Small Space Solutions

With some planning, your fitness center's small-space problems can be transformed into big-time solutions.

"Ah, space," says Marty Gallagher, manager of Ripples Fitness Center, Bellows Falls, Vt. "[There's] never enough where you need it, and often too much where it is underutilized. [It's] the double-edged sword for any small business owner." Ripples Fitness Center has a problem similar to that faced by many small fitness centers: its building was not originally a fitness facility. "We occupy the entire third floor of a building built in the early 1900s," Gallagher explains. "The space that we currently occupy was formerly an Elks Club, which gave us a huge group exercise room (a former ballroom), but has forced us to be creative in the other rooms due to the nature of the fact [that] it is a series of rooms. As we have grown over the years with no possibility of expanding out - and a ... pool on the roof is just out of the question - it is a constant battle to fit everything in."

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