Adams Hot Spot Fitness Center Relocates, Expands
 Aimee Sinopoli's new fitness center Hot Spot Fitness Center & More offers classes with 'Ugi' exercise balls. |
ADAMS, Mass. — New fitness facility Hot Spot Fitness & More offers an alternative to the traditional gym experience.
Aimee Sinopoli owns the fitness center with her husband, David, after first operating Hot Spot Spin on Park Street.
"It actually took off very quickly, and I went from having 10 bikes to 18 in less than a month," Sinopoli said. "This building happened to be open for rent and we jumped on it because we knew we would get bigger sooner or later."
The 3,500 square foot gym opened in July, and is located at 73 1/2 Summer St. The fitness center offers a plethora of workout options that one would not normally find in a standard gym. Sinopoli said they offer cycling, yoga with instructor Lindsay St. Pierre, circuit training, and a new workout called "Ugi."
"It is new and upcoming fitness class. Its focuses on a medicine ball that is a little different and a little squishier," she said. "It's a 30-minute work out. ... It works everything from your neck down and it seems really popular."
Sinopoli plans to expand the gym and bring new workouts to Adams that people cannot find in other gyms.
"We have one treadmill, and we are trying to get away from the traditional gym experience," she said. "We don't want to take away from Zumba and what everybody has, so we are trying to find different things that are new."
David Sinopoli, who teaches martial arts, said he would like to have martial arts classes for children and adults in a few weeks.
"I teach reality-based stuff that you can actually use," he said. "You are going to see a knife, you are going to see a gun so you train with that kind of stress so when you do see it, it is not a shock to you."
Aimee Sinopoli said the community is very important to the fitness center. For example, women from the Council on Aging come once a week to train in the gym and high school girls attend as well.
One of her goals was to bring a fitness center to Adams.
"I live in Adams, and I was driving back and forth from Pittsfield teaching spinning for a couple of years," she said. "We are trying to reach out, and let people know we are here."
Sinopoli said she is a health coach and it is important to her to help people in the community live a healthy lifestyle.
"I am always advocating for healthier lifestyles, and I always say something is better than nothing, especially with my older clients," she said. "When they work out I tell them they are better off than the person sitting home saying you are crazy for going there."
Sinopoli said a lot of the workout classes she provides are short and take 30 minutes.
"I'm finding that women like 30-minute workouts because they can come in for 30 minutes and within the hour they do the workout, go home, and they are done," she said.
Although the gym mostly focuses on women, a handful of men participate in the workouts, and she would like to expand that number by adding more workouts men may be more interested in.
"I always wanted to have something open, but I was just never sure," she said of her new venture. "It's fun, and I love my job. It's the first time I can say that."
A workout program schedule for the gym can be found on the facility's Facebook page.
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