Million-Dollar Mistakes: The True Cost of Inaction for Gym Owners

24 Jul 2025 • 20 min • EN
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Tired of watching small mistakes drain your gym"s profits? Here"s how to stop paying the “dumb tax” once and for all. In this episode of “Run a Profitable Gym,” Chris Cooper explains how seemingly small business mistakes compound into million-dollar losses over time. More importantly, he tells you how to stop making these gym-sinking errors. Coop presents three types of mistakes that destroy gym profitability:Compounding problems get worse over time. Example: hiring without proper training systems.Delaying problems punish you for procrastinating. Example: avoiding necessary price increases.Mounting problems are fueled by the increasing momentum of repeated errors. Example: dumping more members into a gym with a broken pricing model. Chris also gets brutally honest about his own expensive mistakes as a gym owner, and he calculates the real cost of inaction and poor systems so you can see how errors affect P&L statements. Tune in for the full breakdown and then take action before profit-killing mistakes put you on the path to bankruptcy. Links Gym Owners United Book a Call   0:01 - Intro 1:39 - Compounding problems 7:59 - Delaying problems 11:43 - Mounting problems 14:58 - What’s the cost of change?

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