Today we’d like to introduce you to Jonathan Cruz.
Jonathan’s interest in the fitness industry first piqued when he wanted to add cross-training activities to benefit his triathlon training while a student at Dartmouth Medical School. Almost instantly, this translated into a passion for personal training and teaching fitness classes. For more than 20 years, Jonathan has been continually teaching a wide-range of fitness classes throughout many prestigious gyms in Boston and New England. His personal fitness philosophy is that cross training is absolutely key to keep your muscles guessing and should be incorporated into any fitness regimen as a long-term strategy to maintain a healthy mind and body.
He retired from his biomedical career as a neuropathologist in 2011 and has since refocused his time and energy to helping others become fit in all aspects their life through exercise. Since founding and opening BURN Fitness Studios in 2014, he has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Boston Magazine, and numerous television shows and is recognized throughout the Boston community as a top fitness professional who is known for his positive outlook and motivational coaching skills.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Opening up a new business, especially for the first time, was definitely a challenging experience. Learning to wear different “entrepreneurial hats” and never forgetting my passion for the fitness industry during the process helped me deal with some of the struggles along the way.
BURN Fitness Studios – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
BURN is a boutique fitness studio that offers group exercise classes and personal training sessions. Many of our classes are specifically designed to include high-intensity interval training (HIIT) to take your fitness, muscle strength, fat loss, and maximum calorie BURN to the next level. HIIT is an exercise strategy that alternates periods of short intense anaerobic exercise with less-intense recovery periods. These short, intense workouts provide enhanced athletic performance, improved glucose metabolism, and efficient fat burning.
We believe that variety is a key ingredient to obtaining success in physical fitness. As such, and what sets us apart from many other boutique fitness studios in Boston that specialize in very specific class types, is that we offer a wide variety of innovative classes that are specifically designed to incorporate strength and conditioning, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility to provide you with the key ingredients necessary to improve your overall health and wellness.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
Success is doing what you like and making a living of it.
Contact Info:
- Address: BURN Fitness Studios – Back Bay
867 Boylston Street Boston, MA 0211
547 Columbus Avenue Boston, MA 02118 - Website: www.burnfitboston.com
- Phone: 857-277-1495
- Email: info@burnfitboston.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burnfitboston/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurnFitBoston/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/burnfitboston
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/burn-fitness-studios-boston
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