Ep.98 - Jay Wright on fitness environments and training for life

Jay Wright has built a business based on passion not only for the design of buildings around the globe, but also for the human body. Creating beautiful gyms, high-end luxury condominiums hotels and consulting for developments in many other world-class locations, The Wright Fit elevates experience everywhere it touches for the future of fitness. Creating opportunities to run, jump, lift and carry things, Jay and his team are naturally battling sedentary lifestyle trends with incredible fitness environments and training for life. Watch the full episode on YouTube   Formerly co-owner of the largest private training gym in Manhattan, Jay Wright has designed fitness spaces and wellbeing facilities for some of the most iconic locations in New York City, including 15 Central Park West and JFK Airport. His lifestyle brand continues to educate clients across the country with holistic design, consulting, management and operations expertise in luxury gyms and residential projects. Designs aside, today's Escape Your Limits episode is a lesson in functional fitness to combat the sedentary evolution of the human race. Meet strength and conditioning specialist, celebrity trainer and gym designer, Jay Wright, CEO of The Wright Fit. As CEO and founder of The Wright Fit, Jay Wright's role is to create and develop an extraordinary lifestyle brand that elevates the concept, perception and experience of fitness, health and wellness through design, education and service.  The Wright Fit is a premiere lifestyle brand specializing in health and fitness center design, management, operations and providing personal services (including personal training, soft tissue therapy, aquatic lessons, and group fitness). Its purpose is to educate clients and help them achieve their best body and wellbeing; both now and into the long-term. Through a holistic approach, the business' expertise is unparalleled.   www.thewrightfit.com www.twfperformancelab.com    Episode highlights -   How to pick the most effective location that makes your business work and takes advantage of incredible levels of development across any neighborhood. Why your venture shouldn't be driven from a business standpoint, but a qualitative perspective for the brand, and how you can achieve this. How to elevate the experience of fitness and wellness from a design perspective, from a service perspective and from a programming perspective combined. Why consulting is impressive but it's still important to put your money where your mouth is and develop your own spaces with your own resources. How an athletic background and modeling career evolved into bigger passion for fitness and understanding everything to do with personal training, gym design and a world of wellness. How to develop your pursuit of a passion to grow from personal training to gaining operations experience and transitioning to the business side of the industry. Why there's always opportunity to take advantage of if you're willing to put the work in and you're passionate enough to keep pushing for your success. The difference between staying small as a boutique business and growing really big, going along with the ride of development – how this decision offers two very different roads to success. The centrepoint philosophy and how it not only drives people to their goals, but also fills our emotional reservoir that affects what we know we should do and what we feel we should do. The intrinsic link between fitness and real estate, and how strategic partnerships can make or break any location decision or investment.   Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Jay Wright…