Fitness Showcase: Willy’s Gym

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Heart of the Community There’s more than exercise-induced endorphins to feel good about at Willy’s Gym and Willy’s World Wellness and Conference Center. The Lower and Outer Cape’s iconic health club, in Orleans and Eastham, has become an integral part of the community’s physical and social well-being since Barbara Niggel first hung her neon Willy’s [...]

Fitness Showcase: Joe’s Place True Pilates

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Walking in Joseph Pilates’ Footsteps All Pilates is not created equal. Many of us may have tried a mat class or a DVD, but very few of us have experienced Pilates as its creator Joseph Pilates intended. For the uninitiated, Pilates, which was developed by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s, is an exercise method that [...]

Fitness Showcase: Fitness 500 in Hyannis

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Stepping into the redefinition of fitness, my jaw drops. This is no “gym,” folks.  Not a lick of Formica anywhere, and minus the requisite indoor/outdoor mottled carpet. Fitness 500, located right in the heart of Main Street, Hyannis is completely re-defining fitness. Grounded in wellness and the body/mind/spirit model, this is not the same-old, same-old [...]

Fitness Showcase: The Fitness Revolution

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Anti-Gym It seems the world is divided into two camps – gym people, and people who proclaim no matter what, they will never, join one. Well those latter people may have to eat their words and give Fitness Revolution in Orleans a try because it’s not like most gyms, and that’s the whole idea. Two [...]