Tonight we were missing a lot of the gang through it being half term. So a little lite on numbers we headed off for our first visit to the Adelaide Care Home, Bexleyheath. On arrival we were greeted by smiling faces and given a wonderful tour of the premises with plenty of introductions to the residents to.

We were also introduced to the beautiful garden area and when the lighter evenings are upon us i know we will be getting stuck into all the work that needs doing within it. After being introduced to all the staff we sat down in the lounge and chatted to a few residents who were just thrilled to have us along for the evening. Here we talked about what we will be doing and how the residents would also love to get involved with us. There are plenty of green fingers so i know we definitely won't be short of any help once we get started.

With now empty coffee cups it was time to say our good byes to everyone with the promise that we will be returning again in a few weeks time. A big high five from everyone at Bexley Goodgym to all the staff at the Adelaide for making us feel so welcome and for doing such a brilliant job within the home. You guys rock!!

Before i end this weeks blog i'd like to say thanks for the congratulations received for my 100th Goodgym run. You guys are awesome.

See you all next week. Tim

Happy New Year everyone. Well today was our first Good Deed of 2019 and what a great one it was. Meeting up as usual at Crooklog sports centre we were ready to meet our guests. Thanks Johnny and Sarah for coming along, and a warm welcome to Kim who came all the way from up north to help with our litter picking task this morning.

Well we definitely needed a warm up this morning as it was absolutely freezing. After a good quality run around it was time to pick up our weapons and descend on Danson Park to give it a good spring cleaning. With litter pickers and rubbish bags to hand we were buzzing around like bees picking up rubbish and trying to keep warm. We headed out and up into the Old English Gardens a place close to our hearts and although we were out litter picking it really was quite upsetting to see how much rubbish had been left by the benches with bins only feet away. It does ask the question WHY??

Anyway it wasn't long before we were heading up and into the children's play area where we had a real positive reaction from the parents and the children, with some of the children also wanting a go with the pickers........

With time now pressing it would of been rude not to head on out to the Danson house to make sure all was good in that particular beautiful area. Well it wasn't but it certainly was when we left. With time now beating us we bagged up and place them by the bins for collection and made a mad dash for home.

Thanks everyone that showed up. I really hope you enjoyed the after with Bexley Goodgym. Until next time have a wonderful weekend. Tim...........

Another glorious evening in Bexley last night. We had a fab turn out and all were keen to get over to Danson Youth Centre to help sort out their Peter Rabbit garden.... Due to the amount of work that needed doing i decided to reduce the length of the run but introduce a tough warm up and fitness session before heading over. We kicked off with our usual warm up followed by a tough fitness challenge. This started off with walking lunges returning to two cones. One cone was labeled Odds, and the other cone was labeled Evens. You had to choose which one. Your fate was then decided by the roll of a dice. If it landed on an odd everyone on the odd cone had to push out 5 squat jumps. Everyone on the evens cone was safe. This was repeated 5 times. We then done the same with a sprint round the sports centre and then choosing Odds or Evens on your return. This was followed again but in reverse. As you can imagine, the fitness session went down a real treat ;-)

THE FITNESS SESSION WENT DOWN A REAL TREAT

It was now time to head out to Danson Youth Centre. The route planned was just over a mile which may sound quite easy but it wasn't, not after that fitness session. We arrived to smiling, welcoming faces as always and set straight to work sorting out the Peter Rabbit garden. But wait, with the numbers we had this evening we were able to split into three teams so also got weeding done in two other sections of the centre. The ladies there couldn't be more pleased.

After around 50 mins it was time to start packing away, oh and get our mandatory photos showing all the work we had done. We also had to have our photos taken with Peter Rabbit. Well, it would of been rude not to........... Well what can i say. Another great evening with Bexley Goodgym done and dusted. Big welcome to Steve and well done for getting your first GG in the bag......... Until next week?

9 Brent badasses braved the cold, for a task they were told, would bring some positivity to the Brent community.

Now to begin this tale of a Monday night in Brent, to say it was cold would be an understatement.... My people, it was FREEEEEEZZZZZIINNNGGGG

But despite the chill in air, it was awesome to be met with such a warm reception at the Queensbury. Joining the rad regulars, was new to the Brent gang, Jorge and this four language speaking, salsa dancing, winner from Wembley, we sure were happy to have join the ranks!

So after a quick hello it was 3,2,1 GOOOO Down the one mile dash to our regular task master Colin and to finish our mural of all the Goodgym hardwork in the Old Police Station, turned art hub, for the community of Willesden.

As usual Colin had lots of work to be done. but namely the continuation of our Goodgym mural, which required sketches of Goodgym related scenes, the hard work and the hilarity. So it was down to our most arty threesome to get working on that.... Liz, Nisha and Saorla, who designed and sketched our scenes onto the wall.

The rest of the gang focused on some more manual labour; shifting debrit from the last few rooms that needed painting and moving very heavy bricks and debrit outside to clear more space for artist's to work.

The really tough and strong tasks were tackled by Debs, Pete and Jorge. Who worked tirelessly and in the cold too, slinging heavy loads into Colin's van for removal. Dinesh, Nisha and I, got busy inside, moving all kinds of heavy and interesting things from one room to the next; Including a full desk and draws and some extremely heavy storage boxes.

Our efforts of course cheered on as usual by the resident cats who thought our hard work was PUUURRRRfect

After a good 45 mins of arts and slinging crafts, I had to sadly ring the final bell. But the fun didn't stop there, oh nooo!!! There was just enough time for some Hill-arity to warm up and get our fitness on, before home.

So off we flew, chugging that hill in the old school train drill, followed by tempos down to finish!! No stopping the steam from this troop of train dodgers, as each one pushed hard for a HIIT session from hell.... no wait, I mean heaven!

Farewells were next, after we'd done our best. For Brent we did task, for a worthy cause who did ask. Using our legs to travel, then hills we did battle. Now back home for some dinner, Monday night, what a winner!!

See you next time!!!

12 speed demons came and conquered a pucker paper-chase and terrific track attack!! That's GG Brent all over October! Pow Pow!

It was smiles all round at base camp Queensbury with 10 glorious Gyals and 2 gorge Guys making up the numbers this eve!

Bringing the fire was Girl Power Hour and flexing for the females was: Clairey-Bell, Mouse, Dimple, Liz, Coralie, Eliza, Beth and sister sledge tabs and debs!

Repping for the fellas and back for his second week running was Crossfit Kid Lucas in his newly adorned GG red tee. Which by the way was suitably spray on to flex off his Olympic lift traps! And Looking just as macho in his signature yellow threads was resident king pin, all the guys love him (okay well maybe just Colin) devilishly daring Dinesh!! Woo!

So with all our wonder women at the ready and gumption gushing from the guys, we sped out for the night, for leaflet paper chasing all the way to Willesden Track!

After successfully slamming the high road with all the goodgym vibes, we arrived at destination pain on the lanes, oh no wait I mean fun delightfully good times lanes..... To be fair, it was probably a bit of both depending on who you ask! But actually proof that so much fun was had was that only 3 photos were taken!!!

So once we'd mobilised and warmed up joints with a few drills and spills, it was down to big business and that was some laps!! 200m sprints to begin followed by 400m timed splits!! Now me being nice only asked the team for 2 sets of each, however Clairey-bell reminded me that in goodgym Brent days of old, there was a 12 lap session once upon a time!! I think I'll be bring that back some time soon!!

**Oh yes..... watch this space, get the stop watch ready for some time and punishment at the next sesh!

So after my team wiped the floor with my timer each one achieving feats of absolute glory, we bashed out 5mins of core blimey can you feel your abs yet, before setting off for a cool down jog back to base.

What an awesome night, where we all took flight, to task and good deed and thrash some speed!!

See you next time!!!

DO GOOD. FEEL GOOD. INSPIRE!