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<\/p>\nYou probably know Arie Boomsma from television, but he has also been active in the fitness world for years. He founded VondelGym together with four partners from the hospitality and sports sector. The first location is on the Overtoom in Oud-West, near the Vondelpark. Meanwhile, there are locations in East and South, and also in Rotterdam. All trainers follow an internal training program, which means that the approach is the same everywhere. Jan Willem Van Der Kuip now runs the company as owner.<\/p>\n
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What makes VondelGym different from a regular gym is the combination of disciplines that normally each have their own gym. CrossFit (Olympic weightlifting, athletics and high intensity gymnastics), HYROX (running combined with strength training in an official competition format), kickboxing with technical classes, bag classes, fundamentals and sparring: it's all in there. The catering bar is not behind a partition but in the middle of the hall, so that the line between sports and meeting remains blurred. That is exactly the intention.<\/p>\n
All training forms are in one open space, so the energy of each class travels throughout the hall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Oud-West branch was the beginning, but the concept fits in several places in the city. East, South, Rotterdam: the locations are larger than an average gym, small enough to still be a community. Anyone who trains here for a while will recognize the faces. That's what VondelGym tries to be: not the place where you quickly finish an hour, but the place where you linger.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"