Having a gym located at your facility can act as a keystone of your multi-family community; if it is done right. Whether it be in the workplace, or on the home front; Opti-Fit will help you to create the community atmosphere your users are looking for.
Engaging the participants in your community is a meaningful way to build bonds within the community as well as a sense of belonging. When workers and residents feel like they belong they are less likely to search for new homes, jobs, or communities where they feel accepted.
Opti-Fit is the premier fitness equipment dealer in California and Nevada, offering the best brand names in fitness equipment, including Matrix Fitness, Dynamic Fitness and Strength, Start Trac, Atlantis Fitness and much more. Opti-Fit also provides a number of services including design, maintenance, and enhancement products to increase the use of your gym facilities. The special financing options available from Opti-Fit will keep your annual budget in the black when you update or install a new gym.
How It Works
Deciding to update equipment or install new amenity services is a big decision, when you partner with Opti-Fit all of your interests are covered.
• You will first receive a consultation to be sure everyone on the same page as far as vision and expectations.
• From here, specific services, designs, and equipment will be chosen for your facility.
• Next, financing options will be reviewed.
• Last, Opti-Fit will get to work on your project right away.
Why Choose Opti-Fit
Opti-Fit is dedicated to serving communities of all types through the introduction and oversight of health programs. Here are some of the benefits you experience by using Opti-Fit to fill your fitness center needs.
• Experience
– Opti-Fit has been helping organizations with fitness center for over 27 years.
• Dependability
– When you enter into a partnership with Opti-Fit, you can expect comprehensive options with the best price points on the market.
• Reliability
– Opti-Fit provides fitness equipment service and preventative maintenance agreements.
Opti-Fit will help you build a healthy and sustainable community at your multi-family complex or other facility. Opti-Fit will work with you to find the best solutions that fit your vision and budget. Visit the Opti-Fit’s website, or give us a call today at 888-601-4350, to find out about the fall financing options available.
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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Although a great fitness center can help attract and retain residents, a number of multifamily property owners who have invested large sums to install fitness centers are frustrated to see them underutilized. One major development trend nationwide is an emphasis on building community, whether it be through communal spaces, on-site events or a multifunctional app with a communication platform. At the same time, group fitness classes like CrossFit, SoulCycle and yoga continue to grow their devoted bases. Savvy multifamily property managers have begun to realize that merging the two can fill their gyms. These are the top five things property managers can do to foster a sense of community.
1. Incorporate Networked Fitness Equipment
Networked fitness equipment leverages technology to integrate group classes, personal training, contests and more. Opti-Fit partners with Matrix, which has a platform with a social feed that allows members to collectively motivate and congratulate each other on meeting milestones. It can promote gym awareness, engagement and social connections. The platform can capture data from fitness trackers and smart equipment, or import fitness logs from other sites so individuals are spared manual data re-entry. Through the app, members can get guest passes, push notifications, and class and gym schedules.
2. Provide Equipment That Promotes Group Training
One of the surest ways to activate and mobilize a fitness center is to provide equipment that allows for group and class-based training, such as the customized TRX Studio Line, indoor group cycles and yoga mats. Property managers can schedule and tailor group workouts to have broad appeal and cater to all ages, interests and abilities. This can mean regularly offering beginner or introductory classes while varying the intensity, modality and targeted muscle groups of workouts. Keeping track of attendance and distributing surveys to residents can help programmers determine members’ favorite teachers and styles. Classes beamed to TVs with virtual instructors are becoming increasingly popular, especially where real trainers are in short supply. A subscription to online classes can be a cost-effective way to incorporate group fitness, though participants may not get the same level of individualized attention.
3. Employ A Wellness Director
Fitness directors are responsible for ascertaining residents’ workout preferences and designing a suitable schedule of classes. They can also help with gym upkeep and ensure it continues to meet residents’ needs. This director’s salary can be passed along to residents in the form of an incremental rent bump.
4. Offer On-Site Personal Training
Working with an on-site trainer is convenient for residents and great for beginners and people with injuries or other limitations. Trainers can help people lift with proper form, learn new exercises to do independently, create a weekly exercise regimen and, when appropriate, provide nutritional support.
5. Sponsor Contests For Residents
Healthy competition is one of the best ways to make fitness engaging and fun. Equipment like Expresso Bikes use mounted screens to offer an immersive experience, display a live leaderboard and give bikers access to a number of challenges. Wellness directors can host pushup, pull-up, plank or even hula-hoop competitions to spark people’s competitive drives. They can also simulate a “Walk Across America” race series with treadmills, or a leg-burning “climb the Empire State Building” with climbers. They can open the contest to an entire market to attract new tenants. They can also charge a nominal entry fee and donate the proceeds to a local charity.
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Fitness centers are still a must-have in any community, according to the National Apartment Association. They are the most upgraded community-wide amenity since 2014, and J Turner Research found that 46% of tenants are willing to pay a premium for centers with classes. Installation costs can thus be conveyed to residents in the form of higher rents and quickly recouped.The inclusion of well-designed centers can foster tenant interaction and cohesion, making them a property manager’s weapon of choice in today’s amenity wars. The fitness center has transformed dramatically over the decades, and an obsolete space can be a serious detriment to an apartment complex’s appeal. The fitness solution specialists at Opti-Fit shared what they perceive to be the four hallmarks of truly exceptional spaces.
1. Conscientiously designed
Conscientious professional design has become paramount as exercisers’ preferred workout modalities grow increasingly diverse and exotic. Multifamily gym footprints are often compressed to accommodate other amenities, so maximizing versatility and usability is key.
Pros accomplish this with multi-functional, movable equipment tailored to the gym’s layout. Opti-Fit’s approach emphasizes providing for all ages and experience levels to democratize the space and maintain ADA compliance.
Opti-Fit’s team partners with architects, interior designers and contractors for comprehensively delivered spaces. It uses 3D technology to ensure results meet expectations, and its renderings can be used in marketing materials and investor presentations.
2. Reflective of trends
Adapting the fitness center to various workout types has historically entailed designating certain areas for cardio, stretching and weight training, but now necessitates adding yoga, cycling and functional training areas.
Segregating these activities can prevent injuries caused by exerciser free-for-all, and imbue novice exercisers with a greater degree of confidence and comfort. Circuit trainers should be able to make their way through the gym predictably.
3. Customized and branded
The importance of branding visibility cannot be overstated. By using easily recognized, top-of-the-line equipment, multifamily groups can differentiate themselves from competing apartments. Opti-Fit favors Matrix, Star Trac, Nautilus, Stairmaster, Schwinn and TRX.
Similarly, property managers proud of their gyms can plaster their own logo and colors around the space, drawing attention to the people maintaining and providing the gym. This can promote retention and loyalty.
4. Full of light, ambiance and outdoor space
Fitness centers should not be utilitarian, windowless, fluorescently lit and predominantly concrete. Many exercisers want a more lifestyle-oriented, relaxing atmosphere that motivates and makes exercise a pleasure rather than a chore.
Incorporating outdoor space (if climate permits) and natural light by taking advantage of sweeping views on a top floor can help accomplish this.
Opti-Fit stresses and commits to the upkeep of fitness centers, and manages them with routine maintenance, safety checks, equipment forecasting and asset replenishment recommendations.
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