Life Stories Archive

  • Justine Fedak
    "I never realized how amazing my feet and legs were…"

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  • Tim Medvetz
    "Everest was all about my comeback and recovery."

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  • Kathleen Bullard
    "At 55, for the first time in my life, I really enjoy exercise."

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  • Jennifer Linn
    "When you are in a battle for your life, fitness takes on a whole new meaning"

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  • ROSE KIT
    "Every day I grow stronger in mind, as well as body."

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  • DAVE ACHZET
    "I know that my own personal exercise program will be a lifetime commitment to my health and happiness."

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  • Mark Krueger
    "Four days after surgery, I was back on the treadmill."

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  • Ari Waldman
    "For me, running provides a cathartic break…"

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  • Karen Alkofer
    "I was diagnosed with arthritis...but the workout I get from spinning eases my pain and makes it easier to do daily tasks."

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  • Shereen Ikeda
    "Losing body fat was my ultimate challenge."

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  • David Brinker
    "I’ve really changed what’s important to me."

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  • Mike Ferguson
    "I knew that without a change, something had to give."

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  • John Astorga
    "At 49 years old, I now have the balance, flexibility, agility and strength I’ve never experienced before, and it is a lot of fun."

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  • Earl Marona, Jr.
    "My perspective, and my goals, changed after I started training… "

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  • Jim Babbitt
    "I finally heard the wake up call."

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  • Christopher Johnson
    "It literally pays to be fit!"

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  • Richard Reynolds
    "My body is priceless."

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  • Marc Roth
    "After two months, Equinox helped me cure what no Doctor could for six years."

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  • Mary Devine
    "My life now is very different from what it was five years ago."

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  • SONIA ADVANI
    "As independent as I am, I know I could not have done this alone."

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  • AUGIE NIETO
    "I had everything I ever wanted. Then I got something nobody wants."

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  • Bibi Muneshwar
    "People tell me, ‘You have a glow.’ I don’t see it, but I feel it."

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  • Dianne Edmonson
    "In a matter of moments I was completely paralyzed from the neck down."

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  • Michel Koopman
    "Equinox was indeed the missing factor I needed to fully regain my health."

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  • Ed Kennelly
    "I now feel confident that I can reach even more fitness goals that I would ever have even imagined."

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  • Laura Albano
    "In the past five years I have had to deal with chronic lower back pain and herniations of the disks in my neck."

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  • Ron Goldstein
    "'It’s not fitness, it’s life' is truly my motto now."

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  • A.C. Morgan
    "The doctors said I only had a 50/50 chance of surviving."

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  • Paul Torchon
    "At only 39 years old, I was a high-risk candidate for a heart attack, diabetes, elevated cholesterol, and hypertension."

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  • Bethany Schwerdtfeger
    "I was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2008… I knew I had to do everything I could to fight it."

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  • Anne Hudson Price
    "I broke my neck in five places - every nurse in the hospital told me it was a miracle I wasn't paralyzed."

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  • Jefri Gootkin
    "My doctor now calls me his 'poster child.'"

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  • Joe Kavanagh
    "I had serious compression of my spinal chord in the neck and needed to get supportive hardware installed to help support my back."

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  • Anastasia Lavish
    "I made the commitment to challenge myself mentally and physically…"

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  • Aisling JuanJuan Shen
    "I have a completely new outlook on life and I have never felt or looked this great."

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  • Patrick Gaughan
    "None of my competitors know I am competing on an artificial hip."

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  • Chuck Lim
    "I couldn’t feel anything, from my shoulder down to my fingers."

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  • June Cross
    "I thought that if I could just last that one hour, I might be able to survive my own grief."

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  • Noraan Sadick
    "You think to yourself, this can’t be happening."

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  • Gretchen Dailey
    "Exercise saved my body, mind and spirit."

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  • Marianne Bellino
    "I had an accident while training for a triathlon and was diagnosed with pneumomediastinum and asthma."

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  • Joe Sutherland
    "Suddenly, nothing worked anymore."

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  • Brenda Laurel
    "A few of my vertebrae were either badly torn or completely gone."

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  • Erin Castelan
    "I am dedicated to my health and wellness, and I’m glad I have Equinox on my side."

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  • Dianne McLaughlin
    "Since joining Equinox I am feeling healthier and stronger than I have in a long time."

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  • Ari Waldman
    "I'd been diagnosed with Crohn's disease, but I didn't let it control my life. I joined Equinox and learned from the experts. I'm doing everything I can to stay well."

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  • Mike Covino
    "My trainer saved my lifestyle and possibly my life as well."

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  • Kathy Yates
    "I'm eternally grateful for the Equinox facility and their support in my healing process."

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  • Asim Farooki
    "Life is a blessing, and because of Equinox, I can now truly enjoy it."

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  • Scott Murray
    "Equinox and both of my Trainers have completely changed my life, and for that I am truly grateful."

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  • Jill Schlossberg
    "Just three and a half months after undergoing open heart surgery at age 35, I participated in – and finished – the Equinox Indoor Triathlon."

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  • Gail Lappen
    "I’m now living with more energy and vitality than I have in over 20 years!"

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PRESS ROOM

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EQUINOX IN THE NEWS

BEHIND THE SCENES

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Patrick McMullen's PMc magazine gets the backstory on our Terry Richardson shoot from Equinox Creative Director Bianca Kosoy.

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THE DEATH OF DUMBBELLS

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Do you need weights? Exercise Physiologist Geralyn Coopersmith says your own body may be the only resistance you need.  

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THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

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Interval training gives you more body benefit for your buck, but are you doing it right?

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STRETCHING SECRETS

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Touching your toes means squat. Physical Therapist Charlie Weingroff explains how mobillity is the new flexibility.

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FEEL ZEN IN TEN

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Try instructor Lisa Langer's ten-minute yoga sequence to enliven your body, release tension and clear the mind.

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