{"id":281969,"date":"2026-02-13T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:26:13","slug":"cfuf-strength-and-fitness-is-bolton-news-gym-of-the-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/281969\/","title":{"rendered":"CFUF Strength and Fitness is Bolton News Gym of the Year 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n CFUF Gym on Bark Street is our Bolton News Best Gym 2026<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n The gym<\/a>, which has been in town for 11 years, has gone from strength to strength, growing through word of mouth.\n<\/p>\n

\n Now, The Bolton News readers have decided that it is their best gym out of the 10 finalists.\n<\/p>\n

\n Owner Mark Parkinson said: “It was a complete surprise. I know all of the other gyms, some of them really well.\n<\/p>\n

\n Owner, Mark Parkinson, with the award (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n

\n “It was a big surprise, because we had such good competition. But we do what we do to the best of our ability and have the best product out there.”\n<\/p>\n

\n The gym, which is based in Bolton Lads and Girls Club’s former home, specialises in functional fitness.\n<\/p>\n

\n It doesn’t have weight machines, instead concentrating on free weights, bar bells, dumbbells, kettle bells, calisthenics, gymnastics and so on.\n<\/p>\n

\n To find out more about CFUF, see their website here: https:\/\/www.unique-fitness.co.uk\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Mark added: “We couldn’t be happier. Because we are on the first floor, we don’t have that shop front like other gyms do, so people can’t walk past and see in.\n<\/p>\n

\n A town centre gym has been voted the best in Bolton (Image: CFUF)\n<\/p>\n

\n “So we rely on word of mouth and people saying about the good work we do, and this is a testament to all the work we do.\n<\/p>\n

\n “People say that the work we do is worthwhile, life-changing, and deserving of publicity and winning awards, as well as being talked about by the wider public.”\n<\/p>\n

\n He gave thanks, adding: “Thank you to every member, past and present, for loving the place and talking about the benefits we bring.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Thank you to The Bolton News for doing something like this, promoting small businesses that are doing something for health and wellbeing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFUF Gym on Bark Street is our Bolton News Best Gym 2026. The gym, which has been in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-281969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}