RDS Dublin - Sports and Fitness Show 2011

For the first time ever a Sports and Fitness Show was held here in Ireland this November 2011. It happened in the RDS Industries Hall in Dublin and it lasted for three days (4^th to 6^th November). It had various stands related to fitness, health and nutrition. This event was opened not only for Fitness professionals but also for anyone interested in those topics.

Many fitness schools and clubs were there to promote their services and some of them also gave free classes:

• Euroeducation/Euroconvention gave great and enthusiastic classes such as Aerodance and the new trendy Reggaeton.
• Profifitness School also offered classes such as pump, step and new fitness trend ones such as Rip:60 and Zumba (Fantastic Brazilian Zumba Style). The Rip:60 class looks easy but it is really challenging because you use your body weight to do most of the exercises not to mention it also requires balance and it is great fun. It is a high calorie-burn workout that forces your body to stabilize and balance throughout the exercises so you engage more muscle and constantly engage your core with each move).
• Energie Fitness Clubs offered an original Kick, lift & Yoga class.
• Portobello Institute was also there to promote their fitness courses.
• Fitness West gave demonstrations of the Railyard product that is a Conditioning Course made of rails and platforms that provides a dynamic workout disguised as an indoor playground. It is used in schools in the US but adults can also use it. 
• Yoga Therapy Ireland was also promoting its courses and had many leaflets of how you can benefit from yoga to fight against various health conditions as well as leaflets with yoga sequences for athletes and great informative yoga magazines.

Many exhibitors distributed free samples such as:

·    A. Vogel: sports pack with samples of arnica gel (great to relief muscular aches, pains and stiffness, sprains, bruises and swellings after contusion), Molkosan Vitality (instant whey drink with fibre for health digestion), and many leaflets informing about diets and herbs that can be used for muscles and joints as well as herbal remedies for many health conditions.

·    Weight Loss Challenge (samples of energy bars),

·    Caveman (High protein beef snacks and a diversity of 100% natural juices),

·    Cherry Active (samples of Cherry Active Concentrate Cherry Juice that increases your Antioxidant Intake, quality sleep and rapid recovery of muscle function)

·    Irish Daily Mail had their newspaper and 2 cereal bars.

·    Rainforest Day Spa gave free skin analysis as well as other services with discounts.

It was also possible to buy their products right there at the show. Many had discounts.

It is great that they are holding Sports and Fitness shows here in Dublin. This type of event is so important to help us get updated on what is new out there with regard to classes and/or products. I was expecting it to be a bigger event but it is very understandable because it was the very first held here in Ireland. The only negative side for me was that some classes, from different fitness schools and clubs, were sometimes clashing with each other. Obviously you could not participate in both classes at the same time, which meant missing some classes. I can’t stress enough how good the classes were and it was a real shame not to be able to participate in all of them

Overall it was a good event and I hope there will be many more in the future here in Ireland.

If you want more information about the Sports and Fitness Show 2011, check their website.