Arizona Fitness Centers

The facilities we equip in Arizona

Apartment and condominium amenity rooms

The most common disappointment in an amenity room is discovering it holds fewer pieces than the budget bought. Square footage is a poor guide: ACSM allows 25 to 50 sq ft per station once the machine is actually usable, and ADA adds a 30 by 48 in clear floor space for at least one of each TYPE of machine on an accessible route, though that space may overlap the route and sit in the aisle behind the piece. We draw the room to scale and tell you the honest number before anything is ordered, which is cheaper than a return. More on apartment and condominium amenity rooms.

Health clubs and training studios

Studio rooms get designed for their class capacity and their doorway gets designed last, which is why the access dimensions are where a club renovation most often fails inspection. ADA sets a 32 in minimum clear door opening, measured between the face of the door and the stop with the door open 90 degrees, rising to 36 in where the opening is deeper than 24 in, plus a 60 in diameter turning space inside. The detail that catches people: a nominal 3 ft leaf does not yield 36 in. Cheap to fix on a plan, expensive once the wall is built. More on health clubs and training studios.

The rest of what we equip there

Those two are what Arizona orders most, not the limit of what we supply there. The same design, flooring, delivery and installation work covers every other facility type:

• HOA and property management
• corporate fitness centers
• hotel and resort fitness rooms
• senior living communities
• medical and rehabilitation clinics
• schools and campus recreation
• fire, police and municipal recreation
• YMCAs and nonprofits
• home and private training rooms
• student housing

What decides the room before the equipment list

Flooring is a measured property, not a finish

ASTM F2772 is the standard specification for the athletic performance properties of indoor sports floor systems, covering force reduction, vertical deformation, ball bounce and surface friction as MEASURED values. A free-weight drop area, a turf lane and a group studio ask different things of the build-up, so specifying by zone usually costs less than taking the heaviest specification across the whole room — and in multifamily and hospitality it is a noise decision as much as a durability one.

Equipment anyone can use

Inclusive use is a specification decision rather than a category added at the end. ASTM F3021 is the standard specification for universal design of fitness equipment for inclusive use by people with functional limitations and impairments, and it governs the machines themselves — step-through access, grip points, seat height — where the ADA clearances govern the space around them. In an unstaffed room, which most amenity spaces are, that distinction matters more.

Replacing a room that already exists

Most projects are not empty rooms. Where equipment is being replaced we can appraise, buy back and remove what is there, which changes the arithmetic on the new floor and removes the disposal problem — a loaded selectorized stack is not something a property manager wants to arrange a truck for. Planning the swap also matters to residents and members: a room that is out of service for an unplanned week is the complaint that follows the project around.