Become Better Sport Performance and Personal Training is Moving/Expanding!
I am very excited to announce that Become Better Sport Performance and Personal Training will be moving! We are expanding into a new facility located in the Industrial park of Bethel Park. As all of our current clients know, this expansion has been needed for some time as we have outgrown our current location. The new facility is a total of 12,400 square feet. We have 2,400 square feet of office space which will also include 4 bathrooms, 2 of which will have showers, a kitchen, a lounge/recovery room, and a chiropractor's office. The rest of the space is divided into 2 rooms that are 5,000 square feet each. We will be outfitting one of these rooms with our brand new gym equipment. New equipment will include 6 custom made squat racks/platforms with 6 sets of benches and plates, new specialty lifting bars, Dumbbells up to 75 lbs, new slam balls/medicine balls, 2 additional sleds to go on our brand new blue turf that will run 100 feet long at spots, 2 new concept 2 rowers, cycle bikes, and ski ergometers, 2 new ellipticals, and 3 new treadmills. In addition to the turf we will have the rest of the floor as a rubber gym floor that will include ¼ inch soft plyometric floor to reduce impact with a ¾ inch heavy duty rubber mats that can withstand weights being dropped on them. This combination will provide comfort and durability. The platforms will also be built into the ground now so there won’t be an elevation like we have now for the platforms. There will also be a few machines that we will be working on getting along with some other minor equipment. The second 5,000 square feet will be empty for most of this year since we don’t need the space right away. As a comparison, our whole current gym (both sides, office, and bathroom) is about 2,500 square feet and our main side isn’t even 1,000 square feet. So the 5,000 square feet that we will use to start will be plenty big enough for now :). However, we hope next year to outfit that floor with half “basketball court” flooring where we can run classes, use it for jump training, and just general open space. The other half has not been decided, but I am leaning towards making that area a dedicated powerlifting/weightlifting area where we will be able to host USAW and USAPL events.
We are currently finishing remodeling this new space and expect to have a grand opening party on Saturday night, April 30th. We will likely have an open house earlier in the day for potential new clients and for those unable to make it in the evening. Then in the evening we will have food and drinks and games. Because of this we will be closed Friday, April 29th - Sunday, May 1st so that we can get our old facility cleaned up and make sure the new facility is ready. We will then have the first day of training in the new facility on Monday, May 2nd 2022!
Many of you know that opening a new/larger facility has been the goal for quite some time and I am very excited that we are almost there. As exciting as this is I would also like to apologize for my lack of involvement in training all of our current clients lately. Between organizing the remodeling and new equipment along with our commitment to training the volleyball athletes at Pittsburgh Elite I have had very little time to actually be in our gym. With all the frustrations and headaches of the remodeling process I know I haven’t always been at my best while I am at the gym either. As we are wrapping up the stressful parts of getting this new place open I will be back to normal. I am excited to be back in the gym doing what I am best at and what I love most. Which is simply training all of you. Everyone should take note of the dedication Coach Joey has shown through this process as well. All of those hours I couldn’t be at the gym he was there and hasn’t complained once. I don’t even know when the last time he had a day off was. Everyone should also thank Nicole (and probably feel bad for her) because she not only has helped with the remodeling, but also had to deal with me being frustrated for 2 months straight. And as her reward she will have to pry me away from the gym to come home because the gym is going to be nicer than our house…
There are a lot of other people to thank, but I’ll save that for my opening party speech on April 30th.
Coach Dan
P.S. The new address is: 5372 Enterprise Blvd. Bethel Park, PA 15102