SIDNEY — Functional Accelerated Sports Training (F.A.S.T.) has moved to a new location, 230 E. Russell Road.
The personal fitness and athletic training operation had been sharing space on Vandemark Road since it opened about a year and a half ago.
According to part-owner and head trainer Devon Langhorst, “We needed our own building to expand and grow as a business. We needed more space for ourselves.” Numbers of clients have increased by some 50 percent since Tim Lones opened F.A.S.T. South in Sidney. He founded F.A.S.T. in Lima and the local gym is his second location. F.A.S.T. purchased the Russell Road facility.
The business will celebrate by hosting an open house, Nov. 13, from 1 to 4 p.m. The center will be open to the public, who can watch demonstrations of exercises and fitness training, get chiropractic information from Shelby Chiropractic and enjoy chair massages.
F.A.S.T.’s aim is to provide sports performance enhancement through building strength, speed, endurance, agility and flexibility.
“We basically try to take an athlete and supercharge him — make him more explosive, more efficient,” Langhorst said.
He develops individual training programs for each client and clients range in age from 6 to adult. The schedules usually comprise three, one-hour sessions per week for eight weeks. He works each one around individual conflicts.
“Everyone is called every Saturday,” Langhorst said, “and we schedule every week. Everything is by appointment only.” Sessions take place Mondays through Saturdays.
And every time someone works out at F.A.S.T., he does so with a trainer in attendance. In addition to individual workouts, Langhorst plans small group sessions for people of the same skill levels. No group has more than six people.
The programs are open to girls and boys, women and men.
The move to the larger space has allowed F.A.S.T. to offer more hours and Langhorst has doubled the amount and types of equipment that are available. The new building, “opens up the door for all different types of training,” he said.
Also new is a smoothie bar. Langhorst and another trainer cover the training duties. He will hire someone to work the smoothie bar.
Although the majority of F.A.S.T.’s clients have been student athletes, Langhorst said a perception that the business serves only that population is wrong.
“For anyone who wants fitness training, I’ll put together a program,” he said.
For information, call 419-331-3278.
