ABOUT MOODS FITNESS STUDIO & GYM

Moods Fitness and Dance Studio Havant opened in 2010 with the gym inside Moods Studio opening in 2015, the premises has been owned by the Wiltshire family’s property company (founded by former property developer, Ronald Wiltshire who is still a director with his daughter Karen now Managing Director) for 43 years since 1982 and its various leisure facilities at the premises have been managed by Karen Wiltshire from 1982 since her retirement from her career as a professional jockey after becoming the first professional woman jockey to win a professional flat race in the UK, her book, ‘NO PLACE FOR A GIRL’ published by Pitch Publishing and written by best selling author, Nick Townsend (who also is the author of Sir Ben Ainslie’s and Sir Steve Redgrave’s autobiographies) was released in October 2024 (ITV Meridian visited Moods Fitness Studio and interviewed Karen about the book after showing Elena’s popular Pilates’s class), the book is currently for sale at Waterstones, WHSmiths, Amazon etc it has received a lot of publicity with stories in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Racing Post etc as well as broadcasted radio and TV interviews (google ‘Karen Wiltshire Jockey’ to read the newspaper stories), journalists have been intrigued by the weight loss tactics Karen adopted to achieve a low weight of 6 stone 11lb (her normal weight was 8 and a half stone) to become a low weight jockey which helped her get rides on racecourses at Epsom, Sandown Park, Newbury, Salisbury, Kempton, Bath etc (Jockeys minimum weights have increased about 3 times since the seventies due to the unsafe weight loss practices) despite the extreme weight loss to become a jockey which affected her health at the time Karen still promotes safe weight loss workouts and diets at her weight loss gym which also keeps her aware of her own weight fluctuations, remembering of how quickly she gained weight when she had to stop her workouts due to a fractured bone in her foot a few years ago and ignored comments about resembling Bridget Jones until she took a glimpse of herself on the big screen at Royal Ascot while broadcasting for Ascot TV (since then she has realised that not only her weight fluctuations but her chaotic lifestyle and desire for self-improvement resemble that of character, Bridget Jones and the similarities are referred to in her book, ‘No Place for a Girl’ when dealing with the challenges experienced in her everyday life as a jockey which reveal similar Bridget Jones’s behavioural traits making it a humorous autobiography).

Fortunately Karen can manage her weight fluctuations by using the hydraulic muscle strengthening equipment (which also helps weight loss) and cardio equipment in Moods Gym so can maintain a toned, trim body. Using our equipment regularly should result in regaining the body you had in your twenties.

Our fitness classes in our large mirrored studio can be viewed on our ‘Class Timetable’ page.