Minneapolis Downtown Journal July 2007

One-On-One Workouts

By Nicholas Backus

Personal trainer Eric Hall knows that walking into a gym where heavy-metal music is blaring while muscular-bodied people lift weights can be intimidating.

He also knows that type of workout isn’t for everyone. That’s why he created Avatar Private Training Studio, located at 311 5th Ave. N. Avatar is primarily a one-on-one private gym that also provides group workouts in yoga and muscle-elongating gyrotonic exercise.

Hall, 31, wants his clients to be “conscious of their bodies” by being more flexible and in touch with their physical condition.

“People walk around hunched over,” Hall said. “You see it every day. I want people to feel better about their bodies in relation to the physical world. Things like walking or d