Fitness & Instruction
Atlanta Barbell
290 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Suite B-103, Atlanta, GA, 30312
404-333-2700
Largest cross-fit gym offers Olympic-style weight lifting and small circuit-training classes.
Website: http://atlbarbell.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Cabbagetown
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Health & Medical, Sports & Recreation, Weight Loss
Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
6849 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, GA, 30328
770-399-5788
The local obsession with rackets and nets is nurtured at 1934-founded ALTA, now an amateur nonprofit with more than 80,000 highly competitive players.
Website: http://www.altatennis.org
Neighborhood: Atlanta, North Metro
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Recreation Clubs, Sports & Recreation
BLAST900 – Buckhead
56 East Andrews Drive, Suite 11, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-841-5430
This Buckhead gym promises to burn 900 calories in an hour.
Website: http://blast900.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
BLAST900 – Dunwoody
5521 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, GA, 30338
404-841-5430
This Dunwoody gym promises to burn 900 calories in an hour.
Website: http://www.blast900.com/
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
Chaos Conditioning
325 East Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-590-5852
The small but effective interval-training gym is well known for hosting bootcamp-style workout classes—think modified jump-roping, digs, squats, and push-ups—that leave you trembling and toned.
Website: http://chaosconditioning.com
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Best of Atlanta 2013, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Sports & Recreation
Exhale
1065 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA, 30309
404-720-5000
Located on the seventh floor of the Loews Hotel, this total-wellness spa whips you into overall shape the way health spas (like Arizona’s Canyon Ranch) used to do before so many of them got into the pampering business.
Website: http://exhalespa.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Midtown
Category: Beauty and Spas, Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Massage & Bodyworks, Services, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio
Flywheel Sports
102 West Paces Ferry Road, Suite A, Atlanta, GA, 30305
678-702-5684
This is no peloton for middle-of-the-pack riders: There’s stadium-style seating on high-tech bikes, dimmed lighting, and plenty of attractive riders at this indoor cycling studio.
Website: http://atlanta.flywheelsports.com/
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Gyms, Recreation Facilities, Sports & Recreation
Peachtree Road Race
3097 East Shadowlawn Avenue (Atlanta Track Club), Atlanta, GA, 30305
404-231-9064
One of the world’s oldest and largest 10K races, there’s no more thrilling Atlanta moment than racing down the city’s main thoroughfare on July 4.
Website: http://www.peachtreeroadrace.org
Neighborhood: Atlanta, Buckhead
Category: Community, Community Organizations, Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation