Why Small Businesses Matter in Ridgefield: Alpha Fitness Girls Only

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You're IT Alpha Fitness Girls Only!

Three questions with Mike McCartan, founder of Alpha Fitness Girls Only.

Why did you start your business?

We are two Ridgefield dads who spent hundreds of hours on the sidelines of our daughters' sporting events and realized our daughters (and their teammates) spend too much time focused on sport-specific skills and not enough time focused on strength and speed. As we looked into it, we concluded that the fantastic growth in girls' sports in the last 20-30 years has not been accompanied by appropriate strength and fitness training - which unfortunately shows up clearly in girl-specific injury statistics.

We started AFGO to provide girls with a way to learn the lifelong skill of strength training and to help girls maximize their on-field impact with strength and speed gains. There are better ways to train than "going for a run"!

What is your best-selling product/service?

AFGO runs girls' foundational fitness classes focused on strength, speed, mobility, and injury prevention. All of our classes are designed to be 100% self-paced, so that club/travel athletes can push themselves to strength and fitness gains, and girls focused on other interests can come to learn the life skill of fitness training.

Our first program was a summer program at Ridgefield Academy run by two fantastic former Ridgefield High School athletes who now play college sports at the Division 1 level. Our current program is a venture with Results Fitness for our AFGO@Results classes this winter. Our December classes are completely sold out, but we are launching registration for January classes next week, including a new class concept designed specifically for high school athletes.

How many local businesses do you use to support your business (products and services) and can you name them?

We have a fantastic partnership with Results Fitness in Ridgefield.

Visit Alpha Fitness Girls Only online here, and make sure to check out their Instagram page as well!

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