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It was the rates
We’ve mentioned before that the Fitness Industry has a fairly high turn over.
Cheap, relatively easy courses give a low barrier to entry which means pretty much anyone can become a FitPro.
But most have left the industry within a year or two having not made enough money.
In the past that was mostly in-club, freelance Personal Trainers who didn’t get enough clients to cover their rent and leave them sufficient to live on.
Having known many of them over the years, most blamed the gym rent (usually around £500 – 700 a month).
Even though that rent was the same for the successful PTs who stayed on.
Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry who’s been in the industry a year or so, opens their own facility.
Many of them failing too.
“Because the rent, rates and bills were too high”
Now all those things are factors, of course.
But if they were the entirety of the reason it would be the same for all businesses.
Everyone has to pay rent, rates and bills.
If it was just the rates and bills, all would fail.
But some businesses succeed.
It’s easy if you’re a struggling business to look at the things that are actually the same for everyone, but to forget that they are.
The things outside of you control.
And, perhaps, not concentrate on what needs to be concentrated on.
Weight loss challenges
It’s like when you’re struggling to lose weight.
It’s easy to think “I’m too busy to exercise”
Or “I like my food too much”
When, in reality, everyone’s busy.
And everyone l know likes their food.
To differing degrees maybe.
But, after doing this 16 years, I’ve noticed no actual correlation.
People who are mega busy and love their food and are in shape.
People who seem to have a bit more spare time and aren’t in the shape they’d like to be.
The challenges we face are the same for all.
Or, at the very least, the same for millions of others out there.
And remembering that is empowering.
It makes us look at what we can control and do about it 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Renton’ Hall and Matt ‘Begbie’ Nicholson
RISE Macclesfield – myrise.co.uk
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