Fitness First opened its 10th club in Frankfurt, Germany, last month.

Located in My Zeil, a shopping centre in the middle of the city, the 4,000sq m, 6,000-member capacity club cost around 5m euro (£4.6m, US$6.6m) to build. Facilities include a fitness suite with 46 CV and 98 resistance stations, plus 21 personal trainers. As a Platinum (premium) site, there is also a swimming pool, an extensive group exercise offering and a wellness area with sauna and steamrooms.

For an extra fee, a separate area for ‘Black Label’ members offers special services such as a separate changing room, towels, bath robes, sport clothes by Nike, a concierge, terrace and private car park. The club is one of only three Fitness First sites worldwide to offer this; the others are in Sydney and Berlin.

Suppliers to the new club are Life Fitness, Technogym, Star Trac, Power Plate, Nautilus, Concept2, Pro Sport, Elbe Sport, MFT and MF Sport.

Fitness First also opened a new club in Breda, Holland, in late December 2008, with 1,200 members and five personal trainers.