Run a Profitable Gym
Run a Profitable Gym is packed with business tools for gym owners and CrossFit affiliates. This is actionable, data-backed business advice for all gym owners, including those who own personal training studios, fitness franchises, and strength and conditioning gyms. Broke gym owner Chris Cooper turned a struggling gym into an asset, then built a multi-million-dollar mentoring company to help other fitness entrepreneurs do the same thing. Every week, Chris presents the top tactics for building a profitable gym, as well as real success stories from gym owners who have found incredible success through Two-Brain Business mentorship. Chris’s goal is to create millionaire gym owners. Subscribe to Run a Profitable Gym and you could be one of them.
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Staffing problems can destroy your gym’s momentum—and your sanity. But with the right systems and mindset, they’re solvable. In this episode of Run a Profitable Gym, host Mike Warkentin talks with gym owner Chris Williams about the staffing chaos he inherited when he bought his gym. Chris shares the HR disasters that n
Staffing is the biggest and most important investment you"ll ever make in your gym. Get it right and your business grows. Get it wrong and everything stalls. Today, Chris Cooper unpacks the seven deadly staffing sins that create chaos, kill growth and keep gym owners chained to day-to-day operations. From hiring out of
What if your gym was fully booked and highly profitable all summer long? While many gym owners brace for a summer slump, Debbie Rosslan ramps up with youth programs such as jump training, volleyball development, and speed and agility, which keep her gym full and profitable. In this episode of “Run a Profitable Gym,” ho
Summer is coming, and for many gym owners, that means holds, cancellations and a painful dip in revenue—but it doesn’t have to. The summer slump is natural if you don"t take action: Clients go on vacation, they trade your programmed workouts for outdoor activities in the sunshine, and kids who are home from school forc
Gabriel Mayer-Bédard, owner of CrossFit St-Basile-le-Grand in Quebec, Canada, used semi-private training to generate over $200,000 in new revenue in just one year. Adding semi-private training also boosted his gym’s client retention, solved scheduling challenges, and produced higher pay and improved career paths for hi
Tired of answering the same questions, fixing the same mistakes and doing everything yourself? In this episode, Corey Lewis, Two-Brain mentor and owner of Xtra Mile Fitness, shares how systemizing his gym with SOPs (standard operating procedures) has helped him save time, improve retention, onboard staff more efficient