September 8-21, 2004
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Focus on the Burn…Two-time Olympian Peter Donohoe opened the city's newest chichi health club, Focus Fitness, last month on Congress Street, just across Fort Point Channel from the Financial District. Donohoe, who competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Games for the Irish bobsled team, says Focus "isn't meant to compete with the Fitcorps and Boston Sports Clubs of the city." You hear that, Sports Club/LA? Donohoe's facility has the derigeur high-end equipment, like cardio machines equipped with individual flatscreen TVs and the Body Map computerized work-out design system (the only one in Boston), but Focus Fitness' hook is personal training by Olympic athletes-two of whom started work as soon as they got back from a bit of business in Athens.