Sports Center at Chelsea Piers Creates the Ultimate Gym Challenge for the Hardcore Athlete

Full Throttle Endurance Challenge Launches

(New York, NY – April 8, 2003) – The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers, New York’s ultimate health club, has introduced the ultimate hardcore workout: the Full Throttle Endurance Challenge. The class is designed for the avid athlete who is looking to push him or herself harder than ever before. The eight week program, which consists of two hour sessions from 6am – 8am twice a week, for a total of 32 hours, relies on combining all the different activities the Sports Center offers in one program, one workout. Classes include swimming, running, biking, rock climbing, spinning, stair climbing, calisthenics, sand drills, rope climbing, ab work, strength training and more for a workout that ensures complete exhaustion.

Led by Scottt Berlinger, Ironman, triathlon marathon competitor, the program is designed to not only push an athlete physically but also mentally. It begins with an extensive qualification process that ensures a level of swimming, running and strength proficiency for all interested in participating, only those who pass are able to assume one of the twelve slots offered for the duration of the eight weeks. “You can’t estimate an athlete’s mental strength – that’s the wild card in the class that makes it fun,” commented Berlinger. “There will come a point during every workout, when you have to ask yourself, do I hit the showers or push it to the next level.”

The program was born out of the demand that Berlinger was seeing among his personal training client base. “Clients were asking for more and more – they wanted to try different things to see how far they could push themselves,” said Berlinger. “The Sports Center, with it’s size and wide variety of sports, lent itself, unlike any other gym, to a program like this.”

About the Sports Center
The Sports Center at Chelsea Piers is the premier sports and fitness center in the greater New York Metropolitan area measuring over three football fields in length. The health club features unsurpassed cross-training opportunities and over 160 classes a week including: yoga, pilates, spinning, cardiovascular classes, Masters running and Masters swimming classes, various dance classes, abs classes and Michael Olajide Jr.’s Aero Series. Within the 150,000-square-foot facility, members enjoy a ¼-mile track, an 1/8-mile banked competition track, the largest rock climbing wall in the Northeast, a 25-yard 6-lane swimming pool, three basketball courts, an indoor sand volleyball court, as well as one of the largest cardiovascular facility and strength training deck in the country. In addition to an extensive selection of fitness and strength programs, the Sports Center offers league play, wellness seminars, sports specific training programs and spa services.

Contact:
Erica Schietinger, 212-336-6870 schiee@chelseapiers.com
Damon Bayles, 212-336-6054 bayled@chelseapiers.com