John Hanrahan recently took the reins of 55 FITNESS's company's flagship club in Alpharetta / Roswell, GA. 55 FITNESS is a new and rapidly expanding club experience catering to mature adults and their specific needs. For club membership information and or franchise opportunities contact J.Hanrahan@55Fitness.com

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Hanrahan has a high-performing, well credentialed record of leadership in fitness management, wellness and optimal performance conditioning. His programs have provided positive benefits of health, and personal goal achievements to enhance the lives of thousands. He is a nationally acclaimed fitness pro having been featured in GQ as "The Guy to Know for Fitness," Allure magazine rated John as "The Best Personal Trainer" in Los Angeles and Men's Journal magazine featured John Hanrahan among "America's Top Trainers."
 

Hanrahan was named as the Strength & Conditioning Coordinator for the USA Olympic Wrestling Team Training Camp in Atlanta 2021. He is an NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and has been a featured presenter at the NSCA national conference, as well as a featured Wellness presenter at HBS Health Business Summit in Las Vegas.

John is a graduate of Penn State University where as a student-athlete he completed his career with the Most Wins in PSU's history with 113 victories and also earned multiple NCAA All American athletic honors. In 1991 Hanrahan began in the highly competitive New York City fitness industry and quickly became the Head Trainer at NYC’s exclusive Peninsula Spa & Fitness Center. He soon took the reins as GM for two upper eastside Manhattan health clubs and was soon tapped to grand open and manage the highly exclusive La Palestra, Center for Preventative Medicine. The facility was a home-run, attracting an A-List of Manhattan’s Who’s Who crowd, Vanity Fair took note and featured La Palestra as “A Shrine to Fitness”. The notoriety allowed John to launch his “LA Training” business where he guided Hollywood moguls and stars to achieve peak conditioning.
 

In 2001 John was hired by WTS International to grand open and manage the Flamingo South Beach Athletic Club in Miami. Fitness industry “Best of Class” Life Time Fitness later recruited Hanrahan to guide and manage multi-tiered fitness business sectors at three of their DC and Atlanta based mega-clubs.

 

In 2008 Hanrahan launched corporate wellness services for the Atlanta based company MedAssets Inc until they were acquired by Vizient in 2011. Hanrahan returned to big-box club management taking the reins of 24 Hour Fitness’ largest Ultra Sport category club in Irvine CA.  

 

He is currently the owner of Atlanta based PT Sport & Fitness LLC. His company provides Health & Wellness solutions to corporations, organizations, athletes and individuals. John and his wife are the founders of the 501C-3 Non Profit Recovery Angel Corp to assist young adults suffering from substance abuse. John also serves as a board adviser to two other non-profit organizations: Athletes for Children and Echo Verse focused on finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis

 

He is also an inspiring UWW World Champion wrestler, and the author of four books including the award winning book “Wrestling with Angels”, which Book Authority named as one of the “Best New Books for 2021”.