In-Home Personal Training in Avondale

Avondale's housing leans old and multi-unit. CMAP's community snapshot puts more than half of the area's homes in buildings with two to four units, dates about 57 percent to before 1940 and gives a median year built of 1934. Your session might happen in a front room or a basement, and your trainer arrives with the equipment the program needs. Partner training is a natural fit when two people in the same flat want to work out on the same schedule.

The Encyclopedia of Chicago describes Avondale as a working-class community that grew along Milwaukee Avenue, first planked in 1848, and along the rail lines. Clay pits and brick factories near Belmont formed an area called Bricktown, and Grebe's Boatyard built yachts and wartime naval vessels on the river. Riverview Amusement Park stood across the North Branch, and today Richard Clark Park sits on part of that ground with ball fields, a bike trail, a boat launch and the WMS Boathouse, which offers canoe and kayak rentals when its vendor is operating. That riverbank makes a good setting for outdoor conditioning.

Closer to home, Brands Park on Elston at Henderson has tennis and pickleball courts, a baseball field and a soccer field. Avondale Park on School Street, cut to about an acre when the Kennedy Expressway was built, keeps a gym and a gymnastics center in its fieldhouse. The Blue Line's O'Hare branch has stops at Belmont and Addison and runs 24 hours. A certified trainer comes to your door, your office or your building's gym, and 24 hours' notice is all it takes to reschedule.