This September, fitness innovator FORTIS is challenging teams of two to sweat, squat and lunge through a HIIT class like no other, for the chance to be named the ultimate FORTIS champions and win a host of luxury prizes.

The formidable FORTIS championships is the inaugural challenge brought to you by the highly popular, FORTIS, powered by Speedflex classes, at select Everyone Active Leisure Centres.

The HIIT without the hurt class with a difference, favoured by football legends Alan Shearer and Dion Dublin, is a 30 minute, inclusive workout, based around Speedflex’s unique personalised resistance concept, that allows every participant to train at their own level.

The championship consists of teams of two, competing against others from across the south east, completing a series of high octane, low impact challenges. Contestants will make their way up the leaderboard by collecting points awarded for time spent exercising in each individual’s personal heart rate zone. In this way, effort and tactics become far more important than fitness levels, making the FORTIS Championships a challenge that anyone can win!

Those who make it to the concluding stages of the contest will bag themselves a place at the FORTIS Championship star-studded final, taking place on Saturday 12th November at Harrow Lodge Everyone Active Leisure Centre and hosted by Speedflex ambassador and TV superstar Ben Shephard:

“The FORTIS, powered by Speedflex class really is a HIIT workout like no other. I’ve never trained with anything like it! I love the sense of community and energy in the class; you feed off everybody else’s hard work. It’s efficient, too – and we’re all time-poor, so to find a way you can train intensively, in a way you like, that isn’t going to get in the way of anything else, is priceless.

I also love how accessible it is. It’s an intense physical workout, I’ve trained with pensioners, new mums, pregnant mums, professional athletes, injured sportsmen and women… and that’s a really exciting way of training. I look forward to seeing who steps forward to take on the FORTIS Championships and wish all challengers the best of luck.”

Finalists will bring their A game to the final challenge class for the chance to be crowned the supreme FORTIS Champions and win prizes including £500 cash, an Everyone Active annual membership and a luxury spa day and overnight stay for two.

The contest will kick off on 26th September, with special edition Challenge Classes taking place weekly at FORTIS studios around the country, including Basildon, Fareham, Harrow Lodge, Hemel Hempstead, Spelthorne, Westgate and Watford Woodside.

To enter, sign up your team of two, by booking two spaces in a Challenge Class via the Everyone Active App. Booking opens on 12th September. Single participants are also encouraged to sign up to be matched with a compatible challenge partner. The challenge is open to both Everyone Active and non-Everyone Active members and is completely free of charge.