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Hey guys,
Me, my family, my best friend and his family have been looking for a better place to raise our kids. New Hampshire, more specifically Manchester, is where we have decided on.He is currently running a gym in Chicago and I'm in Phoenix. We are both personal trainers with years of experience. Our life long dream is to open a gym and we finally believe we are ready to do so. We are heading to manchester in a month on a tight budget and we won't have a ton of time to look around before we have to head home..
If anyone had some General ideas on locations that could use a gym we would really appreciate it! If we receive info that helps us we will be giving out a free year membership. Thanks a lot for any thoughts or advice
Great - I'm looking for a decent place to train. I think as long as a gym has enough equipment and good equipment (bars that don't bend), good lifters can fill it with atmosphere. Maybe it can have an industrial type feel. Hopefully it will be affordable too!
Funny, we were just talking last night about the differences in fitness centers in southern NH, and how the 'one size fits all' gyms seem to offer a wide variety of options--multiple locations, plenty of cardio machines (stair masters, treadmills, elipticals, etc), spinning rooms, a large room area for the step class/aerobics junkies, and of course child care. The problem is that they when you offer everything, you tend not to do any one thing well. They might offer yoga-type classes, but instructors are working right along with the class, they are speaking instructions but not walking around the classroom to help beginners with positioning, breathing etc. as you would find in a yoga studio. Same with cardio-kickbox type classes--I see people over extending (since they're not hitting a bag) then wondering why elbows and knees are hurting! I can't even imagine attempting something like a Cross-Fit class in this type of environment.
I've often wondered if there would be a market in southern NH for the type of gym that I belonged to when we lived in Massachusetts, which had indoor/outdoor pools, tennis, racketball, etc. (google Cedardale in Haverhill/Ward Hill, MA for more info).
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Not as much as where we are coming from, so we gather anyway. We run things different and feel we have something new to offer. Wew will see:-)
I volunteer at the YMCA in Nashua and can say that , at least for us, a babysitting area is very popular. Not just during the day but right up until 8 PM.
They have yoga, zumba and fitness programs that adults can participate in while their kids are being watched.
I don't know if you just want a workout gym for single adults but it seems to me that a lot of people will participate if they can get away from their kids for a while.
Well this could be one more thing to add to the growing area. It sounds pretty good.
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