Gym Owner Statistics: The State of Gyms, Member Trends, and Usage Data
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How to Host a CrossFit Competition
CrossFit, like many fitness modalities, is a type of exercise and a sport. One of the best ways to bring these two parts together is for your CrossFit gym to host a competition. These events allow members to test their skills, create a networking opportunity for nearby gyms, and boost name recognition for your gym.…
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Training Gym Staff & Trainers
As a gym manager, you rely on your staff members to portray your business in the best possible light. That doesn’t happen automatically. Unless you are putting regular, quality time into training your people, you will be letting both them and your gym members down. Yet, consistent, meaningful training is not the norm in most…
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From Morbidly Obese to Marathon Finisher: Mariah’s Story
Ever since she was a young girl, Mariah had been obsessed with food. By the age of five, she was already chubby. Her parents encouraged her to get involved in school sports like hockey and netball, but she had no interest. The constant mocking of the other kids, who ridiculed her slowness and referred to…
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Wayne’s Weight Training Transformation
A Boot Camp for Kids When my youngest daughter, Sasha, was born in 2022, I’d been a personal trainer for 15 years. Over that time I’d helped hundreds of men and women lose weight, build muscle, develop self-confidence and become fitter, both physically and mentally. But, I hadn’t been working with very many kids. Sasha’s…
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Why Do Kids Quit Karate?
Member turnover in karate schools is brutal, sometimes even higher than the already-high churn rates in the fitness industry in general. This creates a lead generation “rate race” to constantly and frantically generate large volumes of new leads to replace ex-members. Karate dojos often rely on kids to pay the bills. Parents are used to…
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Dean Transformed His Mental Health (and Life) Through Weightlifting
Dean had known anxiety and depression for as long as he could remember. He couldn’t put his finger on a single cause. It was more an amalgamation of his early life experiences: seeing his father beating his mom and then leaving the family when Dean was six, the constant bullying and abuse from his older…
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Grow a Profitable Swim Club
Starting your own swim club can be a significant endeavor. The owner/head coach must have years of experience and there is a lengthy application process for those registering with USA Swimming. All this effort is for not if you can’t grow a profitable swim team. Luckily, there are several ways that a new swim club…
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How to Prepare Your Athletes for a CrossFit Competition
As a CrossFit Coach, your job is to help your athletes realize their full potential. For many athletes, it is through competition that the results of those efforts are expressed. Knowing how to prepare athletes for CrossFit competition is, therefore, an integral part of the coaching role. In this article, we’ll provide a plan of…
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Reg Lost his Legs, then Became Bench Press Champion
When nine-year-old Reg volunteered to help his buddy Pete and his dad bag coal for a school fundraiser, he didn’t realize how exhausting it would be. Reg ducked between railway wagons, collecting coal lying beside the tracks. He had his sights set on a football-sized brick of coal on the far side of the tracks…
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Update: Remaining sessions by bookings, consolidated settings and more
Happy new year everybody! We hope you had a great holiday season and that you are rested and refreshed for the new year. In the last couple of months of the year we dedicated most of our time to refining some aspects of our software and getting our native mobile app ready. Read more below…
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