2004
Coaching in Manhattan since
Two Trees Lane · Bridgehampton, NY
Home gym design · New York + nationwide
A serious gym that belongs in the rest of the house.
Residential, amenity and commercial fitness spaces. Designed, specified and installed. New York, the Hamptons, Nantucket, Washington DC and beyond.
See the work How it works12
Gyms built
For homeowners
Home gyms
A room built around how you actually train, inside the ceiling height, floor load and freight elevator you actually have.
Residential design ⟶
For developers + owners
Amenity fitness
The fitness center that differentiates the building and holds up under real, shared use. One partner, concept to opening.
Amenity + commercial ⟶Selected work
Every project has a constraint. That is the interesting part.
Five of the twelve, selected.
Two Trees Lane
Cathedral ceilings, glass on three sides, and four closets with mirrored doors. Almost no usable wall.
Butter Lane
Twenty feet of ceiling and French doors lined up on the pool. Room for equipment most houses cannot take.
500 W 18th Street
Eleven and a half feet at the narrow point, with the building's angled curtain wall on one side. A seven-foot barbell leaves two feet of clearance.
Linden Lane
An amenity floor in a new Manhattan building, with a structural column in the middle of the room and a full commercial-grade fit-out.
Accabonac
An existing gym that was not up to code, and a client who deals art deco furniture and set the design pace.
Why trainer-designed
Most gym designers have never coached a session.
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Trainer-designed
The layout comes from how people move through a session, not from a showroom planogram.
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Built for the building
Load, sound, access, boards, schedules. We design for the constraint before we design for the photograph.
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Specified, not sold
Our fee schedule is published in full, and freight passes through at cost. You know how we get paid, so you know the recommendation is advice. See the numbers.
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Used, not admired
Handover includes programming and coaching. The only real answer to "will I use this."
Francisco Liuzzi, founder
On the floor since 2004.
I have coached out of commercial gyms in Manhattan since 2004, and I still train clients five days a week. Twenty-two years of coaching is what the design work is built on.
The gym at Two Trees started it all. A client I had been training built a house with a gym in mind, and asked whether I could design a room that held up next to the rest of it. Design work has come almost entirely by referral since. We have built in New York, the Hamptons, Nantucket, Washington DC, North Carolina and California.
The training practice
500 W 18th Street · West Chelsea
Clients
“In 2018, I entrusted Cisco to design a dream home gym in the Hamptons. Not only is it beautiful and has been published for its design, but it’s also highly functional and used daily. Cisco’s gym designs have since impressed five of my friends, who hired him to create their own.”
David Lawenda · 14 years training
“Francisco has built 3 home gyms for me. His unique combination of deep understanding of state of the art fitness equipment, commitment to personalized outcomes for each client, eye for attractive design and meticulous focus on delivery helps create a great, useful, beautiful home gym.”
Ken MehlmanThree home gyms
“We had a couple of issues with the equipment manufacturer and Cisco handled all of these for me seamlessly. I didn’t have to do anything about delivery or replacement parts; he handled everything. Best of all, now my entire family is using them regularly.”
Joel RampoldtTwo home gyms · a house and an apartment
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Tell us about the space.
Ceiling height, square footage, building type and how you train. That is enough for us to tell you within a day whether we are the right firm for it.
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