Heroes Fitness — Attraction in Wellesley

UPDATE:

Walking into the HUGE, impressive new Heroes Fitness location and seeing long-timers' and newbies' friendly faces, hearing great music, and seeing all of the latest equipment and training- and class-activity is a vibe. (See pictures and check Instagram.) :-)

Knowing our trainers will take us to the edge and a little beyond to create more flexible and stronger versions of ourselves creates a sense of confidence. All of the trainers at Heroes join together to set a very high bar for fitness, positivity, motivation, ingenuity, enthusiasm and effort. I don't know of many businesses that don't have a weak link, but this one doesn't.

The ingredients alchemize: a mixture of great music, world-class equipment, and passionate coaches makes for a great cocktail...er, fitness club.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: My husband wanted to get fit as the pandemic was ending, so he joined Heroes Fitness: a welcoming, modern gym filled with friendly, outgoing trainers and the latest types of equipment. He loved working out with his personal trainer, Nick, from the very first session. Nick is expert and also injects positivity, fun, and humor into his (always changing and always challenging) workouts.

It was initially a shock to me that I started joining my husband for the workouts. I’d never really lifted weights before and I thought of a personal trainer as a luxury experience that was a gift for my overworked husband, not for me. I quickly learned that it’s delightful to have a motivated professional designing exactly how I will become stronger, leaner, and more balanced (re: muscles and flexibility). I don’t have to figure out any of it; I just show up.

Now my husband and I are enjoying becoming fitter, and we buzz on post-exercise endorphins and the realization that our bodies are capable of much more than we thought. We really appreciate how Nick is designing workouts for us that are exactly what we both need and encouraging us all of the way. I’d highly recommend Nick as a trainer to anyone who wants to blend fun...

I’ll cut right to the chase. Heroes is great. I joined 2 1/2 years ago and I was out of shape and unhealthy and, as of today, I have lost 20 pounds and I feel better than I have since college.

As an ADHD person, I sometimes struggle with discipline, but Heroes gives me a combination of workouts that are so fun and compelling, as well as super difficult and challenging, that after my first session, I knew I would be coming back from that time on.

My personal trainer Nick is exceptional. He has guided me all the way on this journey back to fitness. Obviously he knows his stuff and gives me customized workouts tailored to where I am at the time, but also his personality and sense of humor make the experience even better.

I kept raving about how great heroes was, so eventually my wife decided to try it out about a year and a half ago and she has also continued to work out and Heroes ever since. Nick designs workouts for the two of us.

The latest chapter of the story is that there is an athletic competition called HYROX and it is extremely challenging and, based on my progress at Heroes, I have decided to take part in this competition in September. I am now training with Nick and actually all of the Heroes trainers and many of the clients are going to take part, which just shows you what a community we have.

When I started at heroes 2 1/2 years ago and out of shape it would never have occurred to me that I could even think of joining a competition like this but now I am excited to try to go to the next level. Overall, I can’t say enough about this wonderful community in Wellesley. Go Heroes! And YOU should...

It's not the physical space or equipment that makes Heroes special - they have the same gear as any other well equipped gym. It's the people. Connor, Matt and the rest of the crew just do a terrific job in motivating you in a positive way without being overly preachy or inaccessible. I do tease them that the rowers and bikes do not give the client credit for the first three seconds of every interval, either due to special programming or little people inside the machines. But, to be clear, this is a joke, and I do not actually think they are employing tiny children to work inside the exercise equipment in order to make it harder. Occasionally at 6am I am convinced that this is going on, and I may have made that accusation. Or that they hired some coders from MIT to do it. I just know that I never get any credit on the machines for those first three seconds. If you're wondering if I make these jokes to try to make them go easy on me, you'd be correct... and the answer is that no, it doesn't work, but they are still nice enough to laugh at the joke while continuing to make me work out. Again - that's the magic of the place. They will match not just the nuts and bolts of the workout to your needs, but also match its style to your personality.

I'd give them six stars except for that...