Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Elizabethton Planet Fitness General Manager Kelvin McLeod (left) greets a patron as they enter the facility to help celebrate the first anniversary of the location’s opening on Wednesday afternoon.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Planet Fitness has approximately 17,000 square feet and offers state-of-the-art cardio machines and strength equipment, among other new features.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Ellipticals are among the many different pieces of cardio equipment available at the Elizabethton Planet Fitness. Each piece of equipment faces a band of television screens hanging from the ceiling and tuned to eight different channels.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Piper Smith, from Elizabethton, watches her form in the mirror located in front of the apparatus she’s working out on as she does squats to improve both her core and leg muscles.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Chris Dugger, from Elizabethton, works through a set of an exercise called peck fly which helps to condition and strengthen his arm and chest muscles.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders John Ebberts travels from Johnson City to do his workouts at the Elizabethton Planet Fitness. He is working his way through a set of hammer strength exercises that primarily target the lats and to a lesser degree also targets the biceps, middle back and shoulders.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Planet Fitness in Elizabethton made a donation in the amount of $500 to Charlene Ray and Shelly Parham (center left and right) from the Boys & Girls Club of Elizabethton/Carter County to mark the occasion. Also pictured are from left, Caroline Chinouth (County Director of the Carter and Johnson County Health Departments), Joy McCray (Elizabethton Chamber of Commerce), State Representative John Holsclaw, Carter County Mayor Patty Woodby, Regional Manager for Planet Fitness in Tennessee Amanda Knight, State Senator Rusty Crowe and local General Manager for Planet Fitness Kelvin McLeod.

StarPhoto/Larry N. Souders Some of the swag available for purchase inside Planet Fitness of Elizabethton.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders As part of the celebration of the first anniversary of Planet Fitness in Elizabethton, a raffle was held with the grand prize being an inflatable paddle board. Other prizes were to be given away on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Star Photo/Larry N. Souders Shelly Parham from the Boys & Girls Club of Elizabethton/Carter County takes a moment to read a letter of thanks for the donation to the staff of Elizabethton’s Planet Fitness from one TA Dugger student who spends time after school at the club.