Best Fitness Business Owner Forums
Networking through the Internet has opened a whole new world for those in the fitness industry – from gym operators to personal instructors. It enables you to reach out to potential clients and effectively address your target audience. However, there aren’t many social networking sites for gym owners, connecting one fitness business owner to another. People looking to maintain their physique can easily reach out to their peers through social communities, but what about those looking for peer support in building their fitness brand image?
You may be wondering why you should communicate with your fellow gym operators. After all, they are competing against your business, right? Not always. Being a part of a social community for gym owners can help you discover new and improved ways to promote your brand, run your business, or widen your reach. For instance, forums for gym owners give you access to useful information about how to market a new product or service. Let’s take a look at some of the best fitness business owner forums you should consider visiting:
IDEA Health & Fitness Association
Ideafit.com allows you to connect with over 275,000 professionals in the fitness industry. By creating an account on this website, you gain access to useful resources and information that could benefit your business such as insurance products and online education. The “FitFeed” feature gives you an update on the trending headlines involving the health and fitness industry.

Through “Answers”, you can ask or answer questions related to running a fitness business. Get information about useful statistics, marketing ideas, fitness specialist certifications, and more. Some aspiring gym owners and personal trainers even reach out through this section to get opinions about critical business decisions.
Build your personal training client base through its’ “FitnessConnects,” which connects more than 16 million consumers to more than 250,000 fitness professionals though one of the industry’s largest databases.
By joining LinkedIn, you can become part of groups created for members of the fitness industry. Popular fitness groups on this website include the International Health, Racquet, and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), Club Industry, Fitness and Health Professionals, and more. Through these groups, you can share your expertise and knowledge about running a gym. You can even get useful tips to help you market your brand or improve client loyalty.
Bodybuilding
Although Bodybuilding.com is not solely for gym operators, you can still reach out to a long list of fellow fitness professionals. Set up an account on the website and you can connect with other gym owners as well as fitness enthusiasts through the “Forum” section. There are discussions dedicated to personal trainers, where you can share information about useful technology, personal fitness specialist certifications, and public speaking.
The website also introduces you to the latest in fitness equipment and technology. You get to learn about new products that you can implement at your gym for an improved client work-out experience.
Fitness Center Owner
This website gives valuable resources for existing gym owners as well as those who are interested in starting a gym. You get information such as:
- Checklists for starting a fitness center
- Simple business plans
- Membership agreements
- Purchase commercial fitness equipment at wholesale prices
There are registration and monthly membership fees at FitnessCenterOwner.com, but the website provides thorough and in-depth information that other websites might not provide. The discussion forum helps you connect and share business tips with thousands of fellow fitness professionals. From this section, you can learn about fitness product wholesalers, property rental prices, comparisons between various furnishings for fitness centers, and more.
Fit-Pro
Fit-Pro’s website has been overhauled since this blog first went public in 2013. It is now zeros in on magazine-length informative content, videos, and webinars providing a combination of both continuing professional training and business insight. For a single subscription, you access comprehensive webinars with high-level training such as this three-hour video on resistance training for older adults. Article categories include certification & education, career development and special populations among a dozen more. Although everyone loves 15-minute YouTube training videos now, true professionals understand the need for comprehensive learning to keep their clients safe and serve their fitness community at the highest level.
Gym Insight
At Gym Insight, our gym management software provides a clear, easily-accessed, and transparent picture into your company’s financials. Our gym software is built in-house, by fitness club owners. There are no cumbersome third-party plug-ins or complicated protocols, and it’s available for a single, low monthly subscription price — no hidden fees, no links to your payment processor. Call us today for a free demonstration on how we can lower your software management costs and free up more of your capital!
Over to you…
- What are some other fitness business and professional networking websites?
- What is your favorite?
This blog first published Oct. 21, 2013 and has been updated Jan. 18, 2021
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fitnesshealthforever
Hey, very nice blog. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definitely be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table, but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment. Thanks for sharing.
Gym Pointz
Very helpful! Thank you for compiling this list.
Mass Aesthetics
Thank you for this information, I will try out a few that were specified 🙂
Gymsportz Fitness
Great informative blog! The mentioned sites and forums are very useful for fitness related stuffs.
Lawrence Fagan
Thank you for the comment. It’s nice to know our blog is helpful.
Daniel
Thanks! really amazing post and Lots of good information on your blog.
Lawrence Fagan
I was fortunate to be a gym owner and a software developer. I wasn’t finding what I needed from the industries software and took on the task myself. I was able to design a software that meet my exact needs and then have been able to constantly expand on it as I discover new needs or as my clients share requests that would meet the needs of their specific facilities.
Tony Wilson
I created healthclubmetrics.co.uk, which is an online resource bank and discussion forum designed for independent gym owners to share ideas, news and experiences.
Loads of resources on there and its free to sign up to, there’s even e-books on there.
@ Mike, did you find a provider for the software? I’ve recently had the same dilemma…..
Lawrence Fagan
That is how Gym Insight was created. If you visit our about page you can read my story and why I developed gyminsight.com.
Thanks!
mike
Have any gym owners created their own software for tracking their clients payments and their trainers timesheets? To avoid using subscription services like mind body?
Life Standards
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Madhav Kukreja
Its a wonderful post and very helpful, thanks for all this information.
Latitude One The Gym
I really appreciate your skills informative post !!!
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Sona Mahajan
Great article Lawrence! Kudos
I was searching the similar kind of content for building my gym’s brand image. Fit pro and bodybuilding are new to me. Thanks
Lawrence Fagan
Thanks for your reply!
Josh
The best is the site that’s specifically for studio and gym owners and is the leading association for fitness businesses. Check out www.afsfitness.com
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Lawrence Fagan
Thank you Dan. Could you provide a direct link to the forums for our readers?
Dan
The Fitness institute of Australia has some great forums, I go there for all my online fitness marketing info.
Theresa Henderson
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Steph
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