Greetings

Saturday, June 14th, 2008, commemorates an astonishing fact–our 5th year anniversary here at TRAIN West Hollywood!  Yes, it has been an incredible whirlwind.  One of those factoids that make you smack your forehead in disbelief.  This half a decade that just flew must only mean that we have been having so much fun!   And, yes, it has been fun AND unbelievable, insane, stressful, wacky, educational, eye-opening and, at the end of the day, gut-bustingly worthwhile.  We have seen many changes throughout these years:  trainers and clients circulating through, the neighborhood morphing into Rodeo Drive East, acquaintances and personnel going through life stage changes, passings of loved ones, similar gyms coming and going-yet, we have remained here, solid and stalwart, aiming to please and provide our humble best in the competitive LA culture of a-go-go private gyms.  

Entrepreunership has its joys and heartaches but I can only honestly say that this venture, our labor of love, has brought us new friends, opened new avenues, reinvigorated and inspired others and added vitality and years to all our lives.  Being surrounded by fitness and a positive, life-affirming atmosphere is such a different mindset from our  cultural all-American grind for the dollar.   TRAIN represents and is a haven from the usual grind of modern life–a time and place for us to do something selfishly good for our minds and bodies–exercise and physical activity that prolong and add quality to the way we live.  

Thank you to all of you who have and continue to support our funky, quirky enterprise.  We look forward to forging on for many, many more fit and chiselled years.  On that note, we are optimistically planning our move to our new location where we will go decidedly uptown in our look and feel yet retain that unique TRAIN vibe.  A Yelp review likened it to your local “Cheers.”  We project to make our move in 3 to 6 months; so, stay tuned.  The next 5 years should just fly by as quickly as your last set of lunges!