Meet the business - Beckfit
This series introduces the various businesses that operate from Beckenham Place Park. Meet Richard and Lelde, from Beckfit.
Hello, what’s your name and what do you do?
Our names are Richard and Lelde, we run BECKFIT Outdoor Fitness Classes. Beckenham Place Park is our primary location, but we have also expanded to other locations like Kelsey Park, Beckenham Green and Kings Meadow playing fields in Bromley.
Richard is a highly skilled Personal Trainer with over 20-year experience, and Beckfit class instructor.
Lelde is Beckfit class coordinator and a newly qualified Personal Trainer.
What does Beckfit offer park visitors?
BECKFIT provides Outdoor Fitness Classes offering full-body workouts which are suitable to all fitness levels. Outdoor Fitness has countless health benefits, and we like to inspire people to train with us and improve their fitness and general well-being.
We also offer Mummy Buggy Fitness classes which are designed for new mums and babies from 6 weeks old to approximately crawling age, so mummies can fit their workout easily in with their daily routines without worrying about childcare.
What attracted you or the business to Beckenham Place Park?
Beckenham Place Park without a doubt is the most beautiful park in Beckenham and in whole of South East London. It has the most picturesque views, beautiful nature, open space for outdoor fitness. Because we are local to the park we also spend time taking our children, friends and family there. It was a natural choice.
Tell us about your efforts to make your business more eco-friendly.
Our classes are own bodyweight workouts; therefore, we do not bring any additional heavy equipment to the park, apart from power bands which are included in some of the classes. We regularly change our class setup to minimise damage to the grass. All our business process is executed online with zero use of paper. Our banking services are committed to environmental sustainability.
Share your best tip about the park.
Best time at the park is early mornings & early evening. When the sun rises & sets, it’s so peaceful and you can hear the birds. We run morning weekend classes at the park and it’s so beautiful around and gives the best energy for the day and weekend ahead. And enjoy the walk or grab the tastiest coffee in Beckenham from Homestead café after the class.
Anything else you’d like to share with our readers?
We welcome everyone with all fitness abilities, either you attend individually or together with a friend. Our main priority and focus are to help improve your fitness and offer challenging workout routines, where you leave feeling energised.
We have designed our website to be easily accessible for booking the classes and finding out information about our services, offering both single session options and block bookings at discounted prices.