For certified personal trainers
Private Personal Training Space for Rent in NYC — Not a Gym Floor
A closed-door studio room at Union Square for 1:1 clients who don't want to train in front of a commercial gym's membership base.
Why trainers switch
A gym floor is built for a membership, not for your one client
Training a private client on a commercial gym floor means competing for equipment with members, working around the gym's own class schedule, and asking a client to change and warm up in a room full of strangers. Some clients don't mind. A meaningful number do — a client managing an injury, a public figure, or simply someone who pays a premium 1:1 rate specifically to avoid the gym-floor experience is a client a shared commercial floor can lose for you.
Renting a private room removes the competition for equipment and the audience. You book the hour, the room is yours for that hour, and the client's entire experience — arrival, warm-up, session, cooldown — happens with no one else in it.
What's in the room
Apparatus and small equipment, not a rack-and-machine floor
Apparatus & equipment
- Reformers
- Towers
- Wall Towers
- Wunda / High Chairs
- Ladder Barrels
- Spine Correctors
- Mats
- Magic Circles
- Foam Rollers
- Resistance Bands
- Weights
- Props
This setup favors 1:1 strength, mobility, corrective and apparatus-based training — using a reformer or tower for resisted movement, spine correctors for core and postural work, and free weights, bands and rollers for the rest of a program. If your client roster is built around heavy barbell lifting, that specific equipment isn't here; the room is suited to trainers whose programming already leans toward Pilates-adjacent or functional equipment work.
The economics
Hourly rental versus a gym's cut
Commercial gyms that allow outside trainers to bring in clients typically charge a day-use or guest fee per session, or require the trainer to be employed on the gym's own percentage-based pay structure — where the gym sets the client's rate and pays the trainer a fraction of it. Renting by the hour at $40 removes both: you set your own session rate, keep all of it, and the room cost is fixed no matter what you charge. Hourly treatment and studio rooms in Manhattan generally run from the mid-double digits per hour for a bare room in a shared suite to well over $100 per hour for a fully-stocked room in a doorman building. Enhancewell sits in the middle of that range and publishes its numbers, and the rate includes linens, laundry and the full equipment inventory rather than charging for them separately.
Compared with leasing a small private studio outright, hourly rental avoids the cost of purchasing or financing equipment, a commercial lease deposit, and paying rent on hours you aren't training clients.
What you need to bring
Certification and insurance
A recognized personal training certification and professional liability insurance naming the studio entity as additional insured are required before your first booking. There is no gym membership requirement layered on top and no revenue share on clients you bring yourself.
Client convenience
An address that reads as private, not chain-gym
41 Union Square West sits above 4/5/6, N/Q/R/W and L at 14th St–Union Square, an easy commute for clients training before or after work. Arriving through a quiet suite entrance rather than a gym's turnstile and front desk sets a different tone before the session even starts — something high-end 1:1 clients tend to notice and value.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a commercial gym floor I'd be sharing with other trainers' clients?
No. This is a private studio room, not a gym floor with multiple trainers and members circulating at once. You book the room for your hour and your client is the only client in it.
What equipment is actually here versus what a big-box gym would have?
The room is built around Pilates apparatus and small equipment — reformers, towers, chairs, resistance bands, foam rollers, weights and props — rather than a full rack-and-machine gym floor. It suits 1:1 strength, mobility and apparatus-based programming better than heavy barbell work.
Can I bring my own kettlebells or bands if the client's program calls for something specific?
Yes — the room is stocked with weights, bands and props, and you're welcome to bring additional equipment for a specific program as long as it fits the room.
What certification and insurance do I need?
A recognized personal training certification (such as NASM, ACE, NSCA or a comparable body) and professional liability insurance naming the studio entity as additional insured.
Do I need to sign a lease or commit to a set number of hours per week?
No lease and no minimum. You book the hours you have clients for and can add hours as your client list grows.
Is this suitable for a client who specifically doesn't want to train in a public gym?
That's the main reason trainers bring clients here — executives, clients recovering from injury, or anyone who prefers not to train in front of strangers get a closed-door room instead of a gym floor.
Book a studio tour
Next step
Come see the space.
Walk the training space, see the apparatus and equipment on hand, and ask whether your programming style fits the room.
Tours take about 20 minutes at 41 Union Square West, Suite 501, New York, NY 10003. Prefer to talk first? Call (917) 999-8553.