Best of Citysearch 2008 Seattle.Citysearch.com
ZUM was voted Best Gym.

Seattle PI By Bob Condor | 5.11.2008
Living Well: Subtract stress and add vigor through yoga Jenny Hayo, ZUM yoga instructor explains the many benefits of yoga, "yoga is energizing in ways beyond the workout she (Hayo) sees no reason why the rest of us can't tap into it for stress relief and everyday vigor".

Best of Citysearch 2007 Seattle.Citysearch.com
ZUM was voted Best Health Club and Best Personal Trainers.

Men's Journal By Christopher Percy Collier | 12.2007
Benefits of Sports Massage "The idea is to rid the muscles of toxins and rid the body of scar tissue so the blood can flow back into the area giving your muscles the nutrients they need to recover. I'm going to work right up to the edge of your comfort zone, promises Colleen Casey ZUM Massage Director".

Best of Citysearch 2006 Seattle.Citysearch.com
ZUM was voted Best Health Club by Citysearch readers in 2006.

Seattle Times By Richard Seven | 11.07.2005
Proper warm up and foot pain Q & A with Peter Shmock, ZUM Founder: "The way most people stretch prior to running -- does little if anything to prepare for a run or reduce the chance for injury. The best way to prepare to run is to progressively warm up, with the key word being progressively".

Best of Citysearch 2005 Seattle.Citysearch.com
ZUM was voted Best Health Club and Best Personal Trainers.

Seattle Times By Julia Sommerfeld | 3.25.2005

Benefits of stretching may be overstretched Recent studies show that the benefits of traditional stretching may not produce the benefits we may have assumed. ZUM trainers use unique movements called "active stretches" to effectively warm and loosen up their clients prior to exercising. Rather than having a client kick her heel to her bottom and hold it there -- the trainer will have her slowly mimic a runner's stride. "All stretching should be, really, is moving," Peter Shmock, ZUM founder says.

Seattle Times By Richard Seven | 3.6.2005

Spring Training Whether you're a baseball star or a weekend warrior, Club ZUM emphasizes "functional" training -- comprehensive movements geared toward function rather than focusing on building this or that body part in isolation. Seattle Mariners catcher Dan Wilson gets ready for the baseball season at ZUM by working with balls and weights, often while fighting to retain balance and engaging core muscles.

Men's Journal By Steven Steinberg | 12.2004
The 100 Best Trainers in America Joe DeShaw, ZUM'S director of trainer education, was voted by Men's Health Magazine as one of the top 100 trainers in America. Joe is the creator of ZUM's popular "HardcoreTM" class and he insures that the quality of training at ZUM remains at the highest level possible.

Seattle Weekly: Best of Seattle 2003 By The Seattle Weekly | 9.2003
Turf: Urban Living -- Celeb Pick Radically unlike the typical health club, ZUM's members are encouraged to aim not toward a certain ideal, but a well-functioning body that's there for them when they need it. ZUM is "a place for people who want to learn how to take care of themselves."

Seattle Times By Richard Seven | 8.3.2003
Sweat It, Or Don't: A walk in the park proves exercise can still be fun ZUM founder Peter Shmock's philosophy of doing what you can now, having fun, and a goal of life long fitness is encouraged over pushing too hard for short term results. Exercise doesn't have to feel like punishment, he says.

Seattle Times By: Julia Sommerfield | 3.14.2003

New fitness classes appeal to exercisers' need for novelty "For an hour every Friday evening, Andrew Shuman, 32, is transported back to high-school gym class. With an instructor brandishing a stopwatch and shouting "move it, move it," Shuman jumps over miniature hurdles, sprints around cones, then drops to the ground for 20 push-ups. But instead of a squeaky gymnasium, Shuman and his classmates are in the Survivor class at Belltown's swish workout spot Club ZUM (pronounced "zoom")".

Seattle Times By Molly Martin | 7.28.2002

Tuning In: ZUM challenges the mode of conventional health clubs "This gym is perfect for someone who really wants to get fit," says Paula Tobol, 37, of Seattle, who was a trainer herself for 10 years and now is senior marketing manager for Deloitte & Touche. "They have the best trainers, awesome equipment, a nice facility -- it's really one of the best gyms I've been in -- and it's not intimidating." That last point helped her talk a friend who'd never belonged to a gym into joining. "She loves it, she's lost weight, and she's happy."