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20 x July 5 — 18, 2018 x www.SouthwestOrlandoBulletin.com<br />

Where Members of All Ages<br />

Get Healthy Together<br />

It’s not a gym; it’s a place where<br />

you and your family can start your<br />

new path toward health.<br />

With four locations serving the<br />

Central Florida area, Fitness CF<br />

offers members the latest in fitness<br />

equipment; certified personal trainers;<br />

group exercise and spinning<br />

classes; extensive, supervised child<br />

care areas; and amenities that make<br />

your workout experience even more<br />

enjoyable.<br />

The experience begins as you are<br />

greeted walking in and immediately<br />

notice how clean the facilities are.<br />

Fitness CF recognizes that a full<br />

health experience includes a healthy<br />

environment, and the staff takes<br />

great pride in providing the cleanest,<br />

healthiest, most comfortable and<br />

up-to-date facilities for its members,<br />

including providing Air Oasis air<br />

purifiers.<br />

Fitness CF ownership is local, and<br />

owners are consistently in the gyms,<br />

seeking member input and ensuring<br />

they are always delivering the bestequipped,<br />

clean, family-friendly fitness<br />

experience. Surveys are sent to<br />

members regularly for facility feedback,<br />

and owner Pleasant Lewis<br />

even has his personal email posted<br />

in the facilities, so members can<br />

contact him.<br />

Variety of Amenities<br />

“Everyone who is coming into<br />

Fitness CF is trying to do something<br />

different, whether it is training, losing<br />

weight or rehab from an injury, and<br />

it’s our job to find out what it is to help<br />

them,” says Susan Adams, the facility’s<br />

area director. “We offer options<br />

for every fitness level, from beginning<br />

exercisers to elite athletes. Our team<br />

can assist with a low-impact workout<br />

designed specifically for seniors or<br />

demonstrate the right techniques for<br />

a high-intensity workout.”<br />

With locations in St. Cloud, Mount<br />

Dora, Clermont and Dr. Phillips, all<br />

ages are welcome to come through<br />

Fitness CF’s doors for any reason<br />

and find staff members there to<br />

help. Besides the latest in exercise<br />

equipment, members can also enjoy<br />

watching a movie while working out<br />

in the cardio theater, taking part in<br />

group fitness classes, or having private<br />

or small group training with the<br />

facility’s personal trainers.<br />

Other amenities include Hydro-<br />

Massage sessions, on-site tanning,<br />

infrared saunas, pro shops and<br />

smoothie bars, all to enhance members’<br />

experience. Each location also<br />

has women’s only workout areas<br />

and on-site child care that has an<br />

expansive play area/kiddie’s gym<br />

that is supervised by backgroundchecked,<br />

CPR-certified employees<br />

and that has live cameras, so you<br />

can check on your children while<br />

exercising.<br />

The gym experience is no longer<br />

all about lifting weights. Fitness<br />

CF has introduced new functional<br />

training areas and innovative new<br />

equipment, like Keiser Pneumatic<br />

Technology and Fit3D, a 3D body<br />

scan that shows, as Susan quotes,<br />

“every bump and lump in your<br />

body.”<br />

This scan helps target troublesome<br />

areas of your body where you and/<br />

or your personal trainer can help<br />

build through training. “It’s a great<br />

PROMOTIONAL FEATURE<br />

tool, especially if you are trying to<br />

achieve weight loss or reach some<br />

athletic goal. Not many facilities<br />

carry these in Central Florida, and<br />

we have these scans at all four of our<br />

facilities,” says Susan.<br />

It’s the People<br />

It’s not about just getting people in<br />

and out but developing relationships<br />

with the members to where they become<br />

a part of the Fitness CF family.<br />

Unlike many other health clubs,<br />

Fitness CF strives to have members<br />

actually use their memberships.<br />

People is what first drew Susan<br />

to the company to begin with. She<br />

started in community outreach and<br />

advertising and moved up during<br />

the past 12 years into corporate<br />

membership, management improvement<br />

and to her current position of<br />

area director. Now she is continuing<br />

the family ideal by hiring diverse<br />

employees and welcoming<br />

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members of all ages, from children to<br />

senior citizens in the Silver Sneakers<br />

program.<br />

“I like, more than anything, the<br />

people we have at Fitness CF,” she<br />

said. “For me, it’s the interactions<br />

with the staff and the members. It’s<br />

giving people the opportunity to<br />

live a healthier, more active life for<br />

around $1 per day.”<br />

Besides their most recent remodel<br />

at the Dr. Phillips location, which has<br />

been proudly serving the Dr. Phillips<br />

area for more than 15 years, what’s<br />

ahead for Fitness CF is continuing<br />

to help Central Florida get healthy<br />

and make lifestyle changes in a<br />

family-oriented atmosphere.<br />

“The public is becoming more<br />

educated, so it is a great time in fitness,”<br />

Susan said. “People are caring<br />

about the longevity of their lives<br />

and the future of their children, and<br />

it is neat to watch.”<br />

For more information, visit www.fitnesscfgyms.com. ª

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