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I ran the numbers before I touched coach pay. Watch the 60-second test I used to decide if a raise actually made sense.
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How Much Is Your Gym Actually Worth?

The equipment barely matters. Jessica Maurer on what a buyer is actually purchasing when they buy a gym, and the one question that shapes the number more than any other.

Personal trainer coaching a client through a goblet squat next to a chest-supported row bench in a gym

20 Minute Workout Programming: How to Build a Strength Session That Fits

Short sessions fail when coaches compress an hour. The 20-Minute Slot Framework shows new coaches how to earn the slot, build smart density, and progress the week.

Fitness coach seen from behind in an empty gym, facing a mirrored wall, phone with a social feed face down beside them

The Body You Are Expected to Have: Fitness Professionals and the Pressure Nobody Names

Fitness professionals are expected to challenge body standards for clients while a profession quietly imposes them on coaches. Dr. Erin Nitschke names the pressure, the research behind it, and where the scope-of-practice line sits.

Gym manager and a young coach reviewing a continuing education course on a phone between sessions on the training floor

Club and Studio

Inside FITFIXNOW’s Case for Treating Staff Training as a Pricing Decision

The coach you hire untrained and the coach you never develop cost you the same way. Jessica Maurer on why FITFIXNOW argues staff training belongs in the pricing conversation, not the cost column.

Fitness coach reviewing a scheduling and retention dashboard on a tablet at a studio front desk

Technology and Innovation

The Operations Skills That Make a Coach Promotable

The best coach on the floor does not get promoted. Jessica Maurer on the operations skills that move a coach from the floor into leadership, starting with your own numbers.

Gym operator and coach reviewing a schedule and payroll figures on a laptop at a front desk

Fitness Coach Compensation Model: How Operators Should Price, Pay, and Develop Coaches

Pay cannot sit apart from pricing, development, and retention. The Coach Economics Framework gives operators three decisions that make coach compensation sustainable.

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Top 26 Most Visionary Coaches

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Celebrating the coaches redefining what comes next in health, fitness, and performance. The programs, the mentorship, and the ideas moving the whole industry forward.

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This Week Across Fitness and Wellness

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20 Minute Workout Programming: How to Build a Strength Session That Fits

Robert James Rivera

The Body You Are Expected to Have: Fitness Professionals and the Pressure Nobody Names

Dr. Erin Nitschke

Fitness Coach Compensation Model: How Operators Should Price, Pay, and Develop Coaches

Robert James Rivera

Club and Studio

Inside FITFIXNOW’s Case for Treating Staff Training as a Pricing Decision

Jessica H. Maurer

Technology and Innovation

The Operations Skills That Make a Coach Promotable

Jessica H. Maurer

Opportunity Spotlight

Workout AnyTime

The Fitness Director's primary focus is conducting Success Sessions, driving Personal Training sales, and growing overall Personal Training revenue. Key responsibilities include member consultations, PT sales production, follow-up, trainer development, and department leadership.

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