Today marks our two-year anniversary in Remington Office Court! Julie and I wanted to take this opportunity to share the story of how Muscle Activation Schaumburg has evolved over our first years.
Prior to opening our very first office on Martingale Rd., Julie was an employee at Lifetime Fitness and I was seeing clients in the city as well as at the fitness center of our Schaumburg apartment building. After a few short months, I was told I was no longer allowed to see clients at our apartment. That Christmas, I contacted every place in Schaumburg looking for a location to see my clients. Nobody was interested in the idea.
At that time I knew I had to find a place of my own, and on New Year’s Eve of 2013, I signed the lease for our 118 square-foot, 10 N. Martingale office.
Despite the maze of our office and the inconvenience of accessing the basement fitness center, we were happy and grateful to be running our own show. Julie and I had to schedule around each other each day because the office was only big enough for a desk, a chair, a filing cabinet, and one MAT™ table. On July 1, 2014, we were told we could no longer use the fitness center to train our clients. As an exercise-based business, this was not great news. I knew we had to find a new location fast.
I spent the entirety of the next two days hunting for office spaces in Schaumburg. I called as many as I could find and ended up picking three to visit. After seeing the first space, I was sold. But, I needed to do my due-diligence and check out the other two. The second space required too much build-out on our part. The third space Julie loved from the moment we walked in. She could see something in it that I did not at that time, but I trusted her judgment and decided to sign the lease for the third space. This began our time in Remington Office Court.
We then needed to find equipment to put in our space! We scoured the internet late into the nights looking for equipment that we wanted. We ordered pieces from all over the U.S., most notably our 11-piece Keiser line, which we got from South Carolina. It was “local pickup only”, so Julie and I took a one-way flight down to Greenville, SC and rented a 24-foot truck. We drove 14 hours straight through the night to have the equipment back in Schaumburg by the next morning so we could see clients and attend meetings that day.
We opened our 1355 Remington Suite D office on September 1, 2014, the day I turned 27 years old. We had a wonderful 9-month time there, but when the opportunity to expand was brought to us, we seized it and moved to the front of the business park, into our current 4,000 square-foot space.
Because of your support, our business has grown in size and numbers since we first opened just under two and a half years ago. We are immensely grateful for your continued support and are humbled by the opportunity to continue to serve you and help you exercise for life.
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