Yorkville’s Anytime Fitness is opening a personal training studio within months of celebrating its five-year anniversary here.

Yorkville’s Anytime Fitness studio, that will be open next week, will be located in the shopping center at 68 E. Schoolhouse Road. Yorkville’s The Anytime Fitness studio will provide space for sessions for three to six people. “Expansion was always part of the idea (of opening the gym), and this seemed like the right idea at the right time,” franchise owner Debbie Greenleaf said during a recent interview. The Anytime Fitness’ goal of multi-client training is to get people who might not otherwise have an opportunity to work with a certified trainer into small groups. They work a couple of times per week on developing their fitness, as well as routines to maintain their fitness.

“People think ‘personal trainer,’ and get intimidated,” Greenleaf said, as she showed off the former State Bank of Illinois unit that she and her husband, Ron, are converting for use as the studio of Anytime Fitness. While private sessions with a personal trainer cost $50, those who enroll in one of the multi-client training programs will spend about $22 each hour. The payoff is that clients not only will receive some personal attention, but also “unlike a class, which is doing the same things over and over and over,” trainers of Anytime Fitness will be focused on “improving the training from week to week,” so that participants continually see results, Greenleaf said.

Not only will the programs and the new studio of Anytime Fitness be available to members of the gym, but nonmembers will be able to register for training as well. Greenleaf sees the new programs as a way for those who might not consider going to a gym since they will be embarrassed, they don’t know how to start, or just they don’t know what to do to be confident in their abilities to work out.

So, how it will be if you are an fitness expert? The Anytime Fitness’ concept of the personal training studio is about personalization, said Patch blogger and Anytime Fitness trainer Sue Smith. “I want it to be what they want it to be,” Smith said. “People set goals for themselves, and we help them find the best way to reach those goals.” Smith also said she’s eager to work with newbies. “Some people, if you leave a key by the door, they’d come in and just work out by themselves,” Smith argued. “Some people need to be shown what to do.” Smith said she knows it most frequently in women, that “within just a couple weeks, women see what they’re capable of.” Once that little bit of confidence reaches, concrete effects are achieved.