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  • Inventing a Gym Without a Roof

    Inventing a Gym Without a Roof

    How to use outdoor space to increase gym service offerings and increase membership engagement.

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  • Build Your Gym’s Niche With High-Quality Personal Trainers

    Build Your Gym’s Niche With High-Quality Personal Trainers

    This blog discusses how personal trainers with high-quality specialized certifications can help your gym grow.

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  • Recovery Equipment – Is It Worth It?

    Recovery Equipment – Is It Worth It?

    The costs and concerns with bringing recovery equipment into your gym.

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  • COVID – 19 Clean – What’s Next For Gyms?

    COVID – 19 Clean – What’s Next For Gyms?

    Current and future technologies recommended by the EPA to keep gyms and health clubs clean.

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  • Back in the Day Gyms Rocked!

    Back in the Day Gyms Rocked!

    How to grow your gym by offering services fitness buffs cannot find at their home and recapturing the momentum underway prior to the 2020 pandemic.

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  • Who’s Training in Your Gym?

    Who’s Training in Your Gym?

    Generational differences in your members and how to effectively support and communicate with each group.

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  • Keeping Gym Clients on the Roster

    Keeping Gym Clients on the Roster

    How mastering a skill and meaningful connections keep exercisers coming back to a gym or studio.

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  • Healthcare & Health Clubs: How to Make the Relationship Work

    Healthcare & Health Clubs: How to Make the Relationship Work

    This article provides guidance on building a healthcare referral program within your gym or fitness center.

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  • Rebuilding Gym Customers’ Trust in the Pandemic Era

    Rebuilding Gym Customers’ Trust in the Pandemic Era

    This article gives advice on how to bring customers back into the gym after the pandemic shut down using techniques from the public relations industry.

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  • Train Your Gym Staff Like Pros

    Train Your Gym Staff Like Pros

    This article covers basic sales training steps for fitness club employees and how their core knowledge will become their best tool.

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  • Unite & Organize – Proving Gyms Are Essential

    Unite & Organize – Proving Gyms Are Essential

    This article encourages gyms to work together to sell the idea of “health clubs as healthcare” by standardizing practices and lobbying lawmakers.

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  • How Can Your Gym Firm Up Its Financial Future While Clients Social Distance?

    How Can Your Gym Firm Up Its Financial Future While Clients Social Distance?

    Resources available to gym businesses to cope with financial loses due to the pandemic.

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  • Use Surveys to Safeguard Your Gym Against COVID -19

    Use Surveys to Safeguard Your Gym Against COVID -19

    This article helps gym owners learn how to use surveys to communicate and learn from members.

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  • Virtual Fitness Is Your Gym’s Newest Profit Center

    Virtual Fitness Is Your Gym’s Newest Profit Center

    How to incorporate a digital business offering into your brick and mortar gym. This way, your clients go to your website to find classes to support their goals.

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  • Take Advantage of That Clean Gym!

    Take Advantage of That Clean Gym!

    This article covers marketing your gym after the COVID-19 shutdown and training employees in proper cleaning techniques.

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  • Barbell Cage Versus Leg Press Machine Versus Smith Machine: Which Leg Equipment Should You Prioritize?

    Barbell Cage Versus Leg Press Machine Versus Smith Machine: Which Leg Equipment Should You Prioritize?

    This article guides gym owners on the advantages and disadvantages of the three most common leg equipment.

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  • How to Find Natural Leaders Among Your Employees

    How to Find Natural Leaders Among Your Employees

    This article gives guidance on how to find and support the natural leaders among your staff.

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  • Managing Your Employees’ Fears After COVID-19

    Managing Your Employees’ Fears After COVID-19

    Recognizing employee concerns and steps to their fears after a sustained closure of your gym business.

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  • Reopening Your Gym After COVID-19

    Reopening Your Gym After COVID-19

    This article covers the best steps to reopening your gym after a pandemic/

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  • Should You Have a Physical Therapist Working Out of Your Gym?

    Should You Have a Physical Therapist Working Out of Your Gym?

    This article discusses the benefits of opening up your gym to physical therapists and other health professionals.

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  • How to Empower Your Employees

    How to Empower Your Employees

    Four management techniques to creating proactive, happy employees.

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  • Maneuvering Your Gym Through the COVID-19 Crisis

    Maneuvering Your Gym Through the COVID-19 Crisis

    This article provides ways for gyms to survive during the pandemic shutdown and adapt for the new wold beyond.

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  • Need a Digital Marketing Strategy? Try These Tips

    Need a Digital Marketing Strategy? Try These Tips

    This article provides simple steps a gym can use to build a digital marketing strategy .

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  • Exercise Series 9: The Burpee

    Exercise Series 9: The Burpee

    The exercise series so far has focused on weighted movements such as the bench press, squat, and kettlebell swing. We’ve highlighted these movements because they are some of the most effective exercises that a person can do to build strength and overall functional fitness. However, it is completely possible to…

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  • What areas of knowledge does a basic personal fitness training certification cover?

    What areas of knowledge does a basic personal fitness training certification cover?

    Learn what a basic personal fitness training certification covers in this easy-to-read article.

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  • The Best Specialty Classes to Add to Your Schedule

    The Best Specialty Classes to Add to Your Schedule

    This article provides a list of the best fitness classes to add to a new gym schedule.

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  • Exercise Series 8: The CrossFit "Thruster"

    Exercise Series 8: The CrossFit "Thruster"

    The CrossFit program uses some unusual movements that you might not be used to seeing in your gym. One such movement is known as a "thruster". You might still hear non-CrossFitters calling this movement a thruster, but the name was made official by CrossFit in 2001 and has stuck ever…

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  • “What is the ‘Slow Season,’ Anyway?” – Expert Guide to Summer

    “What is the ‘Slow Season,’ Anyway?” – Expert Guide to Summer

    Health clubs often go through a “gym slow season” throughout the summer due to vacations, family commitments, and outdoor activities. To counter the slowdown, consider additional revenue streams and focus on tasks like marketing plans, staff management, and facility maintenance. Read on for steps to reinventing this traditionally slow gym…

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  • Exercise Series 7: The Kettlebell Swing

    Exercise Series 7: The Kettlebell Swing

    Previously in the Exercise Series, we have covered major weightlifting movements such as the deadlift and bench press. Today, we’ll be looking in detail at a lesser-known exercise known as the kettlebell swing. This is another highly effective and beneficial exercise that requires excellent form to avoid injuries. As a…

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  • CrossFit – Should You Encourage or Discourage it in Your Gym?

    CrossFit – Should You Encourage or Discourage it in Your Gym?

    You would be hard-pressed to find a more polarizing and controversial modern exercise trend than CrossFit. Known for extremely intense workouts that combine core concepts from weightlifting, cardio, gymnastics, and even yoga, CrossFit is a "love it" or "hate it" experience. Regardless of your personal feelings on the topic, we’re…

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  • Is it better to hire salaried trainers or accept freelance trainers who work out of your gym?

    Is it better to hire salaried trainers or accept freelance trainers who work out of your gym?

    If you have just opened a brand new gym, you are probably in the process of making some crucial hiring decisions. As a business owner, you know how your staffing choices affect your day to day work life, your responsibilities, and your bottom line. If you find yourself confronting the…

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  • Setting Up Your Gym: What "Extras" Should You Provide?

    Setting Up Your Gym: What "Extras" Should You Provide?

    If you are getting your gym ready for opening day, chances are you have already assembled a checklist of equipment you would like to stock. Barbells, dumbbells, benches, racks, cardio machines, and weight machines are all standard fare and will likely be the bread and butter equipment that most of…

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  • Are Your Fitness Trainers Qualified to Teach Nutrition Guidelines?

    Are Your Fitness Trainers Qualified to Teach Nutrition Guidelines?

    The vast majority of people who join a gym and start a workout plan have some sort of goal in mind. It could be to lose weight, to put on muscle, to get in better cardio shape, to lower blood pressure and improve health markers, or any number of other…

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  • Exercise Series 6: The Pull-Up or Pull-Down

    Exercise Series 6: The Pull-Up or Pull-Down

    Experienced trainers and observant readers may have noticed by this point in the exercise series that each movement we’ve covered so far is one of the "big 6" exercises that target major muscle groups over the entire body. Each of these exercises in turn can be classified as a "push"…

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  • What kind of atmosphere are your gym members looking for?

    What kind of atmosphere are your gym members looking for?

    No two individuals want the exact same experience from joining a gym. Likewise, no two gyms offer the same atmosphere and experience to their customers. Trying to please everyone is needlessly complicated and may actually undermine your authority as a "specialist" in a certain fitness niche. For example, no one…

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  • Exercise Series 5: The Bench Press

    Exercise Series 5: The Bench Press

    Perhaps the most iconic and famous weightlifting move known to beginners and advanced lifters alike, the bench press is another compound movement you will assuredly see members performing in your gym. As with each other movement in the exercise series, knowing the proper form and equipment your gym patrons will…

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  • How to Avoid Potential Liability Pitfalls of Owning and Operating a Gym

    How to Avoid Potential Liability Pitfalls of Owning and Operating a Gym

    One unfortunate reality all business owners must face is that the risk of being held legally responsible for accidents on your business premises is greater than ever. This is especially true for gym owners. In the fitness industry, where clients will be engaging in intense and possibly dangerous physical activity…

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  • Exercise Series 4: The Barbell Row

    Exercise Series 4: The Barbell Row

    Like the lifts we’ve covered in the exercise series so far, the barbell row is another weightlifting movement that often causes gym owners some anxiety. It’s a compound movement done with heavy barbells that carries a risk of serious injury when done improperly. It can be tempting to outlaw or…

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  • Exercise Series 3: The Overhead Press

    Exercise Series 3: The Overhead Press

    Overhead presses are one of the six most popular weightlifting exercises that your gym members will likely want to perform during workouts. As such, it’s important that you, as a gym owner, understand what proper form looks like and what equipment your patrons will need to stay safe. Benefits The…

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  • Exercise Series 2: The Deadlift

    Exercise Series 2: The Deadlift

    In the first exercise series post covering the squat, we discussed a number of reasons you, as a gym owner, should know the major exercises your gym members will be doing. Enforcing higher safety standards, knowing red flags to look out for when you’re on the gym floor, and understanding…

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  • Exercise Series 1: The Squat

    Exercise Series 1: The Squat

    As a gym owner, you might not feel the need to concern yourself with the actual exercises your clients are performing. After all, if your business is running smoothly and you have properly delegated responsibilities to your trainers and staff, then why would you need to get involved with the…

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  • Quality Fitness Certifications

    Quality Fitness Certifications

    Fitness trainers are the bread and butter employees of gyms and fitness centers. Knowledgeable, effective trainers lend credibility to their workplace and make clients feel like their money is well spent. However, underqualified or ineffective trainers might have the opposite effect, leading clients to seek fitness expertise elsewhere. How can…

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  • Maintaining an Optimized Facility

    Maintaining an Optimized Facility

    As a gym owner, you work hard to devise engaging fitness programs, keep a qualified rotation of trainers on staff, and offer a variety of equipment for your customers to enjoy. But there is one often-overlooked aspect of maximizing your client retention and member satisfaction: optimizing the building itself. Your…

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  • Gym Management Software and Business Success

    Gym Management Software and Business Success

    In the modern era, few businesses can get by without taking advantage of all the myriad technology upgrades available. Utilizing the best business software can propel your gym to a new level of productivity, security, and success. What can great gym management software do for you? Save time and money…

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  • How to Lead Your Staff

    How to Lead Your Staff

    Being a great leader to your gym staff is similar to being a great boss or manager in any business where you lead a team. Team management principles are mostly universal regardless of your business, but with some creativity, you can utilize fitness principles you already use every day to…

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  • Getting Through the Slow Season

    Getting Through the Slow Season

    Everyone in the fitness industry knows about the dreaded slow season. The hot months of summer, June through August in the United States, are notorious for low client participation and a dearth of new memberships. How can you weather the heat and keep your gym running smoothly even during the…

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  • Even More Alternate Revenue Streams for Gym Owners

    Even More Alternate Revenue Streams for Gym Owners

    If your gym operates solely on income you bring in from client memberships, you could be leaving a whole lot of money on the table. Opportunities for Alternate Revenue Streams you can operate from your gym or your website are nearly endless. Passive (Or Almost-Passive) Income The least time-consuming revenue…

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  • Alternative Fitness Club Revenue Streams: To Add or Not to Add

    Alternative Fitness Club Revenue Streams: To Add or Not to Add

    So, Should You Pursue Alternate Income Streams or No? There comes a limit to the number of memberships you can sell, which is a good thing. You hit the ceiling for your single gym it means you’ve maxed out the potential for monthly subscriptions. To go further, you have to…

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  • 7 Reasons Client Programming Is The Key To Fitness Club Success

    7 Reasons Client Programming Is The Key To Fitness Club Success

    Structure Your Offerings with Client Programming for Fitness Client programming is your menu of good things that you offer your market. In the fitness business, it’s one of the fundamental dimensions that define a successful training practice. The big-box fitness brands can afford to stand back and cover all of…

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  • Why Client Acquisition Is Impossible and Other Gym Myths

    Why Client Acquisition Is Impossible and Other Gym Myths

    Breaching the Barriers of the Fitness Business Gyms should always be about positivity and overcoming obstacles. So, it’s worth taking a look at a few of the hurdles you’re likely to encounter in fitness entrepreneurship. I’m not saying you should forge ahead recklessly. You need a plan and contingencies. However,…

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  • 11 Tips About Starting Your Own Business in Fitness

    11 Tips About Starting Your Own Business in Fitness

    Building Your Dream by Starting Your Own Business in Fitness If you are the kind of person, like me, who enjoy fitness and being at the gym, the dream of starting your own business in fitness is the logical next step. Fitness is so wide-open because it’s a people business.…

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  • Survey of What Is On The Horizon for Special Populations in Fitness

    Survey of What Is On The Horizon for Special Populations in Fitness

    Survey of What Is On The Horizon for Special Populations in Fitness Specialty Fitness Fills Niches and Gyms Humans come in a delightful diversity of shapes, sizes, and physical needs. I think it is super-rewarding to see people achieve spectacular levels of fitness achievement. It is even more rewarding when…

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  • Gym Business Boosts with Retail Merchandise and Supplements

    Gym Business Boosts with Retail Merchandise and Supplements

    Promote Your Fitness Club with Private Label Branding Nothing brings credibility to a small fitness club like a unique fitness concept built around a strong brand. As long as you have a robust gym management software system as a foundation, you start to develop streams of income that complement your…

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  • Fitness Feedback Loops That Could Teach Wall Street a Lesson

    Fitness Feedback Loops That Could Teach Wall Street a Lesson

    Feedback loops are the essence of gym business growth. You invest time and capital and hopefully get a membership that grows and returns more capital to you.

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  • Diamonds Are Forever but Club Retention Changes Daily

    Diamonds Are Forever but Club Retention Changes Daily

    Glittering Membership Management Performance Indicators If you can do things that keep and reduce change to the minimum your club might just be on the path to finding diamonds. Retention is the key concept of club management. It brings your small gym business dreams to life. That is a constant,…

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  • Combine Fitness Brands to Become a Gym Marketing Whirlwind

    Combine Fitness Brands to Become a Gym Marketing Whirlwind

    Personal Branding Revisited This is a follow-up piece to my recent post about Personal Branding for Fitness Entrepreneurs. There’s a lot to cover in the topic, as well as about branding in general. Also, once you have it as part of your entrepreneurial mindset, branding is as powerful as a…

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  • Success Starts at Certification for Fitness Club Founders

    Success Starts at Certification for Fitness Club Founders

    Proper Preparation for The Gym Business Getting prepared and qualified to be a fitness club founder is like laying the foundations for a home or a mighty fortress. The better the foundations, the longer the structure (of your fitness business) will last, and the higher you can build. If you’ve…

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  • What are the Hottest Trends in Fitness Clubs and Gym Equipment

    What are the Hottest Trends in Fitness Clubs and Gym Equipment

    Summer 2019 Professional Fitness Equipment Like all of the other trends in the world, the fitness industry is splitting to extremes. On one end, it’s all simple things that promote core strength and resistance training. On the other, it’s the technology that pushes the envelope. Not to worry, Gym Insight…

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  • Fitness Business Success is All About Measuring Improvements

    Fitness Business Success is All About Measuring Improvements

    Management Metrics and Where You Find Them Like fitness programming, gym business management is about setting goals and defining improvements. It’s how you measure them that provides the framework to get the work done. You can’t know what you’ve achieved until you’ve measured it. Whether it’s measured in lean body…

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  • Fitness Business Lessons from Comics and Comedy Clubs

    Fitness Business Lessons from Comics and Comedy Clubs

    Of Belly Laughs and Leg Lifts I was listening to some comedians talking on a podcast recently. It seems to be a thing in comedy for comics to interview their friends and idols. However, I was struck by the similarities between owning a gym and running a comedy club. The…

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  • Hack Your Local Business Community for A Competitive Advantage

    Hack Your Local Business Community for A Competitive Advantage

    More Business Hacks for Ambitious New Gym Owners There was a recent report in Club Industry that Kohls, the retailers are partnering with big box chain Planet Fitness. It seems that the shrinking need for bricks-and-mortar store space led to a creative opportunity. That’s definitely a "get lemons, make lemonade"…

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  • The Gym Management Software Fitness Club Tools of Insight

    The Gym Management Software Fitness Club Tools of Insight

    Insight was my solution for my own gym management headaches. As a computer science graduate and fitness club owner, I had some options. I didn’t hesitate to dive in and write my own code when the business started to get complicated. Great idea, right? Well, it turned into a bigger…

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  • Gym Management Software and Fitness Business Basic Economics

    Gym Management Software and Fitness Business Basic Economics

    Fitness is one of the more efficient industries, in the economic sense. The same is true about gym management software. It’s a good thing in that competition leads to better products and services. On the other hand, it goes in the opposite direction as well. Economics drives free markets toward…

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  • Personal Branding for Fitness Club Owners And Entrepreneurs

    Personal Branding for Fitness Club Owners And Entrepreneurs

    Make Your Name in The Business As an independent gym or fitness club owner, have you considered your personal brand? I’m not talking about the fitness club brand of the gym that you founded (or plan to start). What I mean is your public name and reputation as an entrepreneur.…

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  • Gym Business Owners Face These Urgent Issues Right Now

    Gym Business Owners Face These Urgent Issues Right Now

    Gym Management Software And An Inquisitive Mindset I think there is only one way to survive in the fitness industry in the next few years. As a gym business owner, be ready to make changes quickly and often. Be curious about what’s around the corner. The changes that are going…

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  • Gym Business Sales And Some Negotiation Lessons from TV

    Gym Business Sales And Some Negotiation Lessons from TV

    The Principle of Winning For all of the modern technology in the world, the principles that make the foundations of business are as accurate as they are old. While we designed the Insight Gym Management Software Suite to be a tool that will drive efficiency and profitability, it does so…

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  • What Is Your Fitness Club Membership Guest Policy?

    What Is Your Fitness Club Membership Guest Policy?

    Policies Policies Policies Have you ever heard about black swans? If not it’s because these birds are alien to the Northern Hemisphere. When you think of the graceful birds that inhabit lakes and rivers, you probably think of a magnificent white waterfowl with a long and graceful neck. These dark,…

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  • 7 Small Business Entrepreneur Hacks I Found On The Internet

    7 Small Business Entrepreneur Hacks I Found On The Internet

    Leverage These Life Hacks to Produce More Results Technology has brought a whole new style of entrepreneur into existence. Independent trainers, small gym business owners, or even franchisees of big-box chains, like Gold’s Gym, can make the most of some of the life hacks that complement the things they already…

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  • Meet Special Population Demands With Continuing Education

    Meet Special Population Demands With Continuing Education

    Fitness clubs should always have new projects in development and owners should be continuously searching for the next big thing in gym business niches. Special populations represent many different niche specializations that have been boiling up for some time. Reaching out to special populations will benefit everybody involved. Your club…

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  • Automating Fitness Club Customer Relationships for The Win

    Automating Fitness Club Customer Relationships for The Win

    Getting Organized Is The Key To Winning Organizing your gym members, prospective future members, and members at the edge of retention, is much easier if you have an automated system to manage the process. It’s one thing to have a list of customers and something completely different to have a…

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  • Sustainability Insights For Fitness Club Operators

    Sustainability Insights For Fitness Club Operators

    Going green is a great idea, and it also happens to appeal to many consumers, including many of the people who’re likely to join your gym. You may be hearing the term Sustainability; it’s basically the technical term that means going green. Sustainability For Gym Facility Endurance As a buzzword,…

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  • Are Fitness Club Waiting Lists Good Or Bad For Business?

    Are Fitness Club Waiting Lists Good Or Bad For Business?

    Let’s Talk About Success What does it mean to have a waiting list? First, you should be thrilled that your fitness club is so in demand! If you have a strict upper limit on capacity such as class spaces adding new members beyond that limit can be a dangerous game.…

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  • 6 Fitness Industry News Items You Need To Know About

    6 Fitness Industry News Items You Need To Know About

    Blink these days, and the state-of-the-art in fitness has changed. That being said, these are some trends, events, and concepts that will dominate the gym management world in 2019. These six fitness industry news items may sound off-the-cuff or random at first glance, but what they say to me is…

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  • The Big Picture in Client Acquisition and Client Retention

    The Big Picture in Client Acquisition and Client Retention

    Powering Your Way Out of The Twilight Zone Picture yourself on a treadmill and the faster you walk or run, the more new clients you add to your gym membership base. At the same time clients are dropping out and, to stay in business, you have to keep adding new…

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  • Time To Reveal Fitness Industry Trend Insights for 2019

    Time To Reveal Fitness Industry Trend Insights for 2019

    Technology Moves The Needle in 2019 Can you believe it’s almost 2019 as I write this? In the traditions of the Gym Insight Blog, that means that it’s time to look at the American College of Sports Medicine’s Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2019 to mark the holiday cheer.…

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  • Starting A Gym Business Means Sacrifice Struggle And Reward

    Starting A Gym Business Means Sacrifice Struggle And Reward

    Background for Success Starting a gym business is probably a dream for a significant fraction of the population. Whether you’re in this country or around the world you may yearn to open a fitness club someday. If you think you have knowledge and finances, that dream may even turn into…

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  • Tying Technologies Together for Better Client Outcomes

    Tying Technologies Together for Better Client Outcomes

    Wearables Have Hit The Big Time for 2019 According to Club Industry, one-in-six consumers now use a wearable digital device, such as a smartwatch or fitness tracker. In the valuable 18 to 34 demographic, the trend is even more pronounced, with one-in-three. It’s starting to look like there’s a critical…

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  • Change And Ideas Both Matter But Execution Is Everything

    Change And Ideas Both Matter But Execution Is Everything

    If you take the self-help advice of the gurus, who write books and give seminars about how to get ahead in life, and boil it down to its essential ingredient, it would be three words: Get things done. In business, executive action is what makes the winning difference. Executive Action…

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  • Gym Businesses That Help Members Slow Down

    Gym Businesses That Help Members Slow Down

    If you started a business where the point was to chill out and relax, it might seem like the opposite of fitness. However, it would have to utilize many of the client programming aspects of a fitness club. Stress Good And Bad I want to cover the full spectrum of…

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  • Gamification Will Get You Closer to Your Fitness Club Goals

    Gamification Will Get You Closer to Your Fitness Club Goals

    Games Put The Fun in Serious Fitness Did you know that there are techniques that help you lead and guide people without them realizing that you’re doing it? You may already be using this method without even realizing it. It’s called gamification, and it helps to nudge humans in the…

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  • Is There Such A Thing As A Few Hours A Week Fitness Business?

    Is There Such A Thing As A Few Hours A Week Fitness Business?

    The Short Answer Is Still "No!" That guy who wrote a book about having a business in only X hours per week now has a book out about fitness. OK, that’s nice. So, completely separate from that, what I’m wondering, is whether there can be a gym business that you…

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  • Why Company Cultures Still Matter in The Fitness Business

    Why Company Cultures Still Matter in The Fitness Business

    Four Organizational Culture Types Did you know that there are four different categories of organizational culture? I didn’t. Some researchers at the University of Michigan figured it out, and I’m glad they did. So, let’s take a look at these four cultures and see how they show up in with…

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  • How CRE Trends Have Fitness Entrepreneurs Moving To The Mall

    How CRE Trends Have Fitness Entrepreneurs Moving To The Mall

    If you’re a fitness entrepreneur at any stage of the gym business, you’re likely to have a need for a space in a building. If you want to open your doors somewhere, you will have to face the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. For you, negotiating a tenancy might be…

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  • Boxing Trainers Know How To Build Gyms In Tough Towns

    Boxing Trainers Know How To Build Gyms In Tough Towns

    The Old School Of Martial Arts Fighting and martial arts account for a large portion of today’s fitness industry. The old school boxing clubs are an inspiration and fine example of what club owners can achieve in tough neighborhoods, with not much more than leadership and space in a backstreet…

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  • Can Client Programming Deliver Corporate Wellness?

    Can Client Programming Deliver Corporate Wellness?

    So, what’s the point of implementing a corporate wellness program? Is it about building company culture and togetherness? No, at the highest level, corporate wellness is about having healthier, more productive employees. On the most practical level, it’s more about minimizing costs and workers who get more done with less…

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  • Gym Business Leadership To Motivate 5 Key Constituencies

    Gym Business Leadership To Motivate 5 Key Constituencies

    Swinging The Lead in Your Sphere of Influence In entrepreneurship, business ownership, and in fitness management, leadership is what you bring to the gym as a founder or manager. It is the one factor over which you have the most control and which makes it possible for small startup gym…

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  • Fitness Business Decisions Based on Bayesian Priors

    Fitness Business Decisions Based on Bayesian Priors

    You may be thinking, "OK, Gym Insight, what are you doing posting about esoteric mathematical concepts like Bayesian Priors?" First of all, it’s 2018 and living in the future demands that we apply futuristic methods. Second, I promise not to start quoting mathematical equations. Finally, there is probably something that…

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  • Happy Fitness Club Members And The Questions They Ask

    Happy Fitness Club Members And The Questions They Ask

    Just because you have happy fitness club members, it doesn’t mean that you’re going to be completely free of issues. Even the most smooth-running gym business is going to have occasional payment disputes. When it comes to questions about customer credit cards and payments, you have to get it right.…

    Continue reading →: Happy Fitness Club Members And The Questions They Ask
  • Complementary Client Programming For Fitness Club Owners

    Complementary Client Programming For Fitness Club Owners

    Categories for client programming must align to sales goals and be complementary to one another. After all, the most fundamental activity in any business is selling. In a people-business like fitness, it’s as true as ever; gym business owners have to do some selling to survive. Fortunately, you don’t have…

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  • Is This Gym Equipment Startup The Future Of Fitness?

    Is This Gym Equipment Startup The Future Of Fitness?

    Gym equipment is evolving rapidly, and we see some highly innovative designs coming down the line. New machines and systems match physical activity and data science to improve the workout experience. I think we can expect to see some amazing new gym equipment products emerging in the next few years.…

    Continue reading →: Is This Gym Equipment Startup The Future Of Fitness?
  • Hey Fitness Business Owner What’s In Your Gym Bag?

    Hey Fitness Business Owner What’s In Your Gym Bag?

    So, What’s in Your Gym Business Bag? If you’re like most people, your personal gym bag carries a bundle of practical and commonsense workout items. These things express your personality, values, and workout intentions. However, the contents of your gym bag also hint at hidden opportunities to fine-tune the business…

    Continue reading →: Hey Fitness Business Owner What’s In Your Gym Bag?
  • Reflecting for Belief And Clarity In Your Gym Business

    Reflecting for Belief And Clarity In Your Gym Business

    Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Know This Secret There’s a secret to business and entrepreneurship that they don’t teach in business school. It’s something that the smartest investors in the world of startups all understand instinctively. The venture capitalists of Silicon Valley know that, to find an investment that returns big…

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  • Abandon Client Retention for A Leaner Business Model

    Abandon Client Retention for A Leaner Business Model

    Sometimes it’s when you go against the grain that you do your best work. If you’re in a competitive marketplace, (and let’s face it, in this industry, who isn’t?) you have to fight for every advantage. Your membership retention rate is one of those things that can make an impact…

    Continue reading →: Abandon Client Retention for A Leaner Business Model
  • 7 Fitness Industry Hacks for Aspiring Gym Owners

    7 Fitness Industry Hacks for Aspiring Gym Owners

    There’s not much that a little creative ingenuity can’t overcome. The fitness industry is one where you can get a start with or without vast sums of capital to invest. While it might seem easier to do with truckloads of financial backing, there are plenty of things you can do…

    Continue reading →: 7 Fitness Industry Hacks for Aspiring Gym Owners
  • The One Gym Business Startup Thing You Need To Succeed

    The One Gym Business Startup Thing You Need To Succeed

    As an enthusiastic new gym owner, you’ve probably already found a place in the market with enough potential customers to build a business. Once you commit to your particular niche in the fitness business, there’s one thing you’ll need. It’s the information about customers and sales that will take you…

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  • What Are The Hot Trends In Fitness for Summer 2018

    What Are The Hot Trends In Fitness for Summer 2018

    Continuing Trends in 2018 One thing is sure about the summer of 2018; fitness businesses aren’t going to disappear anytime soon. While it’s technically possible to do all of your workouts from home, that is not the choice that people are making this year. What’s hot in mid-2018 is the…

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  • How To Quit Worrying And Learn To Love Data Security

    How To Quit Worrying And Learn To Love Data Security

    Securing Your Membership’s Personally Identifiable Data Now might be a good time to look at Data Security and what gym businesses need to keep in mind. For example, if you take electronic payments, you have to follow the rules of the Card Payment Industry. Your business needs data about your…

    Continue reading →: How To Quit Worrying And Learn To Love Data Security
  • Make Networking Part Of Your Fitness Club Value Proposition

    Make Networking Part Of Your Fitness Club Value Proposition

    Fitness is a people-business; it’s about networking to make connections, whether it’s between mind and muscles, you and the best vendors, or members using your club to connect in their careers. It’s a business model that’s about helping others find success and good health. As a gym business owner, networking…

    Continue reading →: Make Networking Part Of Your Fitness Club Value Proposition
  • 3 Alternate Revenue Streams To Boost Your Fitness Business

    3 Alternate Revenue Streams To Boost Your Fitness Business

    Getting Beyond The Gym Business Basics Developing alternate revenue streams for your new fitness club is the next stage for any ambitious gym business venture. If you hope to grow your business beyond the basics of club memberships, it is vital to have additional sources of income to achieve long-term…

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  • How Client Programming Consolidates New Member Retention

    How Client Programming Consolidates New Member Retention

    In fitness, client programming is the key to operational success. There are several reasons for that. Let’s explore them and look at why it is that gym business operators can’t ignore this organizing principle. The best way to consolidate new gym membership sales is to draw your new members into…

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