Meet Mike Klinefelter | Sports Performance Trainer and Consultant

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Today we have with us local Atlanta/Cobb County sports legend Mike Klinefelter, former National Champion and founder of The Sports Performance Training Center & Speed School Inc. How the career began wasn’t planned, was by fate, destiny, walking through opportunities and challenges that come with life. At age 22, I left home for Va. Beach after college for a job. My first encounter into how I ended up in this industry that got me to where I am today was a gym owner named Mike. I met Mike Gough at the beach, owner of the local gym “Gough’s Gym”, a passionate weightlifter and fitness expert I connected with. Next while working out one afternoon at the gym, a guy named Jimmy who trained there introduced himself to me. It so happened he had served in the Air Force and was a training partner of the then Mr. Olympia Frank Zane. I had never really given bodybuilding much thought, but he says, “Man, you look just like Frank Zane”. I was of similar symmetrical body frame, dark skin & hair as Zane. He talked me into entering my first competition, trained me for it, I won, the rest is history.
The passion for exercising and weight training was already in my DNA since middle school days. The next influential person I met in Va. Beach was Jerry. He was the Area Director for a national chain of athletic clubs, hied me, worked for him for 17 years, the rest is history, never left the industry, was a perfect fit for carving out a living for me. Made selling health & fitness easy because of the passion, I believed in it, easily convinced others they needed to do the same exercise, take care of their health. In that industry you learn all that goes into the business, management, exercise science, marketing, budgeting, planning, training staff, customer service.
So, for a business career I’m in the athletic club industry and a bodybuilder/powerlifter on the side which of course helps in garnishing name recognition for the job. Along the way of becoming a state, reginal and national champion I trained with, worked with and met many unique and influential people, several that played a major role in turning these sports and industries into international franchises.
Was hired by DP Inc. marketing department, world’s largest manufacture of exercise equipment. With that came working and traveling around the country with the 1st “World’s Strongest Man” Bill Kazmaier who became my power lifting coach. Under him I learned the power lifting protocols and progressions of off-season training for my sport adding size and strength. Our boss Bill Curry Sr. another influential man who was into fitness and in his day did the early strength events, he was the father of Ga. Tech Football Coach Bill Curry Jr. An incredible family I got to be a part of.
DP hosted “The Strongest Man in the NFL” Completion that Kaz and I were part of, met many of the big-name NFL players of that era. All of these individuals (Mike, Jimmy, Jerry, Doc, Bill, Kaz, Frank) I can give credit to for molding me and promoting me into a successful career. They were people that had a lot of knowledge and carried a lot of influence in the world of sports, fitness, bodybuilding, powerlifting and the athletic club industry.
Along the way of the sport and traveling, I meet Frank Zane, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Pearl, Lee Haney, Ben & Joe Weider (founders of Muscle and Fitness magazine), Doc Neely NPC promoter, Doc’s Gym, Jim Manion, president of the NPC, trained with many of the WWE wrestlers of the that era. In Va. Beach the first WWE wrestler I met was Andrea the Giant. Someone was actually dumb enough to try and pick a fight with Andrea, he stood up at 7’4”, 520 lbs. He had couple bodyguards with him to calm him down, Jimmy the head bouncer stepped in and took it from there. The first pro bodybuilder I met was Samir Bannout “The Lion of Lebanon” 83 Mr. Olympia. They were friends of the Owner of the big disco club Jimmy & I ware bouncers at. I was just back up, Jimmy was a pro, did all the heavy work for any possible troublemakers, and he did it quite quickly I might add. Usually, the ol rear naked chock hold, to sleep they went & drug them out the front door to send a warning shot to anybody else that thought they wanted to misbehave.
Funny story. Now in Atlanta, training at Doc’s Gym, some of the WWE wrestlers that trained at the gym were, The Iron Sheik, John Studd, Tony Atlas, Lex Lugger, Sting, Jimmy Hellwig “The Ultimate Warrior”. All us big, stiff, strong weightlifters didn’t stretch, didn’t do cardio, we thought we were superman, invincible. On Sunday afternoons after church, us body builders, power lifters and WWE guys would go out and play Sandlot football (tackle football without pads).
Well, I heard a sound like paper tearing come from my shoulder while making an arm tackle, that didn’t sound good I thought. Then on offense, I caught a pass, hit the ground and my arm came completely out of socket. When I stood up my arm was sticking straight out at 90% to the side, my shoulder bone had come out of the socket and was sitting on top of the joint.
The pain hadn’t set in yet, Jimmy was at Life Chiropractic College at the time, said, lay down, put his foot in my arm pit, grabbed my arm, stretched it out, pulled it off the joint and back into the socket. Now the pain set in. That was the last of our Sandlot football days.
WWE in the 80’s
Jimmy “The Ultimate Warrier” would go on to become an iconic figure around the world and one of the many bigger than life wrestling legends in history that played a role in revolutionizing the sport of WWE into a worldwide sports event. Another wave to ride for those pursuing that sport.We had the good fortune of connecting with Mike Klinefelter and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Mike, what do you want your legacy to be?
1. What was your thought process behind starting your own business? Didn’t have a choice, wasn’t working, had an idea for a new business concept, performance training facility, had to make it work.

2. What’s one thing about your industry that outsiders are probably unaware of? 2nd highest rate of business failure next to the restaurant industry.

3. Risk taking: how do you think about risk, what role has taking risks played in your life/career? I personally, like many, don’t like to take too high of a risk but sometimes they are necessary or your forced into taking action. It’s easy to want to stay in the comfort zone, I had to take the risk and make it succeed.

4. Other than deciding to work for yourself, what was the single most important decision you made that contributed to your success? Determination to make the idea of this new training concept work, perseverance, staying focused, driven, embracing challenges head on, plowing through them and problem solving,
5. What is the most important factor behind your success / the success of your brand? Like any successful business, delivering a quality product or service, customer service (in this case “results”). The other is the combination of my background/qualifications/experience/reputation/history and relationships built in the community, That the athletes get results and are successful at their sport.

6. What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever had to make?
7. Work life balance: how has your balance changed over time? How do you think about the balance? That part of life is great, you balance your time with family, friends, work, volunteering, church, business. You grow in all of these areas, they change throughout your 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, etc… All lead to happiness, being grateful, living a productive, satisfied life. Hopefully you’re making some kind of positive contribution to your community, society, the next generation.

8. Do you have a favorite quote or affirmation? What does it mean to you / what do you like about it? Not so much a quote but having a relationship with God, the creator, the wisdom one learns from reading his ward, truth, the bible.

9. Why did you pursue an artistic or creative career? Creative career, entrepreneurship is how some of us are wired. My dad worked for himself, some of us are always looking to do something better, keep it going, adjust to changes. The creativity runs high in us with ideas; we embrace challenges and being part of the solution.

10. What do you want your legacy to be? What do you want people to remember about you? That he put others before himself.

What should our readers know about your business?
Timing is everything, being born at the right time when the sports of bodybuilding and power lifting were about to explode and the athletic club industry was about to be reinvented. In the 80’s when I entered the sports of bodybuilding, powerlifting and the athletic club industry, they were changing. What I mean by that is, becoming revolutionary, the trajectory of all 3 of these industries was about to go worldwide and I was about to ride that wave of history. Bodybuilding in the 80’s :
The early days of bodybuilding 60’s/70’s contest were held in small venues, the local high school gyms and then 5 men came together in the early 80’s that revolutionized the sport and turned it into an International worldwide sports event. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank Zane, 2 brothers that started up a magazine for the sport, Joe & Ben Weider, “Muscle and Fitness”, Joe Gold, founder of Golds Gym in California that drew all the big-name talent in the sport of bodybuilding on the west coast.
Events were now held in large civic centers around the world leading to worldwide international competition and professional bodybuilding. Bodybuilding was now on the Map, popular and cool. The exercise equipment manufacturing industry blew up “Natalis, DP”, The gym and athletic club industry blew up. Bodybuilding, powerlifting, exercising, fitness and health were popular and became part of the “American culture”.
Sold-out events, thousands of spectators, (we would have as many as 50 competitors per weight division at a contest). The TV industry began covering the major international contest, Mr. Olympia, Mr. Universe, Mr. World, the Pro Bodybuilding Tour. This is the wave I got to ride on and be a part of.
At age 25 I became a state, regional and national champion competing against Lee Haney in the Nationals; I was the Lt. Heavy Wt. Champion 198 lb, Haney was the Heavy Wt. Champion. You then have the battle for overall champion between the 4 weight divisions; well Haney got me on that one, I was runner up. Haney went on to become an 8x Mr. Olympia and he still holds that record today. I went 11 straight wins then couple top 5’s, skipped a year and dropped down to the Middle Wt. division 178 lb. where I won the regionals to re qualify for the Nationals since I had changed divisions. Exercise science became part of the sport, bringing in healthy nutrition and adding aerobic training. I now felt I had more of the Zane look which fit my 5’9” frame, symmetry, more definition and using the artistic Zane posing routine. These men changed the course of history and trajectory of the sport of bodybuilding.
(History fact, Sean Connery was a bodybuilder before “James Bond”. Competing in the 1950 & 1953 Mr. Universe)
Powerlifting in the 80’s
My bodybuilding career took off even bigger while training at Doc’s Gym, Atlanta’s main gym for bodybuilding and WWE wrestlers on the East Coast. A man by the name of Bill Curry Sr, President of Marketing for DP, walked in, looked around, singled me out for a short interview, met with the owner, made his pitch to me, I signed the contract.
Power lifting before the 80’s was in the same place as the early days of building, small venues, held in local HS gyms, until a power lifter named Bill Kazmaier came along and set the sport on fire putting power lifting on the map and becoming the 1st “World’s Strongest Man”. (Kas set world records at that time of 886 lb. deadlift, 969 lb. squat and 661 lb on bench press). Powerlifting was now a worldwide international event on television, professional competition. Kazmaier was an iconic figure and after his career went on to host the TV show “World’s Strongest Man”. The Kaz, pretty much single handedly changed the course of history and trajectory of the sport of powerlifting into an international sport.
Mr. Curry and DP had just signed Kazmaier along with myself, the three of us traveled the country putting on exhibitions, promoting the sports, grand openings of gyms, events, magazines. At the event DP hosted, “Strongest Man in the NFL”, Kas and I performed feats of strength. The Kas easily could do reps with 500-600 lb. on the bench press and talk to the crowed at the same time. My unique lift was I had worked my way up to doing as many as 10 sets of squats for 20 reps of 405 lb. displaying muscle endurance. All of the big-name NFL lineman of the day competed at the annual event.
I was a bodybuilder but after training under Kaz adding powerlifting to my routine I learned to pull some heavy weights for my weight division, (PR deadlift 535, squat 535, bench press 405.)
The Athletic Club Industry in the 80’s
Once again, right place, right time with the right people. My 2nd job in Va. Beach was with European Health Spa. Jerry, whom I mentioned earlier, I give much credit to for teaching all of us the business skills in the industry. They were the largest chain of clubs in the nation, 120. Other than EHS there was the YMCA’s (where I started in Tulsa, Okla.) there were the smaller local gyms which were basic, weights and the hard-core lifting, nothing fancy. The other types of facilities were the ladies only fitness clubs.( Of the 120 EHS clubs and over 1,000 marketing reps, If I wasn’t no. 1, I was always in the top 10%) Much like my father, he was born salesman, we had that gift of gab, he could take a man’s wallet and sell it back to him. It’s easy to promote something when you believe in it, have a passion for it.
Jerry was promoted to Reginal Director, moved to Atlanta and transferred me and few others with him. Atlanta had 6 locations we managed. They eventual went out of business, Jerry got with 3 other unique fitness businessman and started a new company called SportsLife. This was the beginning of the mega clubs, I was riding the wave again with a company that was about to transform the athletic club industry.
These were large, massive, 50,000-75,000 sq. ft. facilities that had everything you could Imagin into an athletic club. Large strength training room with lots of the newest brands of exercise equipment, lots of treadmills and cardio equipment, exercise science dept, pro shops, message, racquetball, basketball courts (the Cobb facility was the practice court for Dominic Wilkins, Spud Webb and the Atlanta Hawks). Large room for aerobic classes, nursery for the parents, restaurant, locker-room, showers, hot tub, running track, some locations had indoor and outdoor swimming pools, indoor and outdoor tennis courts. They needed plenty of parking because they drew large crowds in the evenings was like going to a nightclub full of positive, healthy energy.
They grew from 1 to 6 locations in Atlanta. The industry evolved into other similar type mega athletic clubs around the county, more of the smaller gyms were growing but they also had to modernize with better equipment, cleaner, add amenities. These size facilities had a higher percentage of going out of business, even today a lot of turnover in this market. Sportslife would change the history and trajectory of the athletic club and aerobic industry and I got to ride the wave and be a part of it.
The Aerobic Fitness class Industry in the 80’s
Sportslife played a major role in launching the different types of aerobic classes that we still have today, this industry also blew up and became a worldwide part of the fitness culture. One of the owners and an instructor had come up with the idea of adding light hand weights, a 6” box and choreographing the workout with music. They had invented Heavy hands and Step Aerobics. The exercise equipment manufacturing companies got involved, the aerobic industry was revolutionized. Our clubs had a stage for the instructor, would have 50-100 people in the classes.
I met my wife there, the disco queen from south Florida, she was an instructor (I was from Oklahoma, that was like a clash of civilization), but our common ground was exercise and fitness. Our children grew up in the fitness culture, 40 years later, still exercising, fitness is a way of life.
In 97 Sportslife sold to another national chain, I stayed a while then moved on to doing my own thing. I connected with group of guys that owned several gyms in the area, became a partner and we built a new location in Canton. It was just a piece of dirt, no shopping center yet, sold out of a trailer for a year, designed the floor plan, selected the equipment, it all came together, our 6th location, grand opening in January 2002.
2002 was the year I will never forget, it was a tuff one, this was my test in life. Having 5 other partners agreeing on things is tuff, any businessman will tell you, it’s a challenge to have the different personalities work together, kind of like a rock band, you see many of them breakup over time.
After I had done all the heavy lifting for the company, did enough in presales to build without borrowing money from the bank, started up their personal training program in all of their other clubs for another source of revenue, few weeks after opening, I was out of a job.
When you look back in life 2002 was a defining moment in my life, you learn that sometimes situations come up that we didn’t see coming, didn’t expect, didn’t plan for, didn’t want to go through but are meant to make you stronger and better prepare you for life’s challenges. A situation that was really bad would turn into something really good; I started up my own business. A business that once again I was going to ride the wave of a new concept in the exercise science, athlete training and sports industry only this time there were very few riding this wave at the time being a new business concept, “Sport Performance Training”.
How I started “The Sports Training Center & Speed School Inc.” in 2002
In the 90’s I would observe an athlete go from HS to college, they got stronger and faster, got drafted into the NFL, got stronger and faster and then the question came to mind, “What the hell are they doing up there that’s not going on at the HS level”?
I began an in-depth study and researching how Olympian, D1 and professional athletes trained. What I found was they trained differently. They were using techniques called plyometrics, sports performance and functional training, speed development training, different types of dynamic stretches, unorthodox lifts. It wasn’t new it had just been kept a trade secret at that level. (For a better understanding of what this training is go to www.thespeedschool.com, “History of Plyometrics” and “Training Methodology”).
It was a different curriculum and set of protocols and progressions in the training methodology. The rest of sports training was still doing cones and ladders, strength and conditioning, bear crawls, burpees, etc… I began training my son with these methods at around age 10. He went on to become a state, reginal, national champion in track and field, pentathlon, ran the 100, 200 and 400, and he could pull a 300 lb. hang clean. We had Speed, we had Power. I started up a track club, trained the team with these methods, that become successful. Was hired by a USTAFA team, The GA Express, trained the team with these methods had success. (That led to Kennesaw State Univ. offering my son a track scholarship and hiring me as the sprint coach. That was KSU/s 1st year to become a D1 school, we went on to win the indoor conference championships.)
That’s when the business idea came into play, ok, this shit works, how do I turn into a business. In fall of 2002 I was still not working, money was running low, I took my idea and had to make it work. At the time the term “Sports Performance Training” was unheard of. You had gyms and athletic clubs but there were not but a few performance training facilities in the country, it was a new business concept of exercise science.
There was one in Atlanta started by a highly respected Coach, Loren Seagrove (known as the father of the sports performance industry) and a few others around the country.
My son came up with a very true statement calling what I was doing was building a business “Built the American way”, from the ground up. I had an idea and just needed an opportunity. I had the intellectual knowledge and experience in the areas of competitive sports, bodybuilding, power lifting, track and field and the business experience from the athletic club industry and they were all coming together, I just needed to make the commitment and go for it.
I grew up raised by a single mom, money was always tight, I have no family back home I can call for help with or borrow money from. I had no money to start up or invest in a business, my son and I made cardboard signs with a magic maker and put them out, “Sports Performance Training 770-856-0990. (Same number today) Started with 6 athletes, the football coach at KMHS let me use the track and weight room and then the door opened for an opportunity.
I had to make this work. It’s the man’s responsibility to provide for the family, I have a wife and 2 young children I was responsible for, I’m not working, haven’t found a job, I’m about out of money, can’t get a bank loan. I started the business with just an idea.
I had firsthand seen this new training methodology work using it to train athletes myself, I was going into uncharted territory with this idea and new business concept but I knew I could make it work.
The Opportunity
There was no business model for this new concept to go by but I had spent my career in the industry and had the basic understanding of how to make it work, then I got a break, a door opened, here came my opportunity. A 50,000 sq. ft. baseball facility had just opened up in the area and had a weight room. Made my pitch to the owners of what I did, trained athletes, they liked it, I paid them rent, the rest is history, The Speed School was born. From 6 athletes to today we’ve trained thousands of athletes and have several hundred athletes training annually coming through the door. With that we can say we were one of the first performance training centers and one of the longest running training centers in the county.
My idea coming full cycle was to take what elite, D1, professional and Olympian athletes were doing at the highest level of sports training and turn it into a business concept of teaching and training the HS and younger athlete to what these athletes were doing. It wasn’t just bench press, power clean, squat. Do they still need to do that, absolutely but it’s the other components of performance training that make the difference, dynamic stretch, hip mobility, unorthodox upper/lower body strength/lifts, core strength, balance, plyometrics for power, reaction speed development drills, developing the nervous system, all these together give us overall athleticism and the athletes we see playing at the highest level of competition today.
Next to the restaurant industry, the gym and athletic club industry has the 2nd highest rate of business failure. Weve watched dozens of training centers come and go over the years. Thow it’s big business and sports is big, statistics show that only about 7% of the population exercises on a regular basis, less than 2% of athletes go from HS sports to playing sports in college so you’re in a small market yet were still standing.
We don’t advertise, it’s ward of mouth, I designed the training curriculum, progressions and protocols we use, a manualized “Training System”. A “speed/power-based” training methodology. Most athletes and sports have the same needs, how quick can the athlete reach top speed, bring velocity and power with it, with overall athleticism. If athletes didn’t get results we would be out of business. We want the athlete to be successful at their sport; our job is to provide them with the necessary tools to develop their potential.
We have athletes of all ages and sports, youth through HS, college athletes in the summer. The female athletes training has really taken off over the past 5 years, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, flag football. I’ll have to admit the female athletes are easier to train, smarter.
Performance training is the missing spoke in the wheel. If all the athlete is doing is playing sports year-round, there just conditioning, if they’re not performance training, doing plyometrics, speed development and strength training, their missing out. They might have skills but the stronger, quicker more athletic athlete the coach will pick ahead of them. Remember, less than 2% of athletes play sports after HS. You have to have an edge, if you’re at a tryout with 100 other athletes, you have to have something to get the coaches, scouts and recruiters to look at you, that’s athleticism.
At the college level, not just the football program is in the weightroom but all of the sports coaches have their players in the weightroom at least in the off season, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, etc… So why not be prepared and acclimated to training when your younger, before you play college sports.
The success I would say is a combination of history, experience and reputation with parents, athletes, coaches, schools and sports organizations in the community. It’s a “Training System” the athletes learn, the culture we’ve created for the athletes to train in has high expectations. Athletes train at a high pace of work to rest ratio averaging 22-24 drills in 30 minutes, kind of like running a 2-minute offence but for an hour. Athletes are required to memorize names of drills, chronological order of stretches, “execute drills to perfection” for maximum production, master the drill. We put what we call the lead sled dog out front that the athletes have to keep up with. Having to keep up with the pack is sports and life.
Thow we have athletes of all sports because of the intensity we push and train at we tend to attract the positions of linebackers, running backs, the wrestler, the female soccer, lacrosse and volleyball athletes, the track and field sprinters, they tend to be wired differently, these positions and sports play at a higher level of intensity. Soccer and lacrosse require lots of running and condition but their movement on the field is short, quick and explosive which is our curriculum design. The sport of football and volleyball, the average time of play is 4-8 seconds. We pack all of that energy into that time frame with short recovery.
I’m a big fan of how the sport of soccer teaches an athlete how to run, many of the athletes that come in don’t know how to properly run. They’re in HS, played football since 1st grade but they run with bad form. The first NFL player I trained was Jon Vaughn. (you can look him up and read about him). Was a running back for Michigan, played college only 2 years when the NFL drafted him. At Michigan Jon had several over 200 yards rushing per game, back-to-back which is unheard of. Didn’t start playing football till Jr. year of high school, told me, played soccer all his life.
That’s when I realized how the sport of soccer can develop an athlete. So, I suggest that’s a good place to put your young athlete, the skills that soccer develops can help them to transition into any other sport that requires running and cutting like football, lacrosse. The female soccer athletes by far are our easiest to train. You tell them one time, they get it, catch on quickly, intensity is there, highly competitive and there already in condition from all the running they do so they can more easily handle the workload and pace we train at.
Other sports that develop strong athletic athletes is gymnastics and competitive cheerleading. These athletes do very well in this training system too.
We train at a higher pace than they might at practice, that’s our job. We also don’t have them year around, average is 3-6 months between seasons. Were the off-season training, we have a limited time with the athletes so we have to too push them at a pace and have them ready for their upcoming season. We keep our nose out of their coaches business, we don’t try and teach how to hit, kick or throw a ball, how to block or tackle, that’s their coaches job, our role is to give that coach a better athlete to work with. We stay in our lane, were experts in this field, their experts in their field.
There comes a time in an athletes life where they can no longer compete as they once did, they retire from professional sports but they have the intellectual knowledge to pass on to others, we become teachers, it’s part of the education process and that’s the role of a coach/trainer, to teach others. I’m one the lucky ones that found a way to make a living doing something they have a passion for and believe in. Weve been able to build a legacy that will continue on to the next generation.
We have in the lobby “The Wall of Fame”. Local athletes that made it the next level of competitive sports. Even if it’s a small school they’re part of the 2% club, they earned it. Weve had many local athletes make it into the pros. There is a lot of talent in our area for scouts and recruiters to keep an eye on. Sports is big in the 3 counties we pull from Cobb, Paulding and Cherokee County.
If you’re not in our area we highly recommend you research your area for a coach or facility in this field of expertise, ask for recommendations and get your athlete involved , the younger the better, especially in strength training, we have a weekly youth performance training class (grades 2nd-5th). They do everything the older athletes do just modified for their age and skill level.
We do speed drill testing, even with the youth athletes, their doing pushups, pull ups, sled push, tire flip, work on running mechanics, technique and form, agility drills, their jumping on boxes, doing ball slams and battle ropes, lifting light to moderate weight. The youth athletes train in the same strict, rigid, disciplined structure as the older athletes, the parents love that part and know that it’s needed.
Strength training is a slow process; it takes years and years to see a difference. From HS on the football athlete trains year around, the strength coach will adjust the workout for off season hypotrophy/strength training for size and strength, transition to summer workouts and maintaince during the season.
There are many good, qualified coaches/trainers and facilities out there we just may come from different backgrounds, football, baseball, sport specific like a pitcher or wide receiver coach. My background in bodybuilding, powerlifting, track and field is how my training methodology and philosophy came together, others will have their own. Where all connected, respected and complement each other.
When I started the business in 2002 performance training was a new concept, today performance training facilities and coaches are all over the world. Performance training is what revolutionized sports, changed the course of history and trajectory of the exercise science industry. Today’s athletes are stronger, faster, more athletic than athletes decades ago.
In recap, yep, I was born at the right time, timing is everything, I got to ride the wave of events in the 80’s by extraordinary people that revolutionized the sports world and industry forever. Performance training that came about in the early 2000’s changed how athletes train today. Along the way I got to meet many influential people that saw something in me as a young man and helped mold me into who I became. I’m still riding the wave of that extraordinary generation.
Life is good.
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If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
There are some great areas in the downtowns of Kennesaw, Acworth, Marietta. Good food, sports, entertainment, historical sites. Within 20-30 minutes of us we have the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta United Soccer, KSU, Lake Point Sports Complex, Terminus Water Park and Lake Allatoona, boating, hiking & jogging trails. We have concerts, the state fair, Rodios, downtown festivals, fantastic churches., plenty of places to visit and things to do.

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