Mike's (Eden, Free Spirit, Happy) Fitness

Oh, the Holiday Season, how it makes us remember that we really should get back on that diet and start working out. Now that the leftovers from Thanksgiving are finally eaten up we’ve already started upon the cookie circuit. Time to get ahead of the curve (well, our curves, mostly growing around the middle), stake out our resolutions, and join a gym. With FitCorp, Boston Sports Club, Gold’s, and even Beacon Hill Athletic Club locations-a-plenty we weren’t really sure where to turn. Then Mike’s Fitness put up a new sign right near the Stony Brook station on Amory St. It's in the Brewery complex (which also houses the Sam Adams Brewery Tour) in Jamaica Plain.

Mike’s Fitness is soon to open in the new location. Once upon a time they were Mike’s Gym II in the South End, still have the Malden-based Mike’s Gym III as well as other locations we’ve been told. An open house in the new location will run December 16 through the 18th. Unlike most of the open houses Bostonist will be attending this season we have a feeling there won’t be eggnog, gingerbread, or evergreens. Sweet treats don’t often belong in a gym; eggnog seems to be the antithesis of a diet food. Evergreens might be a possibility, depending on how guest membership shapes up maybe everyone will respond "Christian." Bosotnist visited the web registration form for a free week trial at Mike’s Fitness Jamaica Plain and were intrigued by the last question on the form. Lifestyle and a drop down box (pictured above). The choices were the real gem: Alternative Medicine, Biofeedback, Christian, Development, Eden, Free Spirit, Gay, Happy, and Yoga. Too bad they won’t let us choose more than one.