Apartment amenity gym in Austin, Texas, with a TKO medicine-ball rack and a curved AirRaid treadmill

Unstaffed and open around the clock

Apartment Gym Equipment Supplier and Design

Multifamily projects

Apartment Fitness Centers We Have Installed

TKO functional rig with a heavy bag, medicine balls and suspension trainers in a Texas apartment gym6 photos
Apartment gym with a TKO rig and Matrix leg machines — Houston, TX Read the case study
Matrix climbmills, a strength line and a half rack with plates across a Houston apartment fitness centerMatrix strength machines, adjustable benches and a dumbbell rack under a double-height ceiling in a Houston apartment gymApartment gym in Texas with Matrix leg machines, benches and dumbbells, a TKO rig and a stair climberMatrix half rack on a lifting platform with a hardwood insert beside backlit brick pilasters in a Houston apartment gymTKO 14-foot bridge rig with a heavy bag, TRX straps and ball storage on herringbone floor in a Houston apartment gym
Cardio room in a Dallas, Texas apartment gym with Matrix treadmills and ellipticals on rubber flooring5 photos
Apartment gym with a moss-wall cardio room — Dallas, TX Read the case study
Cardio room in a Dallas, Texas apartment gym with a stair climber, air bike, Concept2 rower and Matrix bikeCardio room in a Dallas, Texas apartment community with a Concept2 rower and Matrix stair climberEchelon Connect indoor cycle against a preserved moss wall in a Dallas, Texas apartment gymFunctional training rig in a Texas apartment amenity gym
TKO functional rig in an Austin, Texas apartment gym with a heavy bag, medicine balls, kettlebells and wall bars5 photos
Apartment gym with a TKO rig and Nautilus strength — Austin, TX Read the case study
Strength room in an Austin, Texas apartment gym with Nautilus Instinct machines and a cable crossoverApartment amenity gym in Austin, Texas, with a TKO functional rig, heavy bag, wall bars and a dumbbell rackApartment amenity gym in Austin, Texas, with a TKO medicine-ball rack and a curved AirRaid treadmillCardio room in an Austin, Texas apartment gym with Matrix treadmills, ellipticals and a stair climber
Matrix treadmill and climbmill row along a window wall under lit ceiling frames in a Grand Prairie, Texas apartment gym5 photos
Apartment wellness center with a smart-mirror studio — Grand Prairie, TX Read the case study
Matrix Versa strength line in front of a black-and-white typographic mural wall in a Grand Prairie, Texas apartment gymMatrix Magnum half rack, multi-adjustable bench and Versa leg press before built-in cabinetry in Grand Prairie, TexasLong view of a Grand Prairie, Texas apartment gym: ellipticals and treadmills at the windows toward a mural wallTRX storage wall with medicine balls, slam balls and kettlebells on a wood-look studio floor in Grand Prairie, Texas
Star Trac treadmills facing floor-to-ceiling windows onto a pool deck in a Mansfield, Texas apartment fitness center5 photos
Apartment amenity gym under timber beams — Mansfield, TX Fitness equipment in Mansfield
Star Trac touchscreen treadmills along a window wall under timber beams in a Mansfield, Texas apartment gymStairMaster stair climbers and a treadmill row along tall windows on carpet tile in a Mansfield, Texas apartment gymNautilus Instinct cable machine and Freedom racks before a mirror wall and brick in a Mansfield, Texas apartment gymInstinct cable station and Freedom racks with plate storage against brick in a Mansfield, Texas apartment gym
Matrix treadmills and ellipticals along floor-to-ceiling windows, turf room beyond, in a Houston apartment gym4 photos
Apartment gym with its own turf room — Houston, TX Read the case study
Turf training room in a Houston apartment gym with a rower, an air bike and a TRX storage wall by tall windowsMatrix half rack on a hardwood-insert platform with treadmills at the windows in a Houston apartment gymDumbbell rack to 100 lb and two TKO benches against a mirror wall by tall windows in a Houston apartment gym
TKO strength floor in a Lutz, Florida apartment gym: functional trainer, dumbbells, benches and selectorized machines4 photos
Apartment gym with a courtyard power rack — Lutz, FL Read the case study
Functional room with a TKO storage wall, heavy bag and indoor cycles, its glass door open to the lawn, in Lutz, FloridaBeaverFit power rack with an Olympic bar and plates on turf in the courtyard of a Lutz, Florida apartment communityTKO lat pulldown and dual leg extension and curl machines, a functional room behind glass, in a Lutz, Florida gym
Strength area in a Texas apartment gym with Matrix leg and chest machines and a Concept2 RowERG5 photos
Apartment gym with a cycling and barre studio — Texas
Selectorized strength machines and a dumbbell rack in a Texas apartment amenity gymCardio deck in a Texas apartment gym with Matrix treadmills, ellipticals and a TKO medicine-ball rackStrength area in a Texas apartment gym with Matrix chest press and leg machines and a Concept2 RowERGIndoor cycling bikes with screens against a window wall in a Texas apartment gym, on wood-look flooring
Rooftop training deck in Los Angeles: a rig with benches, an open storage cabinet and string lights over turf4 photos
Rooftop outdoor training deck — Los Angeles, CA
Open BeaverFit storage cabinet with slam balls, kettlebells and plates between rig uprights on a Los Angeles rooftopOpen storage cabinet of balls, kettlebells and plates beside a rig and plyo boxes on a Los Angeles rooftop deckOutdoor training rig and storage cabinet on turf with planters and high-rises around a Los Angeles rooftop deck

Fitness Centers for Apartment and Condo Communities

Multifamily is the core of what Fit Supply does. Apartment and condominium fitness centers are the most-toured amenity in a lease-up and the one residents judge fastest, and they have to deliver that impression in a room that is often under 1,500 square feet, unstaffed, and open twenty-four hours a day.

We design and equip these rooms end to end: floor plan and equipment selection, flooring, mirrors, procurement, delivery, installation, and the service plan that keeps the room running afterward. Texas communities we have outfitted include communities across Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Little Elm and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

Matrix cardio row of stair climber, ellipticals and treadmills in a Texas apartment community

What an amenity room needs from us

An amenity gym is leased, photographed and used around the clock by residents nobody supervises. Every stage below answers to that brief.

  • Garden-style communities

    Clubhouse gyms that have to work unstaffed around the clock, sized to the resident count and the leasing tour.

  • Mid-rise and high-rise towers

    Upper-floor rooms where structure, sound to the units below and the service elevator decide the equipment list.

  • Renovations and repositioning

    Old equipment out and taken in trade where it has value, and the room redesigned without closing it for weeks.

  • Portfolio standards

    One specification across a developer’s or manager’s communities, adjusted to each building’s room.

Apartment rooms we have finished

The clearest evidence for a multifamily specification is a finished room. The Austin apartment strength room and the Dallas apartment cardio room are each published as the 3D render, the 2D floor plan and the real installed photograph of the same space; the student housing indoor-outdoor wellness center and the Tempe apartment climbing wall and turf deck are photographed on site, and the Grand Prairie apartment wellness center is told from its to-scale layout drawing to the finished room, as is a Lutz, Florida apartment gym that added a power rack on its courtyard turf a few months after the room was installed. Every case study is a real, billed project.

Where our multifamily coverage runs deepest

Fit Supply designs and supplies apartment fitness rooms nationwide. Coverage is deepest in Texas and Arizona, where our own crews install rather than coordinating a partner — Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio each have a metro page covering design, equipment, installation and service, and Arizona is run from the Chandler office. Every market we serve.

Before the equipment list exists there is a drawing: fitness facility design and layout covers how an amenity room is drawn to scale against real clearances and floor loading, which is what makes the piece count honest.

How a project runs

How a project runs, stage by stage

Layout and design

A to-scale plan for a room that is often under 1,500 square feet, with ADA clearances drawn rather than assumed and the cardio set against the outlets the building actually has. Getting it right on paper is what lets the room pass a leasing tour and an accessibility review in the same week.

Overhead design plan of a two-room fitness suite with a cardio and strength floor beside a wood-floored studio

Procurement

One order across the lines the community wants, with the cut sheets and power requirements the general contractor needs for submittals. Every piece is chosen for unsupervised use: guarded, intuitive and commercial-rated.

Apartment gym with Nautilus Instinct selectorized machines, a dumbbell rack, benches and a cable crossover

Delivery and installation

Delivered inside the turn schedule, assembled in place, and the old equipment taken out rather than left in the corridor. Elevators, door widths and the route from the dock are checked on the site survey, so the install date holds.

A recreation center cardio floor with four Woodway slat-belt treadmills, Matrix bikes and treadmills, and dumbbell racks

Service afterwards

A maintenance plan set against hours of use, because a room open around the clock has no quiet period in which to recover. A machine down in an amenity gym reaches resident reviews long before it reaches a work order.

Technician testing a treadmill motor with a clamp meter, the motor and controller exposed under the deck

What shapes a multifamily fitness room

Matrix cardio row of stair climber, ellipticals and treadmills in a Texas apartment community

Designing for unsupervised use

The constraint that shapes every multifamily layout is unsupervised use. Equipment has to be safe for a resident who has never had an orientation, durable enough for continuous traffic, and compact enough that circulation and egress still work. We plan for selectorized strength over free-weight benches where liability is a concern, and we place cardio to keep sightlines open across the room.

Apartment amenity gym in Austin, Texas, with a TKO medicine-ball rack and a curved AirRaid treadmill

Portfolio-wide consistency

Because we work with property-level staff, regional managers, management companies and developers, we can scale the same specification across a portfolio — so a management company running twenty properties gets one consistent equipment package, one parts pipeline, and one point of contact rather than twenty separate projects.

Strength room in an Austin, Texas apartment gym with Nautilus Instinct machines and a cable crossover

Brands we place

We carry Matrix, StairMaster, Schwinn, Star Trac, Nautilus, FreeMotion, Hoist, Inflight Fitness, Spirit Fitness and Body-Solid. Which of them suits a room depends on the budget, the feature set the community wants and the space it has, not on a house preference. Where a community wants connected equipment for its amenity marketing, we also supply Peloton and Echelon. Life Fitness, Precor and Cybex are not lines we carry new; where a specification calls for them we supply them pre-owned, and we say which is which on the quote.

In short

Fit Supply designs and equips apartment and condominium fitness centers nationwide — layout, flooring, mirrors, equipment and installation, with service in Texas and Arizona. Multifamily rooms are unstaffed and open around the clock, so we specify for unsupervised safety and continuous traffic in compact amenity spaces, and can roll one specification across an entire management portfolio. Amenity rooms are planned against the 100 psf live load IBC Table 1607.1 sets for fitness areas, versus 40 psf for ordinary residential space.

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Indoor cycling studio with Echelon Connect bikes and individual screens under colored accent lighting
Fitness floor with selectorized strength machines, ellipticals and recumbent bikes under a slatted wood ceiling
Cardio row in a commercial fitness center with a Matrix stair climber, ellipticals and treadmills
Apartment amenity gym with a TKO heavy bag, a two-tier dumbbell rack and benches on rubber flooring

Frequently asked questions

How much space does an apartment fitness center need?

Most apartment fitness centers run between 800 and 1,500 square feet, and a usable room starts around 400 square feet. Allow roughly 25 to 50 square feet per cardio machine including circulation, keep a 3 ft clear path for egress, and leave 30 inches between machines so residents can pass behind someone mid-workout. Ceiling height matters more than owners expect: a treadmill deck sits 8 to 10 inches off the floor, so a 6 ft 4 in resident needs about 9 ft of clear height to run comfortably.

What equipment should an apartment gym have?

A balanced amenity room is roughly 60% cardio and 40% strength. For a 200-unit community that typically means 4 to 6 cardio pieces — treadmills, an elliptical, an upright or recumbent bike — a functional trainer or multi-station selectorized unit, an adjustable bench, and a dumbbell rack running 5 to 50 lb. Selectorized strength with enclosed weight stacks is preferred over free-weight benches where the room is unstaffed, because it lowers both injury risk and the insurer conversation.

What flooring is required for an apartment fitness center?

Rubber flooring of 8 mm minimum is standard for cardio areas, with 3/8 in to 1/2 in under strength equipment and free weights. Floor loading is the constraint people miss: a loaded dumbbell rack or a rack of plates concentrates several hundred pounds over a small footprint, and any fitness room above grade should be checked against the structural drawings before equipment is placed. Rubber also handles the acoustic problem, which is the most common resident complaint about a gym sited above or beside apartments.

Do you work with management companies across multiple properties?

Yes — that is a large share of our multifamily work. One specification can be applied across an entire portfolio, which means consistent equipment, one parts pipeline, one point of contact, and predictable budgeting instead of every property negotiating separately. We keep the equipment record per community, so a regional manager can see what is installed, how old it is, and what a refresh will cost without starting from scratch.

Are you insured, and can you install outside business hours?

Yes on both. Fit Supply is fully insured and can provide certificates of insurance for building management. We work to whatever schedule the site requires and have completed overnight and weekend installations where a facility could not close during the day.

What condition is your used equipment sold in?

In one of three clearly defined conditions. As-Is is sold with no service and no warranty, accepted in its present condition. Cleaned and Serviced means the moving and wear components have been inspected and lubricated, cleaned, calibrated or replaced as needed, cosmetics are not addressed, and it carries a 30-day parts-and-labor warranty. Remanufactured means returned to like-new working condition with a painted frame and replaced wear components, and carries a 90-day parts-and-labor warranty. Used sales are final, and stated model, age, hours and specifications are approximate.

What do I need to have ready before installation day?

A confirmed date, access, and a room that is actually finished. You are responsible for site readiness: adequate space, the flooring down, structural capacity for the equipment, and electrical service matching the proposal — as an example, 110V treadmills each need a dedicated 100–125VAC, 50/60Hz, 20A circuit on a NEMA 5-20R outlet, independently isolated. Electrical is the item most often discovered late and the most expensive to fix after the walls are closed, so it is worth confirming with your electrician against our equipment list well before the delivery date.

How do I know a payment or wire instruction from you is genuine?

Verify it by phone before sending anything, and use a number you already have. Fit Supply does not change its payment or wire instructions by email alone. If you receive any payment, wire or account instruction that appears to come from us — or any change to one — call a Fit Supply number taken from a prior invoice or our official records, never a number contained in the email itself. Email is an insecure channel, invoice-redirection fraud is common in this industry, and payment sent to the wrong account does not discharge what is owed.