Club One

Jill Kinney had been a professional downhill ski racer, before opening a small club, the Physis Gym, in San Francisco.

[2][3] The couple obtained a founding investment from the Kikkoman soy sauce company, and opened their first gym in the Citicorp Center in San Francisco.

It grew quickly during the dot com boom as many companies established in-house gyms as a perquisite for employees.

[1] The first corporate facility was started in 1995, after Autodesk, Inc. contacted the couple about opening an in-house gym exclusively for company employees.

Similar concessions were opened for The Gap and Electronic Arts[2] In 2004 the chain had 19 public clubs, several dozen in-house gyms with more than 500,000 corporate members, and approximately 1,500 employees in ten states.