A Conwy fitness instructor who switched to supplying exercise equipment in lockdown has opened his second gym.

Jamie Bowen invested in gym machines which he stored in units at the giant Lock Stock Storage Park in Llandudno Junction and shipped to customers for use at home. When lockdown eased the 34-year-old opened a new Ignite gym in Llandudno's Oxford Road. Now he has opened a second on Church Road in Rhos on Sea, with plans for more in the pipeline.

Jamie said:

“I sold my car to fund my first unit to hold fitness classes and installed a few gym machines. In lockdown I started renting out the equipment to locals to use in their homes and afterwards I saw that gyms further afield wanted gym equipment so I jumped on this.

“I sold the machines in my gym, generated extra money and started buying more equipment and it snowballed.”

Lock Stock Regional Sites Manager Lee Hanson said:

“Ignite is a great business with excellent facilities and top quality equipment and they're doing really well, so we're pleased to have played a part in their success.”

Lock Stock, founded in Denbigh in 1999, is the UK's largest containerised storage company with almost 4,500 units providing more than four million cubic feet of space at storage parks across North and Mid Wales and the border counties.