Umberto Avino
Coach. Inventor. Founder of Younix.
For seventeen years I've lived inside this world — as a coach, a gym owner, an inventor, and the founder of two Italian equipment companies. I don't sell machines. I design the spaces serious people train in, and I hold every one of them to the standard I'd want for my own.
Authority you can feel, not just claim.
My work rests on four things. A real education — a degree in Sports Science and an industrial PhD, with a doctoral thesis dedicated to the Cable Rack itself. Seventeen years in the field, every single day, as coach, manufacturer and head of production. A life lived in Italy — the country where beauty and engineering have never been two separate things. And a simple refusal to accept that a gym has to look like every other gym. Along the way I brought Italian design into performance gyms, helped more than 1,500 entrepreneurs open their own, and built equipment now trained on by over a million people in more than 50 countries. But the numbers aren't the reason to trust me. The way I think about design is.
Designed means intended.
To say a space is designed means it carries intention — that every choice goes beyond its function. Anything less is just planning. Most gyms are assembled: machines bought a piece at a time, arranged by whoever was free that week, wrapped in the same tired look everyone else uses. They read as places to work out. Your space should read as something you meant to build. So I design the whole room as a single idea. Every surface — floor, walls, light, steel — reinforces one concept, until the space is unmistakably yours and unlike anything you've seen. That isn't decoration. It's the difference between a room that just happened and a room that was intended.
You're trusting a person, not a brand.
When you choose Younix, you don't get a catalogue and a call centre. You're guided by the person who studied this, who builds it in Italy, and who puts his own name on it. Every Younix space passes through my hands before it reaches your room — because my reputation is in it, right next to yours.
A track record built in the field.
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Degree in Sports Science and an industrial PhD (doctoral research on the Cable Rack)
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17 years in the field
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Brought Italian design into performance gyms
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1,500+ entrepreneurs helped to open their own gyms
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15,000+ customers — trainers, physiotherapists, military, sport centres and coaches
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1,000,000+ people training on his equipment in 50+ countries
The question isn't whether you can have a space like no other. It's whether you're ready for it.
— Umberto Avino, Founder of Younix
You won't talk to a salesperson — you'll talk to the person who designs your space.