Friday, March 30, 2012

Fit for Success: New Health Club Opens in North Attleboro

By Caroline McBride for The Sun Chronicle
Published Sunday, February 12, 2012
NORTH ATTLEBORO - Attleboro High School graduate Eric Yeghian remembers working at State Line Scrap for $4 an hour as a young boy.

Now the president of Vikon Properties Corp., Yeghian's recent real-estate developments have created 22 jobs in the last three months.

Yeghian invested $1 million into his newest development, Olympic Fitness, which opened in October.

The Cumberland resident decided to take advantage of "wonderful commercial space" to open his first fitness club.

Olympic Fitness at 749 South Washington St. (Route 1), has taken over the site of the former Fitness Plus and Gold's Gym location near Showcase Cinemas.
Various weights are available at Olympic Fitness. Photo by John Ochiltree / For The Sun Chronicle)
The full-amenity health club charges members $25 per month with no money down. Members can access free motion weight machines, free weights and a racquetball court. The 28 pieces of cardio equipment include iPod docks and 17-inch television screens.

Members can find more fitness opportunities on the second floor of the facility. Upstairs they will find a 60-foot long turf track, a spinning room equipped with 16 spin bikes, and another weight-lifting area with increased privacy.

The men's locker room includes a sauna and the women's includes a steam room.

Olympic Fitness also offers a separate TRX membership, a higher-intensity program for members seeking a challenge.

The gym has an 800-square-foot room designated to TRX, which includes a 15-foot TRX "S" frame. In this program, members make use of their own body weight to build muscle.

The program, used by professional athletes and Navy SEALs, develops strength, balance, flexibility and core stability through various resistance exercises.
Membership in the TRX Program, which lasts four weeks, costs $120 and includes two classes per week, a total of eight classes a month. In addition, members have unlimited use of the TRX room during these four weeks.

The facility offers relief for members with aches and pains. An on-staff massage therapist is available to members by appointment, for $50 an hour. Beginning this month, Northern Rhode Island Physical Therapy will open a location within the gym.

"It's keeping with the overall concept of full luxury at a discount price," Yeghian said.

North Attleboro resident Robb McCoy, who works alongside Yeghian as manager of Olympic Fitness, has a background in fitness. McCoy has worked as a personal trainer in the past and has coached at Curry College and Bishop Feehan and Norton high schools.

The gym is open Monday through Thursday 5 a.m to 10 p.m, Friday from 5 a.m to 9 p.m, and weekends from 7 a.m to 7 p.m.

For more information, visit http://www.olympicfitnessma.com/, or call 508-689-9110.


FIt for Success in The Sun Chronicle by Caroline McBride

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