Try out six local fitness studios in one week for a discount
The Fitness Collective brings organizations like Bikram Yoga and MyStryde together.
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It can be a bit intimidating to head into a new fitness studio for the first time if you’re unfamiliar with the instructors or exactly what moves they’re teaching. To bring exercisers together, Alexandra Blodgett, a founding partner of indoor cycling studio Cyc Fitness, organized a week of workouts between six local studios.
Cyc Fitness, Bikram Yoga Boston, David Barton Gym, EveryBodyFights, MyStryde, and Pure Barre are working together so that you can workout at all of them through the Fitness Collective, a new one-week membership program. For $75, Fitness Collective members can attend one class at each of the studios, as well as unlimited access to David Barton Gym, during the week of June 20 to June 27.
Blodgett was inspired to create the Fitness Collective by her experience when she started Cyc Fitness in New York City in 2012. At the time, she and her founding partner were banned from a studio they frequently attended in New York. When they opened Cyc in Boston in 2015, however, they were welcomed and helped by others in the fitness world.
“In fitness, our goal is the same thing [as other studios’]: We want people to be healthy and happy,” Blodgett said. “Why is there this feeling of studios standing alone rather than coming together to make everybody healthier and happier?”
So Blodgett reached out to those studios who initially helped her, and also partnered with other companies to offer deals for those in the Fitness Collective. Juice bar and cafe Pressed, nail salon and spa MiniLuxe, Pure Glow Sunless Tanning, and meal-plan company PlateJoy will all offer a 15 percent discount to Fitness Collective members throughout that week.
Plus, the Fitness Collective gives back to the community with 15 percent of every membership fee donated to the Pan-Mass Challenge, which brings cyclists and volunteers together to provide resources for Dana-Farber doctors and researchers.
Blodgett compared the project to Restaurant Week, saying that she got a bunch of groups with a unique message together to give these experiences to fitness enthusiasts in Boston at a discounted price, and to drop-in gym service ClassPass. She noted, though, that the Fitness Collective won’t restrict members from booking any class at any time with any instructor. Through Fitness Collective, she said, she really wants people to be able to get a feel for each studio and hopefully come back.
“It’s really just a way to get everyone together and to promote wellness at a time when it’s beautiful out and everyone’s trying to look and feel good,” she said.
This marks the first year for the Fitness Collective, but Blodgett has big plans for the project. She said she aims to continue it “at least once, if not two to three times per year,” and that she’s hoping to expand the weeklong fitness experience to other studios in the next iteration.
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