Ryedale Fitness Centre  Return to Roots

Ryedale fitness centre was founded over 10 years ago as a Ryedale Martial Arts Centre.  Catering originally to both adults and children it began life as a converted factory unit with a single activity area.  With vision and years of hard work international Karate and Aikido champion John Desert and his wife Regina hoped to pass on their self defence expertise to younger generations.

Market research revealed interest in Martial Arts moving away from traditionally popular Karate to MMA and similar styles in local and national trends.  Meanwhile competition from other martial arts venues continued to increase.  In order to survive as a venue the directorship decided to diversify and take advantage of the growth in fitness spending.  The graph below shows the continued expansion in the fitness market over the past 12 years.

Currently Ryedale offers a busy timetable of up-to-the-minute fitness activities from aerobics and cardio based through to Boxing.

Body Attack

A sports-inspired cardio workout for building strength and stamina.  High-energy interval training combining athletic aerobic movements with strength and stabilization exercises. Dynamic instructors and powerful music motivate everyone towards their fitness goals - from the weekend athlete to the hard-core competitor! New music and choreography available every three months.

Body Combat

A super high energy empowering cardio based workout  inspired by martial arts and draws from a wide array of disciplines such as karate, boxing, taekwondo, tai chi and muay thai. Supported by driving music and instructors, you strike, punch, kick and kata your calories away and build superior cardio fitness. New music and choreography available every three months.

Body Pump

A resistance training workout. Focusing on low weight loads with high repetition movements, to burn fat, gain strength and quickly produce lean body muscle conditioning.  New music and choreography available every three months.

RPM

An indoor cycling class. Instructors lead classes across a variety of terrain set to inspiring music.  Safest way to experience cycling while burning upto 600 calories per class and increasing your cardio fitness rapidly.

Zumba

The Zumba workout is the brainchild of celebrity fitness trainer, Beto Perez. It combines the strong, distinctive beats of the Latin music of Betos native Colombia with easy-to-do international dance moves. The result is a Latin dance workout that people of all ages simply love!

Ryedale has successfully expanded its original building (studio one) to add a spin studio and a large gym.  With the security of an established centre founders and now directors John and his wife would like to return to their original vision for the centre  that of martial arts.  The recent surge in interest in BJJ inspired John to visit Japan and Brazil and spend 7 years of training to gain black belt instructor level.

A new martial arts studio will be added to the centre where we expect to recruit expert instructors in:

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu
Kyokushin Karate				
Judo
Kick boxing / Muay Thai

According to research these are the currently the most popular martial arts disciplines in the UK.  The table below shows martial art participation levels in the UK (in thousands).

We expect all building work, marketing and recruitment to be complete by January 2014.
