Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: A no-nonsense look at the often nonsensical world of fitness clubs.

Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: A no-nonsense look at the often nonsensical world of fitness clubs.: "A no-nonsense look at the often nonsensical world of fitness clubs.
By: Paul Scott; Photo Illustrations: Matt Mahurin

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A state-of-the-art health club recently opened in Rochester, Minnesota, where I live. A gleaming cathedral of exercise, it cost $22 million to build and features an expansive climate-controlled fitness floor beneath three-story ceilings and a soaring wall of windows. Like most American health clubs—a $17.6 billion industry made up of more than 29,000 clubs and 42.7 million members—the facility reserved its nerve center to house its greatest treasure: hundreds of futuristic and impossibly sleek cardio- and strength-training machines"

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