Personal training.
Ten minutes from Bonita Beach Road.

In eighteen months Bonita Springs lost Crunch Fitness, LA Fitness, Anytime Fitness on Old 41 and Alloy Personal Training, and gained Gold's Gym and Athletica. The two new clubs are genuinely good at what they do: courts, classes, childcare, a sauna, and a door that opens at any hour. If what you want is a well-equipped room and you are the kind of person who turns up without being asked, join one of them and we will cheer you on. We wrote a plain-spoken guide to every gym in Bonita Springs so you can compare them properly.

What the closures took away was the other kind of place. Alloy was the only studio in Bonita where somebody programmed your training and watched you do it, and nothing has replaced it inside the city. That is the gap we fill from ten minutes down the road. Galaxy Fit Lab is one 2,500 square foot studio run by its owner, who holds an Exercise Science degree, the NSCA's CSCS credential and a USA Weightlifting coaching certification, and who is on the floor for every session. Groups never exceed four people, so every set gets looked at, and private sessions are one on one for the full hour.

The training itself is built around the lifts that matter as you get older, the squats, hinges, presses, pulls and carries, with conditioning and mobility wrapped around them and nutrition guidance included rather than sold separately. Sessions are sixty minutes. From the Bonita Beach Road corridor you can leave the house, train, and be home again in about an hour and a half, which is less time than most people spend wandering a big club's floor.