Hour of Power (Pontardawe, South Wales)
Pontardawe, Wales in the United Kingdom is a small town of around 5,000 inhabitants. Pontardawe boasts a cricket team, a rugby club as well as a small but loaded gym: Hour of Power. Hour of Power is not new the area, the gym has been well-established for years but has undergone a radical transformation since 2016 when Chris Daniels took over the place and asked buddy Doug Steele to help out with the marketing. “Hour of Power was...
Chris Costner (Newport, Tennessee)
In 2009, long-time Body-Solid customer Chris Costner’s life was turned upside down. Now, he’s ready to get back into the home gym he first started in 1996. Costner, who lives 50 miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee in the town of Newport, first began using Body-Solid in 1996 with his first piece being the GSRM40 Seated Row Machine. In 2009—after years of using the equipment and staying in tip-top shape—Costner’s life...
PKV Personal Training (Dublin, Ireland)
Today we’re featuring a gym across the ocean from Body-Solid’s home in Forest Park, Illinois: PKV Personal Training located in Walkinstown, a Southside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The owner, Peter K. Vaughan, began as a PT four years ago and opened his own facility (PKV Personal Training) in May 2015. “I have always had an interest in the human body and how we have the power to shape and create what we like from...
Personal Trainer Michael Blauner (New Jersey)
In 1986, Michael Blauner, a trainer at a gym in Hawthorne, New Jersey visited California with some friends. After a few weeks hanging around California’s famed gym scene—even meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger along the way—Blauner knew individual personal training and being his own boss was the ultimate goal and dream. Since that fateful trip over 30 years ago, Blauner has been living his dream each and every day. Only 24 years old...
Body Blueprint (Bloomington, Illinois)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt The above quote from Eleanor Roosevelt sums up Vanessa Sobin and Bloomington, Illinois’ Body Blueprint. Sobin—a graduate of the National Personal Training Institute in 2010—opened her beautiful new facility in early December 2017 and is already looking at a big future. “I want Body Blueprint to become the best personal...
Work Harder: Woodmore High School Adds Body-Solid to Athletics Facility
Woodmore High School, home of the Wildcats, recently worked with Body-Solid to outfit their athletics gym with a wide array of brand-new Body-Solid equipment including Body-Solid SPR500BACK Extended Half Racks and SFID425 Commercial Benches. Woodmore added a number of additional Body-Solid products including: OB86 Olympic Bars, KBS275 Kettlebell Set, GDKR100 Dumbbell/KB Rack, SDRS550 Rubber Dumbbell Set, GDR60 Dumbbell Rack, BSTSPBOX...