About Us

"The best fitness center in downtown Palo Alto"

Welcome to the best and largest fitness center in downtown Palo Alto, offering full amenities and two floors.  Conveniently located next to an eight-story parking garage, with three-hour free public parking, we welcome you to stop by, take a tour and see what we are all about. Over the past three years we have built our reputation for having the best quality group exercise classes in the Bay Area and today we would like to invite you to come see for yourself. We challenge you to find another club that offers as many classes, at such a variety of times, as we do. We offer more classes than most health clubs ten times our size. Our new space was built to match our philosophy. We have built a spacious indoor cycling room offering the best cycling classes in the  area. Additionally, we provide an expansive, naturally-lit aerobics room, and a dedicated stretching area with mats to provide the ultimate in comfort. We also have state-of-the-art strength and cardio equipment so that you may make productive use of the facility. Our full-amenity locker rooms are equipped with private showers, necessary toiletries and a complimentary towel service.  The safe and well-lit child care facility is the ideal place for your little ones to rest or play in safety while you enjoy your workout.  Our childcare services are available Monday through Saturday 8:00am-12:00pm on a 1st-come, 1st-serve basis. 

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Get a first hand view of a kickboxing class taught by Sassan Golafshan.

New FORM Fitness Mascot

Meet King Louie. He's the new face of FORM Fitness, the darling of the walkway and the FORM Fitness reception desk. He avoids the paparazzi so you won't bump into him often, but everyone will know when he's made an appearance. If you can't get enough of him, download a photo of him in top fighting form for your desktop wallpaper (created for screens with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels).

Client Testimonials

Punch and Lunch

There is a little gem of a gym in Palo Alto, which literally lets you ‘float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.’ The place is FORM on 203 Forest Ave. About six weeks ago, my friend Catherine Debs kept on bugging me about joining her at these amazing kick boxing classes. I wasn’t too enthusiastic, as I have the tendency to quit any exercise regime out of boredom after an average of two weeks.  Anyone who knows Catherine also knows that it is virtually impossible to say No to her—so I went, and was hooked right away.

FORM has been founded and is run by a gentle young man named Sassan. That is, he is gentle until you put the boxing gloves on, then he turns into a drill sergeant out of your worst nightmare.

You learn how to jab that big bag, you learn crosses and hooks, body shots and kicks. A cool move, called roundhouse, where you swing your hips and jam you shins into the bag. You sweat and groan and he makes you punch some more. You learn how to float like Muhammad Ali until your thighs burn. The amazing thing is that something happens to your personality when you hit that bag—you feel strong, powerful, kick-butt happy. After six weeks of an average of three workouts a week my 50 year old body is beginning to show signs of definite improvement. I am on my way to having a “hard body” again. It is very exciting.

To show off our emerging boxing skills, celebrate some birthdays in an original way, and to get more women interested in Sassan’s classes, Catherine organized her most innovative party to date.

About 20 middle-aged (sorry my friends, but it’s true) lady’s showed up in their finest stretch duds. We were all presented with a pair of boxing gloves, black wrist wraps (because it was Halloween), and a cute little towel.  There was a cheering gallery set up for friends who did not want to, or were not able to box. Ropes, like in a real boxing ring outlined the mats.  There probably was even a bell ringing in round one, but I didn’t hear it, because of all the excited women. Sassan got us warmed up, gave an intro on the basic moves, such as jab, cross, hooks, and roundhouse kicks, etc.  Then the pandemonium began. Everybody got into it. There was hollering and groaning and a lot of laughter. The energy was terrific.  The lady’s loved it, even my friend Pam, who runs marathons started to huff and puff. After the session was over, Catherine and Sassan had a little surprise in their boxing gloves for me and Alicia. We had to do a little sparring with Sassan to determine a Champion. I would like to say that I KO’d him, but no such luck—the boy floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Needless to say, my friends want to box now and I predict that in a few weeks time there will be some mean, buff ladies strutting around Palo Alto and Los Altos. Thank you, Catherine and Sassan for a truly extraordinary gift. I love you both.

Gudi