Get In Shape For Women Debuts in Petaluma

(Petaluma, Calif.)---Get In Shape For Women, a women’s fitness chain that offers small group personal training, will open its third location in the greater San Francisco area in January 2014 at 615A East Washington Street in Petaluma, Calif. At the helm is the company’s founder, Brian Cook, who recently moved to the area from Boston to expand the concept on the West Coast.

            “I founded the company out of the Boston area and since opening our first location in Bedford, Mass. in May 2006, our presence on the East Coast has grown significantly,” said Cook. “I decided the best way to duplicate that growth on the West Coast was to relocate and open a second office in this largely untapped market for us. We are so excited to open in Petaluma and start helping women in the area transform their bodies and lives.”

Get In Shape For Women empowers women through body transformation in a small group personal training environment where a dedicated trainer works with one to four women at a time. The company’s body transformation program—a unique combination of weight training, cardio, supportive nutrition and accountability—is scientifically proven to work.

Each session consists of 30 minutes of weight training, 25 minutes of cardio plus nutrition coaching for a complete training program for women that produces amazing results. Personal trainers help members set an achievable goal and then holds them accountable for reaching it, with weight and body-fat percentage checked every two weeks. Holding members accountable to someone other than themselves is what sets Get In Shape For Women apart from other personal training and fitness programs often costing two or three times as much.

The Petaluma location will join two existing California Get In Shape For Women franchise locations in Mill Valley and Corte Madera. Additional franchise locations slated to open in the area in early 2014, include Thousand Oaks, Santa Rosa, and San Rafael. The company is aggressively targeting the greater San Francisco area for growth before moving down the coast. Plans call for 50 franchise locations throughout San Francisco, Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Alameda, and San Mateo counties over the next 3-5 years.

In 2013, Entrepreneur magazine ranked Get In Shape For Women No. 213 out of the top 500 franchises in the U.S. and Inc. magazine ranked the company No. 510 out of the top 5,000 businesses.  The company plans to grow 25 percent each year toward its eventual goal of 5,000 franchise locations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.getinshapeforwomen.com.