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New Cyberbike

» Friday 06th of June 2008

Our brand new version of the Cyberbike will be available from the end of June. The older version was so popular in schools and gyms that we built a new one. The new Cyberbike is suitable for children and adults from age 6 upwards and can be used to play the original Cyberbike games or hooked up to your Playstation, XBox or Wii to control your exisiting racing type games.

Watch the site for launch news of this exciting new product.

Gymkids Elite System

» Friday 06th of June 2008

Schools in Bedfordshire are to be the first in the UK to pilot a new fitness system aspart of their PE curriculum that will enable them to row, run or cycle invirtual races against pupils in other schools.

The system, Gymkids Elite, is to be piloted in a number of schools in Bedfordshireand will be integrated into primary school PE lessons as well as being utilisedin a partnership-wide school's rowing competition as a way of encouraging interest in fitness, leveraging children's interest in video games and countering child obesity.

Gymkids Elite, which utilises Veqtor Sport technology, connects to the exercise equipment a child is using and allows them to compete with other children connected to the same system elsewhere by being able to watch themselves asthey row, run or ride in a virtual race against other racers on a screen.

The packages also come with a variety of racing environments including a river course for rowing and a Tour de France-style course for cycling, which can be used to easily create rowing or cycling leagues.

For more information, please contact Rick Dalton, Director of Educational Development on 0871 872 5182 or rick@gymkids.co.uk

Cyberbike wins gold

» Thursday 02nd of August 2007

Cyberbike recently won the Gold award at the Good Toy Guide Awards held in London, for best electronic game.

Here's what they had to say about it:
The children who had the chance to try out this item were bowled over by it and could not wait to get on. "My friend came round and was really jealous, we played for an hour competing against each other," George, seven, told us. "It combines a computer game with exercise so it is ideal if the weather is bad and you can't go out," our testers commented. Older children loved this item and all our testers were impressed with the way it sustained their interest for hours. "By far the best toy we have ever tried," one childminder said.

Cyberbike is available in two sizes: Infant for ages 3-6 and Junior for ages 6-10.
Click here for Cyberbikes: http://www.gymkids.co.uk/products/gaming/cyberbike.html

Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell joins Gymkids

» Saturday 09th of June 2007

Breaking news - Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell has joined forces with Gymkids to beat the child obesity epidemic and bring Gymkids unique equipment and training programmes into UK schools.

Darren will head up the FitCrew fitness programme which will see it's official launch at Tyseen Primary School in Hackney on June 19th 2007.

Fit Crew is a fantastic project says Darren Campbell, not only do I support what Gymkids is trying to achieve, but more importantly, I've seen the kids on the equipment and they absolutely love it!.

Rick Dalton, Director of Gymkids comments: "it's great to have someone of Darren's calibre on board, not only as an ambassador of the brand, but from the wealth of knowledge he is able to bring to the project in terms of fitness and coaching."

For more information, official press release and photos please visit www.fitcrew.co.uk or www.gymkids.uk.com/fitcrew. If you'd like further information about FitCrew or Gymkids equipment, please contact Gymkids directly on 0871 872 5182.

Channel 5 News Diary

» Friday 25th of May 2007

Actually the story from Beechdown Gym is a few months old but many people didn't get to see the report when it was on tv, so Ch5 News have thoughtfully put it on their website.

Go to: http://news.five.tv/your_news_your_story.asp?id=296&fid=2

Matt and Daisy were brilliant that day doing the filming. Hope you enjoy it.

Mount Pleasant walk the furthest

» Thursday 17th of May 2007

At the recent Education Show in Birmingham, Gymkids ran a competition to see which school teachers could walk the furthest around the exhibition. Gymkids handed out free pedometers to teachers who had to come back at the end of the day to register their distance.

Joe Hartshorn from Mount Pleasant Primary School in Quarry Bank, West Midlands was the clear winner with a total of 18,652 steps!

For their prize Mount Pleasant have chosen the popular Cyberbike. We get the feeling that the kids will be fighting the staff about who gets to go on it first!

Congratulations to Mount Pleasant - and good walking Joe!

Tamworth Gymnastics Club wins equipment at Education Show