About Us

Fitness Werks is a professional, private training facility that consults with, educates and guides clients through personalized and progressive exercise, health and wellness programs using innovate techniques and processes. No matter who you are... whether you are new to fitness, experienced, or perhaps just struggling for direction and inspiration, Fitness Werks provides practical strategies, advanced techniques and the proper training to assist you on your path to a healthier lifestyle.

Each trainer at Fitness Werks has gone through the highest level of training that Resistance Training Specialist (RTS) and Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) have to offer—both of which are the highest educational sources in the industry. Each trainer also undergoes 32 hours of continuing education each year to keep us one of the most educated studios in the Chicagoland area.

What Sets Fitness Werks Apart?

Fitness Werks is one of the first and one of the very few personal training facilities in the Chicagoland area that has expanded knowledge to facilitate an integrated, in-depth approach from five disciplines of health and wellness field. Our expertise, education and attention to muscular imbalances and tolerance, cardiovascular function, chemical make-up, along with identifying limiting thought processes, helps us to create completely customized programs to meet your goals, needs and ability.

Owner, trainer Neil Hansen, established Fitness Werks in March 2000 as a way to implement comprehensive, personalized training, as well as to provide consistent, professional one-on-one service-as opposed to one-size-fits-all instruction.

Since its inception, Fitness Werks has remained committed to being on the forefront of advanced research from all aspects of the health and fitness industry. Our program designs are based on knowledge gained from sports conditioning specialists, athletic trainers, physical therapists, manual and massage therapists, various sports kinesiotherapists, orthopedics, podiatrists, wellness and life coaches, neuro-chemists, nutritionists, metabolic typing experts and other top personal trainers in the industry.