​NEWS RELEASE

Escape Fitness Joins AFS, Offering Full Service Fitness Solutions


(OAKLAND, CA, CINCINNATI, OH, November 16, 2017)  – The Association of Fitness Studios (AFS) today proudly announced and welcomed the addition of Escape Fitness to its membership and sponsorship ranks. 

Escape Fitness, founded in 1998, has built a reputation for developing exciting and engaging training experiences. Through its equipment, gym designs and group training programs, Escape encourages and empowers fitness professionals and their clients to ‘Escape Their Limits’ – a mentality that is the foundation of its every offering.

“Studios or aspiring studio owners looking for a full service, turnkey approach need look no farther than Escape Fitness,” said Josh Leve, AFS founder and CEO.  “They are a global company with a wide range of expertise for studios of all types. We’re thrilled to have them as part of AFS.”

Escape has helped improve the bottom lines of fitness clubs in more than 80 countries that are looking for exercise experiences that attract new clients, retain current clients and generate revenue for the studio. Its service offering embraces the key components needed for great workout experiences:

  • Innovative and colorful training equipment
  • Specialist facility design expertise
  • Instructor training and group programming

“We are excited about joining AFS and working more actively in the studio environment,” said Matthew Januszek, Customer Solutions Director at Escape Fitness. “Obviously, the studio market has been dynamic in the past few years, and we’ve been impressed with AFS’ leadership of that movement.”

The Escape solutions embrace a number of studio disciplines – functional, strength, sports performance, boxing, flexibility and more – so they can provide support for any type of fitness business. This support begins with extensive resources available across its website and social media channels, including dozens of workout videos aimed at providing instructors with cutting edge workout ideas.

More information on Escape Fitness can be found at www.escapefitness.com.

 

About AFS 

The Association of Fitness Studios (AFS) is the only membership community dedicated solely to the business of fitness studios.  AFS provides studio owners and developers a wide array of business-specific products, services, and benefits that enable them to more effectively manage and grow their businesses, building on the passion, compassion and courage they’ve already shown. www.afsfitness.com

 

About Escape Fitness

Escape Fitness has built a reputation for product innovation, quality and design while growing and competing through great partnerships in challenging markets worldwide, helping improve the bottom line of over 1,000 fitness clubs and key distributors in 80 countries. Committed to functional training since its inception, Escape works with clubs that invest in functional training spaces to deliver the best possible exercise experiences; encouraging fitness professionals and their clients to ‘Escape Their Limits’ – a mentality that is the foundation of the company’s every offering. Escape  works with industry leading brands worldwide, including Equinox, Fitness First, Virgin Active, UFC Gyms, Crunch, Nuffield Health, David Lloyd, 1Rebel, 24 Hour Fitness, Marriott, Life Time Fitness, Jatomi and many more. http://www.escapefitness.com