What: Xtreme Fitness and Performance Center
Address: 4343 S. Dixie Highway, Middletown
Phone: 513-425-8100
Hours: 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday
Cost: Single memberships range from $30 per month to $65 per month
Expanding is never the goal in the fitness world, but that’s exactly what’s being celebrated at a Middletown exercise center.
Xtreme Fitness and Performance Center, 4343 S. Dixie Highway, which opened in January, is building an attached 10,000-square-foot facility that will house Mike Ferguson’s Powerstation Gym that has been open in Middletown for years. The gym, already under roof, is expected to be completed by April 1, said the owners of the fitness center.
Formerly the Towne Athletic Club, Xtreme Fitness has undergone a tremendous face lift, the owners said. Since they bought the property from Coldwell Banker for $265,000 late last year, just about every inch of the 13,000-square-foot facility has been renovated and the building now resembles a lodge typically only seen at a ski or golf resort.
Towne Athletic Club owner Stuart Locke closed the business in May 2013 after owning it for a decade. It was originally a racquet club when it opened in 1978, and then a previous owner converted it into a gym in 1986.
Joe Brown, the new owner, said the building will house three businesses: Xtreme Fitness and Performance Center, Powerstation Gym, and Sper Trained, which moved from Fairfield Twp. When he bought the property, Brown said the addition was expected to cost more than $600,000. When asked the total cost of the building and all the renovations, Brown said “a lot of money.”
The goal, he said, is to provide a wide range of fitness opportunities under one roof and to serve everyone from novice to experienced exercisers.
Once Powerstation opens, the size of the center will grow from 13,000-square-feet to 23,000-square-feet. The center offers weight lifting, cardio, sauna and steam room for men and women, fitness classes, specialized speed and agility training, tanning and child care for members. Eventually, Powerstation weight lifting, owned by Ferguson, who has more than 40 years of weight lifting experience, and racquetball will be added.
Some of the classes include body sculpting, yoga, kick boxing, bootcamp, spinning, pilates, zumba, cross training and fight fit. Single memberships range from $30 per month/$320 per year to $65 per month/$700 per year.
Eventually, another level will be added inside the center for speed training, under the direction of Brad Sper.
“This place is very unique,” Sper said. “If you want it, we have it right here.”
There also is a limited snack bar that offers smoothies, wraps and snacks, Sper said.
He said there is “a big family atmosphere” at the center, where instructors and members all know each other and work together to create the best health center in the area.
“We believe we have done that,” he said. ‘I can’t think of another place that has everything we have.”
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