Greenwich Magazine: April 2020

Written by Mary Kate Hogan | Original Article

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How Slow Can You Go? At Countdown Fitness, the slower the better.

These personal training sessions are conducted in a sleek space above Greenwich Avenue that’s as unusual as the workout. Designed by Robert Passal, the studio features dim lighting and dark gray walls with vintage medicine balls and catcher’s masks as wall art. Each machine is custom made with black metal and leather upholstery.

“I knew I wanted different, a wow when people walk in. I told him, I want it to look like the inside of a Mercedes,” he says of the design.