Garden City Park’s Synergy Fitness Club offers a broad array of exercise machines and classes for anyone feeling the urge for a conditioning regimen as spring starts blooming.
The club’s facilities include 60 cardio machines and more than 100 strength and universal machines – all new – in a 35,000-square foot location that also offers classes in yoga, zumba, cardio exercises, body and pilates sculpting, belly dancing and rigorous exercise “boot camps” with its $34.99 monthly subscription fee.
Synergy provides space to Kayo Boxing, the Tai-Zen Academy of Self Defence, which provide their own training programs, and the LI Batting Cage, which rents batting cages by the half-hour.
Last July, Synergy supplanted Gold’s Gym, which has been at the 190 Broadway in Garden City Park for the previous 15 years.
“We just came in and renovated but we kept the same staff,” said Anthony Cosenza, managing partner of Synergy on Broadway
There’s still “quite a bit of renovation to be done,” Cosenza said.
But the facility’s large array of universal exercise machines by Life Fitness, Hammer Strength, Pre-Core and Cybex suggests that there is enough hardware in place here to satisfy demanding exercise aficionados.
“It’s a service and a value we’re offering. We try to keep it family-style,” Cosenza said.
The 3,000 club members represent a demographic cross-section from college students to senior citizens, according to Cosenza, who acknowledges the competitive environment for exercise gyms.
That’s part of the reason Synergy only offers monthly subscription deals. People don’t feel tied down, Cosenza said, and can cancel their subscriptions at any time.
“It’s less pressure and more flexibility,” he said.
The fact is, most members maintain a regimen for about 14 months before they start backing off or dropping out, Cosenza said.
He said Synergy seeks to provide a high level of service, and a personal touch from its staff members, who are encouraged to learn the names of the clubs’s members. The management maintains several service tenets, Cosenza said, most notably one that reminds workers that every interaction with a member is a “make or break” occasion.
So far things are going well for the gym, which Cosenza said has been averaging 130 new members monthly over its seven months in business at the location. The gym has five affiliated locations in Franklin Square, Baldwin, Merick and Long Beach, and offers a “passport” membership to permit members to work out at any of the five locations for a $44.99 monthly rate.
The Garden City Park Synergy also keeps members entertained with monthly parties catered by Uncle Bacala’s and Gonzo’s Mexican Grill.
The club also is planning special summer events. And next month it will sponsor a charity fund-raiser “Spinathon,” with members cycling on stationary bicycles with sponsors to raise money for what will most likely by cancer research.
That remains to be determined this week, Cosenza said. Anyone seeking more information about the “Spinathon” or membership at the club can go online at www.synergyfitclubsli.com or call at 742 – 4477.
