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FIT Revitalizes San Francisco Fitness Community With 2,600 Square Feet of New and Renovated Space -- NIKE Partnership Is Integral.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1999--

FIT (Focus on Individual Training), located in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood, announces its grand opening on Monday, May 17, 1999.

FIT provides unique professional fitness programs designed to address the specific needs of each individual. Through a unique partnership with NIKE, FIT will offer SAQ SAQ Société des Alcools du Québec
SAQ Speed, Agility & Quickness (UK based movement training company)
SAQ Self Administered Questionnaire
SAQ Short Answer Question
SAQ Safety Attitudes Questionnaire
SAQ Self-Assessment Question
 (Speed, Agility and Quickness) and the NATC NATC Nevada Automotive Test Center
NATC Naval Air Test Center
NATC Nissan Advanced Technology Center (Japan)
NATC North American Title Count
NATC Nicolet Area Technical College (Wisconsin) 
 (NIKE Athletic Total Conditioning) training programs in a personalized fitness environment.

FIT will provide its clients with some of the most sought-after training services in its newly renovated, spacious facility -- 2,600 square feet of re-finished, spring-loaded hardwood flooring for a safer workout -- including the Bay Area's only Plyometric station for sport-specific training. A selection of group classes offered will include Spinning, Cardio Kickboxing Cardio Kickboxing is a sport specific equipment based fitness program created by Frank Thiboutot at The Bay Club in Portland, Maine in 1992. Having trained in boxing, Karate and Tae Kwon Do since the mid-sixties, Thiboutot switched to Full-Contact Karate, now known as , Astanga Yoga, Circuit Fitness and Strength Conditioning.

Clients can use the climbing rope, Swiss ball A Swiss ball is a ball constructed of elastic rubber with a diameter of around 35 to 85 cm (14 to 34 inches). It is used in physical therapy and exercise.

The Swiss ball is also known by a number of different names, including exercise ball, gym ball,
, or a resistance-based Theraband for effective training sessions. FIT clients will also benefit from the physical therapy, massage, and bodywork bodywork /body·work/ (-wurk?) a general term for therapeutic methods that center on the body for the promotion of physical health and emotional and spiritual well-being, including massage, various systems of touch and manipulation,  therapists on site, as well as from the range of specialized services offered by Sport & Spine's new satellite office at FIT. The NATC and SAQ group exercise classes will be provided throughout the day at FIT, from 6 a.m. through 6:30 p.m. FIT's personal training studio will feature state-of-the-art equipment manufactured by industry leaders Life Fitness and Hammer Strength.

Partners Mark Lobl, Kellie Turner and Nate Haas each bring a distinct expertise to FIT and have created a unique team of instructors who complement the structure and purpose of FIT. As an internationally recognized triathlete tri·ath·lete  
n.
One who competes in a triathlon.
, Mark Lobl is regularly consulted as an expert in triathlons and endurance training Endurance training is the deliberate act of exercising to increase stamina and endurance. Exercises for endurance tends to be aerobic in nature versus anaerobic movements. Aerobic exercise develops slow twitch muscles. . Kellie Turner offers a psychological understanding of the athlete, and specializes in the mind/body relationship. As a NIKE SAQ certified instructor, Nate Haas provides FIT with innovative classes intended to provide the best possible speed, agility and quickness training.

FIT (Focus on Individual Training) is located at 3212 Fillmore St. in San Francisco. For further information please contact Patricia Calfee at Gentry Communications at 415/332-2081, extension 301, or via email at pc@gentrycomms.com.
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