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A new spot to help local residents meet their fitness goals is on the way near downtown Columbia.
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HUSTL Athletic Club, a gym that will offer fitness classes, weight training, endurance training and more, is currently in development at 1815 Barnwell St. in Columbia. That’s near the intersection of Barnwell and Laurel streets, not far from the city of Columbia’s fire department headquarters and Mack’s Cash Grocery restaurant.
The new members-only athletic club for adults will be in a 10,500-square-foot building at 1815 Barnwell. The business is tentatively set to open in December, per founder and owner Travis Tourville, and construction and prep work was still ongoing and progressing nicely when a reporter recently stopped by for a visit.
“We like this location so much,” Tourville said while giving a tour of the facility. “We were looking for a big space, and this is more than 10,000 square feet. We loved this area, because of the (nearby) Bull Street growth and Main Street growth. I want (the gym) to be near where people work. That was important to me.”
HUSTL — the acronym stands for Heart, Unity, Strength, Toughness and Leadership — will offer a host of amenities and programs, including high-output conditioning, strength-focused weight training (the facility’s gym equipment is from Lexington-headquartered Sorinex), Pilates, yoga, personal training and more. The club says on its website that its goal is to create a community where people can “invest in themselves while building meaningful relationships with others who share that same mindset.”
The club, which will soon begin offering founders memberships and releasing rates and other information, also will have a host of post-workout recovery amenities, including men’s and women’s luxury locker rooms, dry saunas, IceVault cold therapy rooms, private changing areas, and a lounge with heated recliners, compression boots, massage guns and other offerings.
Tourville said the goal is for HUSTL to be a multi-faceted club that helps members in myriad ways, both in physical fitness and overall well-being. There will be health and wellness seminars, run clubs and various member events and gatherings.
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“We really want to be intentional about educating members outside of physical health,” Tourville said. “Educating them in recovery, mental health, financial health and doing a lot to help our audiences to understand the benefits of holistic, overall health and wellness.”
Parker Lippold, HUSTL Athletic Club’s general manager, also keyed on coming facility’s focus on the broader well-being of members, from fitness and strength classes to post-workout recovery.
“It’s really an ecosystem between the training, our cold and hot therapy, and the recovery aspect,” Lippold said. “We really want to be a holistic gym where we kind of touch on a little bit of everything.”
Tourville noted HUSTL will be a space that is welcoming to those who are experienced in workouts and physical fitness, as well as those who are beginners on their fitness journey.
“We want people to walk into these spaces and feel like they belong, and feel like it is a part of them and that they are very welcomed,” Tourville said. “We want it to be a space where they can come in and feel like they can be themselves.”
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