KINGSTON — Imagine going to a gym where you don’t lift weights, use Nautilus equipment or run on a treadmill. Or use one of those really complicated systems where you have to curl your arms and legs awkwardly around the various parts of a machine that is supposed to work your hips and abs at the same time.

Instead, Fitness at Play owners Mark Barabasz and Diram Hamley have opened up an exercise center where the primary equipment used is your body and the stereotypes of a gym are left at the door.

With the motto “a new paradigm in fitness,” the center offers a workout environment that revolves around using the body to get in shape while having fun and enjoying exercise.

Currently, the center offers cardio kickboxing and strength training and starting in January, the partners expect to offer a martial arts programs for kids and pilates and yoga.

“What we’re trying to get at is an alternative to the gym,” Hamley said. Fitness at Play provides a program in which minimal equipment is used and people are working out together in a social environment. The basic equipment provided includes standalone kickboxing bags but the center’s purpose is geared toward enhancing the experience and enjoyment of exercising.

The facility also offers a program called Kickboxers Ultimate Training (KUT) — a nine-week course in which the client goes through a kickboxing, resistance training and nutrition program that helps them lose weight and improve their general health.

Barabasz said people have lost up to 40 pounds through the program and that anyone can do it. The nutrition portion of the program isn’t so much a diet as it just paying attention to what you eat and the workout itself is much easier on the body than lifting weights. Clients can go at their own pace and several have said they have noticed certain aches and pains have gone away after starting the program, Barabasz said.

“This is for someone who hasn’t trained or worked out for years,” he added.

As for what they will add, “we want to grow and meet the demands our clientele’s desires,” Hamley said.

They unofficially opened in September and currently have about 20-30 people who attend the facility consistently. Their grand opening is from 1-4 p.m. Dec. 10 at their Arbor Business Park where visitors can meet the instructors and learn more about the programs.

“I’d say 95 percent of the people who have (attended) keep coming back,” Hamley said.