Sanger, CA Health and Fitness

Despite its formerly salacious reputation, pole dancing for fitness is steadily earning recognition as the gymnastic sport it’s always been, thanks to studios such as Pole Star Fitness. Inside the ladies-only studio, women can test their strength and flexibility while loosening up their inhibitions in a safe, spectator-free environment.

The decor at Pole Star Fitness reflects its femme-focused attitude with energizing, vibrant pink walls, long mirrors to check your form, and those muscle-challenging poles themselves, each one reaching up into the heights of the studio's open ceilings. Pole Star Fitness's instructors invite women of any age, shape, and ability to attend classes and learn to tap into their own sensuality while practicing routines that build physical strength and stamina.

Fitness Together's encouraging team of personal trainers helps exercisers achieve new physical peaks with one-on-one workout sessions and nutritional advising tailored specifically to each individual. The path to a healthier lifestyle becomes less foggy and riddled with bacon-encrusted bacon as the fitness gurus devise custom blends of cardio and weight-training routines, which challenge clients at their own skill levels. To ensure participants stay on track, fitness coaches reevaluate and revise personal training programs every six to eight weeks, tweaking reps and adjusting caloric intake to suit the client’s progress. Nutritional programs supplement exercising and help clients shed inches through a more balanced diet.

At My Gym Clovis, an imagination-sized playscape opens before kids as they slip down slides, bound into ball pits, soar on the swings, and gambol on the trampoline. Age-appropriate classes help them make the most of the colorful space, ensuring that the littlest tyke never has to compete with larger, 300-year-old tortoises for toys. The youngest students start exploring sound and movement with their parents at six weeks old, and kids up to 13 years old boost their strength, flexibility, and cardio fortitude during fitness games. Lessons on healthy living teach kids to eschew sedentary activities such as watching TV and peeling paint with their laser vision in favor of more active endeavors. During the gym's free-play sessions, kids have their run of the place and burn off stores of excess energy, and My Gym Clovis also hosts fun, energetic birthday parties.