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Feb 6

Downsize Fitness Offers Workouts For Its Overweight Clientele

Posted: Feb. 5, 2012 | 8:11 p.m.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2012 | 8:19 a.m.

If you want nothing more than to work out among the hardest of hard bodies in a sea of treadmills and tiny tank tops, Downsize Fitness isn't the gym for you. In fact, new members need not apply unless they carry at least 50 pounds of excess body weight.

This gym caters to obese people trying to change their lifestyles, not vain people trying to maintain 4 percent body fat.

"If you go to a gym where everyone is running faster than you and lifting more than you," says Francis Wisniewski, Downsize Fitness owner, "you have a hard time coming back the next day."

That was Wisniewski's experience as a 360-pound man trying to shed more than 100 pounds in a sexy, supersized gym. He felt anything but comfortable. When you're sweating and not exactly looking your best, he says, it can make for a very unpleasant experience.

It wasn't until his business partner (Wisniewski runs a hedge fund) hired him a personal trainer that he started to drop the weight. The self-consciousness and intimidation vanished and so did 60 pounds in 14 months.

The businessman in him got to thinking. "If I was that way about gyms, and guys don't have it nearly as bad as women, I knew there had to be other people like me," he says.

Together, with his trainer Chris Gowens, he opened two Downsize Fitness gyms in October, one in Chicago and one in Las Vegas.

The gym on Buffalo Drive could easily go unnoticed. In a small shopping center across from a law office and deli, Downsize Fitness enjoys the same inconspicuousness members hope for while working out.

The heart of the 2,500-square-foot gym is a room that has made no effort to glamorize its look. Mirrors cover the walls and televisions perch above members. Treadmills, stationary bicycles, elliptical machines and workout benches fill one half of the space while heavy ropes, kettle balls, ab rollers and boxing gloves litter the other half.

Only two types of memberships are available. For $300 a month, members have unlimited use of a personal trainer at the gym. For $75 a month, members have access to the facility. Neither require a contract.

The $75 membership appeals to those who strictly want an obese-friendly workout environment. The $300 membership is for people who want or need someone to hold them accountable for their fitness regimen.

These are the members that have given Gowens a renewed interest in training. Before his work with Wisniewski and Downsize Fitness, he trained clients whose goals consisted of trimming those stubborn 15 pounds or carving four-pack abs into six-pack abs or just beginning sentences with "My personal trainer says ... " Once the client reached his or her goal, they went their separate ways and forgot about each other. His work became so redundant that Gowens took a long hiatus from training before Wisniewski came along.

That's when his work turned from predictable to profound.

"I'm adding years to their life," says Gowens, referring to obese clients in general. "I'm not just impacting their life, but the life of their friends and family, too."

With all the health risks that accompany obesity, a trip to the gym for these folks translates to something far more meaningful than a pair of "skinny jeans." The most rewarding part, Gowens says, comes with witnessing clients achieve what they previously perceived as the unachievable.

The gym, which has 10 members, focuses on fostering a community vibe. A dry-erase board posted on a wall behind the exercise equipment specially built for overweight people (with the lowest of impact on knees and ankles) makes every day at Downsize Fitness a competitive one.

Just beneath the quote of the week ("What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson) members can find results of the day. This is where trainers post records for the fastest mile, most pounds dropped, most body fat percentage dropped and most pushups in one minute. The best performing members are identified by a nickname.

Downsize Fitness is running a competition in which the member -- from both gyms combined -- who loses the highest percentage of body weight by June wins $25,000. Somehow, the wall of daily fitness results serves as more inspiration than the cash prize.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, 29-year-old Bridget Post, aka IGoHard, had just learned her time for fastest mile got knocked out of first place.

"I have to beat her," she says, her chest still heaving from her workout.

Post works with trainer Nikka Salifu six days a week. They work out a diet plan together and Post even texts Salifu from restaurants for help with the healthiest menu options. Since taking her diet into consideration, Post has lost 8 pounds in three weeks. Before that, she had lost 5 pounds since joining in November. She hopes to shed 65 pounds, a goal she can visualize since joining Downsize.

"I never liked going to the gym because they're so big," she says. "And when you feel a certain way about yourself, and everyone weighs 100 pounds, it feels like everyone is staring at you."

So, what happens when Post drops the remaining 52 pounds? She can stay on at Downsize Fitness, but she'll perform her workouts in a red shirt that signifies a 100 percent weight-loss goal fulfillment. A yellow shirt represents 25 percent, green represents 50 percent and blue represents 75 percent.

"It's like martial arts, people moving their level up," Gowens says. "It's a way of incorporating people who lose all their weight while still keeping everyone comfortable."

Contact feature writer Xazmin Garza at xgarza@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0477. Follow her on Twitter @startswithanx.

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Feb 6

Zumba Fitness, LLC Shapes Up Global Business Operations With NetSuite OneWorld

SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE:N - News), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that Zumba Fitness, LLC has adopted NetSuite OneWorld to manage its worldwide operations and support dynamic growth. NetSuite OneWorld replaced three software systems including Salesforce.com, QuickBooks, and a custom-built ERP system as well as hundreds of spreadsheets. With NetSuite OneWorld, Zumba Fitness is able to manage key business operations in order to meet end-to-end business needs. Zumba Fitness relies on NetSuite OneWorld for global financial consolidation, customer relationship management, inventory management, order management and fulfillment, warehouse management, payment processing, analytics and reporting. NetSuite OneWorld also allows Zumba Fitness and it's more than 12 million class participants in 125 countries to check and track order and return statuses, and update account information via the customer center. Thanks to NetSuite OneWorld's real-time visibility and suite approach, Zumba Fitness can analyze the profitability of the business, monitor the performance of each subsidiary, and have a real-time view of its overall business performance.  

Based in Hallandale, Fla., Zumba Fitness is a global lifestyle brand that fuses fitness, entertainment and culture into an exhilarating dance fitness-party workout. Since its introduction in 2001, the Zumba program has grown to become one of the world's largest and most successful dance-fitness programs, with more than 12 million people taking weekly Zumba classes in over 110,000 locations globally. Zumba Fitness grew virtually overnight into an international sensation and continues to grow in 2012. The tremendous success prompted the executives at Zumba Fitness' to choose NetSuite OneWorld as an international, integrated and eminently scalable solution for the brand in order to contend with its next stage of growth.

By switching to NetSuite OneWorld, Zumba Fitness now has complete visibility into its order management process, and seamless integration with third-party logistics (3PL) partners. Zumba Fitness also has deeper insight into the progress and performance of its global network of instructors and millions of class participants, and can offer tailored solutions and innovative promotions, backed by the robust NetSuite OneWorld platform. NetSuite OneWorld's multi-language and multi-currency support are ideally suited to Zumba's international clientele, which has enthusiasts in virtually every nation on Earth.

"NetSuite OneWorld was the solution we felt could scale with the international growth we are experiencing at Zumba Fitness," said Roberto Moreno, Chief Financial Officer for Zumba Fitness . "By eliminating our tangled, underpowered applications and moving to the NetSuite cloud, we are well positioned for growth in the years to come."

Today, more than 10,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud ERP suites for divisions of large enterprises and mid-sized organizations seeking to upgrade their antiquated client/server ERP systems. NetSuite excels at streamlining business operations, as demonstrated by a recent Gartner study naming NetSuite as the fastest growing financial management systems vendor in the world. NetSuite has continued its success in delivering the best cloud ERP/financial suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud is accelerating.

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Feb 6

24 Hour Fitness Celebrates Grand Opening of New Rohnert Park Super-Sport Club with Mayoral Proclamation

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

24 Hour Fitness is excited to celebrate the grand opening of its new club located at 6345 Commerce Blvd. in Rohnert Park, Calif. The 24 Hour Fitness®Rohnert Park Super-Sport club will open at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11 for workouts. To celebrate the much-anticipated opening, a ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. with Rohnert Park Vice Mayor Pam Stafford, who will proclaim the day “Healthy Rohnert Park Day.”

“The Bay Area has been the home to 24 Hour Fitness for nearly 30 years and we are proud to open our first club in Rohnert Park; providing those who live, work and play in the area with access to an inspiring personal training staff, exhilarating Group X® classes and state-of-the-art equipment,” said Dan Benning, division president, 24 Hour Fitness. “We are thrilled to have the city’s support as we celebrate ‘Healthy Rohnert Park Day’ on behalf of our grand opening, and look forward to helping even more people achieve their fitness goals for years to come.”

24 Hour Fitness invites everyone in the community to stop by the new club for VIP tours and to join the festivities on Feb. 11.

6 a.m. – Club opens for workouts and VIP tours begin 11 a.m. – Ribbon cutting and proclamation with Vice Mayor Pam Stafford All day – Guests will have the opportunity to sample several Group X classes including Zumba®, Les Mills BODYPUMP®, BODYCOMBAT® and RPM®.

The opening of the 24 Hour Fitness Rohnert Park Super-Sport club is part of several reinvestments the company has made in existing Bay Area locations including its clubs in Larkspur, Petaluma and Downtown Oakland - all which were recently renovated. Just last year, the company opened new facilities in Sunnyvale and Pleasanton, and expanded its Santa Rosa location. In 2011, 24 Hour Fitness also broke ground with Hall Equities Group and the City of Walnut Creek where the company anticipates the opening of its new 24 Hour Fitness Walnut Creek Super-Sport location later this year.

“We are excited to welcome 24 Hour Fitness to Rohnert Park and look forward to seeing our residents continue to pursue and live active lifestyles,” said Vice Mayor Stafford. “Bringing a fitness leader like 24 Hour Fitness into our community is also a sign that Rohnert Park is a great place to grow a business.”

John-Paul Scirica will oversee approximately 60 team members as club manager of the new facility which will span more than 42,000 square feet. The club will also feature a wide variety of amenities and services for members and guests to enjoy, including:

State-of-the-art cardio, strength and functional training equipment with personal viewing screens on select machines Functional training area with TRX® Suspension Training Cycle and Group X rooms Full-sized basketball court Outdoor lap pool Whirlpool, steam room and sauna Kids’ Club babysitting service for children ages six months up to 12 years to enjoy activities while their parents work out Retail shop Towel service

To try 24 Hour Fitness, members of the community can download a free pass at 24hourfitness.com.

About 24 Hour Fitness

Headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., 24 Hour Fitness is a leading health club industry pioneer, serving nearly four million members in approximately 420 clubs across the U.S. Founded in 1983 as a one-club operation, the company is dedicated to helping members change their lives and reach their individual fitness goals. With convenient club locations, personal training services, innovative group exercise classes and a variety of strength, cardio and functional training equipment - 24 Hour Fitness offers fitness solutions for everyone.

Through its support of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and many U.S. National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport, 24 Hour Fitness is one of the largest supporters of amateur athletics in the country and will serve as the Official Fitness Center Sponsor of the 2012 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams. The company is committed to being a good neighbor in its communities via charitable and in-kind donations to groups focused on both helping Americans get healthy and improving youth fitness. The company’s national accreditation from the Better Business Bureau, which includes A+ ratings for all club locations across the U.S., demonstrates the organization’s ongoing commitment to member satisfaction. Please call 1-800-224-0240 or visit 24hourfitness.com for more information and to find the club nearest you.

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