Personal Trainers in the Loop, at Home or at the Office

The Loop is Chicago's central business district, so a trainer can meet you at work as easily as at home. If your office is near LaSalle Street or in the Theatre District, a session can happen before the day starts or over lunch, in an office gym, a cleared conference room or any open floor your employer allows. A 30- or 45-minute session fits a lunch hour. If your team wants in, we also run group fitness classes for offices, with formats like total body, cardio kickboxing, yoga and foam rolling.

Living in the Loop usually means an apartment or condo in a larger building, and that gives you a few places to train. Use the fitness center if management allows outside trainers, or the rooftop deck on a mild morning if your building has one. Your unit works too: a living-room rug is enough, and your trainer brings bands, dumbbells and whatever else the program calls for. You can mix it up, with some sessions at the office and others at home. We've also run resident fitness programs in buildings such as Linea, OneEleven and MILA.

The Loop has two strong outdoor options. The Chicago Riverwalk runs along the river's main branch, a waterfront path for walking intervals, lunges and a cool-down stretch. To the east, Grant Park opens up room for longer runs, sprints on the open space at Hutchinson Field and a stretch of the Lakefront Trail along the shore. Your trainer can plan sessions outdoors in the warm months and move them back inside when the wind picks up off the lake.