The party season is hotting up, this can only mean one thing: Christmas is coming! If you don't want all your hard work to go to waste over the festive period, here are a few tips to swerve the bulge. Take notice of these and you'll be the one feeling smug come January when everyone else is sporting elasticated trousers.

We'd like to use it to thank you for all your support over the last 12 months. This brilliant fitness community that we've built simply wouldn't be possible without you and we're delighted you're part of it. For those of you who made it to our Christmas event, we enjoyed some early Christmas cheer with classes, gifts, mulled wine, cocktails and delicious food.

That's pretty much all for now - short and sweet this time - but we'll be back with one last mail-out before we close on December 21st, giving you the lowdown on all the stuff we've got planned for 2017. Trust us, it's going to be a banger of a year. In the meantime, if you're stuck for gift ideas or adding to your wish list, don't forget we sell gift vouchers... sure beats socks and perfume and just what everyone needs after an over indulgent Christmas and New year! Email for further information.

If you didn't come to our sold out Callisthenics workshop, you missed a blinding evening. The boys from The School of Calisthenics came up trumps yet again with a brilliantly educational few hours that saw us all busting out flags, nailing rings up and powering through handstands. They'll be back in the New Year so keep a look out for workshop dates.

Our collaboration with Paola’s Body Barre, Sweaty Betty and Skinny Prosecco went down a bomb! The feedback was phenomenal with people saying it was the perfect blend of disciplines: something to make you burn, sweat and stretch - basically the dream workout! Anyway, if you missed out on a ticket fear not, we have even bigger and sweatier ideas in the pipeline for 2017. Keep your peepers peeled.

Fitness and wellbeing should be enjoyed, not endured. We're all for good times at Transition Zone; there's no way we'd begrudge you some seasonal mischief! The point is, a big night out doesn't need to obliterate your routine.

Janine is our latest Recovery Cafe team member. And what an addition! As a qualified chef, mad-for-it boxing fan and sports-nutrition-guru-in-the-making, she brings a lot of life, skills and experience to the TZ posse. If you’ve seen her in action during Boxing HIT you’ll know that there’s no holding her back and Janine has already hosted a private nutrition workshop here at the studio that received BIG plaudits. We’re looking forward to hearing - and seeing - a lot more from her in 2017.

We refuse point blank to mention the C-word. Not at this stage in the game anyway. But it's never too early to start thinking about looking - and feeling - your finest. To help you, we're proposing a weekly all-inclusive plan to guide, motivate and keep you on the path to greatness (ready for the festive period).

This week we catch up with Rob, one of our newest team members. He talks about bad ass personal trainers, what fitness means to him and the one thing you'll never find in his workouts. Rob is here every Wednesday and Sunday.

As you know, we're big fans of community fitness so took it on ourselves to partner up with TRIBE for a 6km running event.