Category Archives: Health clubs

Mike Lewis moves Newton gym, opens training center in Wichita

April 11, 20135:00 a.m.

UPDATED — Mike Lewis has moved his Newton-based gym and is opening a personal training center in Wichita.

Mike Lewis Fitness is now in about 6,000 square feet at the Chisholm Trail Center-Outlet & Retail Shops in Newton.

“Basically, I’m growing,” Lewis says of his business, which opened in 2009.

The gym offers a variety of workout options, such as spin classes, boot camps and personal training.

The new business, Fitness on the Waterfront, is opening at the Waterfront development at 13th and Webb Road exclusively for personal training.

“The clientele up there around the Waterfront is the main reason I want to do the Waterfront one,” Lewis says.

Don Piros of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.

Personal training that he received, along with a sports background, inspired Lewis to open the gym.

“I’ve played every sport known to man,” he says. “I always wanted to open my own gym.”

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Rogue Personal Training to move to Central and Andover and almost double its space

April 8, 20135:35 p.m.

WICHITA — Landon Branine’s vision is to one day own a building to house his Rogue Personal Training. For now, though, he’s settling for expanding to the former Pure-Formance Sports & Fitness Training Center space at Central and Andover Road.

“It’s basically double … the floor space that we have now,” Branine says of the almost 5,000 square feet.

The business, which opened in January 2012, currently is at 1641 N. Andover Road.

Branine has six trainers on staff in addition to himself. He says he’s added two more recently “because they know that we’re going to have the space to do more in the future.”

The additional space will mean additions to what the business can offer, Branine says.

“We do a lot of group training, so it will allow us to have larger groups.”

He’ll add cardio kickboxing and a few other cardio classes so he can “just continue to diversify and find new ways for people to get in their cardio.”

He says with the trainers and their different skill sets, he can offer the fitness and rehabilitation help that clients are seeking.

“We pretty much cover all the bases.”

Branine is renovating the Central-and-Andover space, which he says will be ready in early June.

Though the new space is designed to help the business grow, Branine says he hopes to do it by going slowly and “playing it smart.”

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Pure Fitness Rx opens in west Wichita

March 20, 20135:00 a.m.

WICHITA — Pete Rohleder has been working out at Fit Physique Fitness Center since he was 12 and working there since he was 16. After spending half his life there, he says he was ready to have his own place.

This week, he’s having a soft opening for his Pure Fitness Rx at 3460 N. Ridge Road.

“Fit Physique is a wonderful place … but I needed to grow professionally,” Rohleder says.

He got his master’s degree in exercise science last year and says, “I wanted to be able to offer more services.”

Rohleder calls himself an exercise physiologist.

“It allows me to be a little bit more in-depth and a little more comprehensive with my approach to health and fitness.”

He says he can incorporate more physiological tools for better results.

“I can help develop programs that are much more efficient.”

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You don’t say

Jan. 10, 20133:41 p.m.

“Everybody that looks at me knows I haven’t been to the Y.”

– Joe Johnson of Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey, who helped build the new downtown YMCA but hasn’t been there to work out yet

 

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Urban Oasis Yoga Studio to open in Delano

Dec. 27, 20124:30 p.m.

WICHITA — A new yoga studio is going in the former Siva Power Yoga space at 535 W. Douglas in Delano.

Lori Morton is opening Urban Oasis Yoga Studio in 2,326 square feet on Jan. 1.

“We’re doing our first class at four o’clock,” Morton says.

It’ll be free to introduce people to the studio.

Morton says she’s made a number of changes to the space, such as adding mirrors.

Stephanie Wiens and Shannon Palmer of Occidental Management handled the deal for the space.

In addition to the studio space, Morton says there will be a relaxation area with spa water, a boutique and “some different, fun things.”

She plans on offering a variety of yoga classes, such as hot yoga, a dance fusion class, yoga for beginners and praise and worship yoga classes during which she says she’ll take donations for World Impact.

Morton also will offer stand-up paddle yoga at the Wichita Swim Club in the winter and various lakes and other water in the summer.

“I’m just hoping that people will be able to find a class that serves them well.”

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You don’t say

Dec. 13, 20124:13 p.m.

“This is like ‘Extreme Makeover — Gym Style.’”

– A comment that YMCA board member Marilyn Pauly heard while giving tours of the new downtown Y recently

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You don’t say

Nov. 1, 20124:12 p.m.

“But I miss my downward facing dogs!”

– An e-mail from criminal defense attorney Laura Shaneyfelt, who also has two teenagers and is missing Siva Power Yoga while it’s closed for a few days

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Firefly Yoga Studio owner Nickki Head to open west-side studio

Oct. 26, 20125:00 a.m.

WICHITA — A year and a half after opening Firefly Yoga Studio in the Shops at Tallgrass at 21st and Rock Road, Nickki Head is preparing to open a second studio on the west side.

“We just got such an enormous amount of requests for a west-side location,” Head says. “You know Wichita. It’s so east side and west side.”

Firefly Yoga Studio West will be in 1,200 square feet at 2313 Zoo Park Blvd., which is across from the entrance to the Sedgwick County Zoo.

“We’re kind of marketing it as, like, simple space, no distraction,” Head says.

The first class will be Dec. 1.

Head says her initial plan was to start small with one location and see how people liked the yoga she offers.

“It’s blown up. People are loving it and loving the benefits of it.”

So what’s next? Downtown? Delano?

“Stay tuned,” Head says. “That’s every owner’s dream to try to be in each little nugget of the Wichita community.”

She appreciates that there’s interest.

“I’m lucky enough that the Wichita community has supported us this far … that a second studio is even an opportunity,” Head says. “Best-case scenario is what’s happening here. Dreams come true.”

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North Wind Martial Arts and Fitness to open at Westlink Shopping Center

Sept. 14, 20123:44 p.m.

WICHITA — Florida native Brian Kelley says he came to Wichita a couple of years ago to work as a personal training director for Genesis Health Clubs and liked it so well that he decided to stay and open his own business.

North Wind Martial Arts and Fitness opens in the Westlink Shopping Center at Central and Tyler on Sept. 17.

“I really enjoyed my time here,” says Kelley, who quit working for Genesis last summer for family reasons.

“I really enjoyed your downtown and just the people,” he says. “I looked at the fact that there is a market here for traditional martial arts.”

Kelley’s studio will be in 2,350 square feet.

Andy Boyd of Walter Morris Cos. and Ted Branson of Landmark Commercial Real Estate handled the deal.

Kelley says he’ll teach martial arts for “defense, exercise (and) just overall well being.”

“I teach traditional martial arts for a modern world,” he says.

“If you’re not a person who wants to go in a weight room and lift weights, it’s a great exercise.”

North Wind will be for students of all ages.

“I really am not going to confine myself,” Kelley says. “I have something for everybody.”

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Empower Martial Arts to open at Auburn Pointe at 135th and Maple

Aug. 28, 20122:09 p.m.

WICHITA — A new martial arts school is opening in Occidental Management’s Auburn Pointe development at 135th and Maple.

Chief Master Stephen Westbrook, an eighth-degree black belt, is opening Empower Martial Arts in early October.

He also has a school in Overland Park, as does Noeu Chan, who manages the schools.

“Our main base is teaching Songahm taekwondo,” Chan says.

That’s a traditional form. Chan says the goal is to teach attitude, discipline and confidence.

He says students “can go anywhere and learn punching and kicking.”

“Our school takes it one step further. We want to be leaders of today.”

There are 1,200 Empower Martial Arts schools nationally.

Matt Hahn, one of Chan’s students, will run the Wichita school.

“We want to offer a state-of-the-art training facility,” Chan says.

He says he likes Auburn Pointe for its visibility and cleanliness. Chan says he wants to get away from the image of a martial arts studio being in a less-than-desirable neighborhood.

Occidental president Gary Oborny handled the deal.

The school has classes for all ages, starting at age 3.

Chan says the Auburn Pointe site won’t be the only Empower Martial Arts in Wichita.

“We’re planning on opening a few more in the Wichita area.”

 

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