How to get a toned body on a credit-crunch budget

Fitness classes across the capital are slashing prices to entice the cash-strapped. We look at the best offers

13 July 2009

Fitness classes

Work out on your TV for free

Not bicep curls with your TV set, but hours of free downloadable fitness videos. ThinQ Fitness has more than 200 online workout videos, ranging from ­beginner to expert and from dance to gym. Sign up to a no-obligation, free three-month trial by emailing thinqfitness@thinqdigitalmedia.com, with “3monthsfree” in the subject line. Offer closes 26 July

Outdoor fitness for £1

Girls, if you don’t mind doing star jumps and plank lunges in public, sign up to SuperChick. A team of instructors can put you through your paces in London parks for at least an hour a day for £1 a month. Well, £1 for the first month if you sign up to three months (£91 in total). Enter the code “london” into the online discount field. Offer ongoing, iamsuperchick.com

20% off Power Plate workout

Try squat lunges and press-ups on a glorified washing machine on full-cycle. The vibrating Power Plates are said to help the body burn more calories in less time than many other regimes. A half-hour workout at The Lifestyle Institute studio in Moorgate involves a full-body workout and a machine massage. Quote ‘thelondonpaper’ when booking to get 10 half-hour classes for £143.20 instead of £179. Offer ends 9 August, tli-london.com

Healthy food delivered

15% off Diet Chef

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If you struggle to cook healthy food, why not have pre-prepared meals dropped at your door? Diet Chef delivers one bumper calorie-conscious hamper of enough food for 28 days, which makes sure you don’t exceed 1,200 calories a day. It has reduced its monthly plan to £161.50. Offer ends 26 July. Enter the promotion code ‘thelondonpaper’ online at dietchef.co.uk

25% off Go Lower

Food delivery company Go Lower is offering a 25 per cent discount on their 28-day meal plan, meaning it will drop a month’s supply of healthy food at your door for £210. Go Lower claims you can lose one stone in a month on their plan. Offer valid until end of July. Enter the discount code LL0709 online at golower.co.uk

Yoga & pilates

£10 unlimited yoga

Yoga instructors across the capital are bending over double to entice newcomers. Fulham Yogashala is offering anyone the chance to contort themselves silly for a week for a tenner. If you want to get your money’s worth, classes run throughout the day, seven days a week.

Offer is for the week beginning 20 July, ­fulhamyogashala.co.uk

Half-price yoga

Yoga teacher Chris James is offering readers a 50 per cent discount on classes until the end of the month. James goes through yoga postures and breathing techniques at studios across London, from the Bingham Hotel in Richmond to Upper Hall in Bishopsgate.

To take advantage of the offer, email James, chrisjames@chrisjamesyoga.com, quoting ‘thelondonpaper’.

Half-price pilates

If becoming tangled in a mechanical cat’s cradle is your bag, check out Beautcamp Pilates. Its two studios offer ­fitness classes that are a combination of pilates and a cardio workout, and use a “reformer” machine replete with resistance bands. Day classes are £12, which is 50 per cent cheaper than evening ones. The East London studio (near Old Street) ­extends the cheaper rate for the whole weekend. Evening classes at the West London studio in Bayswater are discounted for Friday ­evenings, but not weekends. Offer ongoing, beautcamppilates.co.uk

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