Northfield In-Home Personal Training

About 74 percent of homes in the village are detached single-family houses, and nearly half have four or more bedrooms. The rest is a mix: about 8 percent are townhomes or other attached homes, and another 8 percent sit in small buildings of five to nine units, a larger share than in Winnetka or Northbrook. The median home dates to 1971. A house, a townhome and a small condo all work for training, since the session is planned around your space and the trainer brings the equipment.

Neither of Metra's two North Shore lines, the Union Pacific North and the Milwaukee District North, lists a station in the village. For in-home training, that changes nothing, because the session does not depend on a train schedule. Your trainer comes to your door with the gear, every session is insured, and moving a session only takes 24 hours' notice. If you work outside the village, sessions can happen at your office instead. On weeks when travel gets in the way, virtual training keeps your program going.

The Forest Preserves of Cook County's North Branch Trail System runs through the village, with paved and unpaved trails open from sunrise to sunset all year. It links to the Skokie Lagoons, an 894-acre preserve built around seven lagoons on the Skokie River. Erickson Woods, on Willow Road east of the Edens, is one entrance and has a picnic grove for up to 200 people. Beyond walking and biking, canoe and kayak rentals run there from April to October, weather permitting, for a change of pace on a rest day.