Lloyd Leisure has announced it will be the first major UK fitness operator to introduce Volleybody, created by beach volleyball experts in the wake of last year's Olympic Games.

Aimed at people with good levels of fitness, the class takes inspiration from three core moves used during a beach volleyball game - defending, hitting and blocking a ball.

Designed by the British Beach Volleyball strength and conditioning coach Kate Eddy and team members Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin, the class is an hour long and is performed to music.

It involves participants working in pairs with simple equipment such as medicine balls and resistance tubes.

Volleyball founder and managing director Katie Taylor said: "We realised there must be a way of taking the top volleyball players' training programme and creating a version for the average woman and Volleybody does just that."