Celebrating 6 years of Echelon Health and Fitness

This April, Echelon Health and Fitness celebrates our 6 year anniversary. As a thank you to our members, we are giving away one 4 day 3 night free resort stay at https://www.vidanta.com/ to a person who swipes into the gym, every day between April 28th and May 31st

We are also offering a 1 year, 3 day per week Bronze membership with 30 days of Thrive Personal Training and meal plan for local community members through May 31st to help them become their best versions of themselves just in time for Summer (some restrictions may apply).

“Team Echelon has chosen to adapt and deliver for each and every member because we actually care,” says Trey Severs, Thrive personal training Thrive manager. “As we come together as a community, we will continue to deliver the best program in the country to allow an outlet and safe place for each and every member,” he continues.

Highlights over the last 6 years

Since opening, in 2016, Echelon has made an impact on so many people in the local community.

This includes:

• 2,708,800 check-ins to the gym

• 1,015,653 Thrive personal training sessions

• 75,000 Group fitness classes

• Myzone- 57,032,799 Calories

• Myzone MEPS 15,345,733

• 600 + MemberPERX local merchants added

• Over $500,000 saved through the MemberPERX program

• 4 Summer Fit & MemberPERX Challenges

• 1st Thrive Combine

• Voted best gym in South Jersey 5 years in a row

Throughout the uncertainty of the last two years, the gym has continued to adapt in order to meet our members’ needs. We started with offering virtual classes, when shutdowns first began. Soon after, we began the program “Lotta Gains,” outdoor classes that allowed members to connect with their favorite instructors while maintaining social distance. Overall, Echelon had to close its doors for nearly 6 months before reopening in September 2020 at limited capacity.

Today, we are back but still behind our total members since Covid but are lazer focused on continuing to improve your experince and our mission of helping our community, members, and PERX partners become healthier, fitter, and stronger.

Improvements at Echelon

While some gyms and studios were closing because of the impact of Covid-19, Echelon Health and Fitness reinvested back into their gym and has always been committed to improving the facility. That has been taken even further over the last two years. We have recently implemented close to $1 million in upgrades to keep our facility top-notch for our members.

Improvements made since March 2020 include:

• New spin bikes

• Pool re-painted

• New cedar benches for the dry sauna

• New outside workout area (Lotta Gains)

• New lifting platform

• New dumbbells

• New equipment for the Thrive area

• New turf & functional area downstairs

• New turf upstairs

• 3 Hydromassage lounge chairs

• New booty & ab coaster

• New prone leg curl machine

• New hack squat machine

• Removal of glass wall and paint job in the Thrive area

• New Body Pump equipment

• FTS Glide ET

• Half rack with platform

• 100 new MemberPERX Partners

• New Med Balls

• New Plyoboxs

• New Les Mills Body Pump Equipment

• New Online Proshop https://echelonproshop.com/shop

Equipment and improvements coming in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

• New Tredmills

• New Stair Mills

• New Recumbent Bikes

• New Upright Bikes

• Another New lifting platform

• Another New smith machine

• Tire Flip

• Precor FTS Gilde Functional Trainer

• 2 PB Extreme Ski Trainer

• New Blue Vinyl on equipment down stairs ( By May 10th)

• New Dry Sauna with Salt panels ( Late 2022)

Dave, Susie, and Jeff's close relationship to our members, help them to understand what needs to be updated. Members know that their concerns will be heard if they are brought to a member of the Echelon team

“Our goal is to always try to improve our members experience” says David Chung, Co-founder & CEO.

Thrive Personal Training and Classes

Personal training and fitness classes have been a great way for Echelon members to stay healthy and connected.

“I ended up joining THRIVE and that was probably one of the best things that has happened for me,” expressed Lashaun Drew, member and owner of Original Hot Dog Factory. “Not only do they push you to be your best version while you’re working out, they push you in general, in life.”

Thrive Personal Training is a performance-driven fitness program that is designed to help any individual meet their goals. Echelon Health & Fitness is the only place you will find this innovative program in South Jersey.

“It’s very personalized, very enthusiastic, they will never let you miss a step,'' said Sonia Osorio Owner of Maria’s Mexican Restaurant. “If you are looking to join a program that will give you the best training possible, I would definitely recommend Echelon.”

Both Sonia and Lashaun are local business owners, who joined Echelon Health & Fitness through the MemberPERX program.

The People Make the Difference

​​At Echelon Health & Fitness, the people are what makes the environment special. Two words often come up when people talk about Echelon: family, and community.

“The difference for me with Echelon is it’s a family feeling,” says Melissa Arce, member turned fitness instructor. “I’ve been to gyms where it feels corporate, but here, even with the members you become close and build relationships.”

“The community here is hard to describe, '' says Kayla Gorrell, instructor since 2016, “it’s a great energy and people really care about each other.”

Thank you for choosing to be a Echelon member. We truly appreciate your support over the last six years. We look forward to many more years of helping our community become healthier, fitter, and stronger.