Tony Scrimale started in the gym business the way a lot of the best operators do: broke, 18 years old, and spending three to four hours a day at a Florida health club he wasn't even employed by yet. Almost thirty years later, he's CEO of CR Fitness …
What's In It for You Most operators talk about growth in terms of units opened per year. Rich Drengberg, CEO of EoS Fitness, talks about it in terms of discipline: which deals to pass on, which real estate relationships to spend years building befo…
If you're a multi-unit operator, franchisor executive, or investor trying to figure out what disciplined, PE-backed growth actually looks like inside a franchise system, this conversation is a playbook. Pete Moore sits down with Joe Pepe Jr., CEO of…
UFC Gym's Asset-Light Franchise Playbook: CEO Adam Sedlack on HALO Talks Most fitness brands that hit a cash crunch tend to go straight to Chapter 11. UFC GYM did the opposite. In this return visit to HALO Talks, CEO and co-founder Adam Sedlack wal…
Inside GreatLIFE's Fitness ESOP: Nick Ovenden on Employee Ownership and the Golf-and-Fitness Model How do you solve succession at a thriving, founder-led fitness business without selling to private equity and possibly losing the culture? GreatLIFE …
For most of the last decade, the fitness conversation has been dominated by the big-box value model and the boutique studio. Women's-only clubs, a format many operators wrote off as a relic of the 1990s, barely came up. In British Columbia, two bra…
