For Araia and Manaena, establishing a pod just metres from where she grew up is deeply personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me and my partner, giving back to a community that we love and we grew up in means everything to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes it more special to give back to people that we grew up around, and we get to come back and play where we were 5 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nane Araia leading an afternoon fitness class at the Camberley Fitness Pod at Kirkpatrick Park. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n
Each weekday, Araia and Manaena are at the pod at Kirkpatrick at 9.10am and 5pm to train whoever shows up for half an hour or so, totally for free.<\/p>\n
When Hawke\u2019s Bay Today arrived for the afternoon workout, about 35 people had gathered in their workout gear to train with the couple.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s quite small, we\u2019re normally up in the 40s,\u201d Araia said.<\/p>\n
But she still wants more.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive me 100 people each session, I want to be challenged,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s not just for Camberley residents, we\u2019ve called it Hawke\u2019s Bay and wider. We have people come from Havelock North, Maraenui, Flaxmere, Mahora, and Raureka.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they show up for me, I\u2019ll show up for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the class, the group is split up into clusters and Araia shouts out instruction and encouragement, while Manaena helps people with injuries or disabilities get their exercise in.<\/p>\n
Shanaea Sanders at the Camberley Fitness Pod in Kirkpatrick Park. Photo \/ Jack Riddell<\/p>\n
Among those working out is full-time mum of five Shanaea Sanders, who recently relocated to Hastings from Gisborne.<\/p>\n
Since working out with Araia, Sanders said her life has improved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m waking up with a better mindset, I don\u2019t bring myself down when I\u2019m looking in the mirror \u2013 I\u2019m actually proud of what I\u2019m looking like because I know it\u2019s a work in progress and Nane always makes sure that she\u2019s real about every single thing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, being around home, being happier, and my kids can see it on me. It\u2019s a really positive impact on my life.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s actually helped my mental health push boundaries, like if you know what I mean, and think where I can implement this into other people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in Britain, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJust to even pass, honestly. I couldn\u2019t even have cared if it was 51%. That 1% would have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[414,120289,1693,5957,120293,8544,17876,1075,3088,674,337,7056,31760,3262,68235,18289,97,47360,24453,120291,120288,2105,5117,7244,1596,2944,120292,120290,568,90396],"class_list":["post-210637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-and","tag-araia","tag-are","tag-by","tag-camberley","tag-changing","tag-classes","tag-community","tag-couple","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-free","tag-friendly","tag-good","tag-hastings","tag-head","tag-health","tag-infectious","tag-looking","tag-manaena","tag-nane","tag-on","tag-running","tag-suburb","tag-the","tag-up","tag-vibes","tag-wiremu","tag-with","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}