About World Wide Fitness



Jim and Shasta

World Wide Fitness, with more than 15 years of experience between the key officers, understands the importance of a strong management team. Day to day operational management and sales will be conducted by Jim Holmes and his wife, Shasta Holmes, and as hands-on managers covering all hours of operation, along with a supporting cast of specialty employees.  Our philosophy and goals are set to achieve the following for each member;

  • To teach and instruct the latest in Health & Fitness with the most advanced equipment. 
  • To help you live a long and healthy life with monthly seminars and our newsletter to include the latest health information. 
  • To help you improve your physical appearance & health. 
  • Improve your well being, at any age. 
  • Training & Fitness will make you fit, strong and limber. 
  • Offer personal training to provide better balance and efficiency. 
  • Keep it simple and interesting while enjoying your circuit workout with TV's, Personal DVD players and personal CD players. 
  • Look forward to working out in a gender friendly atmosphere with health as our primary goal, and soothing amenities for after workout relaxation and rejuvenation. 
  • Make fitness a part of your life.  
     

Jim Holmes President/Director Of Operations  

Mr. Holmes brings to World Wide Fitness almost a lifetime of fitness experience. From the age of 12, Jim has always been involved in sports and fitness.  In High School Jim achieved honors in basketball and track.  He made the all-state team in basketball his Junior and Senior year, in addition, he played a key role of getting 2nd overall at the State Track Meet.  After High School he attended NIACC in Mason City were he achieved an associate degree and played two years of Junior College Basketball.  At college, one of Jim's new hobbies was bodybuilding.  To this day, Jim is maintaining a healthy life with fitness.

After college Jim moved to Cedar Rapids to work for New Life Fitness World as a Assistant Manager of Sales.  A few months later Jim met his future wife to be at New Life.  Shasta, a graduate from The University Of Iowa with a Bachelor's degree of Science in Sport, Health, Leisure and Physical Studies also came to New Life to be a sales consultant.  After a few months, Jim and Shasta became a dynamic team.  Jim and Shasta worked there another eight months until Jim took a job at Pepsi Americas.  Ever since they left New Life Fitness World, Jim and Shasta never forgot the feeling of working in a health club.  For the last five years they have been researching the City of Cedar Falls for a possible health club.  With the experience that Jim and Shasta have, opening up a World Wide Fitness in the great city of Cedar Falls can be nothing but successful. 

Future for World Wide Fitness 

World Wide Fitness will build their first super gym in Cedar Falls in the spring of 2010.   World Wide Fitness will move from their 10,000 sq. ft facility into a 60,000 sq. ft building with many new amenities.   It will feature an indoor Olympic lap pool, basketball court, rock climb, indoor track, indoor batting cages, indoor miniature golf, and also including all cardio and strength equipment.   Other sites that World Wide Fitness plans to build are at Mason City, Iowa City, and their first 24/7 Express at Mt Pleasant.   World Wide Fitness memberships can be used at all future locations.