The National Institute of Sport & Fitness:

The N.I.S.F is an exclusive private training studio in Cedar Grove N.J. founded by Michael & Lori LaToracca. This where Gordon does the majority of his personal training, sports conditioning and injury post-rehabilitation. The N.I.S.F is only minutes from Montclair, Upper Montclair, Verona, The Caldwells and Montclair State University. It is easily accessible from Routes: 23, 46, 3 and The Garden State Parkway.

The N.I.S.F clientele ranges from busy executives, medical professionals and ordinary people to youth, professional and recreational athletes who are serious about their fitness goals and want to train without becoming a public spectacle like those seen in commercial gyms and fitness centers.

There is NO membership fee for The N.I.S.F; members meet only with their trainer for a scheduled appointment thus there are NO: crowds, waiting time for equipment, loud classes, or annoying announcements and sales people interrupting your workout.

The N.I.S.F is unique in that not only does it provide a full spectrum of resistance & cardiovascular training equipment but it also includes extensive functional training equipment and the areas only year round indoor sports training facility. Indoor sports training includes: Olympic lifting platform, plyometrics boxes & stands, batting cage with pitching machine (baseball & softball), indoor pitchers mound, Sports turf, regulation basketball backboard, gymnastics rings, sand bags, heavy bag, focus gloves and Wave- master free standing striking bag.

The N.I.S.F. is open 7 days a week by appointment and has unlimited free parking, male & female locker rooms, multiple rest rooms, and shower facilities.

Here are some pictures of the facility:

Local driving directions to The National Institute for Sport & Fitness:

1) Take Pompton Ave Towards Willowbrook Mall

2) Pass CVS/ Master Cho’s, Food Town & go under train tracks (you will go thru 2 traffic lights after CVS/Master Cho’s)

3) Make Right turn onto Little Falls Road (Friar Tuck's & Lay- Z Boy are on the corner)

4) Follow the road around the bend

5) Keep going until you see a sign on the RIGHT for "County Park & Pool" across from this sign on the LEFT side of the street is the driveway for 216 little falls road (small sign)

If you get to the tennis courts on your LEFT hand side, you have gone too far

6) Go up the driveway into the complex (Peckman River Industrial Complex), go to the second grouping of buildings

7) On the left side of the parking lot is THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SPORT & FITNESS (red, white & blue sign above the door)

The Name & Address is:

National Institute for Sport & Fitness

216 Little Falls Road

Buildings 11 & 12

Cedar Grove, N.J.

This is a map with the King’s shopping center on Pompton Ave. in Verona as the starting point