Gym Wealth is May Business of Month
May 10, 2024 09:24AM ● By Matthew Malone
Gym Wealth Is Health owner Yvette Guardado holds her honorary Business of the Month certificate, next to her husband, Marc Guardado, and her daughter, Monique Guardado. Photo by Matthew Malone
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By Matthew Malone
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GALT, CA (MPG) - The Galt District Chamber of Commerce on May 2 named Gym Wealth is Health its honorary Business of the Month. The business combines a gym with healthy food offerings.
Chamber members gathered at the business’s location on C Street. Gym Wealth Is Health recently took over the storefront and operations of Prime Nutrition, after the latter’s lease ended.
“We appreciate all that you do,” the chamber’s community relations manager Kat Seabolt said. “You have customers that are completely loyal to you that love coming in every day. You always greet everyone with such enthusiasm. You have such a zest for life that we all appreciate. And we are just excited to get to celebrate you this month.”
Owner Yvette Guardado said customers can come for either or both of the two businesses. Gym Wealth is Health offers exercise facilities, while Prime Nutrition sells meal replacement shakes and other foods designed to boost nutrition, such as protein waffles.
Guardado said Gym Wealth is Health began as a home gym for she and husband, as local gyms closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guardado eventually became a certified trainer, helping family and friends.
“And then I finally had enough members to finally move out of our house. … And then we started looking around for a place for the gym, for Gym Wealth Is Health,” she said.
Prime Nutrition’s lease on the location was ending at the same time that Guardado was looking for a location.
“So we actually brought our gym into the nutrition shop. Now, it is a gym where you can get some nutrition,” Guardado said.
Gym Wealth Is Health’s clients are generally looking for “a personal feel of a gym,” Guardado said, where “it’s not busy and a lot of people, and you never have to fight for your machine.”
Guardado said later that she also sees exercise as important for making everyday physical tasks easier, especially as people age.
The gym offers two levels of membership. For $50 a month, members can exercise during business hours, with some weekend availability. For $75, members can additionally come in as early as 5 a.m. or 6 a.m.
“I am so, so, so happy,” Guardado said of the chamber recognition, expressing gratitude for the chamber members who nominated her business.
“I’m the one that’s lucky to have our gym members and the town people who are regulars here, good people that this gym and the nutrition part of it draws here are amazing people, and I’m the one that’s lucky to be part of their everyday life,” Guardado said. “My passion is to help people get healthy and fit and to just begin to fall in love with that because once your mind shifts to ‘It’s not just a workout that I have to do or I need to do,’ once you begin to love it and understand the benefits of being healthy, you’re going to live longer, you’re going to get stronger.” Gym Wealth Is Health is located at 905 E. C St., Suite 170.
It is open 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 209-843-5179 or visit the business’ Instagram page, @gymwealthishealth.