Some More Progress

Here are a few more pictures of some of our equipment.

The lifting platforms are in and painted.

And we got the white boards hung up. These will be the leader boards. Will your name be on there?

The best part is we got the pullup bars in this weekend. Look out Fran here we come.

So now that we are approaching the finish line it looks like we will be having a Grand Opening on March 14th at 11am so mark your calendars.

The Equipment Arrives

The equipment is here and finally set up.

Here is my little guy. He can't wait to get his hands on those medicine balls.

Here are two of our trainers breaking in the new rowers.

We want to say thanks to Jon Gilson over at Again Faster for getting us these great rowers and all our other equipment.

This week we will finish the bathrooms and some more painting. I hope by this weekend all the little things will be finished and we can start getting some people in the door to do a workout.

In Comes The Floor

The flooring arrived this week and we spent a couple days laying it out. I know paople said it was the worst part of putting the gym together and they were not kidding. Moving them wasn't too bad but cutting them to fit was the worst part. All in all it looks pretty good now that the floor is down. The equipment just arrived late Friday night so we are in the process of putting everything together this weekend. I will hopefully have some more photos of our equipment all set up.

Paint Paint and More Paint

The Painter has almost finished. He only has one more coat to go on the beams then we are in business. Just in time for the flooring to show up Thursday. Now Nate and his Dad can start on the finish work.

Plaster Complete

The plasterer finished this weekend. Here are some pictures of his work. Now the painter will come in today and start painting. He should be done by Tuesday.

If your wondering why there is a large section of wall without drywall, it is because we are putting plywood on this section. This is where we will do wall ball and handstand pushups. We wanted to make it really strong.

The Dry Wall Goes Up!

The week started off very busy. Monday the sheet rock was delivered and we spent the next three days putting the walls up. Here are some pictures of how it went.

Below is a picture of our bathrooms getting the walls put on.

One wall finished! Only three more to go....

It was aparently father & son day at the gym. Here is a picture of Mike Spalatro and his dad working inside the bathrooms.

And here is a picture of Nate Reando and his Dad. It's amazing the amount of work you can get done when you get some firefighters and some cops together.

Finally we were on the final wall and it actually started to look like a gym.


Here's Nate screwing in the last board.
Finally we were all done.
Now the plasterer will come in on Friday and Saturday and plaster everything. Then Monday and Tuesday the painter will paint the whole place. On Thursday our horse stall mats arrive and then Friday we get our equipment delivered. I should have some more photos of each of these steps as they are finished. Maybe even a movie of us lugging in those horse stall mats. 100lb a piece! Can't wait!

The Construction Continues

Finally the City inspectors have finished doing their jobs and we are all approved. Now we can finish up and get to the real job of working out. We started insulating on Saturday. I have posted some pictures so you can see how that has gone.

We finished all the insulation over the weekend and now we have started to drywall. I will be posting more pictures of our dry wall progress tomorrow. Sorry the blog has been slow but there isn't much to show when we are waiting on the city inspectors. You can expect eveything to move very fast in the next week or so. I anticipate everything to be finished by February 15th.