Anytime Fitness

Anytime Fitness, the world’s largest fitness club chain, is “about to make history’ by opening a location on Antarctica, making it the first franchise to have locations on all seven continents, according to an article on Franchising.com.

“Anytime Fitness currently has more than 4,500 gyms serving 4,000,000 members in nearly 40 countries on six continents. The company's first gym in Antarctica is currently being built on board a new adventure expedition ship operated by Antarctica21. The ship, Magellan Explorer, is a boutique luxury vessel, custom built in Chile for Antarctic air-cruises, with a capacity for 69 passengers,” the article said.

Anytime Fitness’s preferred vendor, Life Fitness, will equip the Magellan Explorer location with “state-of-the-art cardio and strength-training machines, along with a wide array of free weights and other high-tech exercise equipment—making it the first fitness equipment manufacturer to outfit gyms on all seven continents,” according to the article.

According to the article, Dave Mortensen, president and co-founder of Anytime Fitness, said, “We're extraordinarily proud to partner with Antarctica21. Ever since the first Anytime Fitness gym opened in Cambridge, MN in 2002, it's been our goal to foster health and happiness everywhere possible. We're truly doing that now—plus penguins."