Orange Shoe Personal Fitness

I have been training with Wade for seven years. He is terrific as are all the trainers at orange shoe that I’ve worked with — Dennis and Ted

I came to Orange Shoe about a year and half ago after a friend convinced me to join their boot camp, and I became hooked! The staff is extremely knowledgeable and truly invested in you and your progress. Trainers Makenzie, Heidi and Dennis are tough but keep you challenged –never will you have the same workout like other gyms! In the last year — even while battling pneumonia and sinus infections, I have lost about 7 lbs., several inches all over, and gained muscle mass and endurance like never before. I am a runner but, this is the first time I have really been excited about maintaining strength training. And while strength training is at the core of everything they do, they have expanded their offerings to include boxing and yoga sessions. They also had a seasonal running program, which helped me really increase my speed and technique. Can’t say enough good things about my Orange Shoe experience!

I participated in Orange Shoe’s outdoor boot camp over the summer and really enjoyed myself. My only critique is that because there were so many people participating the workouts weren’t as challenging as I’d like. I had to push myself rather than being pushed by the trainer. But it was certainly fun and I would highly recommend Mackenzie as a trainer!

Went for my first consultation yesterday and loved it! Looking forward to working with the trainers here. MUCH better experience than at a «national chain» fitness center. I have a couple of rare conditions that I let Makenzie know about prior to the consultation. When I was there, she told me that she looked the conditions up to learn more about them and to see if there was any studies/​research being done about then. That never happened at those other places. Looking forward to my next sessions.

This place is great! Went here last summer and had a very good experience. The facility is very clean, rarely crowded and the workouts are appropriate to your level of fitness. The trainers are friendly, professional and know their stuff. I actually paid to go here and not a Groupon-​come-​once-​and-​leave– bitchy-​reviews-​eh-​eh-​Jj. Oh and I didnt get any discounts, thank you… but I digress. Anyway, if I lived closer to this place, I would rejoin in a heartbeat. There’s a lot of fitness studios popping up but Orange Shoe’s probably one of the best ones out there. Go!

I have been doing personal training sessions at Orange Shoe and would like to advise you to start. I needed the extra kick to get up off the couch. After a car accident some years ago, I slowly got less and less active and put on weight. I didn’t have the motivation to go to the gym on my own, so I started looking into personal training studios. Before I started with Orange Shoe, I looked into Motiv. I think their program could work well also, but what made me choose Orange Shoe was the idea that I would be working with multiple trainers. For anyone who has ever exercised, we all know that you can get into a rut and do the same things over and over. Well, trainers help you get out of that rut. But trainers also have a tendency to use the same exercises for multiple workouts. You can see the improvement in strength and stamina because of that repetition. But, three times a week with the same person with the same exercises is boring! I think your body gets bored, too and the improvement isn’t as great after a while. So, knowing that if I went to Orange Shoe I would be working with more than one trainer seemed like a wonderful (and novel) idea to me. Even the warm-​ups each trainer does is different. My goal is to loose a lot of weight. However, if you are trying to drop just a few pesky pounds, Orange Shoe can help. If you are recovering from and injury, Orange Shoe can help. If you are very active and want to improve your race times, Orange Shoe can help. Whatever your goal or motivation, Orange Shoe can help. Do yourself a favor and just call. Are you really going to get any closer to that goal by yourself?

I love, love, love this place. What a great concept! And the trainers are nothing short of amazing. I had a trainer at another gym a little over a year ago, and I actually dreaded going but I look forward to my appointments with the trainers at Orange Shoe. Yes, you read that right… i LOOK FORWARD to it! Which is saying a lot for me. I love how they customize the workouts and consult with one another to help you meet your goals. Sure it’s pricey but they also offer small group sessions to ease the hit to your wallet. You can even do individual/​group combos. All the trainers are very knowledgeable about fitness. Highly recommend.

I recently completed a month of their bootcamp and ended up with mixed feelings about it. I signed up when I saw the Groupon becuase I had heard good things about Orange Shoe, particularly Newt.
Pros: Mackenzie does make it very fun, the time goes fast and it is good cross training for single discipline athletes (I’m a cyclist).
Cons: It isn’t very challenging if you are already in shape. They got sort of overwhelmed with the number of Groupon folks they had and it was HUGE (think 60 – 80 people). As a result, there was a lot of standing around, lots of having to explain things a million times becuase there are always so many people, and the exercises themselves weren’t that hard becuase so many people were not in basic shape. She says, «well, just push yourself» which is ok for some things, but doesn’t really work for others (no matter how hard I «push myself», running up a set of 10 stairs 5 times, or doing jumping jacks for 45 seconds, just isn’t that hard). They really need to lost the little relays they do at the end which are really a waste of time.
I think if I lived around the corner and it was cheap (e.g. groupon price), I might still do it, but it definitely isn’t worth the full price of what they are charging.
Also, I thought it was VERY CHEEKY that they offered discounts to people who wrote them good reviews on Unilocal and Facebook. That really turned me off. So, I’m writing an honest one, not a fake good one.

I decide to try the Boot camp by purchasing a Groupon, figuring if i hated it the cost would not be so painful. – I must say I am pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying it. Mackenzie is a great motivator and her sessions are different and fun every time. She structures each activity for a range of fitness levels, which is the main reason i like it so much as well as the fact that it is outside in Welles park. If you are thinking of joining — do it!

My husband is a cyclist and is working with Newt on cross-​training. He can already see and feel the difference. When my husband returned from his ride today he said he could feel the additional power in his legs during his sprints, and he’s generating watts much higher than usual for this time of year.
Newt is a great guy who really knows what he is doing. His work out plan will kick your butt, in a good way, and definitely kick your butt into shape.

Wow, not to be trite here, but this place is not your «average» fitness studio. There is no one playing around here. They know their stuff. The owner, Wade has a formal Kinesiology education and paired with skills of the staff I know this is going to be a great relationship.