Eat, Sip, Shop: Former professional soccer player opening fitness and sports training facility in Coopersburg | Eat, Sip, Shop

COOPERSBURG, Pa. – Resolving to steer a extra lively life-style in 2023? A brand new health facility in Coopersburg could also be simply the ticket.

Perfect Touch Sports, providing quite a lot of sports activities coaching and health applications, is nearing completion of a 2,400-square-foot venue at 112 Springfield St., close to the Saucon Rail Trail.

Owner Matt Baker, a former skilled soccer participant, established Perfect Touch almost a decade in the past and has been renting area all through the Lehigh Valley to conduct his soccer coaching and different programming.

Services embody non-public, small group and group coaching for soccer and lacrosse, in addition to a cross-training program, SportFit, that improves velocity, energy, agility and total efficiency for athletes of all sports activities.

“We’re excited to proceed serving to folks in massive methods,” Baker stated. “We love what we do, and what we’re doing really hasn’t modified a lot. However, this new facility provides us a homebase, and it provides the neighborhood one other area to develop their health and abilities.”

Baker, who lives in Coopersburg, bought the previous pole barn in July and spent the previous a number of months overhauling the construction with new concrete and turf flooring, insulation, lighting and extra.

He painted a enterprise motto, “hustle every single day,” on one of many partitions, and he plans to complete a foyer space with bogs within the coming weeks. Equipment corresponding to kettle bells, medication balls and push sleds additionally will likely be arriving in time for the ability’s grand opening in January.

“Our objective is to assist change lives via sport and health,” Baker stated. “We have been blessed to do what we love for nearly 10 years now and may’t wait to see the influence we are able to make transferring ahead.”

Baker has been taking part in soccer since he was 3 years previous, and he is been a member of a number of native journey and premier groups, together with Lehigh Valley United.

After taking part in Division 1 soccer on the University of Pittsburgh, he continued his taking part in profession professionally with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USLPRO.

He later joined different groups corresponding to Cardosa Moriera in Brazil’s 2nd Division and The Philadelphia Union reserve group of Major League Soccer, however a torn ACL pressured him to vary course and additional his ardour by creating Perfect Touch Sports.

With his spouse, Brianna, Baker additionally operates the three-year-old Refinery Fitness, a boutique health studio providing private and small group coaching, on Station Avenue in Coopersburg.

“Perfect Touch Sports has a employees of about 12 coaches, and all of us love what we do,” Baker stated. “Now, we’ll have the chance to do extra of it. By having coaches right here and persevering with to lease area at different venues, we might conduct applications in a number of areas on the identical night time.”

The new venue, which incorporates a storage door that may be opened throughout good climate, additionally could be rented for group practices, birthday events and different capabilities.

To keep up-to-date on Perfect Touch Sports happenings, together with a grand opening announcement, observe the enterprise’ social media pages, facebook.com/perfecttouchsoccer and instagram.com/perfecttouchsoccer. Info: 610-442-5039; perfecttouchsports.com.

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