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Workout Anytime personal trainer Phoenix Gilman, right, trains Kim Palmer of Marietta in a dumbbell exercise. The 24-hour gym has trainers available as early as 3 a.m. Staff/Samantha Wilson
Workout Continued from Page 98 “We have a phone right at the front desk. There’s almost always one of us there at all hours.” Some gyms allow members to use panic button alarms in case of emergency when an employee is not on duty. Desaulniers’ clubs are a little over 5,000 square feet, he said. “We have locker rooms, showers, tanning beds. Pretty much everything everyone else offers,” he said. The fee at his clubs is $15 a month, with no contract, he said. And even at that price, the
business “is profitable if it’s run correctly,” he said. “We keep the gyms very clean. All the equipment is functional. We try to cater to our members as best we can. That’s how I run my two locations. We bring in a new piece of equipment at least once per year.” As for the “typical” client, Desaulniers said the club has a diversity of members aged 12 and older. “If I had to pick a demographic, it would be 35-yearold women, then men would be close behind,” he said. “But we have coaches from Kennesaw Mountain High that train, earlymorning soccer teams. There are couples with young children
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who can’t work out at the same time, one’s here in the morning and one in the evening.” And that’s the key, Desaulniers said. “The major advanatage is the opportunity to work out at your convenience,” he said.
MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL
SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010
WellStar hospitals make honor roll WellStar Health System in Marietta had four hospitals, WellStar Cobb, WellStar Douglas, WellStar Kennestone and WellStar Paulding hospitals, named to the Georgia Hospital Association’s Partnership for Health and Accountability Quality Honor Roll. These are four of 51 hospitals in Georgia to be placed
in the Presidential category, one of the highest on the list. The honor roll is based on clinical data provided by the federal Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services, which administers the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. The data was collected from January 2009 to December 2009.
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band and mother, and then found that her cancer had come back. The group helps sponsor the Pink Ribbon Golf Classic, a local breast-cancer fundraiser. “She had chemo on Christmas Eve. I sent a mass email to our group and we had so many people volunteer to drive her and sit with her on Christmas Eve, until her daughters could get there. She died later that night,” Hildreth said. “We were just about travel and trips, but that’s when we realized we’ve turned into something so much more,” she said. “We decided, it’s not about going places, it’s about being there.”
Continued from Page 97 The group has had 19 excursions, and ladies pick and choose what they want to participate in. They also host a happy hour every other month or so, so women can meet each other and get to know new friends before going on a trip. “Travel offers the opportunity to see new places, and we offer the camaraderie of making new friends,” she said. Those friendships were especially important when one of the sisters, who had already survived cancer, lost her hus-