fbpx

Personal Training Kingston

  • ABOUT PTK
  • OUR STUDIO
  • PERSONAL TRAINING
  • REFER A FRIEND
  • CONTACT
Wednesday, 29 September 2021 / Published in Uncategorized

How Personal Training Kingston Survived the Pandemic

To say this past year and a half has been a challenge would be an understatement for non-essential businesses in Ontario. This Pandemic has forced many businesses to struggle and even go under. One industry that was hit particularly hard was the fitness industry.

Like restaurants, both small and larger scale gyms and training facilities spent substantial amounts of money and time to implement a safe environment. We had scrambled to put in place rigorous cleaning procedures and social distancing measures. There was no scientific evidence to support the closures when large scale “essential” businesses remained open to 100’s if not 1000’s of people each day. Small non-essential businesses received minimal support from our government. The lack of support left us feeling defenseless, taking on piles of debt and spending money to move our services to the digital forum to try and keep our businesses afloat. We felt crippled and as fitness businesses in our community buckled one after the other, we wondered if we would have the strength to pull through this devastation. At a time when keeping people healthy should have been of utmost importance, everyone was left confused and more than disappointed that fitness and health was not deemed essential.

Fitness, health and well-being of the community was deeply impacted. Fitness was not seen as a priority despite the vital role it plays on mental and physical health. Frequent lockdowns and more people working from home meant that daily routines were dramatically impacted. This made it difficult for many of our clients to stay on track with their goals. From our personal experience, clients of ours struggled to stay active and keep fitness as a part of their normal routine. The “new normal” was training clients online. Working with clients online made it challenging to keep them engaged and motivated due to many distractions at home.

There was a myriad of factors that occurred before PTK was settled into the location it’s training in today. Once the pandemic hit at the end of March 2020 and shutdowns occurred, our gym was closed (24/7 Fitness Kingston). After months of taking on debt, we decided to sell in order to alleviate ongoing expenses with no income being generated. The gym was sold 5 months after the shutdowns began. This was the best decision, removing the financial burden to us and our other business partner of the gym. Unfortunately, the gym abruptly closed down in December with no warning to anyone from the new owner. Looking back now, that was a bittersweet moment having spent 6 years training out of that gym. As of December 18th, 2020, we had no location to continue training clients. We scrambled to find a new location with no luck, leaving us no option but to settle into our space at home which was previously a dance studio. We rushed to fix the space up temporarily and ordered equipment which was difficult with equipment shortages and shipping delays.

PTK Training Studio

As we began to settle into our space, it was time to search for a permanent location for PTK. We saw a variety of locations, however we kept running into zoning issues and non-compete contracts. After looking at over 7 different locations, nothing worked out in the end for a lease to be signed. Looking back, not signing a lease was the best thing that could have happened. A short two weeks later the second lockdown occurred and non-essential businesses had to shut down again. The uncertainty of how many lockdowns we would need to endure made us think more clearly about our long-term plans.

During the multiple lockdown periods we were fortunate to have secured a commercial location which has yet to be built. We’re optimistic that after another year passes the pandemic and impact on fitness businesses will be less tumultuous. Until that next chapter begins, we are grateful to have a space to train clients that’s under our control. Thank you to our family, friends, and clients for the encouragement over the past year and a half. We could not have gotten through this without your support!

Future Home of Personal Training Kingston

What you can read next

Healthy Fruits and Vegetables, nutritionist in Kingston, Ontario.
10 Tips for Purchasing Organic Foods
Superfoods
The Healthiest Foods I Should Eat Daily

Recent Posts

  • Meal Prep containers

    Food Prep and Organization Tips

    Food Prep 101 There are many ways of going abou...
  • Raw Almond Butter Protein Cups recipe

    Protein Almond Butter Cups

    Peanut butter cups are what many people think o...
  • Coffee Beans

    Benefits of Caffeine on Athletic Performance

    For many people, having a cup of coffee in the ...
  • Healthy Fruits and Vegetables, nutritionist in Kingston, Ontario.

    10 Tips for Purchasing Organic Foods

    Consumers are becoming more aware of what food ...
  • CPA Figure Competition Lineup

    Sarah’s First CPA Figure Competition

    During the May long weekend I competed in my ve...

Archives

  • September 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • October 2019
  • June 2019
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017

Categories

  • Diet Myths
  • Education
  • Fitness
  • Recipes/Healthy Eating
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Supplements
  • Uncategorized
  • Vegan/Vegetarian
  • Weight Loss/Management

Featured Posts

  • Meal Prep containers

    Food Prep and Organization Tips

    0 comments
  • Raw Almond Butter Protein Cups recipe

    Protein Almond Butter Cups

    0 comments
  • Coffee Beans

    Benefits of Caffeine on Athletic Performance

    0 comments
  • Healthy Fruits and Vegetables, nutritionist in Kingston, Ontario.

    10 Tips for Purchasing Organic Foods

    0 comments
  • CPA Figure Competition Lineup

    Sarah’s First CPA Figure Competition

    0 comments

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

SEARCH

RECENT POSTS

  • Meal Prep containers

    Food Prep and Organization Tips

  • Raw Almond Butter Protein Cups recipe

    Protein Almond Butter Cups

  • Coffee Beans

    Benefits of Caffeine on Athletic Performance

TAG CLOUD

antioxidants artificial sweeteners bison bodybuilding Caffeine calories chocolate clean fifteen coconut coconut oil counting calories daily eating dairy-free detox diet dieting diet plan digestive enzymes dirty dozen drink fasting figure food gluten-free green tea healthy eating healthy food hemp seed maca maca root matcha meal frequency meal plan nut free nutrition oatmeal post-workout prebiotic prep probiotic protein sports nutrition sweeteners vegan weight loss

MAIN LINKS

  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
  • CONTACT US
  • NUTRITION COACHING
  • PERSONAL TRAINING
  • REFER A FRIEND
  • STORE

PERSONAL TRAINING KINGSTON

Call or Text: (343) 364-5087
Email: [email protected]

847 Augusta Dr., Kingston, ON

Open in Google Maps
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Copyright © 2015-2023 Personal Training Kingston Inc.. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use | Cookie Policy (CA)

TOP
Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
Preferences
{title} {title} {title}