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COMPANY PROFILE: SUB - SAHARAN - AFRICA : ANGOLA
Sr. Antonio NunesFitness Club / Wellness.
Centre for physical condition, Limited
Fitness Club / Wellness
General Manager: Sr. Antonio Nunes
Address: Rua do Massangano, Cave Anangola - Luanda
Phone: +244 2 44 63 61
Mobile: +244 923 30 47 49
Email: kaulsa@netangola.com
Website: www.fitnessangola.com

History:

This is the fitness club: a unique space that was established 11 years ago with the commitment to provide you health, the best services and a lot more quality of life. To have you with us is already the largest incentive for us to search for improvement. Your presence transforms our goal in an exciting task to be executed every day with more willingness. Our space is the largest love declaration for the city of Luanda and above all a captivating place to make of your body the temple that you always dreamed.
The most modern existing material in the world for quality of life is now at your disposal in the fitness club. We are located in the middle of Luanda town in a space of 3.500m², with pleasant areas, gardens, green areas and parking area.
For those who want to enjoy the best health club of Luanda, with services highly differentiated, Fitness Club is the solution.
Here you can enjoy a pleasant atmosphere, equipments of last generation and nice instructors. Here you will get in form and get impressed with the great classes. Bring your energy, good mood and discover what you are capable of.
In the end relax and recover the energy in our Fit Café at the sound of good music and an impeccable atmosphere.

Presentation:

Aesthetics
Single classes, sauna, massage, leg depilation, groin depilation, armpit depilation, down depilation

Fit Café
Area of 250 m², professional sound system, video system and DVD projection, karaoke and live music


FitCafé

Fit Shop
Area of 110 m², acclimatized, sound system, dietary products, sport clothes, accessories for sport, biological feeding


Fitshop

Services:

Physical fitness Exam, evaluation of the corporal fat, physiotherapy consults, nutrition consults, electro cardiogram (ECG), effort tests, medical-sport-food integrated program

Modalities:

ABS
As complement to several modalities, the fitness offers you this class in which you will be able to work in full detail the abdominal muscles for 30 minutes, improving your posture, combating the flabbiness and strengthening this area that contributes much to our beauty

Aerobics
This gymnastics modality was already one of the most popular in academies, but today it lost space because of the appearance of new modalities. The American teacher Jack Iesorensen brought the aerobic dance to the gyms in the decade of 70. The objective of aerobic gym is to offer exercises of light and moderate intensity that moves the great muscular groups. The classes are usually divided in four phases: warming-up with stretching, aerobics, focalised exercises and cool-down with stretching.

Aerobics

Advantages: It is good for the heart, gives a good mood, improves the motor coordination, combats stress and makes lose weight.

Stretching
Stretching and flexibility are two well-known words. During this class, you will get the opportunity to feel what is the real stretching and flexibility work, improving your posture, increasing the articulation amplitude, relaxing the muscles, preventing lesions and diminishing stress.

Ballet
The art of being able to link physical exercises and corporal expression, where the imagination, the creativity and the technique occupy a relevant space. The choreographies always reveal an important history and they transmit, to those who appreciate, an interesting message.
Advantages: Flexibility, taste for the art of representing, self-trust, cordiality spirit.

Capoeira
Is a Brazilian martial art, created by the slaves at the time of slavery. It grew during centuries and today it is a fight of rare beauty, with its movements, where the defence and the attack melt through deviations, strokes and jumps, transforming it in a healthy and involving sport. The Capoeira is the only martial art practiced on music sound of Brazilian rhythm. It is a very popular modality, which has been growing in Angola, mainly after the participations in world the championships, in which we have been obtaining positive classifications.

Cardio Dances
Activity that has the objective to improve the cardiovascular and the cardio-respiratory system, and increase the aerobic resistance. It is important in the prevention of certain diseases, such as, hart attacks, arteriosclerosis, control of blood pressure, etc.
It commonly uses mats, steppers, oars, stair, elliptic and ergo metric bicycles. The classes are individual and according to the objective of each one.
Advantages: Prevention of diseases, increasing the immunity level, reduction of the fat mass, bodybuilding, increase of the aerobic resistance, control of the blood pressure of people with different physical fitness levels, muscular, bone and articulation empowerment.

Fit Kids
Is the project that was born out of the idea to provide to children a space inside the club and of the educational need to discover and to recover in children the motor incentive. It is a play and sport activity that develops the coordination, the capacity of organizing, controlling and regulating the movement of children.
The space is composed of two circuits, composed of machines and free circuit.

Fitkids

The Kids Corner project is assumed as pioneer in the plan of activities for children and youngsters. We face sports and artistic programs as important and decisive complements of a balanced education, which are favourable for the acquisition of competences and necessary values to improve children's quality of life. Therefore we present the kids corner, with programs and materials appropriated to their needs trying to provide good training conditions, appropriated facilities, a safe atmosphere and nice teachers with an appropriate education.
Advantages: Increase of the organisation capacity, better posture, better discipline in daily life, health and wellbeing

Fit Pump
Gymnastics program that aims to influence directly the physical modelling of the body.
Through materials and programmed choreography exercise routines, stimulating the musculature of the whole body and with fast result.
Weights are used to increase the muscular force; it models the body and reduces the amount of fat through the increase of the metabolism.
Advantages: Models the body, reduces fat, increases the persistence, increases the muscular force

GAP
Class destined to work exclusively the gluteus, abdominal and leg muscles, through exercises providing a complete training to these three muscular groups.

Hydro gymnastics
Is a class of gymnastics done inside of a swimming pool, taking advantage of the force of the water as reductor mean of the gravity action, reducing the risk of lesions and allowing the rehabilitation of people with restrictions to exercises with vertical overload (rheumatism, osteoarthritis, lumbagos, etc.). It has the objective of located muscular empowerment, increase of the general, cardiovascular and cardio-respiratory physical condition.
Advantages: Improvement of the force level and development of the main muscular groups, increase of the sanguine circulation and of the resistance of the cardio-respiratory system, increase of the muscle tone of arms, legs and buttocks, improvement of the flexibility of the articulations.

Localized
The localized gymnastics is a gymnastics framed in the concept of group gymnastics, which uses localized exercises, with or without weights and with music. The objective of the localized gymnastics is to develop muscular force and resistance, as well as, the reduction of the localized fat mass. The classes are entertained and the results are optimal.

Garden

Advantages: Reduction of the localized fat mass, increase of the muscular force, control of the blood pressure, empowerment of the bone density, improvement of the cardiovascular system.

Muscular empowerment
The systematic work with loads that, through the impact it has on the muscle mass, determines alterations in the morphology and functionality of the muscles.

Bodybuilding

The effects vary according to the age: youngsters /adolescents (increase of the bone mass), people in active age (hypertrophy / bodybuilding), and third age (reduction of osteoporosis).
Advantages: Increase of force, increase of the muscular mass, reduction of the fat mass, increase of the anaerobic resistance, improvement of the aesthetic level, decrease and retardation of osteoporosis, increase of the bone density.

Swimming
Activity with aerobic characteristics, which has the aim to improve the cardiovascular system. It is considered to be a complete activity because it is working all the muscular groups at once.

Swimming  Pool

Advantages: no lesion risks, as there is no impact on the articulations, increase of the cardiovascular and breathing condition, increasing the general physical condition, muscular empowerment and bodybuilding.

Spinning
Class of great intensity, developing the cardiovascular and breathing system.
A class full of vibration, energy and a big decrease in calories, which uses special bicycles, similar to race cycles adapted to indoors classes, in an exclusive air-conditioned room. It is done in group. The teacher commands the rhythm according to the music, simulating different courses as ascents, passages of speed, plane passages and several other situations of the real street cyclism. It is certainly a class of great intensity, which aims a superior level of cardiovascular condition.
Advantages: reduces the fat, increases the aerobic resistance, and improves the cardio-vascular condition.

Step
The step is a physical activity consisting in a combination of aerobic exercises, of high intensity and low impact. Getting up and down an adjustable platform, with a programmed sequence on music, making the simultaneous participation of people with levels of different physical fitness possible. It provides a muscular work of high efficiency and a high caloric expenditure, favouring the reduction of the fat mass.
Advantages: reduction of the fat mass, bodybuilding, increase of the aerobic resistance, improvement of the motor coordination, and improvement of the cardiovascular system.

Taekwondo
Combat technique without weapons, for self-defence, involving ability in the use of the hands and fists, of flying kicks, escapes and interceptions of blows with the hands, arms or feet, for the opponent's fast annihilation. The training demands a high respect from the apprentice for the instructor, as well as, for all of the colleagues inside and out of the gym.
Taekwondo principles: Courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-domain, untameable spirit.

Total Cardio
A new fitness concept. It is a space totally autonomous, functioning inside the club. Thanks to the team box a lot of modalities can be practiced in the same space where each detail was studied to obtain the maximum comfort.
The best modern techniques were used to create an innovative project: a flexible space where all of the models are adapted to the needs and demands. The room is composed by 8 runners, 8 steppers, 8 star bikes and a kit of fit pump and aerobics.
The team box can be considered a gym inside the other. It allows organizing courses of total cardio or individual modalities of cardio fitness. The successive use of three types of cardio equipments guarantees a great variety, which will become an extra stimulus to the training and will lessen the routine resulting from the use of just one equipment type.
Advantages: Better cardiovascular condition, entertainment and wellness.

Total Training
This is an excellent aerobic modality where the beginning of circuit training is the dominant factor. Done on music, in group and with a teacher to guide the cardio, localized or step modalities. It is an animated class where the physical condition is tested systematically.
Advantages: Increase of the aerobic capacity, increase of the physical condition, increase of the anaerobic resistance, increase of the cardio respiratory and vascular capacity.

Well-Fit
Well-fit is a new concept of collective activity based on exercises of located character for all the main muscular groups, accomplishing high repetitions with moderate weights, in circuit form and using equipment to increase muscle tone. For the first time in the industry of the fitness, the equipment is used for the integrate development of the physical condition in a group activity. Well-fit is a combined entertainment of muscular fortification and cardiovascular work. It is a concept that was born due to the need of improving the quality of life of inactive, sedentary people, in all life stages: youth, middle age, elderly aged, with tendency to consider the body as something more than a simple physical well being. It is adapted to the rhythm and needs of each apprentice.
Advantages: An entertained and motivated work in group, complete Training (combining bodybuilding and cardiovascular resistance), a work level adapted to your needs and capacities, health and wellness, follow-up and results, open to all and without limits of age or physical condition.

Facilities:

Female bathrooms, clinical consultation room, massages room, technical cabinet, muscle body building room, male bathrooms, cardio room, Fit Shop, Well-Fit room, aerobics room, field, kids corner, team box room, kids room, swimming pool, Fit Café.

(Translation by Inge Van Cauwenberg)

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