Better Gym Challenge Winners 2025
Starting in Janurary we had the "Balance Bucket Toss", which consisted of members standing on a bosu and throwing a pilates ball into a bin about 10 feet away! The winner of this challenge would be the person that could get the ball in the bucket the most consecutive times without missing! The mens winner for this challenge was Paul and on the womens side it was Pat!
Moving onto Febuary we had our first ever partners challenge "Opposites Attract", which had a 10kg mediball balanced in the middle of 2 poles, with a member standing at each end of the pole they would have to complete squats without dropping the mediball off the poles, the team with the most squats in 1 minute would win! The mens winners were Oli & Jord, and the womens winners were Amy & Emily!
Next up was a strict champions curl, with your shoulders and hips pushed back against the wall you had to complete as many bicep curls as you could with a bar holding 30% of your bodyweight! The mens winner for March was Conrad and on the womens side it was Cara, both winning their first ever challenges!
Into April we had Stone lifting, based off the very popular Atlas stones in the strongman competition, the challenge was to lift a 10kg mediball off the floor up onto the boxes, roll it back down and lift it back up again, as many times as you could in a minute! Coming in for his second challenge win of the year, Paul picked up the top score for April, and for her first solo win of many, Amy won on the womens side!
Now we go into April, where we wanted to use the Watt bike for the first time in a challenge, we chose to do a "Hill Sprint" challenge, this consisted of going as fast as you can over a minute, but every 20 seconds the resistance would be increased, and the person with the highest wattage at the end of the chalenge would be crowned the winner! For the Men it was Phil coming in and getting his first challenge win of the year, and the women was once again Amy winning her 3rd challenge in 4!
Finally we have June, where we did a "Glute Bridge Battle", you would set yourself up against the glute throst bench, while a member of staff would add sandbags to you to increase your weight by over 120kg, the person with the longest time held in a glute bridge would be crowned winner! On the mens side it was neil winning his first challenge of the year, and then on the womens side, with her first solo challenge win of the year was Emily!
Well done to everyone who took part in every challenge we have done this year and a massive well done to our winners! We are currently running "Mince Pie Pile" through to the end of the month, see if you can be the final name on the board! Once we get that last name i will be updating everyone with the second half of the years results!