The new generation of multi-family fitness centers in our quick-moving modern world becoming more sophisticated every year. Fitness centers are a must-have in any residential or active community, according to the National Apartment Association.
Residential gyms are the most upgraded community amenity since 2014, and research shows that half of all tenants would be willing to pay a higher premium for multi-family fitness centers that offer weekly exercise classes.
1. Treadmills
Every multifamily property and business situation is unique but the number one cardiovascular machine on the market for burning fat and calories is always the trusty treadmill. Our knowledgeable staffs of design and equipment experts help assemble a fitness center package that attracts and retains residents.
2. Ellipticals
Proven, reliable and safe for most exercise populations, today’s modern elliptical trainer promises performance and customized with entertainment choices, Wi-Fi and other millennium must-haves for a quick workout at the gym. As you may now by know, our high-quality elliptical options offer versatile cardio training and all kinds of bells and whistles, depending on your fitness level and exercise goals.
3. Multi-station Strength
Countless weight lifting exercises can be performed on stations used in single or multiple stack arrangements. Efficient, sleek design allows you to customize multi-family fitness centers to best suit your training needs and space parameters.
4. Core Training Equipment
From adjustable sit-up benches, ab wheels to battle ropes all the way to Roman chairs and weighted medicine balls, portable core-training equipment lives in an inspiring area of your multi-family residential housing exercise center. Sometimes it’s exclusively set near the functional training area and then sometimes extensive core training tools belong n your group fitness room with adequate storage space, another mandatory ingredient to the perfect multi-family gym.
5. The Wild Card
This training category often depends on your particular region,specific space requirements, and even the target demographic of residential tenants. Workout options should be cheerful-looking and simple to use.(Remember: Big bonus if your residential property also offers fitness classes like yoga.)
Contact Opti-Fit to help customize and conceptualize your fitness space and collaborate with architects and manufacturers every step of the way.
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High-intensity interval training (HIIT) combines cardio activities – like running – with strength-training moves or lower-intensity exercises (like bench presses) for another interval, and you go back and forth.
In addition to supporting heart and brain health, much research proves that fast-paced HIIT workouts can help you tone up and prevent exercise boredom.
Keep in mind: The whole point of high-intensity training is to kick up the intensity of your whole workout but especially the cardio elements for additional fat burning before the beach. Too late – it’s here!
HIIT Kickstarts Exercise Intensity
Alternating short bursts of intense activity with longer intervals at a much lower intensity blasts fat and calories, say our fitness experts. Athletes traditionally use interval HIIT training to improve performance – and picking the right moves to bounce between is key.
Bursts of speed and plyometrics can build strength and power by working your fast-twitch muscle fibers (the ones involved in quick, explosive movements), while dynamic moves like power lunges can challenge muscular endurance and perceived exercise exertion.
No Equipment Needed for HIIT
But it is more fun with lots of gym machines and moves thrown in. High-intensity busts in a HIIT workout might include intervals on a rower or stationary bike followed by anything plyometric like jumping lunges or mountain climbers to sharply increase your heart rate and exercise intensity.
Since summer bathing suit season arrived all-too quickly this year, we’ve scoped out the most effective, calorie-torching HIIT workouts across the web. And whether you do most of your physical fitness training at the gym, at your multi-family fitness space or even at the pool, you will get into synch with summer by smashing fat and calories with HIIT training once or twice a week in addition to your regular exercise regimen.
Here are some of our favorite HIIT workouts for a long summer holiday, get ripped!
HIIT Training With Dumbbells
More Fat-Blasting HIIT Workouts
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Have a happy, healthy and very fit summer season!
The Study of Human Movement
We’ve been a source of commercial strength equipment and top-of-the-line cardio equipment for decades. We specialize in applying our practical knowledge of human movement based on the science of the body’s biomechanics to provide effective solutions to meet every fitness – and business – need you may have.
We are always excited for the chance to help you design a gym or upgrade your current facility’s equipment with professional commercial strength equipment and strength tools targeting functional fitness, such as medicine balls, balance boards and much more.
Functional fitness interest kicks in with aging: Our bodies naturally lose muscle and flexibility, which in turn can impair the ability to live life to its fullest. Simple tasks such as carrying groceries or putting away dishes can become taxing.
Many studies show that functional strength exercises mimic everyday movements and tend to focus on targeting multiple muscles groups at once, as well as maximizing core strength.
Equipment Design: Action in Motion
Here are a few biomechanical concerns that crop up when strength or cardio equipment manufacturers produce new commercial fitness machines:
– Properly positions your back and muscles to engage your muscle groups through full range of motion
– Avoids compression of muscles or joints
– Maintains balanced and controlled friction bilaterally (on both sides) of strength equipment
– Increases resistance levels in minute increments for progression and safety
– Adjusts to accommodate a wide range of sizes, shapes, body types and fitness levels
– Provides a heavy-enough load to accommodate your biggest and strongest members or clients
Over the last 20 years, Opti-fit experts and design staff have partnered with thousands of customers in dozens of cities to plan and design commercial spaces, and supply and maintain fitness equipment all over the United States. We’d love to hear your story!
Contact us for a FREE design consultation or facility assessment.
Maybe a New Home Gym?
The man in your life deserves to stay fit and healthy. FOr dad, the best way to get into shape is by taking his workouts outside this month and using outdoor recreational fitness equipment as often to sustain.
Outdoor fitness equipment and recreational exercises – like basketball courts, mini rock walls and outdoor weight circuits – will get dad and everyone in the family beach-ready in record time.
If you don’t see them already, you are going to start seeing a proliferation of sophisticated outdoor recreational equipment in cities and local playgrounds near you. What’s new? Everything from aquatic centers and new basketball courts to tamper-proof steel ab press machines near a set of adult parallel bars.
Weatherproof and Tamperproof Equipment
Fitness machines and bolted, steel workout stations are popping up in green spaces in parks to promote wellness in local communities and to help in the fight against child and adult overweight and obesity.
The next time you are in a neighborhood park., take a good hard look around and see if there are grownup playground items adjacent or close to the kids’ areas. You might find body weight exercises done in a circuit training format or within different cardio and strength stations can provide a complete workout – especially if you finish your playground workout with a brisk walk or run around the park to torch additional fat and calories.
5 Reasons for Dad to Use Recreational Equipment
He trains longer. Studies show exercise participants are likely to work out longer when they are outside in nature, resulting in burning roughly 5-7 percent more calories during outside exercise.
He trains harder. The rugged or varied terrain of a park might be just what your body needs to challenge itself to learn a new skill, like hanging upside down on a set of adult monkey bars. Get crazy, be confident, do more cardio!
He soothes stress. Outdoor exercise battles work stress. According to a report published in Environmental Science and Technology a 30-minute walk in the park made 71 percent of active people in the study feel “significantly less stressed,” while 72 percent of people who exercised inside actually felt more stressed.
He is the best role model. You serve as instant wellness role model to your kids, your family and your office mates. That’ll keep you sweating and inspiring all season long.
He avoids getting sick. Indoor air is two to five time more polluted than outdoor air, according to a study from the Environmental Protection Agency, so you may just sidestep cold season by perspiring in the park instead of your favorite gym class.
We’ve developed a reputation for tough equipment that provides real workouts to even the fittest of users. At the same time our innovative, built-in assist mechanisms make our equipment accessible to all fitness levels. We work closely with our clients to create and deliver the optimal fitness experience.
We design your space while partnering with your architects, interior designer and contractors to fully optimize your fitness amenity into your building design. With our specialized process, we can provide realistic renderings of your facility while bringing a strong sense of detail and accuracy to your fitness space.
Call today for your facility’s free design assessment.
Thinking Outside the Box
Opti-Fit must be resourceful and flexible when designing and equipping residential fitness spaces that may be small, oddly shaped or poorly lit. Multi-family health club footprints, especially, are often compressed to accommodate other amenities, so maximizing versatility and usability in residential gym areas is key. And we work within your budget and according to your personalized and customized design goals.
At Opti-Fit we accomplish these goals by utilizing and equipping multifunctional, movable equipment tailored and customized to your gym’s layout. We are fast, flexible and versatile.
Consider Your Target User
We do take into consideration the demographics of your school or residence, your surrounding neighborhood, and much more. Our innovative and flexible approach emphasizes providing for all ages and experience levels to democratize the space and maintain compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Family Fitness: Ambiance and Efficiency
When designing and equipping residential gyms, you must also consider cardio machines and exercise trends for all ages and sizes, such as aquatic programming, yoga and other mind-body exercise routines.
Ten years ago adapting the fitness center to various workout types has historically meant designating certain areas for cardio, stretching and weight training. Today, you likely add (on top of those main three areas) a yoga area, cycling and functional training areas. Segregating these activities prevents injuries caused by too-much equipment in an overly small space.
What About Exercise Beginners?
Designing your new multi-family fitness space must also and imbue novice exercisers with a greater degree of confidence and comfort. We work very closely with our client to create and deliver the optimal exercise and movement experience, whether you require a new aquatic center in your university fitness space, or refurbishing the tiny fitness studio designated for your multi-family fitness space.
Explore functional fitness opportunities in your commercial fitness space.
With our specialized process, we can provide very realistic renderings of your custom facility while delivering a very strong sense of environment, accuracy and details.
Opti-Fit is the leader in fitness center design and supply. Over the last 20 years, the Opti-Fit team has worked with thousands of clients across the nation in the planning, execution, design and supply of their fitness amenity space.
Opti-Fit also partners with the top suppliers in the fitness industry integrating our process into the optimal user experience. We can help you and your exercise fitness space reach your ultimate potential for customer satisfaction, whether you manage a university exercise space or a commercial multi-family residential gym.
Pools and Gyms are Mandatory!
Breakthrough research on Today’s Renters and research released by Freddie Mac Multifamily finds growing segments of the population — Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in particular — showing much less interest in owning a home.
The survey finds half (50 percent) of Baby Boomers currently renting do not anticipate buying a home in the future, up eight points from 2016.
The latest “Profile of Today’s Renter” reveals that affordability remains the dominant factor driving renter behavior.
Multi-Family Rental Research:
50% Baby Boomers currently renting do not anticipate buying a home in the future
Of that 50 percent, 35 percent have no interest in owning
15 percent say they cannot afford to own but have some interest
19% of Gen Xers (aged 38-52) study respondents lacked interest in home homeownership
Read the whole Renters Report from Freddie Mac.
Rental satisfaction continues to run high across the country. A significant and growing majority of renters – 66 percent – are satisfied with the overall rental experience.
“America’s renters overwhelmingly see renting as more affordable and the right choice for them – right now,” said study author David Brickman, Executive Vice President and Head of Freddie Mac Multifamily groups.
Renting becomes a much more attractive option when the top three apartment amenities are met:
- Parking
- Pool(s)
- Residential gym
To retain tenants, attract high quality consumers and connect communities, provide your tenants, clients and customers with well-branded well-designed fitness centers with the perfect wide array of amenities.
Keep Up With Demands for Wellness
The National Multifamily Housing Council and Kingsley Associates last year surveyed approximately 120,000 renters at 3,280 apartment communities nationwide to gauge their interest in specific communal amenities. While on-site parking is everyone’s first request, these wellness and safety offerings are common demands:
83% want a pool on property
82% request a well-equipped fitness center
80% demand safe security access
67% want community Wi-Fi
47% look for a business center
If locations are more or less the same between competing properties, wellness and fitness amenities have a big impact in competitive rent pricing as well as tenant satisfaction.
The National Apartment Association (NAA) is the leading voice for the rental housing industry and a trusted partner and advocate committed to serving 160 affiliates, 75,000 member companies and the 9.25 million rental housing units globally
Perfect for group studios, dynamic training areas, flexibility zones, multi-family fitness centers or anywhere you need extra functional training, there are TRX setups created for every kind of innovative fitness center. Highly customizable, a TRX Suspension Training system includes anchoring and storage units that boost exercise functionality and mobility for every fitness level.
Suspension workouts require extra attention to body position, and the parts (and handles) zero in on the core muscles of your abdominals, obliques, mid-to-lower back, and even the butt muscles. When you work out and exercise your core on a regular basis, you do provide a strong and stable base for every movement in every other part of the body.
Ask your favorite personal trainer to provide a suspension-training workout, and get ready to pump it up!
Benefits of Suspension Training
TRX Suspension Training Systems also utilize and adapt to every square inch of your exercise facility or personal training studio. TRX Corner Units, for instance, include mounted TV and self-guided straps and add-ons for functional training, upper body, lower body,and always your core muscles.
This revolutionary training system with topnotch educational programming keeps challenging and adapting to the needs of today’s exerciser. TRX fitness expert teams work with thousands of athletes,coaches and physiologists to adapt every exercise machine or group fitness program to personalized fitness levels and safety modifications for home use or residential fitness.
To sculpt every major muscle group – especially your core muscles –TRX Suspension Training systems:
- Sculpt muscles faster, more efficiently
- Target your core muscles in every exercise
- Chisel your upper body in record time
- It’s time efficient; units set up in under five minutes
- TRX builds confidence and agility
TRX Units Save on Space and Time
Personalize your own training with TRX Suspension Training systems and using the personalized exercise prescription app for additional workouts. TRX Corner Units, for example, include mounted TV and/or self-guided exercise branding options for: mobility, functional training, upper body, lower body, and core muscles.
Challenge yourself to try Opti-Fit’s TRX Suspension Training equipment for home or for your commercial space. Ask about our unique staff training and fitness programming options at Opti-Fit, as well as education courses around our state-of-the-art group programming.
Fitness Equipment to Boost Performance
Help develop your athletes’ speed, power and agility with top-of-the-line training tools and sport-specific resistance machines.
Here’s how to maximize every athlete’s potential with innovative and highly customized fitness choices in athletic training centers – whether they are in colleges or multi-family residential gyms – the optimal training environment is attractive, comfortable and inspiring. It might be filled with proprietary equipment and properly placed mirrors, free Wi-Fi and innovative exercise machines that publicize your brand and the inherent personality of the commercial fitness facility.
The workhorses of the modern-day athletic training center will probably always be top-of-the-line sports specific cardio machines and innovative weight training machines. Yet, even these more straightforward choices help move your brand forward.
Whether you are training professional sports teams or future Olympians, your commercial fitness equipment options should closely reflect your brand, messaging and target audiences. Choose your resistance exercise tools and customized training methods very carefully – and mindfully. Allow your athletes to see, feel and track their progress every step of the way.
Below, we pinpoint 10 ways to stand out from the cardio and weight training crowd with careful selections of your favorite and most effective sport-specific training tools and other athletic-based, exercise accessories:
Top 10 List Athletic Performance Tools
1 Agility training tools, such as cones, small weighted balls and hurdles
2 Weights and weighted barbells, dumbbells and kettle bells
3 Pilate’s tools for core training, such as Pilate’s rings and chairs
4 TRX Training and unique fitness programming
5 High-end vibration trainers like Power Plate stations
6 Strength benches and weight racks from sports-specific strength vendors
7 Battle ropes, jump ropes, training ropes and lifting straps
8 Boxing bags and other martial arts athletic tools and strength attachments
9 Yoga blocks, straps and customized mats and training ropes for mind-body programming
10 Agility sleds and speed ladders for coordination, speed and explosive power (or plyometrics)
Attracting top athletes to a college athletic training center or offering innovations to your multi-family residential gym members always comes down to ensuring program success and the top quality of your training room equipment.
Ask about Opti-fit’s athletic training centers and our free commercial facility assessments today.
Modern Outdoor Fitness Stations
You may find all kinds of new, modern outdoor fitness stations along the walking paths, parks and trails near your home. If not today, then very soon. Neighborhood playgrounds are natural homes for commercial, recreational exercise machines, and they are now designed to incorporate all the elements of a well-rounded fitness routine (cardio, core, strength, flexibility) into outdoor fitness stations for users of all abilities and fitness levels.
Look closely: We offer innovative pieces of outdoor workout equipment to meet every community’s health and wellness goals. And if you can get your teens or older children to join you on the monkey bars or the balance beam, then you have accomplished even more than exercise. In or out of the gym, you’ve shown that there’s always a time and a place to schedule exercise for your own health and wellness.
Be an Exercise Role Model
Many parks and recreation departments across the country are investing big-time into playground fitness equipment for grownups, including everything from aquatic centers and new basketball courts to a tamper-proof steel bench press in the local park. With fitness machines and gear popping up in green spaces in parks great way to promote wellness and fight obesity with exercise equipment that’s social in nature, fun to use and accessible for almost everyone.
Your Ultimate Outdoor Recreation Equipment
Tougher than steel
Made of durable steel and plastic materials. The connections and resistance mechanisms are tamper-resistant We provide rugged and tamperproof multi-gyms for real exercisers designed with correct biomechanics in mind, plus they are weather-proofed and tested.
Available to the public
Our safe and highly functional machines can be installed almost anywhere, and they are attractive to all fitness levels – and at zero cost to you.
Build community
Meeting at the park to workout with friends on outdoor fitness multi-gyms gives members of your family and extended community access to safe, all-weather outdoor exercise.
Preventing injuries
You get a full body workout without risk of injury. Body weight exercises done in a circuit training format or within different cardio and strength stations can provide a complete workout – especially if you finish with a brisk walk or run around the park to torch more fat and calories.
Motivate and get moving
Outdoor recreational cardio and weight machines are helpful to seniors and kids who may be walking or playing in the park and need to step up their exercise efforts. Most of the year, it’s always more pleasant to work out outside if you can glean the same results.
All-Weather Commercial Equipment Options
Opti-fit Fitness Systems is a trusted source of commercial fitness equipment indoors and outdoors, and delivers commercial quality exercise equipment in a rugged, tamperproof and water-proof package. With numerous exercise machine options, these durable steel and hydraulic machines will turn your outdoor activity area into the next generation of parks or playgrounds for adults and their families. And you can’t do better than that.
Exercise “Experiences” in the Bay Area
The beautiful Bay Area’s new leader in health and wellness innovation, Well-Fit is inspired by the vibrant, forward-thinking regional community in Northern California – and the exceptional outdoor environment. The company specializes in creating unique and motivating exercise experiences where people live, work and play in a more natural, active community.
We help clients build and operate successful fitness businesses and fitness facilities for corporate wellness, commercial health clubs, and many more categories, says Well-Fit founder Warren Gendel. He and his team help clients build and operate successful outdoor and natural exercise businesses and top-of-the-line fitness facilities.
Specializing in Corporate Fitness
Our company boot camps, team building workshops and yoga classes energize employees. Our High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) programs kick it up a notch with a full-range of movement at a fast clip to accelerate goal achievement. Whether you’re improving strength, stamina, balance, flexibility, mobility, power or speed, you’ll see immediate, measurable results from these sessions.
Well-Fit facilities set to open in 2018
Our extensive portfolio features small-group group fitness and athletic training workouts that can be delivered onsite or offsite — anywhere the client wants to get people moving. Innovative fitness programs and classes include a lecture and workshop series to help employees learn about and maintain a healthier, fitter lifestyle.
Our Businesses are Build on Strong Partnerships
Based on your custom fitness facility goals and programming needs, the fleet of Well-Fit experts and designers will present detailed conceptual renderings. These renderings will then be developed into full-scale, 2D or 3D layouts to provide you with a complete picture of your future commercial fitness center.
Entrepreneur and founder of Well-Fit, Warren Gendel brings experience and expertise to help clients build and operate successful exercise businesses and fitness facilities for corporate wellness, commercial health clubs and residential health clubs and fitness programming. He says, “We offer operations reviews, day-to-day personnel management and proprietary technology systems to deliver solid results and return on investment.”
Portfolio of recent high-tech installations
Just as Opti-Fit has been doing for decades, Well-Fit also collaborates with clients, architects and project managers to maximize facility infrastructure and ensure appropriate space for equipment, mix of exercise modalities and your desired fitness experience.
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