In 2003 fitness expert and professional industrial engineer & fitness product designer, Thomas Yannitte founded Yannitte Fitness Planning & Design (under the Archimedes Innovations, LLC. - BODIKAERU umbrella), a fitness, architectural design, engineering, and personal training consulting firm specializing in the design and build of Residential and Commercial Gyms and Spas (Home, Hotel, and Office):

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Some of our clients include:

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• Golds Gym

• Retro Fitness

• Power House Gym

• Crunch Fitness

• UDR Properties NYC

• Princeton Orthopaedic Associates

• Phrog Fitness

• Trainers Annex

• Orange Theory Fitness

• Anytime Fitness

• and many more private gyms and studios

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Services:

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• Integrated Architectural Design & Planning

• Equipment & Materials Selection

• Systems Engineering

• Interior Design

• Design Engineering and I.D. (Custom Fabrication)

• Equipment and Technology Selection, Planning & Integration

• Communication, Sound, Video, Climate & Automation Integration (Multi-Cam Video)

• Equipment Training and Consultation (Long & Short-Term Retainers Available)

• Fitness Training (Personal & Virtual Consulting Programs – Exercise, Coaching and Nutrition)

 

BODIKAERU has forged alliances and developed a strong network of fitness equipment and wellness manufacturers, suppliers, vendors, and other fitness service providers.

 

BODIKAERU is proficient at creating, producing, and implementing the very best in high-end, customized residential gyms and spas.

 

From Large Scale Luxury Home Fitness Spas to Garage Gyms, “Muscle Man Caves” and “She Shred Sheds”.

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BODIKAERU specializes in gym space planning & design and equipment and materials selection.  We are architects, engineers and designers who are also fitness and wellness experts. With over 46 years of fitness experience and over 39 years of design, architecture, engineering and business experience, BODIKAERU knows how to create and build the very best home, hotel, and office integrated fitness experiences.

 

Creating an integrated home gym requires specialized knowledge of fitness, fitness equipment, specific wellness space functionality, industrial engineering, space flow analysis, ergonomics, bio-mechanics, and technology & communication integration.

 

Precise planning is required to ensure that the space is built correctly and to each client’s unique expectations and specifications. The process to define what we are building and creating is extremely important.

 

• Define Space {New design or re-design)

• Requirements {Define: Client Requirements: Health, Integration, Flow, Movement, Light, Sound, Visual, Air Quality, Aesthetics, Materials and Resources}

• Detail Space and Equipment Requirements.

• Solutions {Architectural, Use, Value, and Services}

• Budget, Scope of Work, Design, Planning, Management, Assembly, Fabrication, Construction, and Implementation.

• Procurement (Project Management, Construction, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Technology, Transportation, Delivery, Assembly)

 

GYM/SPA ELEMENTS:

 

• AIR - Quality, Safety and Purification Systems

• WATER - Fitness Pools, Spas, Tubs, Steam, and other Water Systems

• FIRE - Saunas, Fire Pits, and other Heat Systems

• EARTH - Turf, Stone, Flooring (Interior & Exterior) and other Systems

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MORE ABOUT THOMAS YANNITTE "The Engineer/Designer"

 

In addition to Thomas’s Professional Fitness Industry experience, he has also worked as a professional architectural designer, industrial structures designer, industrial designer, user interface designer, industrial engineer, and analyst. He has consulted to many top firms. He worked as project manager, industrial structures designer, architectural designer for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey’s World Trade Center Facility and Complex from 1993 - 1997. He then held several positions (Industrial Designer, Director of Operations / Development / Marketing / Branding, and Project Manager), for an international fitness product manufacturer, Orion Sports and Ripzone USA, from 1997 – 2001. Yannitte was a consultant for such companies as: Regiscope Digital Imaging (FedEx), Kinetic Sports, Ripzone Sports, Etonic Sports, Roe Industries, Xelero Footwear, Instride Footwear, Core Fit Consulting, BCT- (A New Jersey Institute of Technology Incubator), JMT Engineering, Wealth Management Systems Inc., Moody’s Investors Services, Velladecor, Livermore Investments, and many more.

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