A recent Walkactive Transformation training camp at La Manga Club, hosted by celebrity TV fitness expert and Walkactive founder Joanna Hall, witnessed some remarkable success stories – with one woman losing six inches around her middle.

Under blue skies and soaring temperatures, 24 women and men, with ages ranging from the early 30s to mid-70s, experienced an exhilarating few days at the Spanish resort and learned Hall's Walkactive technique, which provides a fun and exciting way to get in shape, without leaving muscles aching with pain.

And, after just five days' inspirational tutelage from Hall and her Walkactive team, there were some astonishing results, with the group losing a total of 46-and-a-half inches – one female guest alone losing six – and all experiencing some beneficial change to weight or posture.

Lynne Hutcheon, 53, from Baughurst, Hampshire, was participating in the camp for the first time, and said: “The course exceeded all my expectations and I have come away with more than just a new way to walk. I have come away with a new way to live!”

Those sentiments were echoed by Lucy Williamson, 34, from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, who added: “I had a wonderful time and already feel transformed. Walkactive can really improve my life and I'm so glad I took part.”

Perfect for all fitness levels and ages, the breaks focus on Hall's unique Walkactive techniques which can have a big effect on improved posture, reducing joint impact, increasing fitness and changing body shape.

Hall and her team personally teach all her methods, combining both motivational educational seminars and enjoyable practicals, to help guests achieve their personal goals by selecting the combination of sessions most suitable to provide the balance they need, thus ensuring maximum benefit from the exclusive breaks to help kick start a healthy lifestyle routine that can be worked easily into people's busy lives.

Making full use of the world-renowned facilities and surroundings at La Manga Club, activities consisted of a variety of disciplines focussed around Hall's scientifically-validated Walkactive system. This included sunrise training walks, woodland walk time-trials, daily body-booster posture sessions, optimum-nutrition strategy seminars, midriff-management workouts and technique workshops with video feedback.

There is a further retreat at La Manga Club from October 9-13, 2014, and a few places are still available, priced from £899. Packages include four nights' luxury accommodation at the five-star Hotel La Manga Club Principe Felipe; daily buffet breakfast; dinner each evening at a choice of four different restaurants; and one 30-minute spa treatment to the value of €40. Book via www.joannahall.com.

La Manga Club is an ideal venue for all types of fitness training at any time of the year, with extensive facilities including a large comprehensively equipped gym and 25m indoor pool.

The nearby Mar Menor and Mediterranean Sea allow open-water swimming and the surrounding areas provide various routes and terrain for walking, running and cycling in unspoilt Mediterranean countryside, with expert advice available on the best course to use and a wide range of high-performance bikes available for hire through the Independent Activity Centre on resort.

La Manga Club boasts unrivalled facilities as a sport and leisure venue including three 18-hole championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses, more than 20 bars and restaurants and is great fun for families.

For more information on the Joanna Hall Walkactive Training Camps or to book, call 020 7729 6223 or visit www.joannahall.com. For further details on La Manga Club visit www.lamangaclub.com. 

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About La Manga Club
La Manga Club – www.lamangaclub.com – is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars.

As well as hosting both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, La Manga Club has signed a long-term deal to be the overseas training resort of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) until 2016. It has also staged the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of more than 40 years of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades.

La Manga Club was the proud recipient of a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website, for the facilities and service on offer at its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. The resort has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf, being the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association for three years as well as hosting the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School from 2009-12. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.

About Joanna Hall
The Walkactive System is a walking technique created by sports scientist Joanna Hall to help individuals connect with the way their body should move, encouraging correct postural alignment.
The Walkactive technique is simple, accessible and results driven, and applies science to walking so individuals are getting tangible results from a clinical health perspective, cardio fitness, shape change and inch loss.
It is taught through events, which include the Walkactive Transformation Training Camp at La Manga Club, and via educational resources such as audio downloads, video tutorials and online programmes. Joanna Hall Walkactive Transformation Camps are run in the UK and overseas.

The Joanna Hall Walkactive technique is currently part of a scientific study with South Bank University's sports performance laboratory, which is investigating why Walkactive is more effective than normal walking. Results of the study are expected mid-June 2014.