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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