This is how you can get free membership for a month at Edinburgh Leisure in 2020

Yet if you move your sights away from dieting and instead concentrate on your mental well-being and starting the year right by using exercise to feel good, you’re more likely to stick to your goals, so says a leading Edinburgh leisure and sport provider.

Ally Strachan, Group Fitness Manager at Edinburgh Leisure explains, “January is the month when thousands of Scots resolve that this is the year that they will get fit or lose weight; with those resolutions often gone out of the window by the end of the first week.

“However, if we turn this around and focus on the mental wellbeing and the feel-good factor you often get after exercising, it can change a person’s psychological approach to why they’re wishing to change things. This means those resolutions stay around for a lot longer and exercise is no longer a chore but a pleasure.”

To mark the start of a new year, and new decade, Edinburgh Leisure’s membership campaign will run from 1-31 January with new members who join in January getting the month of February absolutely free.

Existing members who refer a friend who joins in January will receive £30 cashback (£20 if members of Jack Kane, Queensferry or Kirkliston).

Different memberships are available and include full fitness, gym/swim/fitness class and climbing are available online.

Strachan adds, “With one world-class climbing centre, nine swimming pools, 14 state of the art gyms and 800+ fitness and gym classes per week, Edinburgh Leisure is the biggest club in town.”

Visit www.edinburghleisure.co.uk for full details and to sign up