Waltham, MA Health and Fitness

If motivating people is the job of a personal trainer, Rose Galvin leads by example. In the last 20 years, she’s earned her ACE certification, become a cancer-education specialist, and honed a repertoire of fitness tools and techniques including Balancepoint Pilates, Resist-A-Ball, and Urban Rebound. Her latest project was the founding of Body Science Personal Training, where she and a team of NCCA-accredited personal trainers help clients shape their bodies into svelte parallelograms during solo or partnered workouts. With a new studio expected to open November 10, 2012, clients will soon be able to tone their bodies in a bright and polished corner studio in Braintree Square, which features top-of-the-line equipment and an updated ab-equipment studio. Opening day for this location includes an open house from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., and gives clients an opportunity to visit the new space and meet the personal trainers.

At Dunsky Rehabilitation and Spine Center, Doctor of Chiropractic Joseph Dunsky applies a whole person approach to each of his patients. Instead of treating them based solely on their x-rays or relation to Stretch Armstrong, he inquires about lifestyle habits and diet to gain a full picture of health. From there, he recommends treatments that can include nonsurgical spinal decompression, massages, or corrective exercises. To accommodate busy schedules, the center offers morning hours and stays open until 7 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Dappled light plays over the sleek 3,500-square-foot fitness studio, illuminating cardio and weight machines as guests toil alongside their attentive trainers. Verdant foliage sways in the breeze just outside the floor-to-ceiling windows that ring around the gym. Patrons torch calories and chisel physiques on new equipment, and a variety of classes, massage services, and dietary counseling keeps members relaxed and healthy in and out of the gym. Groups can also mosey outdoors for one-hour group fitness classes that tone muscles under the lush canopy of tree cover shading the deck. Pilates and yoga strengthen and lengthen muscles, and Zumba and Power Dance classes liquidate loitering fat reserves with high-energy cardio workouts set to lively soundtracks.

Weight & Body Solutions' experienced physicians employ technologically enhanced weight-reduction techniques and more traditional nutrition-based programs to help clients melt away unwanted fat and reveal svelte silhouettes. Patients relax in the comfortable atmosphere of a private room as they discuss their beauty goals with informed counselors, asking questions about their various treatment options, which include weekly plans enhanced with thorough exams and energizing vitamin shots along with medical treatments such as tumescent liposuction. Liposuction is done under local anesthesia using a small cannula and requires very little downtime, sending patients back to work within 24 to 48 hours⎯just in time to sport sleek silhouettes for _Risky Business_–themed casual Fridays.

After developing their chops over 25 years in the fitness industry, Evolve Fitness' co-founders, Lucio Paolini and Mark Rozman, teamed up to improve upon the typical gym experience with a more well-rounded gym. Lucio taps his personal-training expertise to lead the staff of trainers, and Mark runs the physical therapy program, which he's equipped with ultrasounds, cold lasers, and hand stations to help keep members on the gym floor.

Both of their modern and spacious locations host Precor, Life Fitness, and Hammer Strength cardio and resistance machines. Their group fitness classes include Pilates, yoga, BodyCombat CXWorks, and Les Mills classes, such as BodyPump, and their Zumba sessions earned them CBS Local's vote as one of Boston's best Zumba studios. Evolve Fitness was also featured on NBC's "Losing it with Jillian Michaels." The Cambridge location also has a spin studio for high-energy cycling sessions that empower students still recovering from the sting of losing all their childhood tricycle races.

The eco-friendly buildings feature recycled rubber and bamboo flooring, as well as water-conserving bathroom appliances and air hand dryers instead of paper towels. Both locations' childcare services are helmed by a staff of CPR-certified, first-aid-certified, background-checked, and fairy-godmother-approved folks.

Waverley Oaks Athletic Club was founded in 1979 as a racquetball club by a family focused on fitness. Over the years, they added on to the club, creating a 55,000-square-foot facility with modern workout equipment, fitness classes, and amenities such as a nursery and heated indoor pool. In addition to its four regulation-size racquetball courts, Waverley Oaks now also houses facilities for volleyball, basketball, and spinning. Strength training and cardio rooms provide dumbbells of up to 120 pounds and more than 10 types of cardio machines. Groups can stretch their muscles in yoga classes or prepare for community theater roles as Jean-Claude Van Damme in kickboxing classes.