Private health clubs have come a long way from their humble beginnings just using dumbbells and medicine balls to build muscles.

Today, a modern health club is filled with high-tech exercise machines, endless rooms with instructor-led workout classes, steam rooms, lap pools, basketball courts and fully-stocked juice bars with healthy snacks.

Now, Summit Health and Fitness in Flagstaff has added new services through a partnership with Mountain Heart Cardiovascular & Sleep Research Institute.

"It was an opportunity to move the fitness club to another level of personal training," said Tony Guistina, the general manager of the Summit Health and Fitness.

The marriage of the existing health club with the medical clinic across the street is expected to give members a more specialized regimen that focuses on the total health of the individual, not just great abs.

The two businesses will share the services of a registered dietitian to help offer free health and fitness assessments to members.

Physicians from Mountain Heart will also serve as an advisory board on developing new exercise classes catering to those with specific medical concerns. An example of a new class might be a yoga class aimed at pre-diabetics.

Guistina said with three exercise rooms available, the health club will not have to cut any existing classes.

"Now we will able to do is to add specialized classes for different lifestyle management techniques," Guistina said.

Guistina, who helps train Olympic athletes, explains the same exercise regimen will work well for some but not others.

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Fitness from the heart: Summit teams with Mountain Heart