My name is Amanda George, the new Director of Women’s Only Weight Loss and Fitness Center here at Nautilus Fitness. I am an Erie County native, born and raised. I am a 2008 graduate of Edinboro University where I earned my degree in Health and Physical Education with a concentration in Health Promotion. I am passionate about women’s health, nutrition, fitness, and LIFE. I am an optimistic person with a great deal of compassion for people.

I am also an active advocate for safe foods, food equality and buy fresh, buy local. The food we eat is highly overlooked and everyone needs to understand how to choose the right things for themselves or their families. I want you to be informed not only how to stay healthy through exercise, but through nutrition as well.

“Believing in something is important. Everyone needs to have a passion in life.” As once written in a song “You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything.” 

“Life is too short to not take the steps to be healthy. If you don’t have your health, you have nothing. Learning to live a healthy lifestyle is a big change for many people. But once you learn, it is like riding a bike. You might fall off a few times, but you will always know how to get back on.” 

Amenities

Nautilus Fitness Center was truly designed with you in mind. Our club was tailor made to fit the needs of each and every individual, no matter what those needs may be. Want to work out but need some help? We’ve got personal trainers! Mom, looking for worry free workouts? Babysitting is included with every membership.

We’ve even got a private women’s area that’s quiet and away from the hustle and bustle of the club. Our group fitness program is top notch, so if motivation is what you need, you’ll find it here. Racquetball, wally ball, and pickle ball are included with every membership, as well as the use of our brand new yoga studio!

Don’t forget, Nautilus Fitness center is the only gym in Erie, PA that offers Crossfit! When it comes to fitness, if you can’t find it here, you won’t find it anywhere.

• BODYPUMP
• Step
• Interval Training
• Kickboxing
• Zumba
• Muscle Conditioning
• Cardio Kick
• KILLER Abs
• TREKKING
• Sweat, Sculpt and Stretch
• Stretch and Strengthen
• HI/LOW
• Instructor’s Choice
• Pilates
• POWER Pilates
• Yoga
• Iyengar Yoga
• Yoga for Relaxation and Weight Loss
• Rope Yoga
• Kids Yoga
• Mommy and me Yoga
• SPINNING

Free Unlimited Tanning

Nautilus Fitness Center invites you to take advantage of our FREE unlimited tanning! Included with almost every membership. Get your daily dose of vitamin D along with a golden glow all year ’round. Where would you like to go? Key West? Jamaica? Perhaps Key Largo?

Nautilus Tanning will take you there!

Personal Training

Working one on one with a personal trainer will provide you with a highly efficient and more productive workout. Nautilus Fitness Center is staffed with nationally certified, knowledgeable, and energetic training personnel. Personal trainers are available on an appointment basis to answer questions and assist you with all of your fitness needs. A member benefits from a trainer’s knowledge of weight training, cardiovascular fitness, increasing energy, losing fat, gaining muscle, decreased aches and pains and much more. 

Training Bonus

You may think that lifting weights only makes muscles strong, but did you know that it makes bones strong too? You can’t see the change, but the strengthening of bones happens from an increase in bone mass and bone density that occurs when your body performs “weight bearing” activities.

Training Tips

If you wish to increase a muscle’s strength and size, you’ll need to do resistance exercises on a regular basis (1-3 times a week). A strength program usually involves lifting a weight 8-15 repetitions. You can use free weights or weight machines. The weight should be heavy enough to make the final repetition fairly difficult.

Maximum Heart Rate

You keep hearing the advice to exercise three times a week for 20 minutes at 60 to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate. Why? Because if you do so, your cardiovascular system will eventually get better at transporting oxygen filled blood to working muscles. Your theoretical maximum heart rate is 220 minus your age. If you’re 30, your max is 190. If you exercise at a level that has your heart going between 114 and 171 beats a minute (60 to 90 percent of max), you’re in the training range that produces cardiovascular system improvements.

How to Check It…

How do you know what your heart’s doing while you’re exercising? Stop and take your pulse for ten seconds, then multiply that figure by six to get your beats per minute. If you don’t want to stop, you can still get a pretty good idea by monitoring your breathing. If you’re breathing harder than usual but not gasping, and if you’ve broken a sweat, you’re probably in the lower end of the training range. If you’re working so hard that you can’t talk, slow down, you’re probably above the upper end of the range.

Internet Cafe

Check your e-mail, the weather, or your favorite social networking site while you’re on the go, or before or after your work out.

Free coffee and tea is provided.

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Noggins Hair Salon

Yes, we’ve got a full service hair salon in house. Let us be your one stop shop for looking and feeling great! Schedule a hair appointment with Noggins Hair Salon, located inside Nautilus Fitness Center.

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