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Fitness Center is the global leader in offering affordable fitness around the world with clubs in the US, Asia and Europe. In the US we’ve built our company on a philosophy of convenient locations, the latest state-of-the-art equipment, affordable prices on a month-to-month basis, knowledgeable staff and outstanding service all available up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

We have spent the past 17 years providing health and fitness to millions of people in communities throughout the world. Our goal is to make a difference in the communities we serve by helping people change their lives through health and fitness. With several popular we are changing lives through health and fitness on a global basis each and every day. From our beginning in 1983 with one 5,000 square-foot club in San Leandro, California, we’ve had the simple goal of offering the best service to our members at an affordable price. As we’ve grown we have been able to broaden that philosophy to include convenient locations, state-of-the-art equipment, and knowledgeable staff in markets around the world. As we’ve grown we’ve been able to offer more facilities and diverse products.

We now have several brands and a variety of product offerings. Our 24 Hour Fitness Clubs are generally our smaller facilities with under 25,000 square feet, offering pure fitness amenities like Group X, baby sitting, weight training, cardio equipment and locker rooms. Our 24 Hour Sport Clubs are generally 25,000 to 50,000 square feet and offer additional amenities such as basketball courts, racquet courts and pools. Our Sporting Club facilities are generally in excess of 50,000 to 110,000 square feet and offer even more than 24 Hour Sport Clubs with additional amenities and services such as day spas, towel services, executive locker rooms and tanning.

In order to decide whether laser vision correction is a viable option for you, it is important to first understand how the eye works and why people need glasses or contact lenses to see well.

The eye works much like a camera; its primary function is to focus light. For the eye to see, light rays must be bent or "refracted" to meet at a single point through the cornea, the clear window at the front of the eye that provides most of the focusing power. Light then travels through the lens, where it is fine-tuned to focus properly on the retina, the nerve layer that lines the back of the eye and connects to the brain. The retina acts like the film in a camera, and clear vision is achieved only if light from an object is precisely focused onto it. If the light focuses either in front of or behind the retina, the image you see is blurred. A refractive error means that the shape of eye structures does not properly bend the light for focusing.

Having 20/20 vision means seeing at 20 feet what a normal person sees at 20 feet. However, if vision is measured at 20/40, it means a person has to walk up to 20 feet to see the same size letter that someone with 20/20 vision could see at 40 feet. And so on. People whose best-corrected visual acuity (what they see using glasses or contact lenses) is less than 20/200 in the better eye are considered legally blind, even though they still have enough vision to get around. Prior to laser surgery, Jeri Goldstein's visual acuity without her contact lenses was measured at 20/400 in her right eye and 20/200 in the left eye. Following surgery, her eyesight without contacts stands at 20/25 and 20/20, respectively.