West Hollywood’s best dive bar? WeHo’s best sushi restaurant? Our city’s best barbershop, pet boarding place, Pilates studio? These are among the many categories we included on WEHOville’s Best Of ballot in August. The online voting turnout was great (and monitored by us geeks to make sure we weren’t being trolled — i.e. Putin didn’t vote, only you did).
We published the results in West Hollywood Magazine, our quarterly print publication, which was out last week and which you can find in news racks, restaurants and shops around the city. Today we will publish the second of five overall ballot categories, which include Best Beauty & Grooming, Best Dining, Best Fitness, Best Nightlife and Best Pet Supplies & Services. Congratulations to all of the local businesses who won “Best Of” and to those immediate runner ups. We’ll be back next year with even more business categories. And if you want to find the Best Dining choices, click here.
Best of WeHo Fitness
Best Gym or Fitness Studio
No. 1
Training Mate LA
7825 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.trainingmatela.com
(323) 380-5492
Looking for a gym or fitness studio in West Hollywood? Who isn’t? And the good news is it’s not hard to find one. But what’s the best?
Training Mate got its start in 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Founder Luke Milton drew on his professional rugby background and the power of positivity to work with his clients. In 2013, he brought Training Mate to the
United States.
Training Mate offers circuit-based, 45-minute high intensity interval training. You mix it up as no class is the same.
“It’s become a community – a place where you can meet new mates and feel at home away from home – all while getting amazing physical results,” says Training Mates (and by the way, “mates” means buddies in the Land of Oz.)
Schedules for Training Mate’s variety of classes are available on its website.
No. 2
BRICK
7811 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
https://brick.fit
(323) 315-0700
No. 2 (It’s a tie)
Studio 10 Fitness
745 San Vicente Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.studio10fit.com
(323) 515-9667
Best Pilates
No. 1
Harmony Studios
8440 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.harmonystudiosla.com
(323) 822-9584
At Harmony Studios it’s all about Pilates, a form of exercise developed by Joseph Pilates nearly a century ago that focuses on core muscles, your abs, your back and your butt. Think of it as very physically active philosophy class where you learn the correct use of muscles, joints, and breath during basic life movement.
Harmony offers a variety of classes at different ties each day that you must register for online.
No. 2
Jenny Tate Pilates
650 La Peer Drive
West Hollywood
www.jennytatepilates.com
(310) 564-6070
No. 3
Cotrone Pilates
848 La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
www.cotronefitness.com
(213) 445-8114
Best Supplement Store
No. 1
N101
8730 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.n101.com
(424) 288-4785
Getting fit is about more than exercise. That’s where places like N101 come in. The name stands for “nutrition 101” which is what N101 offers with a wide variety of vitamins, herbs, sports nutrition, health supplements and natural beauty and skincare products. You don’t have to be a bulked-up bodybuilder to find N101 helpful. “We cater to athletes, weekend warriors, health nuts and anyone who is interested in leading a healthy lifestyle,” it says.
No. 2
HUM Nutrition
8228 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.humnutrition.com
(888) 647-8880
No. 2 (It’s a tie)
Body Energy Club
8591 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.bodyenergyclubusa.com
(310) 860-6431
Best Yoga Studio
No. 1
Xcceleration Station
8440 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
http://www.thexccelerationstation.com/
(323) 310-0550
Xcceleration offers what it calls the “new physics of fitness.” Its T-X-S platform focuses on your body and your state of mind. Inside 8440 Santa Monica it has two studios. One is named “Ground Level,” home to its “Power Plate” station, and upstairs is “Cloud Level,” home to “Xccelerate your Mind and Life” training sessions sessions as well as “BioDensity” and stretching classes.
A list of classes including prices and times is available on its website.
No. 2
Aurayoga
8608-A Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.auraworkout,com
(323) 570-0570
No. 2 (It’s a tie)
Yoga Vibe
7327 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood
www.yogavibe.com
(323) 498-5333
As much as I like WEHOville this seem like a bit much. It’s like free advertising and it should be an op/ed article. I recently cancelled my Crunch membership. I was one of the first 100 members to join the Sunset location. But the Gym in my building (Avalon) has better equipment than crunch and more experienced and skilled trainers. The “Best Of” should come from the input of the customers. BTW: your muscles do not react any differently no matter what gym you are in or what trainer is look down at you.
The choices are those of WeHoans who voted in the Best Of contest. Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so, sometimes, are other qualities. Hope you vote next year!