{"id":802741,"date":"2026-10-14T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802741\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:56:13","slug":"one-thought-health-and-wellness-at-trench-boxing-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802741\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thought Health and Wellness at Trench Boxing & Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Members of One Thought Health and Wellness<\/a> took a standing count to tell the Press about the free mental health boxing sessions that are putting them in the right mood.\n<\/p>\n

\n Gordon Brennan, of Trench Boxing & Fitness, started it all seven years ago and now there are 40 people a week attending classes.\n<\/p>\n

\n The One Thought Health and Wellness sessions are helping to lift spirits in Dunfermline. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n

\n One of the group, a 64-year-old man who asked not to be named, said: “I was suffering from severe depression and anxiety but a combination of Gordon’s classes, Andy’s Man Club and medication got me back to where I should be.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The boxing classes helped me, and they’ve helped a number of others too.\n<\/p>\n

\n “The benefits from doing exercise are well known.\n<\/p>\n

\n “You get the high from doing it and it takes your thoughts away from anything else you might be thinking when in a low mood.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I’ve seen the difference from when they first walk through the door in a really bad frame of mind to now – it’s like chalk and cheese.\n<\/p>\n

\n Physical exertion can help with your mental health. Doctors are even recommending the sessions to their patients. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n

\n “There is a general lack of support from government for mental health issues so Andy’s Man Club and Gordon’s free training are a godsend.”\n<\/p>\n

\n He added: “There is that trepidation. I had a vision everyone would be younger, fitter, real boxers, and that I wouldn’t be able to do anything.\n<\/p>\n

\n “But you couldn’t get a friendlier bunch. They’re very supportive of each other.\n<\/p>\n

\n “There’s always people to chat to, about how your week’s been, anything getting on your nerves.\n<\/p>\n

\n “There is a number of women that come along as well.”\n<\/p>\n

\n ‘Who do you not like? Just imagine their face on the bag and hit it as hard as you want! (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n

\n The member said: “Gordon was already providing free boxing for mental health purposes twice a week.\n<\/p>\n

\n “He was having to pay for it, train and provide the coaching, so hats off to him for starting this brilliant initiative.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Some of us got together and wondered if we could get funding to pay for it so we created an association, One Thought Health and Wellbeing, we’ve got a chairman, treasurer and I’m the secretary.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We managed to get lottery funding, which was absolutely brilliant, and we have leaflets that go out to GPs and mental health nurses.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Gordon Brennan has been running free mental health sessions, called One Thought Health and Wellness, for seven years. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n

\n There is a hope that, if they can get more funding next year, they can start running classes during the day too.\n<\/p>\n

\n Another member, who is 49, told the Press: “I’ve been at a few gyms but this one was suggested to me as Trench is a bit quieter.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I started the normal training and then I saw a leaflet for the One Thought sessions so thought I’d give it a try.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I’d been finding work to be really stressful and this has been really good for me.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I don’t get fazed by much now.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I started going twice a week and aside from the mental health side, the fitness has brought me to a new level, I can do more than I previously thought.\n<\/p>\n

\n The free mental health sessions, on Tuesday and Saturday, are attended by men and women. (Image: David Wardle)\n<\/p>\n

\n “I’m going to start sparring soon.”\n<\/p>\n

\n He went on: “It’s all down to Gordon and the way he coaches. He understands people as well and it’s a friendly community.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It’s worked for me and I’ve seen it work for other people too.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Everyone makes you feel welcome and I can’t recommend it enough.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I don’t think people fully understand what it does for you.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It’s like a pressure valve release.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Doctors recommend it too. I think it’s really underutilised, more people should know about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of One Thought Health and Wellness took a standing count to tell the Press about the free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}