Core Fitness Expands Space and Offerings
By Bob Sullivan
Morgan County Business Leader
Core Fitness Club, a full-service health and fitness facility that offers personal training programs, a comprehensive free weight center, machine weights, cardio equipment, monthly fitness classes, daily childcare, massage therapy and tanning services, began as a dream of two long-time friends, Aaron Molin and Jacob Stroud.
“Jacob and I basically started planning this our sophomore year of high school. It was always a dream, and a vision the two of us had, so we went on to college [University of Southern Indiana], got degrees in Exercise Science and started putting the business plan together. Then, we opened up in October 2005.”
The fitness industry has been a passion of Molin for a very long time, “To be able to help people and motivate people—it’s been extremely rewarding to see people get excited about [getting fit], to start reaching their goals and getting addicted to it. They start eating better, feeling better, having more energy. You’re not as sick as often. All those things come along with it. Once people start realizing that, they realize it’s important for everybody, not just people who feel like they are overweight—people of all shapes and sizes. Being able to see that has been a really cool feeling.”
A little over a year ago, Stroud started doing missionary work fulltime. He is no longer a part of the business. Aaron’s wife Jessica has joined him as a co-owner. Together, they are planning to expand on the initial dream. It was always part of their plan to look at where the business was and where they wanted it to go after their initial five years on business.
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