Sports and Leisure Management (SLM) has created a new Reaction Trainer zone at Watford Woodside Leisure Centre as part of a £23m refurbishment programme.

Escape Fitness has equipped the first-floor facility with four Reaction Trainers, which feature three vertical poles with sensors and lights to indicate targets that users punch to accumulate scores. The zone has also been fitted with Everoll Classic flooring to provide line markings for exercises corresponding on scorecards and posters supplied by Escape.

Club members will be able to use the zone to workout by themselves or participate in SLM's new Punch workshops, which run six times a week and involves 30-minute classes using different techniques. Watford Woodside Leisure Centre fitness manager Janine Rodgers said: "The Reaction Trainers provide an effective cardiovascular and full body workout."

The £23m refurbishment of the facility is being carried out with its sister site, Watford Centre, while SLM has also installed a Reaction Trainer as part of a £150,000 scheme at Loughton Leisure Centre.