Brooklyn Center Gyms and Fitness

Phil Martens, 501Fit’s founder, invented the patented G-Werx system to orchestrate his versatile, small-group strength-training workouts, which have been named to Minnesota Monthly's Best of the Cities list and chronicled in the New York Times in 2008. A one-on-one consultation with Phil helps determine each student's personal fitness level, which pinpoints the appropriate G-Werx program best suited to their abilities and goals. The 45- to 90-minute training sessions deploy tactics from an arsenal of more than 100 moves, using free weights and a patented lifting machine to target particular muscle groups, such as legs, buns, and abs; chest, shoulders, and triceps; or heads, shoulders, knees, and toes. Each session's energetic trainer pairs with trainees individually, ensuring that persistent perspirers have access to feedback and undiluted encouragement.

Spin, sweat, and sculpt with today’s transformative Groupon. For $30, you’ll get a five-class pass to The Shed, a workout workshop catering to exercisers at all levels that's located inside an actual building. The Shed's a brand-new fitness endeavor, with a shiny new studio, from the owners of the highly regarded The Burn Studio in Burbank, California. The Building: A single door, no windows. Perfect for holding old junk or a couch to crash on.Is It a Shed?: No, it's a storage space, though sleeping in the storage space is strongly discouraged by Adamo Holdings, owner of The Store Spot.

Debut feisty kicks and perfect punches learned from using today’s Groupon and dazzle fellow holiday partygoers into a standing ovation. For $35, new students can get one month of unlimited classes in martial arts, self defense, kickboxing, and more at Minnesota Kali Group, a state-of-the-art, multi-level, martial arts multiplex that will not only teach you the skills to enter a Mortal Kombat tournament, but also teach you why you shouldn't.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Pilates is fast becoming the number-one exercise in America, right after walking and cow tipping. Join the craze with today's Groupon, which gets you five Pilates mat classes for $35 at Alotapilates, a $100 value. The certified instructors at Alotapilates have been shaping bodies, attitudes, and adorable clay ashtrays since 1997. Mat classes are offered on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday at convenient morning and evening times, so it's easy to slip in a workout before work or after a long day of bow hunting. Check out Alotapilates' class schedule for class times and call ahead to schedule your class. The neighbor's dog has eaten all of your prized flowers: Don't fly off the handle and create a rift between you and your neighbor that no amount of friendly fence talk and accidental-mail exchange can heal. Simply compromise by asking his dog to marry you. The bonds of matrimony will be even stronger than those of pet ownership, and soon the phrase "that filthy mutt is tearing up my flowers" will be replaced with "my lovely spouse is working in the garden." Congratulations!

For most of the year, the outer concourses of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome fill with the aromas of hot dogs and grilled onions to feed hungry fans during Vikings and Twins games. But from November through April, the smooth concrete floors of those same concourses become the skating surface for the Rollerblade RollerDome. Skaters have taken over the Metrodome every winter for decades, including in 1993, when Jonathan Seutter set a Guinness World Record there by skating 271 miles in 24 hours. The half-mile concrete loops provide the ideal conditions for speed skaters and beginners alike. On the upper level, experienced skaters get a cardio workout with separate alleys for speed skating and leisurely coasting. On the lower level, kids and novices can take their time while skating along to music spun by onsite DJs and really hip spiders.

When you did fitness alone, you couldn’t figure out the machines, did a wimpy walk on the treadmill, went home, and ate Funyons in a hammock made out of long, woven strips of beef jerky. Today’s Groupon brings back the buddy system with five drop-in classes at Koficore Studio for $35.