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the homer horizon | August 15, 2019 | 7
Homer Glen resident operates his New Lenox gym for over a year
Provi alumnus
grows Galgano
Performance
Systems business
Sean Hastings
Contributing Editor
Just over a year ago,
Homer Glen resident and
Providence graduate Cam
Galgano opened his own
gym in New Lenox.
Galgano Performance
Systems celebrated its
one-year anniversary June
3, and for Galgano, who
was not a business major,
rather an exercise science
major, it has been a fun
learning curve.
“It’s been awesome, especially
seeing from the
grassroots level, ground
level and seeing it have
over 100 athletes come
in,” Galgano said. “We’ve
got to work with kids from
[Lincoln-Way] West, [Lincoln-Way]
Central, Provi
and it’s been cool. I think
it’s set us up for some
years to come.”
While a lot of the clients
at GPS are athletes in
high school or college, it is
open to adults or anyone
looking to train.
Owning his own gym
was somewhat of a dream
for Galgano, who thought
it would come true when
he was in his 30s. But
after interviewing for an
internship his senior year
of college, he realized
it could happen much
sooner.
“I went for a job interview
in Arizona at another
gym that is starting
to grow, and I thought,
‘I think I could do this at
home; right away when I
got back, I looked into getting
the LLC, but finding
the building was the hardest
part.”
Homer Glen resident Cam Galgano coaches some of the clients Aug. 2 at his Galgano Performance Systems Gym in New Lenox. Sean
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Located at 1024 S. Cedar
Road, GPS offers a
variety of training packages
which can be viewed
at trainatgps.com. The
gym includes free weights,
weight racks, medicine
ball training and a carpeted
area for different agility
exercises.
No one is tied down to
their memberships and can
adjust it month-to-month.
Galgano said he never
wants to pigeonhole anyone.
For the first year, it was
only Galgano running the
show, but he added one
more trainer to his team
at the beginning of June.
Zach Speaker, who was
training at GPS when it
opened, is the only other
trainer at GPS.
“I came in to workout
during the winter, and Cam
and I were talking about
me maybe working here
in the future way down
the road,” Speaker said. “I
didn’t think it was a serious
thought at the time,
and then he called me one
day and asked if I wanted
to get trained and certified
and work here. I studied
for a long time, passed the
test and now I train here
ever since.”
Galgano said the two
will help work with people’s
certain goals. They
will give them an initial
assessment, find their
strengths and weaknesses
and put that into their
workout program.
“Anybody who has a
specific goal, that is who
were are looking for,” Galgano
said. “Anyone who is
looking to train, work hard
and have a goal and want
to complete that goal is
who we want.”
The most rewarding part
throughout the first year is
seeing his clients grow.
“There’s nothing better
than a kid who comes
in, scrawny, maybe not
the best athlete, but then
through the course of a
month, maybe a year, the
work they put in comes
to fruition,” Galgano said.
“There is nothing better
than to go see them play
and see them succeed.”