Two former Royal Marines commandos are on a mission to help their community keep fit in mind and body.
Adam White and Dan Harrison have just opened their new fitness centre in Rhos on Sea which is packed with more than £100,000 worth of state-of-the art equipment to ensure they meet their objective.
CXF Wellbeing, which is housed in a Grade II-listed former municipal pump house in Cysgod y Bryn, has just been given a fanfare official opening.
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The two friends are already well known in the area for running fitness boot camps on Colwyn Bay beach.
They have now fulfilled a long-standing dream of taking their finely honed wellness techniques indoors as well as outdoors by opening their stylish new centre.
And one of Adam and Dan’s regular boot campers is so impressed with the physical and psychological turnaround they have helped her achieve that she has become the main sponsor of their not-for-profit community interest company.
Adam, who is 46 and originally from Leicester, joined the Royal Marines as a teenager in 1993 and served 21 years with the corps.
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After leaving the service he settled with his young family in Glasgow where he started up a successful fitness business before moving to North Wales.
Adam said: “I started up the fitness classes on Colwyn Bay beach in 2015 and the number of my regulars gradually grew. Over the years we must have helped around 3,000 people towards fitness.
“Dan turned up at one of my Saturday morning classes and I quickly realised he shared the same visions and passions as me.
“When he told me he was a former Royal Marine like me, I just knew I couldn’t have a better partner for my business.
“It’s been a lifelong dream to have a place like the new wellbeing centre.
“I first saw the old pumping house building when I ran past it one morning in 2015 and just knew it was the right place for what I had in mind.
“It took some time to acquire the lease and then to do the high-quality conversion work, but now it’s a real credit to everyone who helped us to achieve that dream.”
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Dan, 37, who served for 10 years in the Royal Marines, said: “The Pump House is more than a gym - we focus on the whole person and their wellbeing is essential.
“We think that helping people’s mindset is far more important than simply working on their biceps and abs. Health & fitness is about the whole person as physical and mental health go hand in hand.”
The positive CXF Wellbeing message has certainly been true in the case of Heather Powell, founder and head of service of the North Wales Music Co-operative, an award-winning, not-for-profit organisation providing quality music tuition across the Denbighshire and Wrexham local authority areas.
Heather believes that thanks to the coaching and help she has received from Adam and Dan her whole life has been transformed and that is why she has arranged for her organisation to become the main sponsor for their company.
The centre is also being sponsored by Tony Palframan, managing director of St Asaph-based Phoenix Optical technologies, who signed up to CFX this years and was so impressed by the difference it made to his mental health and wellbeing that he jumped at the chance to support the facility so that other people in the community could benefit from it.
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