From the middle or high school athlete looking to gain that competitive edge, to the busy Microsoft professional or the stay-at-home mom looking to shed a few pounds, Redmond’s newest gym has something for everyone.
Electro Fit, located inside the Sammamish Baseball Academy (SBA) facility at 18047 Northeast 68th Street, Suite B-130 in Redmond, has been open for a little more than one month and has already received many new clients. 
“We’re a full-service personal training studio,” said head fitness director Carson Cook, right. “We do high-end training, sports training for kids, a climax program that covers the fundamentals of weight lifting, from age eight to the professional level, nutrition counseling, all sorts of different services.”
Being that the SBA primarily caters towards youths ages 8-17, Electro Fit offers many programs specifically designed for the younger set, so the facility can be a “one-stop shop” for sports training, personal training and nutrition advice, according to Cook.
Having played professional baseball briefly in the Atlanta Braves organization and also in Canada, Cook spoke to the importance of today’s youth being properly training and educated in nutrition and staying fit.
“Proper exercise and nutrition is just like any skill that you learn in a sport,” he explained. “It’s very vital for them to learn how to resistance train or lift weights properly.”
The certified Master Trainer added that the idea that kids lifting in their preteen years stunts growth or getting easily injured is a common misconception, and that learning proper technique early on will benefit them later in their athletic careers.
“They should start when they’re young… working on the connection between their brain and their muscles, and their technique,” Cook explained. “They’re not going to get bigger, but they need to have their form down, so when they’re 12, 13, 14 and they get into the weight room, they get a chance to put on some weight.”
In addition to one-on-one personal training, which involves a thorough fitness assessment and a personalized program for each individual, Electro Fit also offers a boot camp program, which will be completely free for the month of January.
The camps will meet three times a week for 30-45 minutes. Participants can choose between a Monday-Wednesday-Friday or Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday schedule and start times of 9, 10 or 11 a.m.
“We’re just getting everybody off to the right start,” said Cook on the complimentary sessions.
In addition, an early-morning boot camp, designed for those with a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule, is in the works and will also be offered in 2012.
Electro Fit also sells Advocare, a top supplement product line, and offers a sports training program called Climax that offers four levels of training based on the individual’s physical assessment and athletic goals.
“What we run into is a lot of high school athletes have been taught incorrectly, and their egos take over,” Cook said. “Their (bad) form leads to injury and (poor) utilization of their time in the weight room. Hopefully they will advance through the ranks to the Pro program, which is what we have a lot of our professional athletes on.”
For more information or to sign up for a free boot camp, visit the website at http://electrofit.net or contact Cook at Carson.Cook@electrofit.net.
