Title Boxing Club Offers Women Tough Workouts at Alpha Place

Though its customer base largely consists of women, a dark period of distress led to Title Boxing Club franchise owner Casey Wandell's addiction to the business' concept and its eventual opening in Highland Heights.

"I went through a really bad divorce and took the path that so many people take, trying to drink and eat my pain away," he said. "Next thing you know, I gotta lose 50 pounds — I was a total joke.

"A woman friend of mine brought me to a Title Boxing Club in Columbus ... I started going religiously, and I was addicted."

Wandell, who previously operated mexican restaurants and worked in medical sales, became so enthused by the concept that he traveled to Overland Park, Kansas to sell himself as a viable franchisee. The visit went well, and a broker soon identified the Shoppes at Alpha Place as an available site.

Title opened on Jan. 1 and has amassed 750 members since then despite Wandell, a Lima, Ohio native, having never been to the Cleveland area up to that point.

He and his eight trainers are all about empowering women through vigorous workouts at the 6,300-square-foot facility, but men shouldn't write it off as "girly," Wandell said. 

"It's as nasty a workout as you'll ever get," he said. "My first class, I puked three times."

View the club's website for schedules and membership information. Click here for the Highland location's Facebook page.