pulled out more than just a music filled night of dancing. It kicked off with the pop of bubbles and was followed up with glow sticks, teddy bears and catwalk dance challenges. The kids had a blast as they danced, jumped and rumor has it even flipped their way through almost two hours of dance fun before enjoying a sausage sizzle feast. We look forward to seeing everyone return in 2019 for more gymnastics and sports fun…and of course another end of year disco!

End of Year Games and Awards

It’s been a big year in Learn to Play (LTP) at YMCA Epping with all our students learning new skills, making new friends and battling it out in our end of term games weeks. However in the words of Michael Jordon who stated “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work the results will come.”, we would like to congratulate the following students on all their hard work and effort they have put in over the year. Well done! Soccer: 5-8 years Most Improved : Hong Chen Consistent Effort : Harrison Lien

Soccer: 9-12 years Most Improved : Kevin Xiao Consistent Effort : Jasper Groth

Netball Most Improved : Melinda Consistent Effort : Pollyanna Purnell

Badminton: 5-12 years Most Improved : Edith Polson Consistent Effort : Vincent Li

Badminton: 13-17 years Most Improved : Lewis Rhee Consistent Effort : Oliver Tranlam

Multiball Most Improved : Lucas Guo Consistent Effort : Oliver Guo

Basketball: 5-8 years Most Improved : Zhining (Chris) Du Most Improved : Liam Liang Consistent Effort : Sithuka Kannangara Consistent Effort : William Lin

Basketball: 9-12 years Most Improved : Arya Jamshidi Most Improved : Riya Pol Consistent Effort : Elliott Cripps Consistent Effort : Oliver Yin

We wish ALL our Learn To Play students a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy holidays. We look forward to seeing you all back next year for a year of fun filled learning and games.

Our summer Indoor sports competition will be taking a short break over Christmas. Last games for 2018 will be played in the week beginning 16th December with senior games restarting on 20th January 2019 and junior games back on 4th February 2019. The finals will be played in March.

We will be starting a new Winter Competition on 17th of March so it is time to start getting your teams together for our men’s and mixed Futsal competitions. If you would like more information about the Winter competition please visit https://www.ymcansw.org.au/centres/epping-ymca/programs/sports/.

Welcome Allan Cole

In October we welcomed a new Health and Fitness Coordinator, Allan Cole. Allan is a former trainer from YMCA Ku-ring-gai Fitness and Aquatic Centre and has been a fitness trainer since 2013, at various other gyms. He has played soccer for 14 years, done martial arts including Tai chi and taekwondo for 15 years and is also a martial arts instructor. If you haven’t met Allen yet please say hi to him, he loves a chat!