The Church Of Gains You Won't Believe

With the gods on your side, how on earth could you not a hit a personal best every time?

I'd expect nothing less walking into this incredible gym, no doubt a very different lifting experience to the one we're used to!

David Barton Gym - New York

This 6th Avenue David Barton Gym was previously a night club, and before that an Episcopal church built in the mid-1800s.

Pray for gains - and you might just get 'em.

The church was a drug-rehabilitation center in the 1970s and continued as such until 1982, until Peter Gatien turned it into the Limelight (one of his chains of night clubs).

2010 saw it redeveloped into a mini-mall with a wine bar and restaurant. 

In fact the shoppng is still there today, but of course alot of the church and nunnery is used for the gym itself.

President of the David Barton gym Kevin Kavanaugh tells the Wall Street Journal they've been looking for spaces that aren’t “cookie-cutter.”

And they certainly haven't found that!

Because it was first a night club, Mr Kavanaugh said it didn't immediately look like a gym, but he says it "had the bones of a great public space... its natural architecture and beauty is so crazy, I just had to accentuate that.” 

He says the point of the gym is to inspire members by the atmosphere as they walk in, “so that they’re going to want to work out.” 

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The stained-glass windows are lit from the inside so the effect lasts all day. Lifters pump iron in the area once used as a chapel.

 

The cardio machines also support a high-speed Internet connection so members can watch TV and Netflix. 

 

But can the gods lift the weight for you? That's the quesstion....

 

“We haven’t figured that out yet,” said Mr. Kavanaugh.

 

Now that would be an article.

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