About | Overview
Helping You Discover the Joy of Healthy Living Since 1987
Lenox Fitness Center was established in 1987 in the cellar of the Lenox Post Office where it resided for 13 years. The current owners moved the "Club" to its bigger and brighter home on Route 7 in August 2000, and it became known as "Lenox Fitness Center & Spa".
Linda Procopio Messana, Owner & Joanne Koivisto, Spa Director
Our goal is to make you feel at home while improving your health and fitness. Free coffee, newspapers and magazines are always available by the tables in our front desk area. This area consists of the membership department and an extensive retail area, offering the latest in fitness apparel. Fitness accessories such as OGIO duffle bags, yoga mats and other fitness products are also available. To replenish after your workout, the juice bar offers fresh fruit smoothies, protein drinks and energy bars.
The original home on this site has been transformed into an upscale DAY SPA offering Spa manicures and pedicures, massages, reflexology, hot rocks treatments and six different facials with products by Repechage.
Attached to the Spa is a state of the art fitness center offering:
- Life Fitness and cardiovascular and strength equipment
- Hammer Strength free weights
- A mezzanine studio overlooking the fitness area where we offer Aerobic, Stretch, Sculpting, Spinning, Pilates, Bootcamp, Teen Classes, Yoga classes and more
You have options with our many amenities:
- Prepare for your next sunny vacation in our tanning booth
- Enjoy the private saunas and showers in the locker rooms
- Replenish with our juice bar offerings and relax in our peaceful lounge.
- Gift cards are always available in any denomination for Spa or Fitness Services.
Meet Our Staff:
Your Path to Fitness at the Lenox Fitness Center
is in Caring and Qualified Hands
You'll find our Personal Trainers and Fitness Instructors knowledgeable, motivating and fun!! They'll answer your questions and guide you on proper form and methods to keep you injury-free while they help you:
- Reach you fitness goals
- Tone up and lose weight
- Increase strength and flexibility
- Improve aerobic capacity
- Reduce stress
- Rehab from surgery or injury
- Regain your healthy lifestyle
- Train for your specific sport
Brian Pickard
Fitness Director & Personal Trainer
Brian is the Lenox Fitness Center's Fitness Director and has been with us since 2003. He graduated from Berkshire Community College in 2002 with an Associate in Exercise Science and has certifications with the American Council on Exercise for Personal Training, the National Academy of Sports Medicine for sports performance as well as NETA (National Exercise Trainers Association) Group Exercise Instructor certification.
Brian works with all fitness levels from youth to seniors, beginners to advanced. He has worked with clients who’ve had hip and knee replacements, strokes, paralysis, and Parkinson’s disease. Brian conditions many athletes including marathon runners, a Junior National Hockey Champion and has been the sports and conditioning coach of the Pittsfield Aces, a semi-pro football team.
"I believe in focusing on movements not muscles, and training your body as a functional unit for the way you live—whether it is to walk pain free or to perform Olympic lifts." Brian uses a wide variety of training tools from body weight to Russian Kettlebells.
Currently, Brian is co-owner with his wife, Stephanie, of Gymfest in Pittsfield, MA and also an instructor at Berkshire Community College teaching: Exercise Science, Gym Program Planning, Muscle Strength and Conditioning, Advanced Strength Training, and Stretch and Flexibility.
Brian has placed first in the Art of Strength Kettlebell Competition and fourth in his division in the worldwide Girevoy Sports Kettlebell Challenge.
Tim Hart
Personal Trainer
Tim has worked for the Lenox Fitness Center in some capacity since he was 14 years old. Starting at the front desk, Tim moved on to demonstrating proper use of the machines for members and became a Certified Personal Trainer in 2008.
Tim graduated from Westfield State College with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and acquired his Personal Training certification through World Instructor Training School, which is recognized by ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) for excellence.
Tim caters his trainings to each individual client's needs. He has worked with clients with Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, knee and hip replacement surgery, and even metabolic training for brides looking to shine in their white dress on the big day.
"Everyone is different and we must train accordingly. We approach your goals as a two-person team, keeping our eyes on the prize—optimum physical fitness. You owe it to yourself to feel as good as you deserve and enjoy life the way you want."
Christine Kielpinski
Fitness Instructor
Christine has a B.S. Engineering and 9 years as an AFAA Certified Personal Trainer, Cycling Coach, Group Fitness Instructor, and Outdoor Guide. Fitness has actually been part of Christine’s whole life. Christine's philosophy is "Being fit and living your life are one and the same…Fitness is a Way of Life...Life is Now." Her Passion is bringing that to others, especially those who missed the opportunity when they were children, are ready to explore this side, and want to be physically younger.
She has lead individuals and groups of all ages and fitness levels....from enthusiastic 5th graders on their ski's for the first time to gung-ho Navy weekend warriors heading to the top of Mount Whitney....from beginner Mountain bikers on their brand new bikes to enthusiastic seniors who want to stay young, agile, and strong….from competitive athletes going for rankings to overloaded adults needing to just transform stress. Christine’s specialty is long range fitness training plans and instruction for lifelong fitness. She really gets great satisfaction from introducing fitness to "first-timers", teaching movement skills and fitness language, seeing them walk the talk, bringing them to higher fitness levels, and leading them to feel their personal best.
Sue Merritt
Personal Trainer
Suzanne Merritt, of Lenox, MA has worked for The Lenox Fitness Center and Spa since the summer of 2006. A longtime member of the Fitness Center, she worked out regularly with the Personal Training staff for many years before becoming certified to teach fitness in 2006. She is certified as an AKC (American Kettlebell Club) Coach and has competed in kettlebell events for the last several years. She is a member of AKC, WKC and the NAKF (North American Kettlebell Federation). Sue currently teaches 2 group kettlebell classes each week and has a regular group of students who have progressed with her since she began teaching in 2006.
Sue is also a certified Level 3 SPIN instructor through SPIN Fitness and currently teaches 6 SPIN classes each week. She is a regular attendee of the World Spinning and Sports Conference each May in Miami, FL. Sue started the Teen Fitness Program at Lenox Fitness to help student athletes prepare for school sports. She instructs students of all ages how to work with heart rate monitors and as a result, she has a following of students in the SPIN Program from teenagers to adults well into their 70’s.
Sue has recently become certified as a Personal Trainer through the World Instructor Training School Program, which is recognized by ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) for excellence. In addition to her work with group exercise, teaching 10 classes per week, Sue is excited to help her clients improve their health and fitness by sharing her expertise and knowledge working 1:1 with them as a Personal Trainer.
Sue lives in Lenox with her husband Matt and her two teenage children. Besides working in fitness, Sue owns Suzanne Merritt Photography. She has been a photographer since she was in high school. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Photography from Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. and is also a Certified Nursing Assistant.
Kimberly Reopell Flynn
Spinning Instructor
Kim began as a member at Lenox Fitness about 14-15 years ago. Certified as a Spinning Instructor in 2001, Kim started off as a sub and picked up one class a week in 2002. She now teaches 5 classes per week and is a Star 3 level instructor (highest certification you can get for Spinning). Kim continues to take continuing-ed classes and has attended the World Spinning and Sports Conference in Miami for the last two years.
Kim's day job is as a real estate paralegal at Heller & Robbins in Lenox (15 years). She lives in Lenox with her husband J.R. Flynn and has a grown son, Brian Kevorkian.
Kim Conley
Fitness Instructor
Kim Conley is certified to teach Kripalu Yoga, Pilates, Zumba Gold and Personal Training. She works with people of every age and ability all over the Berkshires. Her eclectic professional experience has included stints in corporate public relations, classroom teaching, and interdisciplinary program design for young people in theater and museum settings. She is also a fiction writer currently revising a novel. Born and raised in New York City, Kim has a BS from Boston University and an MA from the New School for Social Research.
CALL TODAY to start your membership at the Lenox Fitness Center: 413-637-9893