An hour a week that makes everything easier.

weeks is about when you start noticing it in ordinary life.

Give it twelve weeks and it shows.

Come once a week, stay with the same handful of movements, add a little each time. That's the whole method. It isn't clever, but it's the thing that works, and by December you'll notice things you weren't even looking for.

More in the tank through the week. Better sleep. Feeling steadier and stronger in yourself. Those are the things people notice first, long before anything else changes.

The Wednesday hour is the session. The plan is what makes twelve of them add up.

Two ways to join

Same class, same room, same hour. The only difference is whether you get the plan.

Twelve weeks, 16 September to 2 December. Then we go again in the new year, so it carries on rather than stopping dead.

Paid by bank transfer. Fill in the form and I'll send you the details, and your plan goes out once it's landed. Drop ins pay cash on the night.

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When and where

One class a week, same night, same time. Put it in the diary once and you're done deciding.

Easy to reach from Rushey Mead, Birstall, Thurmaston, Syston, Hamilton, Belgrave, Evington, Oadby and Glenfield.

Who it's for

Every level. Picking it back up after a while off, keeping ticking over, or already training and after a session that pushes you. There's a version of the hour for all three, and I'll make sure you're on the right one.

Ages are mixed on purpose. Twenties next to sixties, and it works, because everyone goes at their own pace and nobody is trying to keep up with the person beside them.

This is for anyone who wants to stay fit and healthy, feel good about themselves, and enjoy the hour while they're doing it.

It all feeds into itself

Move a bit more and you sleep better. Sleep better and you eat better. Eat better and you've got the energy to move. It's a loop, and once it's turning your way it does a lot of the work for you.

The hour is the easiest place to start it turning. We look after the rest of it as we go, so you leave with more than a workout.

What to expect

A proper hour. You'll work, you'll sweat, and you'll leave feeling better than when you walked in.

Everything has an easier version and a harder one, so you set your own level and change it whenever you like. Nobody is watching what you're lifting and nobody is keeping score.

And you'll always know where you're going. Every week builds on the last, so the effort you put in stays with you rather than starting over.

What the plan actually is

This comes with the twelve weeks, not with a drop in. It's your twelve weeks written out before you start, so you walk in knowing what you're doing and leave knowing whether it worked.

You answer about a dozen questions first — what you're after, where you're starting from, anything that hurts or that you'd rather not do. Your plan comes back with your numbers in it, not the room's, and with the awkward bits already worked around.

I read every one before it's sent. I'm using software to do the typing, not the thinking. If it's put you somewhere your shoulder won't like, I change it. Nothing lands in your inbox that I haven't looked at.

It's training only. No calorie counting, no meal plans, no weigh-ins. What you do, not what you weigh.

About Dev

"The hardest mountain to climb is the one within."

That's me somewhere in the Himalaya, a long way from a sports hall in Leicester. I got there the same way anyone gets anywhere. One week at a time, starting from not being able to.

I'm Devang Valand. I've coached in Leicester for years, mostly with people who'd never call themselves sporty. People coming back after an injury, after a baby, after a decade of meaning to.

What I've learned is that the training is the easy part. The hard bit is the part nobody sees, which is turning up on a wet Wednesday in November when the sofa is right there. So that's what I build around.

I also work with Leicester City Council on getting more people in this city moving.

Rated 5 stars on Google Leicester City Council partner

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Let's Get Moving

I work with Leicester City Council and Active Leicester on the Let's Get Moving campaign, getting more people across the city active — whatever their age or starting point.

It's the same belief that runs through the classes. The barrier is almost never fitness. It's knowing where to start, and having somewhere to turn up to.

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Easiest thing is the form — it tells me what I need to know before you turn up. But if you'd rather just ask something, do.