Safer@Pinnacle Re-Opening Plan

Monday through Thursday: 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. 

Saturday + Sunday: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

We will close clubs from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday to sanitize all touchpoints in the gym.

• When a personal training session concludes, your trainer will ask permission to sign off for you. This protocol minimizes contact points.
• If you are uncomfortable coming inside the facility for your training session, you can arrange other training options, including virtual sessions using Zoom, FaceTime or Skype software or outdoor sessions
• Please know we will do everything we can to make the club safe and comfortable for all.
• Please use marked stairways as UP ONLY and DOWN ONLY to keep social distancing.
• We ask you to keep your workouts to 1.5 hours of total time in the gym or 30 minutes in the pool. This will help our staff maintain safe cleaning and sanitization procedures.

For general questions or concerns on new safety procedures and protocols, email info@phfitness.com, or call 608-278-8118 Fitchburg or Capital Square, 608-442-8118.

To be fair to our members, we froze membership billing on March 20, 2020, the first day of Governor Tony Ever’s Stay At Home Order. We felt that was the honorable thing to do, and it reflects our value of fairness. We are grateful for our members and the supportive community we have built at Pinnacle.

We will re-activate current memberships on our re-opening date. Billing will resume in June, including any point of purchases, rentals, or personal training services made before the quarantine. We will add 15 days of no-cost time to every membership that is paid monthly. 

If you prepaid your membership, thank you! We will extend your membership by the total number of days the club was closed.

To join as a new member or if you have questions regarding your membership, please

contact Tim Scheibe at tim@phfitness.com, Crystal Fehring at crystal@phfitness.com in Fitchburg or Jacob Schimpach at jacob@phfitness.com in our Capital Square location.

Phone 608-278-8118 for the Fitchburg location or 608-442-8118 for Capital Square.

Check phfitness.com for updates and check your email inbox (including your spam/junk folders) for Constant Contact emails.

Sign up for our Pinnacle email news updates here: Constant Contact

Above and beyond our daily and nightly cleaning of the gyms, we added cleaning procedures and new cleaning equipment. Facilities will be closed Monday – Friday from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. to sanitize the entire club using a hydrostatic sprayer process that kills viruses, including COVID.

Our routine cleaning and disinfecting will focus on equipment, doors, railings, locker rooms, surface counters, spa, and pool floors. 

If you see a note on a piece of equipment indicating it is NOT available for use, please respect that boundary. Twice a day, we will switch some of the “Do Not Use” signs to other equipment to give us time to clean equipment as needed. 

Clean air: Pinnacle’s HVAC system pulls in approximately 20,000 cubic feet of fresh air every minute and exhausts air at the same rate. This means you will be breathing in fresh air while in the pool area and our entire club.

A red cart on the gym floor holds spray bottles, clean cloths, and hand sanitizer. Please take a Pinnacle-supplied cloth and a Pinnacle spray bottle with you on your workout to use on each piece of equipment. Clean the equipment before and after each use. There are disinfectant wipes available as well. 

When you finish the workout, please return the spray bottle to the cart and place the cloth in our towel bins. Towels are washed and dried at a temperature of 170 degrees to ensure they are clean and sanitized.

• Please use social distancing techniques in the locker rooms.
• Use soap and water to wash your hands before and after your workout. 
• We recommend shower shoes. 
• Please flush toilets/urinals after use.
• During the mid-day cleaning, we will spray the locker rooms, and hard surfaces with EPA/COVID rated disinfectants.

All members must follow the all-club Safety@Pinnacle Member Practices.

We will not open Kids Kastle until July as we transition into full operation. When it re-opens, we will have an online signup form available on our website to appropriately limit the number of families in that space at any one time. Please email Jill Lanham at jill@phfitness.com with questions regarding childcare.

We positioned Cardio stations to have six feet of distance from adjoining stations. Or we put “Do Not Use” signs on some equipment to maintain social distancing requirements. Twice a day, we will switch some of the “Do Not Use” signs to other equipment to give us time to clean as needed. 

Please use the provided spray bottle cleaners and clean cloths to sanitize equipment before and after use. 

Those who do cardio and strength workouts must follow the all-club Safety@Pinnacle Member Practices.

Our Trainer Team and Training Zone Floor are ready for your workout session. We welcome you back. 

We removed some equipment for social distancing purposes. The floor area seems larger, with extra square footage allotted for each individual. 

Follow the all-club Safety@Pinnacle Member Practices. 

Personal training and strength training with outdoor equipment may occur, weather permitting. (See our outdoor jungle gym at our Fitchburg entrance.) 

Contact your trainer to confirm the schedule, or reach out to our fitness director, Patryk Piekarczyk, if you have questions regarding individual training sessions and packages at patryk.piekarczyk@phfitness.com

Our instructors look forward to leading classes in-person in our fitness studios.

All group fitness studios now have floor graphic symbols to help you identify appropriate social distancing square-footage boundaries for each participant. Using these floor markers, each participant will have approximately 8 feet by 15 feet or 120-square feet of space. Six feet is the recommended social distance. These practices more than doubled the amount of space for each participant and will limit the number of participants in our studios. It will, however, provide additional safety to our members, guests, and staff.

Phase 1 Studio Capacity: 

In addition to the Safety@Pinnacle Member Practices, follow these safeguards for Fitness Classes: 

• Members must bring their own yoga mat to class.
• Yoga students should bring their own mat, yoga block, and yoga strap class.
• Gently-used Yoga blocks, yoga mats, and straps are available for purchase at the front desk. They have been cleaned and disinfected. Prices range from $3 to $10.
• Therabands in Studio 2 have been temporarily removed. Resistance tubing with handles can be used. Bring your own TheraBand from home and take it home with you after class.
• You will need to use a provided Lysol/Clorox wipe before and after class to clean mats, any items you bring into the studio such as your water bottle, car keys, etc., and any other items the instructors suggest.
• Class times will be staggered to allow for the proper time to clean up after the class, eliminate any locker room congestion, help aid traffic flow throughout the club, and help all members and staff maintain proper social distancing guidelines. 
• Instructors are encouraged to teach class facing the mirror to minimize speech-generated droplet emissions.

Our Phase One Interim Schedule for June has new class names, but the formats are the same or similar. We are re-branding some of our class offerings specifically to Pinnacle. The new class addition is Phunctional X-Training at Capital Square with Cassidy and Eric. See the class descriptions for more information. We plan to add more classes to the schedule as we move into Phase Two and beyond. https://www.phfitness.com/calendar

We are starting a new online signup process for classes at https://phfitness.as.me/schedule.php. There will be an approximate 24-hour window of time before each class when online signup will go "live" for members to register for a class. Once members fill a class, we will close it for further attendees. 

Most cyclists are riding outside and enjoying the warmer weather. The cycling studios are currently closed at both locations. The cycling classes at Capital Square will remain closed for the summer. In Fitchburg, the instructor-led cycling classes are closed during June. 

• You are welcome to use a stationary bike for your workout and try our no-cost Fitness On Demand option with a Master-Trainer-led cycling class. 
  
• Also, watch for details on outdoor cycle rides at Fitchburg and Capital Square.
  
• Cyclists must follow the all-club Safety@Pinnacle Member Practices. 
  
• In addition, be sure to wipe down the bike seat, handles, gears and components you touch, both before and after use. 

 Contact our Group Fitness Director, Jaclyn Wilkinson with questions at jaclyn@phfitness.com

Aquatic Group Exercise classes return June 1 with a limited number of participants based on the square footage of pool and guidelines from the following resources: Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Masters Swimming, and the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals. The CDC states, “proper operation and disinfection of pools, hot tubs, and water playgrounds should kill the virus that causes COVID19.” https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/index.html

Pinnacle's HVAC system pulls in approximately 20,000 cubic feet of fresh air every minute and exhausts air at the same rate. This means you will be breathing in fresh air while in the pool area and our entire club.

Pinnacle will establish the following aquatic guidelines in Phase One of re-opening:

Private Lessons

• Private lessons will resume in the pool June 1 for adults and children who can comfortably swim laps on their own. We are currently not able to offer lessons for participants who require an instructor in the water with them. 
• Open water private swim training will be available.
• Swimmers can sign up for individual training plans that offer three workouts per week tailored to you and your training needs plus one private swim lesson (pool or open water) per month. 

  Open Water Small Group and Private Training

• Beginning June 1.

Masters Swim

• Masters Swim will be on hold as we limit the number of swimmers in the lap pool to one person per lane. We will resume when we can safely do so.

 Lap Swimming (Indoor and Outdoor Pools)

• We will limit lap swimming to one person per lane in the outdoor and indoor lap pools.
• Odd-numbered lanes will have entry/ exit from the shallow end and even-numbered lanes entry/ exit from the deep end to help facilitate social distancing on the pool deck. 

• We removed Pinnacle-owned shared equipment (noodles, bells, foam weights, kickboards, fins and pull buoys, etc.). 
• Members may bring their personally owned, cleaned training aids.
• We ask members to limit their swims to 30 minutes if others are waiting. 
• We added 10 minutes to the schedule before and after classes to accommodate social distancing.
• We ask that lap swimmers keep an eye on the time, exit promptly before classes, and wait to enter the pool until all participants from a previous class exit. 
• We ask members waiting on the pool deck to practice social distancing of six feet. 

Contact Cynthia Liu, Swim Program manager and Master Swim/Tri Training coordinator with questions related to swimming in our indoor and outdoor pools at cynthia@phfitness.com