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Today’s schedules are more restricted than ever and pose as one of the main reasons why people don’t find time to exercise. We understand this and will create results-oriented exercise programs to meet your schedule and help you attain your goals.
Our expertise is extensive and varied enabling us to help you live a healthy lifestyle by directing you to the perfect trainer to meet your fitness, cardio, endurance, athletic, post rehabilitation, and strength goals.
Chaillet’s Private Fitness is really the story of its namesake, Mark Chaillet. Mark was the 1986 World Powerlifting Champion and was inducted into the York Barbell Hall of Fame in 2000. Mark is one of the strongest men ever. He is a legend in the sport of Powerlifting and still holds multiple World Records.
Mark Chaillet’s original fitness club opened in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. in 1983. For 15 years, Chaillet’s Fitness & Strength was one of the east coast’s most powerful gyms and stood as the culmination of Mark’s boyhood dreams, adult blood, sweat, tears, and foremost his sheer love for sharing his passion for fitness and strength with anyone expressing an interest.
In 1998, Mark seized an opportunity to move to Muscletown, USA to join the York Barbell Company staff; the perfect avenue to continue spreading the word about the benefits of fitness. By 2001 Mark could no longer suppress his passion for touching lives in such a personal way and opened Chaillet’s Private Fitness in York, PA. Chaillet’s Private Fitness as it stands today offers clients a unintimidating semi-private personal fitness training studio featuring individually designed programs to meet any fitness or athletic goal.
The seeds of now Chaillet’s Private Fitness germinated 45 years ago in the dirt floor of what the Temple Hills Weighlifting Club endearingly called The Shack. Mark and an enterprising group of 15-year-old kids with a passion for an obscure sport called powerlifting built their first house of pain out of old barn scraps because they could not afford a membership at the local gym. In an impressive show of organization, these kids soon voted in a board of directors and began collecting a small fee for the right to work out in The Shack.
Measuring a scant eight feet wide by 20 feet long, The Shack accommodated only one lift to be performed at a time. The original club members built all of the original equipment in high school shop class. When the lift of the day was determined and all the extra equipment was moved aside, members surrounded and cheered for the moment’s lifter in a room heated by a kerosene oil burner.
The Temple Hills Weightlifting Club was one of the first clubs sanctioned for powerlifting by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). The Club sponsored the first powerlifting meet ever held in Maryland. The Club is also responsible for introducing powerlifting to the military conducting the first powerlifting meet on a military base at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. To date, Mark continues his decades long career running some of the nation’s most popular powerlifting meets.
In the years to follow, Mark excelled in powerlifting competition on the Junior National level. He soon met powerlifting icon Larry Pacifico, also a Hall of Famer. Larry took Mark under his wing offering him not only expert weight training advice, but also a position with New Life Fitness Centers in the Midwest. Using his management position as a means to an end, Mark moved back to his hometown in Maryland in 1983 where the germinating seedling bloomed into Chaillet’s Fitness & Strength.
Over the years, Chaillet’s turned out dozens of national and world ranked powerlifters, trained college and pro football players, an Olympian Gold Medalist in swimming, track athletes, skiers, wrestlers, martial artists, basketball players, among others. Of equal importance are the accomplishments enjoyed by those aspiring to lose weight, rehabilitate an injury, be healthier or become stronger for everyday life.
