This blog was written by OPEX Ambassador and CCP Coach, Kornwit Damrongwisetpanit. As the owner of Kinetic Lab in Bangkok, Thailand, Korn combines his interest in physiotherapy and movement science with individual program design. Follow Korn on Instagram here. 

This blog was written by OPEX Ambassador and CCP Coach Andy Reardon. Andy is a Battalion Chief with the Austin (TX) Fire Department and coaches tactical athletes using the OPEX method. Follow Andy on Instagram here.

After being a part of the October 2020 OPEX CCP cohort, I recently went through the new Functional Bodybuilding with the OPEX Method Course, and it was a serious game changer.

Interval training may make your clients work hard and sweat, but are those HIIT sessions getting the results you both want?

This blog was written by OPEX Ambassador and CCP Coach Chad Johnson, owner of Chamber Fitness in Belmont, Australia. As a gym owner for 11 years, Chad is passionate about providing every individual with an opportunity to express themselves to the fullest, in both a physical and mental capacity. Follow Chad on Instagram here.

“My favorite thing is that I don’t have to have so many apps now. It is hard to tell your clients to ‘disconnect,’ but also use all these apps to track behaviors, nutrition, and performance... This has everything I need to program holistic performance, resiliency, and behaviors for my clients. It’s the platform I have been searching for,” said Ben Seims of OPEX Wenatchee about his experience so far using CoachRx.

Are you pricing your gym’s services correctly? In our consultation work with hundreds of gyms round the world, we have discovered that a lack of understanding on what effective pricing is, often leads to the failure of the gym in question. If the price is too high, the gym owner has very few clients and revenue sources. If the price is too low the gym may have a large number of clients, but very little monthly revenue and high client turnover.

“Authentic brands don’t emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does…”  – Howard Schultz

Culture is a shared set of values and perceptions. Playing out across continents, nations, groups, offices and most definitely gyms, culture is the most important factor in the long term success of a business, next to its business model. But what are three simple steps you can take to build the culture of your gym?

Culture is a shared set of values and perceptions. Playing out across continents, nations, groups, offices and most definitely gyms, culture is the most important factor in the long term success of a business, next to its business model. But what are three simple steps you can take to build the culture of your gym?

If you’re thinking about what’s going to benefit you as a small business owner, you’ve got to ask yourself how you can actually create a market that you can scale or get bigger within.

Many small gym owners are at an important crossroads. They aren’t 25 years old any more. They need to grow financially for themselves and their families. They also want to be seen for what they provide to their communities; health, happiness, and hope. The stories are common:

As the director of business development and management here at OPEX, Crowell helps coaches and owners develop. Jim has learned a great deal since his initial foray into the CrossFit “group” fitness concept and the problems associated with that business model.

Because many gym owners don’t recognize the realities involved with scaling a business. While getting bigger may mean more clients, it also means more work. In order to scale your gym, you must first optimize your business systems.

Gym owners might offer awesome service, but often it’s poor marketing or failure to market at all that makes standing out in this very big crowd impossible. Without effective marketing, it’s just a matter of time before many gyms will be out of business. But what is effective marketing?

Spring is just around the corner, and as the first months of the new year pass, the functional fitness world starts to think about one thing.

Rami Castillo is a bit of a health and fitness education junkie: The owner of CrossFit Uncompromised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Castillo has taken his CrossFit Level 1 and Level 2 certificate courses, as well as gymnastics, weightlifting, anatomy and masters athletes courses, and even the Adaptive Training Academy’s (ATA) coaching course.

Do you want to know how to become a fitness instructor? Here are the education and experiences you need to get started in the industry and how to specialize your services later in your career. 

As someone who prides myself on my ability to connect with my clients—on knowing the names of their children and being familiar with what's going on in their lives—this shook me a little bit, because the truth is, other than one client who seems to have take a giant dump every time he arrives at the gym, I have never talked to my clients about their poop (And in his case, it’s only to give him a hard time for stinking up the bathroom every time he gets to the gym).

EC Client Gerald David has been making huge strides in his fitness over the past 6 months. Focus continues to be on improving his strength numbers across the board. Most of his training days begin with work on the olympic lifts, then structural strength components followed by muscle endurance pieces. This last April, his power clean 1RM was 80kg. Look at him hit 3 reps TNG at 81kg!!!!