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A Cycling Studio Built for People Who Want More

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Stacy Vinge's path into fitness began with a move to Italy in 2007.

A single woman in a dynamic high kick against a RockBox branded heavy bag, shot from a low angle. She wears white boxing gloves and a blue crop top with black leggings. Multiple RockBox-branded bags visible in the background in a dark studio. She is the only subject.

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A boxing and kickboxing studio opened in South Lake Union on October 31, 2026, after city fire inspections pushed back the launch.

A woman in a black sports bra mid-punch, her white RowdyBox-branded boxing glove connecting with a heavy bag. She is shown from roughly shoulder height to waist, profile view, head bowed in effort. The RowdyBox logo is visible on the glove. Dark blue-tinted gym background with out-of-focus equipment behind her.

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RowdyBox was turning its regular Saturday 12:15pm slot into a costume boxing session on October 31.

A woman in a green Flatstick Pub tank top performs a dumbbell exercise mid-stride in the gym, her arm extended and face uplifted, clearly mid-effort. Behind her, three other members are working out on the same floor. GLSC-branded wooden plyo boxes are visible in the mid-ground, and a large open garage door shows a parking lot outside. Barbells are racked along the left wall.

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Green Lake Strength and Conditioning was throwing a Halloween party on Friday, October 30, and non-members are explicitly invited.

Emilia Perez Builds Strength From the Inside Out

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Emilia Perez found her footing in fitness long before it became her profession.

Taylor Tattan

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Taylor Tattan's road to strength training started in a gymnastics gym.

Inside a bright, clean Seattle Strength & Performance gym: a woman in a black SSP shirt grips a loaded barbell at the bottom of a deadlift while a man in a black SSP crewneck stands over her coaching. The SSP logo is visible on the wall to the right and reflected in the window on the left. Synergee-branded plates on the bar.

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Seattle Strength & Performance opened its sixth gym in Wedgwood in September 2026, its first foothold in Northeast Seattle.

Sydney Werwinski Helps Seattle Find Its Inner Athlete

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Sydney Werwinski's first job ever was at a gym, and she has been part of that world ever since.

Rendering of the main workout floor at Sanctuary by Henry's Gymnasium in Denny Triangle: rows of treadmills under gold dome lights, large murals of faces, red curtains and tall street-facing windows. Rendering: Henry's Gymnasium.

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Glen Swain is putting approximately $8 million into a 45,000-square-foot private social club at 1827 Yale Ave, in a tower where Amazon let its office lease lapse. Presales for Sanctuary by Henry's Gymnasium opened September 29, 2026. The official site targets late Q1 2027 for the opening.

Emma Paul-Cash, hands on hips, in a studio portrait

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Emma Paul-Cash never grew up in a gym, and that is the heart of the coaching at EPC Athletics.

Laura Su Is Building Strength and a Studio in North Seattle

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Laura Su turned years of coaching horseback riding into a career in strength.

A wide-crop of a competition scene inside a gym: a woman in a black 'BROOKS' top faces away from the camera, pressing a loaded barbell overhead (snatch or clean-and-press) off a Rogue-branded platform; a large crowd of spectators fills the right side, seated on the floor and standing along the back wall; additional barbells and bumper plates are visible in the foreground; painted murals visible on the far wall.

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Corsair Athletics is running its 2nd annual Corsair Games on Saturday, December 5, 2026, at 1400 NW 49th St in Ballard.

Sammie Brown, owner of RowdyBox, in a studio portrait with tattooed arms and green and blue hair

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Sammie Brown has been coaching for 15 years, and she brings a competitor's mindset to every session.

A group fitness/stretch class in a gym: five people on black mats in a side-plank/stretch pose, one in a dark green hoodie with a visible '& FITNESS' logo, reaching upward together; the gym floor behind them shows racks, resistance bands, a punching bag, an orange support column, and an older adult using equipment in the background.

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The 24/7 gym at 7400 Aurora Ave N has posted a "COMING SOON" banner announcing more space, more equipment, showers and a sauna.

A man lying on a flat bench inside a gym, pressing two hex dumbbells overhead at full extension with both arms. He wears a black long-sleeve shirt and dark shorts. Behind him: a power rack, a full dumbbell rack, and large front windows looking out to a street with a parked car and building visible. Bright natural window light floods the room. The setting is clearly a gym interior.

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Eastlake Barbell Club is adding a second space inside the 1924 Hines Public Market building at 112 E Lynn St, on the Lynn Street side of the building beneath the Eastlake Zoo Tavern. The club calls it HQ2. Equipment has not moved in yet, but the doors open Friday, October 30, for a free neighborhood walk-through before the official launch. When it opens, the plan is Rogue, Assault Fitness, and Concept2 gear, with access from 5am to 11pm every day.

Tom Wiseley, standing, coaching a woman in a pink top holding a lunge with arms out on a Pilates reformer, bright studio with mirrors behind

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Pilates on 10th announced Tom Wiseley as a new instructor on October 21, via Instagram.

Allegra Brown at the HYROX Anaheim finish, beside her on the IFBB stage

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Allegra Brown had never run a Hyrox race before she stepped into the arena in Anaheim, California, in December 2025, and in her words, she "didn't know what I didn't know." "I was there to have fun, learn and push myself," she says. The atmosphere was what she calls "absolutely electric," with competitors cheering each other on and her husband, dad, brother and sister-in-law adding to the noise.

Jessica Wicklund laughing on a plyo box in the gym, dumbbells in hand

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Jessica Wicklund crossed the finish line at the Salt Lake City Hyrox in 1:27:17, good enough for 11th in the Open Women 45-49 age group.

Juan Pablo Perez, arms crossed, in the gym

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Juan Pablo Perez became serious about lifting after watching Rambo for the first time.

Clodagh and Shane Lucey crossing the finish at HYROX Las Vegas

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HYROX is an indoor fitness race: eight 1-kilometer runs, each followed by a workout station.

A member mid-burpee in the foreground and another mid-wall-ball throw behind him, in Root Strength's black-painted Georgetown unit, rings overhead.

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Joe Rellora is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with more than ten years in outpatient orthopedic and performance rehab, and he spends his week doing two jobs without changing buildings. He treats patients at Root Physical Therapy. Then he coaches strength classes at Root Strength. Both businesses operate out of the same roughly 9,000 square foot unit at 6332 6th Ave S, Unit A, in Georgetown, where a third business, Muók Boxing, runs a Muay Thai and boxing gym on the same floor.

A member driving a sled push mid-rep on Athletic Form's SoDo floor, a coach watching, others on wall balls and a rower behind.

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Robel Woldu founded Athletic Form in 2013.

Xenia Kachur, in her Mindeo-branded jacket, coaching a client who is gripping the handlebars of a SynapFit bike mid-session, the game screen lit up in front of the client, in what is clearly the Green Lake studio.

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Xenia Kachur was rock climbing in 2016 when a fall left her with a concussion that would not clear.

The Olympic Athletic Club entrance on Leary Avenue in Ballard: red brick, a cream signboard reading OLYMPIC ATHLETIC CLUB with a diamond monogram, carriage lamps, and 5301 LEARY AVE NW lettered above the doorway.

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Olympic Athletic Club sits at 5301 Leary Ave NW in Ballard, open Monday through Friday from 5am to 11pm and weekends from 6am to 9pm.

A coach talks a Northwest Fitness Project group class through a plank circuit across the gym floor.

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Walk into 6400 California Ave SW in Morgan Junction today.

The entrance to Medgar Evers Pool, its name in raised letters on the red canopy.

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Two Seattle Parks pools put lap lanes in the water before 7am this fall: Meadowbrook and Ballard.

The front desk at Barry's Bootcamp's Seattle studio, with a gold logo and Welcome to Seattle sign

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Six years ago, the corner of Westlake Avenue North and Denny Way sold armchairs.

The illuminated SoulCycle sign above the entrance to the South Lake Union studio in Seattle

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SoulCycle started in 2006 in the rear lobby of an old dance studio on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a space Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice found on Craigslist after Ruth Zukerman, who had already been teaching spin in the city for a decade, introduced the two over lunch. The first class rode on April 15, 2006, on West 72nd Street. Two decades later, the format has spread far enough that it now fills a glass-fronted retail space inside a South Lake Union residential tower at 2105 9th Ave, on the edge of Denny Triangle, running the same candlelit, music-driven ride the company built its name on.

Interior hallway at Henry's Gymnasium Queen Anne, lined with vintage Seattle photographs and chandeliers

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Henry's Gymnasium opened in Lower Queen Anne with a pitch nobody else in Seattle was making: a full gym built inside a restored 1909 Ford Model T garage, its walls covered in three hundred historic photographs of the city, its floor plan built around a working bar. Owner Glen Swain has since proven the concept holds up. In December 2024 he opened a second, larger Henry's on Capitol Hill, roughly three times the size of the original.

A class mid-session on the Megaformers in MOOV Seattle's South Lake Union studio

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MOOV Seattle sits at 777 Thomas St, and the machine inside is not a classical reformer. MOOV runs the Megaformer, eighteen of the M3K model, built for the Lagree method: spring-loaded resistance, slow and controlled tempo, constant tension instead of quick pulses.

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