19th Street Gym Closes & Naturally Intense NYC Personal Training Services Moves to Synergy!
19th Street Gym Closes Its Doors & Naturally Intense NYC Personal Training Services Moves to Synergy!
19th Street Gym Formerly Better Bodies Closes Its Doors.
It is with great sadness that I announce that the 19th Street Gym, formerly known as Better Bodies is indeed closed and gone for good. As one of the few remaining independently owned gyms in New York City and one of the last hardcore training facilities in Manhattan, its passing is more than a singular sorrow. Naturally Intense NYC Personal Training Services was based out of the 19th Street Gym since January of 2009 and I selected it as my base of operations because of the great equipment, great staff and the high quality of personal trainers working in that establishment.
19th Street Gym Was A Great Spot For Those Serious About Training
With a wide range of truly first class equipment, 19th Street was the place to train for everyone from professional bodybuilders to famous actors and rap stars. Even more importantly, the atmosphere was really one conducive to serious training, an element missing in so many gym chains today. It’s abrupt closing left many feeling somewhat cheated, as the former 19th Street Gym staff were selling two year memberships right up to the day that the gym closed its doors, but to their defense, the first thing that they said to me when I spoke to them was how badly they felt about selling people memberships right before the closing. From what it seems, they were as much in the dark as anyone else as to the precarious financial situation of the 19th Street Gym and were very much concerned with their own reputation being tarnished as a result. My heart goes out to them, and to all the great members of the 19th Street Gym. The people that trained there were a really great mix, and as I mentioned before, the personal trainers that worked out of the gym were very much top notch. Losing a place that you train can often make you feel like you have lost a home, but I have to give it to the folks at Synergy Gym at 138 West 14th Street- they really did show a tremendous amount of hospitality in opening their doors to me and my personal training clients, as well as all the former members of 19th Street Gym.
Many Former 19th Street Gym Members Are Now At Synergy Gym on 14th Street
Synergy is honoring a portion of all memberships at 19th Street Gym, in addition to giving all former 19th Street Gym members the opportunity to come in and try the place out before making any long term commitments. So far most of the personal trainers from 19th Street and their clients have moved over, in addition to many former 19th Street Gym members as well. Synergy Gym is most certainly a top rated facility with an excellent range of equipment and a great atmosphere as well, and it was a huge relief to be able to find an independent gym with those qualities so close to my old headquarters. So far almost all of my personal training clients have made the jump and they love it at Synergy. What I like as well, is that when I look around, I still see many of the great people that were at the 19th Street Gym, and so it feels like home already. Stop in and check it out if you are in the neighborhood and tell them that Kevin sent you!
138 West 14th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
NYC Personal Trainer Kevin Richardson is the most sought after personal trainers in New York City, a lifetime drug free bodybuilding champion and the founder of the Naturally Intense System of Diet & Exercise™. His high intensity 10 minute workouts have been helping people get better results in less time for the past 19 years! Get a copy of his free weight loss e-book here!
