Private health clubs have come a long way from their humble beginnings just using dumbbells and medicine balls to build muscles.
Today, a modern health club is filled with high-tech exercise machines, endless rooms with instructor-led workout classes, steam rooms, lap pools, basketball courts and fully-stocked juice bars with healthy snacks.
Now, Summit Health and Fitness in Flagstaff has added new services through a partnership with Mountain Heart Cardiovascular amp; Sleep Research Institute.
It was an opportunity to move the fitness club to another level of personal training, said Tony Guistina, the general manager of the Summit Health and Fitness.
The marriage of the existing health club with the medical clinic across the street is expected to give members a more specialized regimen that focuses on the total health of the individual, not just great abs.
The two businesses will share the services of a registered dietitian to help offer free health and fitness assessments to members.
Physicians from Mountain Heart will also serve as an advisory board on developing new exercise classes catering to those with specific medical concerns. An example of a new class might be a yoga class aimed at pre-diabetics.
Guistina said with three exercise rooms available, the health club will not have to cut any existing classes.
Now we will able to do is to add specialized classes for different lifestyle management techniques, Guistina said.
Guistina, who helps train Olympic athletes, explains the same exercise regimen will work well for some but not others.
Mountain CEO Michael Zervas said his company already had ties to the health club through DeRosa Physical Therapy, which has offices on the second floor of Summit Fitness.
For the last year, DeRosa has been working with Mountain Heart patients to offer physical therapy as part of their preventive care.
The concept started when Carl came to me, probably two years ago, and started discussing comprehensive care from prevention to intervention and all the steps in between, Zervas said. This has been his vision for 30 years.
Sitting next to DeRosa, Zervas said the tried and true advice of a mix of cardio and weight training in addition to healthy diet is still good advice, but it needs to be tailored to the individual.
He noted that health problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and sleep problems need an individualized approach.
The diet that may work for me may not work for Tony and vice-versa, Zervas said.
The seminars, health screenings, fitness assessments and educational materials will be for members, although Zervas said the club will open its doors to the public in the future for at least some of the seminars.
Zervas believes the new program will serve as a model for other health clubs.
We are really trying to build a place where anyone from 19 to 62 can go in and build their own program, he said.
Joe Ferguson can be reached at 556-2253 or jferguson@azdailysun.com.
Summit Health and Fitness
1301 W. University Ave.
Flagstaff
(928) 774-3476
Club Hours:
Monday-Thursday
5 am to 10 pm
Friday: 5 am to 8 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 7 am to 7 pm
Source: http://www.drdot.tv/fitness-from-the-heart-summit-teams-with-mountain-heart/
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