Did you know that we have an on-site fitness room available for use by those working at IOS and PGC, including CCG employees? The fitness room includes various cardio equipment, a large area for fitness classes (5-6 people), large TV and DVD/VCR player, free and fixed weights, medicine balls, various strength equipment, a smith machine, an inversion rack, mats, balls, TRX, and so on. This equipment has been acquired over the last many years as part of the health and wellness at IOS and PGC through grants and user memberships. The fitness room is self-maintained by users, meaning that users are responsible for cleaning up after they are finished and possibly helping to repair equipment when necessary.
Orientation Session
If you are interested in using the fitness room, there is an once-only orientation session that is required. The cost for the session is $10 (Interac to info@yourstaffassociation.ca) and you can sign up below to be notified about the next session (Wednesday 2 November at 12:00). Payment is not required until you are confirmed for a session. Please download a copy of the waiver below and bring it along to your session. For the orientation, you will learn about the safety concerns of using the fitness room, how to correctly use all the new equipment in the room, plus gain valuable tips on designing a fitness program. The session will be be about 30 minutes long and you may wear your usual work clothing. Fitness Waiver
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Annual Fees
There is an annual fee to help pay for the fitness room equipment lifecycle issues and to ensure that fitness room users will continue to have well-maintained and safe equipment for use. Fitness room users are more than welcome to have a say on how collected fees should be used in the fitness room. The annual fitness room fee is $50/year (1 Jan – 31 Dec) and includes unlimited access to the fitness room. There are no discounts for partial year or seasonal use and there are no discounts for students. We also do not offer a “drop-in” rate and memberships cannot be shared.
Fitness room memberships fees may be paid to the Staff Association with Interac transfer (info@yourstaffassociation.ca) . Access to the Fitness room via your building access cards will be activated once the Treasurer verifies that your fee has been paid and that you have taken the orientation session. For those that previously took the orientation session, but that do not wish to pay the membership fee at this time, you may still re-join the fitness room in the future with a paid membership and you will not have to repeat the orientation session.
Sign Up to Reserve Your Spot
You can reserve up to one week in advance for a weekday 90 minute slot between 06:00 and 18:00. Reservations close 10 minutes before the slot time. Limit one reservation per person per day please. The fitness room is capped at 5 people per 90 minute session. Between 18:00-06:00 and on weekends there are no reservations required, just show up and go provided there are not already 5 people in the fitness room. You are also welcome to drop by anytime and use the room during the weekday reservation period provided there are not already 5 people in the room but those with reservations have priority for the 5 spots, even if you arrive before them.
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Your Fitness Room Committee:
Reet Dhillon and Steve Romaine