Of the United Kingdom, Fitness First’s 24 Hour Fitness is the second largest fitness center chain that is privately owned and operated in the world. Carlsbad, California is the home of the company’s corporate office. In San Roman, California near the Bay area, you will find the operations’ headquarters. In total, 24 Hour Fitness has roughly nineteen thousand employees. Mark S. Mastrov founded the company and Carl Liebert III, is the currency CEO. Currently, 24 Hour Fitness is labeled as a subsidiary of Forstmann Little & Company, which is a private equity firm; this resulted from the company’s acquisition in a one point six billion dollar leverage buyout that took place in two thousand and five.
The History of 24 Hour Fitness
In 1983, the company started out as a one-club operation which was called 24 Hour Nautilus. Leonard Schlemm, Mark Mastrov, and another third partner started the firm however; eventually it was only Schlemm and Mastrov that continued to expand the company. In 2004, the company became one of the sponsors for the 2004-2008 teams of the United States Olympics. Some of the United States Olympic hopefuls were granted membership through the sponsorship and it also included some upgrades to the training centers for the U.S. Olympics all over the country, which included the renovation of the facility that is located in Colorado Springs, CO in two thousand and four. Following this renovation, the facilities in Lake Placid, New York and Chula Vista, CA were renovated.
24 Hour Fitness also worked along side of NBC in order to develop the well known and popular reality show “The Biggest Loser”, this show featured twelve contestants that were overweight which were competing to lose the most weight over the period of several months. The show began airing in the later part of 2004 and it continued until the early part of 2005 and once again in the later part of 2006.
24 Hour Fitness’s Current Operations
Currently, 24 Hour Fitness roughly has around three million members and four hundred and twenty five clubs in a total of sixteen states. There are also twenty four clubs in five Asian countries. In addition to the United States, 24 Hour Fitness has centers in Asia (including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei), in Taiwan, there are centers in Taichung and in China; there are centers in Shanghai and Beijing. In Malaysia, there are centers in Kuala Lumpur. All of these centers are based out of the California Fitness which is a wholly owned subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness.
In the next five years, 24 Hour Fitness plans to have more than one thousand clubs along with sponsorships with several athletes and celebrities such as Lance Armstrong, Jackie Chan, Andre Agassi and Shaquille O’ Neal. 24 Hour fitness also has a call center for its website that is located in Jamaica. 24 Hour Fitness has six different levels of clubs, they are as follows:
- Fit-Lite
- Active
- Express
- Sport
- Super-Sport
- Ultra-Sport
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May 25th, 2008 at 2:46 am
yeah..I heard about them 24 hours..but don’t know how effective their strategy to fat loss etc. is?
June 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Now I guess my excuse of “I just don’t have the time” is now obsolete. Guess I’ll have to think up another one.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I’m a member and they have two scales at my club. On one I’m 6 lbs lighter!! You can guess that I always use that scale to check my weight. Lots of their equipment like the Star Trak is continually breaking down or parts like the heart monitor don’t work. One of the reps said the workers at the club are as frustrated as the members at this. Seems corporate is pretty slow at getting promised new equipment into the stores and likes to eek every last use out of each piece.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Its an interesting topic and should be discussed. Ill check back soon for any added comments, thanks.
Did you totally agree with the top half of this? The rest was fine and informative.
I have trained hard in the past with running etc in thew army but I have to say combining Q10 and swimming gets the best results.
ALso with the latest in mdeical science and wholistic techniques I would not be supprised if life expectancy rose to 90+ years in the modern world.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I don’t think 24 Hour Fitness is affiliated with Fitness First. 24 Hour Fitness has over 400 clubs in the USA and over a dozen in Asia, as stated. They also opened a gym in Beijing last year in partnership with Yao Ming. Very exciting! I see that they are a US Olympic team sponsor and that their personal trainers are staffing the olympic team’s high performance training center in China. Cool stuff!
June 20th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Hi all great information here and good thread to comment on.
I am an adict to training and really want to get to my best this year!
Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news?
Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..
July 17th, 2008 at 12:19 am
If you currently have membership for the all-sport 24 hour fitness access, does the membership extend all the way to the Asia locations?
July 31st, 2008 at 7:30 am
Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Very cool history. I tend to like the smaller gyms better. I’m more into the bodybuilding scene, and that’s where the smaller gyms tend to go.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:18 am
So many ideas are triggered by your post. Thanks for the info.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I NEED SOME HELP,,,,,COULD YOU PLEASE ADVISE HOW I MAY CONTACT CARL LEIBERT,III OF 24 HOUR FITNESS ABOUT ONE OF HIS CLUBS IN FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA.
THANK YOU………….SANDRA PARIS
954-822-6160