Dougie's Highland Fling - Fitness Alternative

21/05/2025

New routine coming tomorrow night! It’s been a while… think it’s been worth the wait!!!

07/04/2020

03/02/2020

We started something new with Dougies Highland Fling Fitness Alternative at Laycock St Dance tonight... and it was awesome!!! We’d normally use this page to promote joining the class... but there’s literally no room... and the studios at Laycock St Dance aren’t small!!! Awesome to have so many in the room using Highland Dance to enhance their fitness, develop their skills, interact socially, become better dancers and just have a great deal of fun through dance!!! 11 years ago we started ‘having a fling with Dougie’... and it’s just getting better and better!!! Keep an eye out for additional classes on the timetable!

27/03/2019

Considering a Friday daytime class from 1030am... due to requests... if this would work for you let us know and we can make it happen for term 2.

22/01/2018

I m doing a teaser session this Wednesday...6:30pm ...can't wait to get into the classics an reveal the newbies!!!

Highland Dance really is the dance that has it all. We are proud to present this final workshop this coming Wednesday with an opportunity for all to try Highland Dancing with our Director, Dougie McFarland.

Whether you have been Highland Dancing your entire life or never done a step...there is a class for you.

This traditional dance form is taking the world by storm and we invite you to become part of the global phenomenon.

Introductory Highland, if you've never done a step or dusting off the pumps this is for you - 1pm.

Primary and Beginners, those competent in Pas de basques, Pas de basques and Highcuts and of course the 'dance that has it all'...the Highland Fling! = 2pm

Those serious competitive dancers in the higher grades, Novice, Intermediate and Premier 3:30pm.

And the return of the Fitness Alternative, first introduced in 2009 and back by popular demand - Dougie's Highland Fling Fitness Alternative Teaser...6:30pm!

The day before Rabbie Burns Day...January 24th, at the Central Coasts and one of Australia's largest Highland Dance studios, all sessions taught by our Director, Dougie.

If you currently take classes with another studio, you will need written permission from your studio owner and we encourage you to wear your studio uniform. The opportunity is extended to all to have a lesson with Dougie but we absolutely speak out against poaching of any kind. We will not post your picture or any video of you to any social media, unless crediting your studio, with direct permission from your studio owner or your studios brand is visible on your clothing.

This is going to be a wonderful day of dance, Highland Dance...THE DANCE THAT HAS IT ALL!

18/01/2018

2 New exercise routines to new songs created today...can you guess the songs?

02/01/2018

Recently I've had a stack of people comment on my weight loss. And to be fair, I have dropped 25kg in just over a year. I wouldn't say it was weight I had to lose...I was living very comfortably...but on the other side of it...I am loving the current me.

But in fairness, this isn't the first time I have dropped a stack of weight. In 2010, after my Dad my passed away, I decided to return to competitive Highland Dancing and naturally...dropped about 15 kgs, to return to peak competitive form.

On both occassions there has been one thing in common...HIGHLAND DANCE! I posted on my personal page a few weeks back just how happy I am with the weight loss...but it has come purely from the change in exercise...I still eat and drink as much as I ever did. I love a drink...and have always been a very good eater, lucky to have no allergies and a real taste for fine foods.

So back to Highland Dancing...this is a sport that really shakes the calories away. Now granted, it's no magic pill, simple, traditional, good old hard work. But hard work that gets results...

And so...it is with great pride and pleasure that I am bringing back Dougies Highland Fling Fitness Alternative, the original fitness workout I released in 2009. A work at your own pace fitness class, using the repetition and muscular definitive technique of Scottish Highland Dancing, to popular music, in an energetic, fun and inspiring atmosphere.

There are no tricks here, the pictures below are me, the dates are real, no filters, no trickery, me with weight on, me with weight off...the in between, good ole Highland Dancing. Now this is not going to work if it is your only effort...but it is a super fun supplement to your weekly plan, to get fit, drop weight and live a healthier lifestyle!!!

Have you had a Fling with Dougie??? Classes running at Laycock St Dance...check www.laycockstdance.com for more details.

And see you in the studio - Douglas McFarland. Drinker, Eater, Flinger!

02/01/2018

Dougie's Highland Fling Fitness Alternative class is back... what are your fitness goals in 2018?

01/01/2018

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Any fitness based new year resolutions...we've got one!!! and its getting released tomorrow!!!