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Straight answers about buying, designing, installing and caring for home and commercial fitness equipment in greater Boston, from a team that plans to be with you for the long term.
Normally when you are a boutique company, it's hard to get any premium brands or manufacturer support. That's just the way it is. But the industry response to ConnectFit has been phenomenal and we are proud to partner with this hand-picked collection of top-name brands. And we actually have over 70 brand partners.
At ConnectFit, we have access to all of the very best brands available. Some may be familiar to you, some may be new to you. But we've selected each brand carefully because we have to stand behind each one. We have options for you at every price point in every category. We want you to see the full perspective of quality available and decide what’s right for you.
We also continually search for new and innovative brands and products, and have them long before anyone else has every found them.
HOIST® Fitness is a San Diego, California, USA based company producing premium strength training products and exercise bikes for commercial and home markets. The company’s commercial products can be found all over the world in: health clubs, colleges & universities, professional sports gyms, YMCAs, community centers, hotels, multi-family homes, personal training facilities, corporate fitness centers, government facilities and military installations. Our home products can be found around the world as well in consumers’ homes. We offer home gyms that have won awards including the 2020 & 2021 Men's Health Home Gym Awards and Good Design awards across multiple years. Numerous celebrities & world leader’s estates boast having HOIST Fitness products. Home products can be purchased through specialty fitness retailers throughout the world.
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With over 20 years of experience, Inspire Fitness creates premium-engineered strength and fitness equipment, designed for durability and performance. From functional trainers and smith machines to treadmills, racks, benches, weights, and more, Inspire has built a reputation for innovative home gyms and commercial solutions. In 2022 Inspire Fitness merged with Centr, a leading fitness and wellness platform with a mission to empower people to live well by energizing their every day.
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A USA manufacturer of the thinnest, most dense plates in the industry. Custom made and amazing quality!
The leader in Wall-Mounted, high quality strength equipment.
ConnectFit is a full-service fitness equipment company in Newton, Massachusetts, built around long-term client relationships. We design your space, help you choose the right equipment and flooring, deliver and install it with our own crews, and keep it running for as long as you own it.
Most of our work comes from clients who come back for their next home, their vacation house or their company's facility, and from the people they refer. That relationship is the business.
We do the whole job ourselves, and we stay for the long term. Most dealers sell you a machine and hand off delivery, installation and repair to someone else. ConnectFit designs the space, recommends equipment from more than 70 brands so the advice fits you rather than one manufacturer, installs with our own three-person crews, and services what we sell.
Our founder has spent nearly 30 years in the industry, including as a Chief Product Officer and a VP of Product Development, so we can tell you how a machine is actually built, not just what the brochure says. We custom-cut flooring to minimize seams, buy directly from US manufacturers where it saves you money, and give you straight answers even when that means a less expensive option.
And we measure success by whether you call us again. Our clients come back for their next home, their second home and their company's fitness center, and they send us the people they trust.
Our residential clients include many of the region's business leaders, executives and investment professionals, along with families building their first home gym. On the commercial side we work with dozens of building management companies, condo and apartment communities, corporate campuses and private training facilities, and with over 1,000 builders and designers. Every client gets the same discretion and attention.
Our showroom is at 84 Needham Street, Newton, MA. You can try treadmills, recumbent and upright bikes, ellipticals, rowers and strength equipment in person before you buy. Call 617-535-3793 or email sales@connectfit.com.
Both, equally. For homes, we plan everything from a single treadmill to a complete private gym, and many of our home clients choose the same commercial-grade equipment we install in facilities. For commercial clients, we design and equip fitness centers for residential buildings, offices and private facilities, and support them for years after opening.
ConnectFit's founder has worked in the fitness equipment industry since 1997. He was Chief Product Officer at what became the largest fitness equipment dealer in the country, then Vice President of Product Development at a leading connected-fitness manufacturer, and has worked with TRUE Fitness for nearly 30 years. He opened ConnectFit in 2020 because no one else was offering truly full-service design, installation and long-term care.
Online can look cheaper on the sticker, but the price usually covers a box at the curb. You assemble it, you figure out whether it fits the room, and when something breaks you are on the phone with a call center. Many brands sold only online have no local service at all.
A full-service dealer lets you try the equipment first, helps you pick the right model for how you will actually use it, delivers and installs it, and is there for service years later. For a treadmill or strength machine you plan to own for a decade, that difference usually matters more than the first price you see.
Compare the total, not the sticker. Add freight, white-glove delivery, assembly, removal of your old equipment, and what a service call will cost when there is no local dealer. Then compare warranties: many lower-priced online machines carry short parts coverage. When you add it up, a dealer price that includes delivery, installation and ongoing support is often the better value.
Be careful. Many "best treadmill" and review sites earn a commission on every sale they send to a retailer, so their rankings follow the payout as much as the product. We wrote A Real Treadmill Buying Guide to explain what actually matters, and Treadmill 101 covers what owning one is really like.
Many dealers push their own house brands or private-label lines, or are tied to one or two manufacturers, so their advice leans toward whatever earns them the most. That does not make the equipment bad, but it does mean you may not hear about the better fit for you.
ConnectFit carries more than 70 brands across every price point. Our job is to match the equipment to you, and we will tell you plainly when a less expensive machine is the smarter buy. That honesty is why clients come back.
Ask who delivers and installs it, who services it and how fast, what the parts and labor warranty actually covers, whether you can try it first, and whether the seller makes more money on the brand they are recommending. A good dealer will answer all of it directly.
ConnectFit's showroom at 84 Needham Street in Newton is a short drive from Boston, Brookline, Wellesley, Needham and the western suburbs. We sell home and commercial cardio, strength and flooring from more than 70 brands, and we deliver, install and service everything we sell.
Buy from a dealer where you can walk and run on the treadmill first and that will deliver, install and service it. ConnectFit carries treadmills from TRUE Fitness, Landice, Spirit Fitness, Octane, Precor, Freemotion and others, on display in our Newton showroom, with in-house delivery, installation and service.
ConnectFit is an authorized TRUE Fitness dealer in Newton, MA. TRUE treadmills, bikes, ellipticals and strength equipment are on our showroom floor, and TRUE is our leading cardio and commercial line. We also carry Octane Fitness, which is owned by TRUE. See our TRUE Fitness page, our take on TRUE's newest treadmills and why we think TRUE makes the best ellipticals.
At ConnectFit in Newton. Recumbents are one of our biggest categories: we sell about four recumbent bikes for every upright. We carry recumbents from Spirit Fitness, TRUE Fitness, Octane and others, including models with rehab-friendly features. Spirit's recumbents include a 10-year parts warranty at an entry price. Come in and sit on several to compare seat comfort, step-through height and back support.
Yes. Our Newton showroom has working treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, rowers and strength equipment on the floor. We also do in-person consultations at homes and facilities.
ConnectFit designs home gyms throughout greater Boston, from a dedicated corner of a room to a complete private training facility. We visit your home, learn how you and your family train, and plan the layout, equipment, flooring, ceiling clearance, lighting and electrical needs. Design is free, and builders, architects and designers bring us in early on new construction and renovations.
Read more: Gym Design Should Be Personalized, The Electrical Needs in the Gym, The Right Place for Gym Electrical Outlets, The Lighting in the Gym Really Matters and Building a Safer Home Gym.
For heavy daily use, serious runners, or a household with several users, commercial or light-commercial equipment usually lasts longer and needs less service than typical home-grade machines. We sell commercial, light-commercial and premium home equipment so we can match the machine to how you will actually use it.
Look at cushioning and deck quality, motor and roller build, belt length for your stride, warranty coverage, and whether the seller will deliver, install and service it. Start with A Real Treadmill Buying Guide, then Treadmill Motors: AC vs DC.
Yes. Rollers carry the belt and take the load of every stride, so their size and build affect how smooth the treadmill feels, how hard the motor works and how long the belt lasts. See Treadmill Rollers Matter.
Cushioning comes from the deck and suspension design, and it varies more between brands than most people expect. Landice and TRUE, including slat-belt designs like the TRUE Stryker, are standouts. The only real test is to walk and run on them, which you can do in our Newton showroom. Read Treadmill Cushioning: How It Really Works and Slatted Treadmills, Cushioning and the TRUE Stryker.
Start with how you train and the space you have. We carry barbells from Solid Bar Fitness (made in the USA), Ivanko and Eleiko, plates from Weight It Out, and functional trainers from Hoist, Inspire, TKO and others. Helpful reading: Olympic Bar Maintenance, The Science of Dumbbells, More Musings on Dumbbell Sizing and Understanding Functional Trainers.
Yes. We carry connected equipment from Echelon, Hydrow, Freemotion, Stages, CLMBR and others, along with machines that work with popular training apps. See The Advantage of a Curved Screen on a Connected Bike.
ConnectFit designs, equips and installs fitness centers for condo and apartment communities, office buildings and corporate campuses across greater Boston and Massachusetts, and we work with dozens of building management companies. We handle layout, equipment selection, flooring, delivery, installation and ongoing service, so your residents or employees have a fitness center that works years after opening day.
ConnectFit's showroom is at 84 Needham Street in Newton. We carry commercial lines including TRUE Fitness, Precor, Freemotion, Hoist, Core Health & Fitness (StairMaster, Star Trac, Schwinn, Nautilus, Throwdown), Cybex, Octane, Panatta, Eleiko and Hudson Steel.
We plan facility fitness centers from the floor up: traffic flow, equipment mix for your residents or employees, sound and impact control for upper floors, and building requirements. Facility projects are a very different job from a home gym, and we plan them that way.
Yes. We service the equipment we sell, including preventive maintenance for facilities. Call 617-535-3793 to set up service.
Yes, with our own team. ConnectFit runs in-house delivery and installation with three-person crews; we don't hand your equipment to a freight carrier or a subcontractor. The people who install your equipment are the same people who will look after it.
ConnectFit services and repairs treadmills and other fitness equipment for clients across greater Boston. Call 617-535-3793 or use our service request form with your make, model and serial number.
We stay with you. We service what we sell, offer preventive maintenance, and help you upgrade or reconfigure as your needs change. When clients move, add a second home or open a new facility, we plan the next space with them.
Yes. Our crews disassemble, move and reinstall fitness equipment, whether you are moving across town or setting up a second home. See Yes, We Can Move Your Fitness Equipment.
Yes, we take trade-ins on many purchases. During our sale events, removal and disposal of your old equipment is free.
Yes. Gym design consultations are free, in our showroom or at your home or facility.
ConnectFit carries home and commercial equipment from these brands:
ALTAS, Ancore, Balaz, Bare Steel Equipment, Batca, Better Air, Biostrap, Bodycraft, Booty Builder, Cascade, CLMBR, Core Health & Fitness (StairMaster, Star Trac, Schwinn, Nautilus, Throwdown, Wexer), Cybex, Dynamic Fluid, Echelon, ECORE, Eleiko, Fitbench, Freemotion, GetRX'd, Glice, Golden Designs, Hampton Fitness, Harison, Hoist, Hudson Steel, Humane, Hydrow, Hyperice, Inspire Fitness, Intenza, Ivanko, Landice, Legend Fitness, MX, North Pole, Octane Fitness, Oxefit, Panatta, Paradigm, Paragon UK, Pavigym, Pliteq, Power Plate, Precor, Prism Fitness, PRx Performance, Rockwerx, Safeware, SMRTFT, Solid Bar Fitness, Spirit Fitness, SportsArt, SPRI, Stages, STOTT Pilates, Three Sages, TKO, Torque Fitness, Total Gym, TriActive, TRUE Fitness, TRX, TurfTek, UltraSlide, VersaClimber, Weight It Out, YBell, Yogibare, ZEHN-X.
Yes. ConnectFit is an authorized TRUE Fitness dealer in Newton, MA, and our team has worked with TRUE for nearly 30 years. TRUE treadmills, bikes, ellipticals and strength equipment are on our showroom floor.
Yes. We carry the Core Health & Fitness family: StairMaster, Star Trac, Schwinn, Nautilus, Throwdown and Wexer.
Yes. We buy direct from US manufacturers including Solid Bar Fitness (barbells) and Weight It Out (thin plates, bumpers and loadable dumbbells), and we carry Ivanko, which still makes its Olympic lifting products in California. Read USA-Made Quality at ConnectFit.
Yes. Hudson Steel strength equipment is one of our most popular lines. See The Hudson Miami, Instantly Our Bestseller, Trainers' Favorite Hudson Steel Pieces and SuperGym Variations.
ConnectFit, based in Newton, designs and installs rubber gym flooring for condo, apartment, office and commercial fitness centers throughout Massachusetts, as well as home gyms. Our own crews custom-cut every floor to minimize seams and waste.
ConnectFit installs rubber flooring for condo and office fitness centers in Boston and surrounding towns. Facility flooring is a different job from a home gym: it has to control sound and impact for the units below, stand up to heavy daily traffic, and meet building requirements. We plan for all three.
Every install starts with a site visit. We check the subfloor, measure the space, plan the layout around your equipment and traffic, and decide on rolls, tiles or a combination. We order material custom-cut to the room to minimize seams and waste, then our own crews install it, loose-laid, glued or over acoustic underlayment depending on the space and the building's requirements.
Yes. For condo, apartment and office fitness centers above other units, we pair the flooring with acoustic underlayment such as Pliteq to control impact noise and vibration, and we schedule the work around the building's rules and residents.
It needs care. Rubber flooring and radiant heat can be a bad combination, so we review the heating system before recommending a floor. See Fitness Floors and Radiant Heat: A Bad Mix.
Lower-quality recycled rubber can give off a strong, lasting odor. Quality flooring is made to minimize that, which is one reason we specialize in ECORE. See Quality Gym Flooring Doesn't Stink, Literally.
Choosing a floor that is too thin for dropped weights, ignoring sound transmission on upper floors, skipping subfloor prep, and buying the wrong rubber for the space are the big ones. See Gym Floor Mistakes to Avoid.
We specialize in ECORE, including ECORE Rally, and also install Humane, Pliteq acoustic flooring and underlayment, and Pavigym. See ECORE OSST Flooring and Pavigym.
For most home gyms, dense rubber flooring in rolls or tiles protects the subfloor, absorbs impact and reduces noise. The right thickness depends on whether you drop weights, run cardio, or both. We will recommend a floor for your room during your free design consultation.
Every project starts with a conversation. Visit our showroom at 84 Needham Street in Newton, call 617-535-3793, or email sales@connectfit.com. Whether it is one treadmill or a full facility, we will give you a straight answer and stay with you long after the install.
From the best traditional brands to the hottest in high-tech fitness equipment, only ConnectFit gives you the insider's view, and the promise of a long-term relationship that keeps every client with us.
Contact us online or visit our showrooms at 84 Needham Street, Newton MA
