Former travel warehouse transformed into functional fitness club
POSTED 07 Mar 2018 . BY Tom Walker
Gym Unique is co-owned by fitness enthusiast and former Geordie Shore star James Tindale Credit: Gym Unique
A quartet of fitness entrepreneurs have converted an industrial warehouse into a 13,000sq ft (1,200sq m) functional fitness-led health club with four exercise studios.
James Tindale, Kate Thorne, Chris Fairless and Aaron Arkley – who all have personal training experience – set up Gym Unique at the site of a former travel business in Durham.
Kitted out by Physical Company, the gym features a large, central rig with a range of attachments for functional training, as well as a wide range of strength and conditioning kit to provide options for personal training sessions.
There is also a 22mx4m sprint track, a bank of 20 cardio machines and four group exercise studios offering 70 classes a week.
The independently-owned gym will have a focus on personal training and will also offer sports injury rehabilitation and sports massages on site.
James Tindale, one of the co-owners, said: “Converting a travel warehouse gave us a generous footprint, high ceilings and a regular shape.
“We wanted to maximise the space but not fall into the trap of packing it out with too many cardio machines, preferring instead to install a big rig, some key resistance machines, plenty of free weights and a generous selection of functional training equipment.”
“One of my bugbears is cramped gym space where people can barely move around machines and each other.”
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to look back on the impact the pandemic had on the sector and what might come next.
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Former travel warehouse transformed into functional fitness club
POSTED 07 Mar 2018 . BY Tom Walker
Gym Unique is co-owned by fitness enthusiast and former Geordie Shore star James Tindale Credit: Gym Unique
A quartet of fitness entrepreneurs have converted an industrial warehouse into a 13,000sq ft (1,200sq m) functional fitness-led health club with four exercise studios.
James Tindale, Kate Thorne, Chris Fairless and Aaron Arkley – who all have personal training experience – set up Gym Unique at the site of a former travel business in Durham.
Kitted out by Physical Company, the gym features a large, central rig with a range of attachments for functional training, as well as a wide range of strength and conditioning kit to provide options for personal training sessions.
There is also a 22mx4m sprint track, a bank of 20 cardio machines and four group exercise studios offering 70 classes a week.
The independently-owned gym will have a focus on personal training and will also offer sports injury rehabilitation and sports massages on site.
James Tindale, one of the co-owners, said: “Converting a travel warehouse gave us a generous footprint, high ceilings and a regular shape.
“We wanted to maximise the space but not fall into the trap of packing it out with too many cardio machines, preferring instead to install a big rig, some key resistance machines, plenty of free weights and a generous selection of functional training equipment.”
“One of my bugbears is cramped gym space where people can barely move around machines and each other.”
Italian Exhibition Group – the organiser behind industry events Dubai Active and Dubai Muscle
Show – has been appointed to deliver the Health and Wellness Expo and Fire and Safety Expo at
the 16th World Firefighters Games.
It’s been five years since the fitness industry reopened after the last lockdown – long enough
to look back on the impact the pandemic had on the sector and what might come next.
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