In-Home Personal Training on the Gold Coast

The City of Chicago designated the Astor Street District on December 19, 1975, covering the 1200 to 1600 blocks of Astor Street and its cross streets. The City describes 19th-century houses in a variety of historical revival styles, mixed with apartment buildings and townhouses from the 20th century. A house or townhouse has no building gym, and that is fine. Your trainer carries in what the program calls for and plans movements around your rooms, your stairs and whatever floor space you can clear. Sessions are insured, and you can reschedule with 24 hours' notice.

Oak Street Beach, at 1000 N. Lake Shore Drive where Oak Street meets the lake, is part of Lincoln Park, the lakefront park that continues north to Ardmore Avenue. The Park District notes a pedestrian underpass to the beach, marked by a mural wall along the Lakefront Trail, and an ADA-accessible beach walk to the shoreline. It also lists a distance swimming route parallel to shore, from Division Street to the Chess Pavilion. In warm months your trainer can move sessions outdoors for sand drills, intervals on the trail or a long walk north toward North Avenue Beach.

The Red Line's Clark/Division station, at 1200 N. Clark, sits on the neighborhood's west edge, with an accessible entrance at LaSalle and Division. CTA buses #22, #36, #70 and #156 connect there too. Just west of Clark, Chestnut Tower on Chestnut Street is one of the buildings near the Gold Coast where we ran a resident fitness program in years past. Chitown Trainer has been in business since 2009, and our trainers are required to hold a Bachelor's degree on top of a nationally accredited certification. Want help with what you eat as well? Nutrition counseling is one-on-one.