Life Fitness has revealed that it has worked with contractor Interserve to create a new fitness facility as part of a £60m redevelopment of St Helens College's Town Centre Campus.

The gym includes more than 20 pieces of the Elevation Engage cardiovascular range, as well as the supplier's Signature Strength and Cable Motion products. Students participating in sport, health and fitness-based courses at St Helens College will be able to make use of the facility, while also providing a gym for the wider student body.

Meanwhile, the Life Fitness Virtual Trainer programme - an online facility that allows gym users to track progress - will be incorporated into the curriculum of relevant courses. The complex will officially open to students at the start of the new academic year, with a view to extending membership to the wider community towards the end of 2011.