New sports training facility for pros and joes opens at Corewell Health

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Corewell Health on Saturday, April 26, will open its new Sports Performance Center in the $88 million orthopedics clinic at 2770 E Beltline Ave. NE.

The 13,830-square-foot training facility is managed by Exos, a training company that provides professional fitness coaching to professional, college and high school athletes; military personnel; and business clients.

While Exos is best known for its work with players in the NFL Combine, it does a lot more than just football, Ryan McCoy, general manager and trainer at Exos, said.

“In this space, we’re going to be a lot more community oriented,” he said. “While we’d love to have some professional athletes in the building, it’s not really our focal point.”

Amenities include a fully equipped gym, lockers and restrooms, a physical therapy center and 100 yards of indoor/outdoor turf separated by a garage door that can be opened during the warmer months.

Coming soon is a sports science and recovery room where Exos can implement the latest research to help clients zero in on their fitness goals.

The sports performance center is the product of a 14-year vision to bring orthopedics, rehabilitation and performance enhancement together in one space, Sam Johnson, director of orthopedic outreach operations at Corewell Health, said.

“If you come in to see a doctor for a high hamstring strain, what’s next? Well, we have PT right on site,” she said. “PT says you’re back, but you want to be better at jumping so you can return to basketball, so you might see Exos, and they’re going to get you in that return to movement pattern so you can go back to basketball and not have any concerns about injury.”

Davenport University athletes training for the NFL Combine got treated to a soft opening of the space in January. Starting tomorrow, the space will be open to everyone, from youth athletes trying to go pro, to people going through physical therapy.

“Down the line, I would like to do more work with special populations — Parkinson’s, diabetes — to find out what we can do to meet their needs,” McCoy said.

The new performance center will have three coaches on staff, two full-time and one part-time, and plans to hire more as demand grows, McCoy said.

Access to the space is membership-based, and sessions will be coach-led in a group environment.

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