Labor Day Weekend Hours and Schedule

9/5/2010

ECO/BTY Downtown

Sunday, September 5th
ECO 8am-4pm

*Hot Yoga @ 9:30am w/Cathy L.(90 min class)

*Spinning @ 10am w/Aimee


Monday, September 6th
ECO 8am-2pm

*All Levels Yoga @ 10am w/Kelly(75 min class)

*Spinning @ 8:15am w/Sarah


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ECO/BTY Mt. Pleasant

Sunday, September 5th
ECO 8am-4pm

*Hot Yoga @ 9am w/Jim (90 min class)

*Pilates @ 9:30am w/Katrinka

*Spinning @ 10am w/Shannon N.


Monday, September 6th
ECO 8am-2pm
**Kids Towne 8am-12pm**

*Body Challenge @ 9am w/Dianne

*All Levels Yoga @ 9:15am w/Michelle (75 min class)

*Spinning @ 9:30am w/Jim

Yoga Workshops for Beginners

9/1/2010

Yoga workshops for beginners coming in September to Blue Turtle Yoga, Mount Pleasant.
Saturday 9/11, 10:30am
Saturday 9/18, 11:30am
Saturday 9/25, 11:30am
To register, call or stop by the Mount Pleasant Eco Fitness location. Payment is required at registration. Space is limited – reserve your spot today!
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Spinning Marathon News Links

3/7/2009
Email: lisa@ecofitnessgym.com

Check out these news links covering the Pattisons's Academy Spinning Marathon at Eco Fitness!

http://www.moultrienews.com/news/Spinning-Marathon-raises--80-000

http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/mar/12/spinning_event_raises74720/

Krank It Up

David Quick, 6/30/2008
Website: http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jun/30/krank_up4593...

Unless you have avoided stepping foot into a health club in the past decade, you likely know about the popular, group indoor cycling program known as Spinning. Now, get ready for Kranking.

Think of Spinning but with a highly evolved, hand cranking cycle, or Krankcycle. It's the next innovation for Spinning's creator Johnny Goldberg, "Johnny G", and is expect to launch commerically in March 2009.

Last Wednesday Goldberg was at Mount Pleasant's Eco Fitness Club, among the 10 "beta test sites" in the Untied States and the first in the Southeast to introduce Kranking and the Krankcycle.

Best of 2008

Moultrie News, 6/18/2008
Email: lisa@ecofitnessgym.com

Best of the Best
Moultrie News Readers' Choice Awards 2008
Fitness Center- Eco Fitness

The Charleston Review: Eco Fitness

Jennifer Taylor, 3/1/2008
Email: lisa@ecofitnessgym.com
Website: http://thecharlestonreview.com/MarchApril08/page43.htm

Finding the right place to work out can be daunting, especially if your motivation has a tendency to waiver. Abiding by a resolution and sticking with it, especially when you're traveling, also can be especially difficult.

As the name implies, Eco Fitness has an environmental focus and is trying to be a good neighbor and good shepherd to the environment through unique gyms located in downtown Charleston and Mount Pleasant. Part of urging others to become healthier is the affordability of the gyms. Members are able to take unlimited yoga classes for a reasonable rate, unlike the majority of studios where yoga is very expensive, forcing students to scale back on the number of classes they can afford to take. There are an abundance of class selections to choose from, including Hot Yoga, Pilates, Spinning, popular hip hop classes, Tae Bo, strength and cardio mix classes, totaling more than 100 classes a week between the two locations. Members have the flexibility to go back and forth between both of the venues.

The smaller downtown Eco Fitness and next door neighbor Blue Turtle Yoga opened first in November of 2004, and the Mount Pleasant location followed in March of 2007. The second locale expanded on the approach and offers acupuncture, chiropractic care and massage under the same roof. The spacious childcare center has activities for kids and doesn't include television. Members ask if there are plans for expansion and owner, Dave Fox, says no. "We try to do things really well. I'd rather do two locations really well." The members can attest that this has been accomplished, and so can I after my experience at the yoga center.

To read the full review click on the link below.



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Charleston Home To Master Spinner

David Quick, 10/1/2007
Website: http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/oct/01/charleston_h...

Leaders in the fitness industry in the United States tend to hail from or gravitate to Los Angeles, New York or Miami, but one of the top representatives of a popular, indoor cycling program hangs her cleats in Mount Pleasant. Luciana Marcial-Vincion, one of 120 master Spinning instructors, was selected this year as the global master instructor team leader, a position in which she is the liaison between Spinning's license owner Mad Dogg Athletics and master instructors around the world.

Best of Charleston 2006

Charleston City Paper, 12/1/2006
Website: http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com

Best Health Club
Eco Fitness
69 Wentworth St. Downtown 723-4995

Best Pilates Studio
Eco Fitness
69 Wentworth St. Downtown 723-4995

She's so Skirt!

Luciana Marcial-Vincion, 0/0/
Website: http://charleston.skirt.com/node/5165


Luciana keeps the world spinning. As a Master Instructor with Mad Dogg Athletics Spinning™ program for the last eight years, Luciana (also the Spinning director at ECO Fitness) has traveled the country teaching workshops and certifying other Spinning instructors. A year ago, she went global, with her promotion to Global Master Instructor Team Manager, in charge of the 130 Master Instructors across the country. "That brings an international element to it," says Luciana, who loves hoofing it beside indoor cyclists from New Zealand, Hungary and Japan (among others) at the annual World Spinning and Sports Conference. "I was a professional aerobic junkie, with Jane Fonda leg-warmers and the whole deal," admits Luciana. "I got hooked on Spinning, though, because of the strong mind-body connection. It's more than just a workout. You have to ride with something deeper. Every spinning session should be a journey, an opportunity to progress mentally, emotionally, spiritually."