Enjoy the Good Life; Fitness club prepares to open second Sudbury location

New Sudbury can soon enjoy the Good Life; Fitness club prepares to open second Sudbury location
Posted By Carmichael, Harold
Posted 15 days ago

The South End has one. Soon, the east end - New Sudbury - will have a Good Life Fitness Club too.

To be known as the Lasalle Coed Club, the club will be take up the entire new strip mall constructed on Lasalle Boulevard just east of Inspiring Interiors by Barton's.

"It's the whole building," said Trevor Mielke, general manager at the Southridge Mall Good Life Fitness club and divisional manager for Northern Ontario. "Everything is going to be very, very similar. There will be new machines. There will be a women-only section. A lot of our larger clubs have a women-only section. There will be group exercise, a cycling section, the same amount of cardio and free weights (as the Southridge club), children monitoring and tanning."

The new club will have 24,000 square feet to work with - 3,000 more than the Southridge Mall club.

The Southridge Mall Good Life Fitness Club opened in late 2006 and has some 4,000 members.

Mielke said the new club could open its doors sometime this summer - likely August. He said it made good business sense to open a Good Life Fitness Club in New Sudbury.

"We have been getting a good outpouring of e-mails to our head office asking 'when are we opening one in New Sudbury?' "

Mielke said the new club will have one very unique feature - a 30-foot-high ceiling.

"I have a feeling the new club will have that warehousy feeling," he predicted.

There are almost 150 Good Life Fitness Clubs across Canada. The company's headquarters is in London, Ont.