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Less than 48 hours after moving to New York City in 2013 with no job, no plan, and nothing to lose, Katherine Mason was convinced she had a future in fitness.
The former athlete had just taken her first boutique fitness class and fallen in love. Less than three years later she would open SculptHouse, a boutique fitness studio in Atlanta.
Now the founder and owner of three SculptHouse studios, including the newest location in Nashville’s Vertis Green Hills building, Mason is continuing to grow her unique brand of strength training and cardio group fitness classes.
SculptHouse is the world’s first studio to combine the human-powered Woodway Curve treadmill with a Megaformer, a spring-loaded machine similar to a Pilates reformer, but with carriage cutouts, additional pulleys and handlebars, and multiple platforms.
“You can’t go anywhere else and find that,” says Mason. “People are coming to us specifically because they want to get everything that they can in in 50 minutes.”
When the former Wilhelmina fitness model couldn’t find the perfect combination of cardio and strength training in one class in New York, she decided to develop her own. And then, bring it home to the South.
“People in the South are just as fashionable and fit and health-focused as people in the North or on the West Coast,” says Mason, a Charlotte, North Carolina, native and University of Georgia alumna. “So, why can’t we have great fitness apparel and a great workout too?”
In SculptHouse’s signature 50-minute CardioSculpt class, 25 minutes are spent on the Megaformer, working the body’s stabilizing muscles with slow, controlled movements before moving to a 25-minute low-impact, high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workout on the Woodway. The curved treadmill runs exclusively on human power, meaning it burns up to 30 percent more calories than a traditional treadmill and is gentler on bones and joints. SculptHouse classes are designed to meet the needs of all fitness levels, regardless of age or injuries.
Drawing on her love of fashion and her modeling experience, SculptHouse also has a full fitness boutique, carrying 30 different fitness fashion lines from around the world.
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With three successful studio launches under her belt, Mason has no plans of slowing down in her effort to combine the best in fitness and fitness fashion under one roof.
Mason says, “That’s one of my missions: to expand in the Southeast and really provide an environment that’s very different from anything else people have been exposed to in their hometowns.”
3990 Hillsboro Pk, Ste. 200, 615-454-1351; sculpthouse.com