Personal Training Business Success Stories

I began working with the Fitness Consulting Group, more specifically Pat Rigsby and Nick Berry in the Fall of 2008, when I was still employed as health club personal trainer. At the time I didn’t have much direction and was contemplating leaving the fitness industry all together. After only 2 short months of my work within the Boot Camp Blueprint I left the health club world after seven years and had opened my own fitness boot camp out of a karate studio and dance studio.

In 26 months I went from having 31 clients during week one, 15 of which were paid, to moving into my own 2,600 square foot facility, Tyler English Fitness, and building a facility that houses over 400 clients, generates just under 50K per month and is on pace to generate close to $500K in the next year. I’ve brought on a strong team of coaches, including my brother Robert, who left a career in the United States Marine Corps behind to come home and work side by side with me, as well as my full-time office manager Kristy.

The growth has not stopped there. In that same time, working with Pat and Nick, has allowed me to bring in the first Athletic Revolution in Connecticut, where we coach some 50 AR Champions on a given week. I’ve expanded my facility to house and additional 3,400 square feet in adjacent units to house our semi private and group coaching programs alongside Athletic Revolution.

Most recently I opened a Fitness Revolution in West Hartford to host our ever growing clientele in a near by satellite boot camp. In only 2 months, this Fitness Revolution houses close to 100 boot camp clients and has become the sister location to Tyler English Fitness. During all of this, I’ve been able to coach less hours and take more of a position as manager and business owner. I’ve implemented systems into my business that allow Tyler English Fitness, Fitness Revolution and Athletic Revolution to operate without me on any given day.

Come October 2011, I will be opening the doors to my brand new 8,100 square foot facility that will be the new home to Tyler English Fitness and Athletic Revolution Farmington Valley. It will without a doubt place us on the map as the top personal training and athletic performance facility in the state of Connecticut.

Pat and Nick have been with me every step of the way, lending their help in everything from business, coaching, time management, and lifestyle design. I am positive that without the continued support of Pat, Nick and the entire FCG team that I wouldn’t be where I am today.I sincerely thank Pat and Nick for giving me the opportunity to grow not only as a fitness professional but as a business owner and entrepreneur.Thanks for everything guys!

Tyler English

Owner
Tyler English Fitness
Athletic Revolution Farmington Valley
Tyler English’s Fitness Revolution

“Before working with Pat and Nick I was basically on my own and floundering how to make my bootcamp business successful. They got me focused, organized (well better than I was) and gave me the education to succeed. My income has tripled in the past 6 months and we are now on track to make over 100K this year”

Lee Gough
Core Fitness Concept

“Success without time to enjoy it is meaningless and that is where I was before I started working with Pat. Pat has not only helped us increase our revenues by 40% in the last year but also taught us how to do so without working more! No more 5:30 AM training sessions 5 days per week! I actually stay home and put my kids on the bus before heading to work most days. Thanks Pat. It’s nice to have a life and a business!”

Todd Lowder
Fitness Quest Bloomington

“I started my Bootcamp training business in July 2008. My first paying camp had 17 people in it. I thought I was on my way. Little did I know I knew 0 about business and had no systems to get more clients and retain them. My lead source was flyers, flyers, and more flyers. I grew to 25 paying members by October. I joined BCBC the next month. Within 2 months I nearly doubled the size of my camps. Now almost two years later I have more than doubled it again and am quickly closing in on 100 and about to open a 3rd location. My income from 2008 to 2010 more than quadrupled and I had my first 6 figure year last year. I couldn’t have done it without the help of Pat, Nick, Jim, and BJ. Don’t think about it! Sign up and take action!”

Jason Yun
Yun Strength and Fitness Systems

I started by working in a big box gym as a personal trainer, then left that job and started my boot camp business in 2009 and mostly did door-to-door hand out flyers and info sheets hung up in shopping malls and bulletin boards where ever I could pin one. I was small with only about 8 – 10 campers. I couldn’t find my mojo or even figure out ‘how’ to find it. I basically wandered through the motions of running a business and teaching a boot camp class hoping that one day, my presence in the parks would attract a hoard of new boot campers. No such luck, but I continued to ask people to join and pin up my little flyers.

Then in 2010 I attended the BCBP and decided that I needed to step it up, things weren’t going to happen until I made them happen. Through the insight and knowledge of Pat and Nick, I followed the Boot Camp Blue Print with the desire to grow big. However, I didn’t expect it to turn into an abundance of personal training where I was working 12 hour days and still didn’t have time to run a successful boot camp. The tactics really worked well, but I found I couldn’t say no to the personal training clients that came to me using those same tactics.

So 9 months later, my boot camps were still just surviving and the personal training became a heavy, overworked burden. I had no time for my kids and I was exhausted every night. So I went back to the Boot Camp Blue Print and had a eureka moment. After meeting up with familiar faces from the previous year, and listening to their struggles and triumphs to get great boot camps and free up time, I decided that I needed to drastically reduce my personal training clientele and focus on just the boot camp numbers.

I felt so rejuvenated after leaving that conference and had a new empowerment about my mission. I have since converted all but 5 of my personal training clients (and one is my mother!) to boot camps and have continued to use the growth tactics and advice from Pat and Nick. I have maintained contact with some of the poeple from the Boot Camp Blue Print and it’s an awesome feeling to be able to connect with like minded people in your field.

Since the last BCBC in April, I have doubled my bootcampers and growing, and have set a goal to reach $100K by Christmas. A pretty good jump from only $6,000/year my first two years. I still have a lot of work to do to break the $100K, but that’s the beauty of this community I belong to; you have the tools to reach what ever goals you set, and nobody judges you, they just help you. I love this group and the people that belong to it, I know I can turn to any of them and ask for a helping hand without a door slamming in my face.I couldn’t have been set on this path if it weren’t for Pat and Nick, they truly are the best!

Kim Chase
Chase Fitness
Thunder Bay, Ontario

“Over the past 13 years, I have put in a lot of hard work and dedication to building a 6 figure per year personal training business. I have invested a lot of time and money into my business education. While my personal training business has thrived, I couldn’t help but notice the popularity of bootcamps all around. Six months ago I decided it was time to start my own bootcamp. But I didn’t want to take the long road… I wanted a shortcut! That’s when I decided to invest in one of Pat’s products. With his help and using ONLY 3 of his (many) strategies, I was able to go from 0 to 40 bootcampers in less than 6 months!!! I plan on my bootcamp hitting the 6 figure per year mark within the next 4 months! The sky’s the limit from here. I only wish I would have invested in Pat sooner!”

Sean Millhouse
SeanMillhouse.com

“After graduating from business school, I started my own business and quickly realized I knew nothing about business. Three months later I attended Nick and Pat’s BCBC. Over the last year and a half, I went from a few on-site clients, a part time job teaching, training clients at a gym and terribly marketing my business to just over 100 clients, a location (new one on the way) and on pace to hit my goal of $15,000 this month! Investing in coaching from Pat and Nick was/is game changing, do it!”

Joe Carabase
Owner M.E.L.T Fitness Studio

“I knew I wanted to leave the big box health club industry about a year ago and start my own business and boot camps. The only way this was going to happen was me getting help from experts in the boot camp and marketing field. I could think of no one else, than BJ and Pat.I have been working with BJ and Pat for a little over a year now. 8 months ago, I left the gym I worked at for 8 years and started my own training business. This was the best decision I have ever made. I am currently running 20 small group and boot camp style classes a week and I am hiring help this fall to help me run all these classes.None of this would have been possible without the help of BJ and Pat. If you are looking to improve your boot camps and / or your bottom line, then you need to seek out their advice and expertise.Thank you guys, I don’t know where I would be without your help and guidance this past year. Looking forward to getting even better this Fall and 2011!”

Jen Brickey

Pat and Nick have helped me turn my business from a source of stress into a money machine! I have more than doubled my income, bought a house and a new truck and only work 20 hours a week!

Steve Krebs

When I started working with Fitness Consulting Group in June of 2009 I had my business for 6 months and was renting space at a local run down gym and had 5 or 6 clients to pay the bills. Within 6 months I had my own studio, 60 clients, and a great employee to help me grow the business. That was just the beginning. Since then I’ve grown out of that original 1000 square foot space into a beautiful 5200 sf training facility with over 160 clients and rapidly growing. We went from offering 1 on 1 only to now offering 1 on 1, semi private, boot camp, supplements, program design, soft tissue work, nutrition programs, and much more. I’m also excited to get a new Athletic Revolution going in St. Louis next.When I started with FCG my monthly income averaged around $2000 per month and we have averaged 20k plus over the last 3 months and expect to hit the 30k mark in the next 2 months. I now have a phenomenal 9 personal staff that has made Complete Fitness Results the premier fitness option in St. Louis. Besides that I see so many amazing options that I have to grow in the industry in front of me, which makes me feel amazing knowing the future is bright! I can’t say that I would be in this situation if it weren’t for Pat and Nick and everyone else that is involved in this great network of professionals.

Steve Long
CPT, FMS, TPI, KBA
Complete Fitness Results
Athletic Revolution St. Louis