{"id":74489,"date":"2020-02-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-smart-fit-opens-its-first-gym-in-el-salvador\/"},"modified":"2020-02-12T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:03:15","slug":"smart-fit-abre-su-primera-unidad-en-el-salvador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/smart-fit-abre-su-primera-unidad-en-el-salvador\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Fit opens its first gym in El Salvador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>Focused on <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>, the network continues its rapid expansion and enters its 12<sup>th<\/sup> country<\/i><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>S\u00c3O PAULO, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 12, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Smart Fit, the largest network of gyms in <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>, has inaugurated its first gym in the city of <span class=\"xn-location\">San Salvador<\/span>, the capital of El Salvador.\u00a0The expansion is part of the company&#8217;s plan to increase its international presence and to tap the market potential in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span> country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opening up our new gym underlines Smart Fit&#8217;s strategy to continue growing in regions that are not being served, offering a top-rate gym at a price that is affordable for all Salvadorans,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Edgard Corona<\/span>, founder and president of Smart Fit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>With <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, Smart Fit is now in 12 countries.\u00a0They are:\u00a0Argentina, <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chile<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Ecuador<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Guatemala<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Panama<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Paraguay<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Peru<\/span> and the Dominican Republic.\u00a0The expectation is to maintain the pace of new gym openings, and to continue investing in Latin American countries that are ripe for investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Expansion numbers<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Smart Fit recently hit 2.8 million gym-goers at all of its locations.\u00a0In 2020, the company estimates there will be 1.3 million new members in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> alone \u2013 which is approximately 2.5 registrations per minute.\u00a0This year will also see a gym opening every 36 hours, for a total of 238 new gyms in Latin America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Andr\u00e9 Pezeta, vice president of Smart Fit&#8217;s <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span> division, the brand has ambitious expansion plans.\u00a0&#8220;We continue to fulfill our plan to provide high-level fitness facilities to everyone, and our objective is to go anywhere in the world where this is possible, whether that is in <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span> or in <span class=\"xn-location\">Europe<\/span>,&#8221; he said.\u00a0By the end of this year, the brand would like to have 1035 gyms on the continent.\u00a0&#8220;Our low-cost model is self-sustaining and can go anywhere,&#8221; the executive concluded.\u00a0In <span class=\"xn-chron\">December 2019<\/span> alone, the expansion hit the historic mark of a gym opened every 16 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Health within everyone&#8217;s reach<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The gym network allows everyone access to top-notch fitness facilities, with the best infrastructure at an accessible price.\u00a0Today, lack of physical activity affects 47% of <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil&#8217;s<\/span> population, which has motivated the brand&#8217;s founder to invest even more in one of the largest gym networks worldwide.\u00a0&#8220;Our main mission is to fight the growing index of sedentarism.\u00a0To do this, we will keep expanding,&#8221; Edgard said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the most recent report from IHRSA released in 2019 \u2013 the leading association that analyzes performance indicators for 65 markets worldwide \u2013 Smart Fit is the third-largest gym network worldwide, in terms of number of own gyms.\u00a0The brand currently has 797* gyms.<\/p>\n<p><i>*According to data from <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 29, 2020<\/span><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Smart Fit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With 10 years in operation, the Smart Fit gym network, which owns the brands <span class=\"xn-person\">Bio Ritmo<\/span>, Smart Fit and 02, has more than 700 gyms located in all states in <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> and in the Federal District. It also has operations in <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Chile<\/span>, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Dominican Republic<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Peru<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Argentina<\/span> and Ecuador.\u00a0With more than 2.3 million clients, Smart Fit has monthly rates starting at <span class=\"xn-money\">R$ 69.90<\/span>.\u00a0According to the 2019 global ranking from IHRSA, the brand became the third largest in the sector in the world in terms of number of own gyms.\u00a0The commitment to offer top-notch fitness facilities to everyone is what moves Smart Fit.\u00a0More information at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartfit.com.br\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.smartfit.com.br<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Smart Fit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>Focused on <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>, the network continues its rapid expansion and enters its 12<sup>th<\/sup> country<\/i><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>S\u00c3O PAULO, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Feb. 12, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Smart Fit, the largest network of gyms in <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>, has inaugurated its first gym in the city of <span class=\"xn-location\">San Salvador<\/span>, the capital of El Salvador.\u00a0The expansion is part of the company&#8217;s plan to increase its international presence and to tap the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}