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Andrew Frezza is the Co-Owner of CrossFit Palm Beach and Founder of the Seven Figure Box Podcast.  On this Episode him and Dr. Sean talking about how to build the right kind of culture in gyms with a group fitness model. 50% of Americans have musculoskeletal pain. Over 1/3 of Americans suffer from obesity. 67% of Americans are overweight. With thousands of gyms, hundreds of thousands of fitness coaches, doctors, physical therapists, chiropractors, and gyms in the US, access is not the problem. This podcast provides the actionable information needed to help you create a fulfilling and financially rewarding career helping the millions of people whose needs fall somewhere between the fitness and healthcare industries of today. Join the thousands of fitness professionals who have experienced life changing results by working with Active Life.  www.activelifeprofessional.com Get on a call with us: https://secure.scheduleonce.com/60minutemeetingwithnick Connect with our Guest Andrew Frezza - @andrewfrezza Are you ready to Turn Pro?  Connect with us! www.activelifeprofessional.com  Dr. Sean @DrSeanPastuch Active Life Professional @activelifeprofessional

Welcome to today's episode I'm your host Justin Hanover, Success coach with fitness revolution.  Before we dive in and bring on today's guest I wanted to share a little about what you can expect to hear and who we have joining us today.Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew FrezzaAndrew is the co-owner and operator of FitTown Jupiter (along with his brother), a 400-member micro-gym that does over seven-figures per year in revenue.  He opened the gym in 2012 under the brand CrossFit Palm Beach, and then decided to re-brand and de-affiliate the gym from CrossFit back in 2020.  He is also the creator and host of the Care-Coach-Lead podcast and YouTube channel, where he helps gym owners and coaches have a deeper impact on their clients.He  would describe himself as a lifelong athlete, student, and entrepreneur.  He loves fitness and playing sports, learning and teaching others, and starting and building businesses.  He and his wife started and sold a nut butter business back in 2012 called Nikki's Coconut Butter, that was sold in major retailers across the nation like Whole Foods and Wegmans.  He is married, and has 2 amazing boys (5 and 2 years old).  His focus now is on becoming the best possible husband and Dad he can be, while continuing to help fitness coaches across the world create a career doing what they love.This was an energy packed conversation where Andrew brought amazing value around developing rockstar coaches.  This applies to the independent trainer listening and the gym owner.  Andrew has this dialed in to the different levels of coaching and the skill set needed for each level, and of course he shares what those levels are.  He even shares with us how to get access to his next 12 week coaching program.  To engage with Andrew visit his sites below:InstagramRockstar 12 Week Coaching ProgramCoupon Code To Save $250 = REVOLUTIONThanks for listening!  Don't forget to leave a review!The Needs Assessment:The Free Assessment that Gym Owners Need to Escape the Grind.Want to build a thriving Gym? Don't know what to do next? Get the direction that you need for your business. Instantly receive a specialized snapshot where you are in the Fitness Business Owners Journey. In two minutes you'll know your next big step! Get Assessed.Join our email newsletter for access to over 15 years of fitness business expertise. Get help with every aspect of your business. Marketing, Sales, Finance, Business Strategy, and lots more! Join the Revolution.

2 years ago, LJ Regine was living in Virginia and applied to be a coach at CrossFit Palm Beach. Through that process of looking for his dream coaching job, LJ realized he wanted to be more than a coach, and 6 months later opened RoxFire Fitness in Ft Lauderdale, FL. What started as just another CrossFit gym, has evolved into his own unique brand built around the idea of becoming your own superhero. This episode dives into LJ's journey from coach to gym owner, and discusses the shifts that transformed RoxFire Fitness from just another CrossFit affiliate into a stand-alone brand.

“We have life changing events, and at the time, they feel as if they are life-ending but they really mold us into somebody who we are meant to be.” - Marti Giambruno “My first memory of waking up in the recovery room was the consent beep of the monitor. A feeling of impending doom consumed me as my doctor leaned over the stretcher and said, ‘Everything went well. We got it all, and the biopsy came back benign. Marti, 80% of your problem is what you put in your mouth and the stress you carry.'” Another 9 months would pass, and Marti's weight would top out at 198 pounds before she was ready to act. It was one year after her husband, John, lost his battle with lung cancer, and on his birthday Marti had the first of many epiphanies. She was tired of the pain, fatigue, and the shame of being overweight, and unhealthy. She wanted to change, but had no idea where to begin. She realized she just needed to make just one small step to start. So, she rose one morning, laced up her shoes and walked. Each day Marti added a few more steps. Within a couple of weeks, she was walking 1.5 miles around her lake. “I felt something I hadn't since before my husband was diagnosed: control.” Next, Marti made adjustments to her diet. She added new forms of exercise. Before she knew it, she had lost 65 pounds and was sleeping and feeling better than she had in years. Says Marti, “I felt like I was winning. Imagine feeling like a success while mourning the loss of your husband.” In January 2015, Marti found the courage to walk into CrossFit Hyperperformance and was warmly greeted. She couldn't wait to return the next day, and she became a regular member for six months, until she needed to move to return to the workforce. “The next year was profoundly revealing. My position as a cardiovascular technologist in Interventional Cardiac Medicine demanded far too much of my time, and there weren't enough hours in the day to make it to the gym. I gained weight, was tired, and achy. My family needed me.” Realizing she needed to heal physically, mentally, and spiritually, Marti stepped back from her new position and sought to resume her new-found healthier lifestyle. She joined CrossFit Palm Beach, where her coaches share the idea of fitness being a process of the mind, body and spirit. “The paradigm shift directing me to whole health has taken hold. At 56, I have more energy, and strength, focus, courage, faith, and desire, which enables me to live young, beautiful and strong in mind, body, and spirit.” Marti is now making the shift to Integrative Medicine to focus on lifestyle changes that improve patient outcomes. She hopes to reach out to those in situations similar to hers to share the message that health, wellness, and fitness must co-exist to produce the changes needed to “Heal Thy Self.” Says Marti, “The day John proposed to me, he declared his faith, which empowered me 3 years ago, and still does today. ‘Marti,' he said, ‘I have faith and peace knowing that if either one of us passes, the survivor will not only pick up the pieces and move forward but become stronger because of it.'” To this day, Marti strives to uphold his vision and share her gratitude with those who've provided the means for her to get where she is, and where she is going.     In this episode we discuss: Her background and the evolution of her health What prompted Marti to start making changes to improve her health and how she got started How CrossFit and exercise helped Marti through her grieving process Recognizing the importance of balancing her caring for own health with a stressful job Her advice to others who are unhappy with their health and want to make a change Three things Marti does on a regular basis that have the biggest positive impact on her health One thing she thinks could have a big impact on her health, but she has a hard time implementing What a healthy life looks like to Marti     Links: Fight Gone Bad CrossFit Open Workout 16.1 Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins Related episodes: Ep 48 - Jen Widerstrom: Health, Habits, and Why You Are Enough Ep 84 - Chasing Excellence with Ben Bergeron If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating. I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments below and on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every other Tuesday. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. We recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.   This post was originally published on July 9, 2020.

Two months ago, we rebranded our gym from CrossFit Palm Beach to FitTown Jupiter. One of the things we learned in the rebranding process, is that it's important to define parameters for how you come up with a brand or class name, and not just pick a name that feels right in the moment. This episode breaks down our process for rebranding to FitTown Jupiter and how we decided to change our CrossFit class name to FTX.

We've officially rebranded our gym, CrossFit Palm Beach, to FitTown Jupiter. This is the first episode of our brand new podcast, The FitTown Show, where co-owner and coach Tony Frezza covers the reason for rebranding our gym, and our evolving mission to transform the lives in our local community.

Tyler served as our business coach at CrossFit Palm Beach for a little over a year. We share a lot of beliefs about business, and run nearly identical businesses in terms of the size of our gyms, programs we offer, and the make up of our teams. In today's episode, we discuss some of the biggest lessons he has learned from over 9 years of running Badger CrossFit.

In this special 100th episode, I'm challenging you to use this Coronavirus shutdown to test your assumptions on both a personal and professional level. This episode covers several of the beliefs that I am currently challenging in my own life as well as with CrossFit Palm Beach and Seven Figure Box, including whether or not to make this my final episode.

We're big on leading by example at CrossFit Palm Beach. This means we expect all of our coaches to take at least 15 classes each month. It also means when our coaches are in class, we want them to carry themselves like an ideal athlete in those classes. Athletes should be on time for class and take each class from start to finish. They should pay attention at the whiteboard and come ready to learn. They should move to the best of their abilities and be coachable. They should add value to the experience of others by bringing a positive energy and putting the needs of others above their own. They should be open to modifying and scaling when appropriate to preserve the stimulus of the workout. If we aren't willing to do it as coaches, we shouldn't ask or expect our athletes to do it either. In this episode, we break down what it means to be the ideal client in every class that we take.

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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Carl Penney, who runs CrossFit El Cid in West Palm Beach, FL, which is about a 30-minute drive from our gym, CrossFit Palm Beach. Carl and I have made it a habit of meeting for lunch or coffee every 3-4 months for the last couple years, regularly trading business ideas or providing a sounding board for each other to work through issues we are facing in the gym. Our relationship has been vital for me to clarify my ideas, learn what things are working for other successful gyms out there, and to just remind me that I’m not crazy for believing what I believe. Entrepreneurship and running a gym can feel like a lonely pursuit at times, and I can’t overstate the value of having someone to share the journey with that isn’t your direct business partner or your business coach. I recommend that every gym owner finds a “Carl” near them that they can vent to and learn from. This week’s episode will give you a window into what one of our regular conversations might look like, as we dive deep into topics like managing your time, working ON your business instead of IN your business, and dealing with unhappy members.

Over the last 7 years, we've run in the ballpark of 15 different types of nutrition challenges at CrossFit Palm Beach. We've run challenges as short as 28 days and as long as 90 days. We've done challenges centered around paleo, macros, lifestyle, and habits. You name it, we've probably done a version of it. I'm a huge fan of nutrition challenges for getting more clients thinking about their nutrition, getting them to step outside their comfort zone with their dietary habits, and providing a platform for us to educate about nutrition on a deeper level. This past fall, we ran a successful 28-day nutrition challenge, that was my favorite challenge that we have run so far at CFPB. It had the perfect mix of group and individual accountability, clients saw great results, and it wasn't super time consuming on our team. This episode covers exactly how we structured that challenge, from pricing to prizes. If you are thinking about running a nutrition challenge to kick off 2020, this is a must listen. Also, head over to sevenfigurebox.com/challenge to pick up the exact templates we used to run the challenge in our gym.

When you think about the future of your business, do you worry about your competitors or new technologies taking your members and putting you out of business? Do gyms like Orange Theory and F45, or technologies like the Peloton and Mirror, feel like threats to your future? If we try too hard to be different in the micro gym industry, we will likely put ourselves in a rat race against bigger and more powerful brands that we don't have the funds or the resources to keep up with. Even if we are "successful" with our different concept, it's only a matter of time before others copy us or replicate our ideas. So rather than aim to be different for the sake of being different, I encourage most micro gym owners to aim to be timeless with their service and their offerings. What services and environment can you create that will never go out of style? What issues can you solve, or experiences can you provide, that your customer will still have a need for years and decades into the future? What value do you provide today that can't easily be replicated by new technologies? In this episode, I discuss what it means to be timeless versus being different. I also talk about how we are in the process of re-writing our vision statement at CrossFit Palm Beach to be more timeless, and adopt a more infinite mindset.

Keeping your members engaged and committed throughout the year isn't always easy, especially if your gym is seasonal or has slower times of the year. One of the ways we have found to improve engagement and retention during our slower summer months is with BINGO. BINGO is a month-long competition that combines various tasks and challenges related to fitness, attendance, community, social media, and more. It's an idea we originally stole from Orangetheory Fitness, and has become a much anticipated event over the last 3 years at CrossFit Palm Beach. This episode covers everything you need to know to run a successful BINGO month at your gym. To download our cards and rules, head over to sevenfigurebox.com/bingo to learn more.

In this episode, Ackerman sits down with Andrew Frezza who is one of the owners of CrossFit Palm Beach in Jupiter, FL. Which has been open for close to 7 years, last year brought in over seven figures in profits and has reached that 500 members. For a box that is out of the heavily density populated area is amazing. This may be a surprise as you’ve probably never heard of either himself or this brother Tony Frezza or Crossfit Palm Beach if you live outside of Florida area. This episode really highlights what it takes to make your box grow as a business and how you don’t need to be on Staff to do that or have a Games athletes training at your gym. What it becomes clear from Andrew was how much he's cared about his members having the best hour of their day had helped the box grow to where it is today. Check out the extra goodies about this episode on besthouroftheirday.com Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Find us on Instagram: @besthouroftheirday + @thejasonackerman Check out our website - besthouroftheirday.com - to learn more about our private coaches development group. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jason-ackerman/support

This episode shares some of the things that I've had to give up in recent years in order to create the time, energy, and attention to do the necessary things to grow CrossFit Palm Beach into a seven figure gym. If you have a lot of extraneous activities like social media, TV, Netflix, Prime Video, golf, drinking with your friends, surfing the internet, shopping, and video games eating away at your time, then it's going to be difficult to find room for important business and personal development action items. But rather than just simply cutting out everything from your life, I want you to build some self awareness around what activities actually give you joy and contribute to your life, and which activities are actually taking away from your overall health, happiness, and well being.

For many years at CrossFit Palm Beach, I felt like I was failing miserably as a leader. I wasn’t able to get my team to do things that I knew they were capable of, and even saw some good employees become entitled or become worse team members under my watch. I’ve realized that leadership is a lot like dating, where you will likely have to go through a lot of bad relationships to eventually know how to create good ones. If you’ve ever been in a good relationship and then broken up, it’s likely because you and the other person lacked the maturity, communication, or relationship skill set, to make that relationship work in the long term. But there’s also a high likelihood that the other person wasn’t going to be your soulmate anyways, regardless of how mature or skilled you were, simply because they weren’t the right person. As I’ve started to become more confident and more effective as a leader, I realize that the progression hasn’t been 100% due to the changes I’ve made to my personal approach or personal development. A large portion of my growth as a leader has come from being surrounded by great followers and great team players, that have taught me how to be a better leader. In this episode I talk more about this concept of how leadership is like dating, and how you can be more patient and forgiving of yourself as you develop into the coach, business owner, and leader you want to be.

Over the last few years at CrossFit Palm Beach, we have evolved our coaching staff where everyone on our team is now a full-time coach or working towards becoming one. We've noticed a huge benefit from having 100% of our coaching team fully invested and fully committed to CFPB and our members, and we've decided that those are the people we want to work alongside each day. But every week, I still talk to gym owners that have several part-time coaches on staff, and I try to break down the advantages and disadvantages of having part-timers. Part-time coaches can be a great asset to your business, we just need to be intentional about their role, and they need to be held to a clear standard, similar to what you hold yourself and your other full-time coaches to. In this episode, I break down those 3 standards that all part-time coaches need to meet, in order for them to be a valuable asset to your gym. I also talk about how to start moving away from a part-time team, if you think your gym could benefit from having more full-timers on staff.

As coaches, most of us are constantly stressing the value of mastering the fundamentals to our athletes. Yet, as business owners, we many times ignore the fundamentals in favor of the shiny new marketing tactic or the urgent issue that's staring us in the face today. Tell us to create a progression to help someone achieve their first ring muscle up, and you'll likely get a detailed plan of drills and progressions that we feel confident will deliver the result. Yet, if you ask most gym owners how they are going to get to 200 members or $50,000 per month in revenue, they can't outline a clear action plan. The problem is, the fundamentals that make up a great business aren't as clear to us as the fundamentals that make up something like the snatch or the handstand push up. We just aren't as well versed in business as we are in movement. Or more correctly said, we haven't invested the hours or attention on the business side, that we've invested into coaching and studying movement. In this episode, I talk about how we've had to take a step back at CrossFit Palm Beach to revisit the fundamentals of our business. I share my favorite new resource for doing this yourself - which is the book, "Founder, Farmer, Tinker, Thief" By Chris Cooper. Lastly, I share with you an amazing free gift, which is a copy of our recently completed staff playbook for CrossFit Palm Beach. This playbook is an 80+ page blueprint for how we run everything at CFPB. To get your FREE copy of the playbook, head to sevenfigurebox.com/staffplaybook.

Starting a podcast is one of the best ways to build your brand, improve member retention, and scale your time as a coach so you can reach more people. But most people don’t launch a podcast because they think it’s way harder or more expensive than it actually is. In this episode, I show you how to launch a podcast for free through Anchor, and the only thing you need to buy is a good quality microphone. (I give you the exact microphone I use) I also break down some of the surprising benefits of having a podcast, like how having a gym podcast for CrossFit Palm Beach has enabled us to hire better quality coaches from around the country.

While visiting Portland for the Iron and Mortar experience, we dropped in to a local CrossFit gym to hop in on one of their class workouts. All in all we had a great time and enjoyed the gym and the workout, but we kept noticing little and big things throughout the class that was preventing this gym from being more successful. We decided that this would be a great opportunity to break down a class experience in detail, and show you guys how we look at a class from start to finish. And while our commentary might sound harsh at times, just know that this is the same level of scrutiny we bring to our own classes and coaches each day at CrossFit Palm Beach.

In this week’s episode, I’m excited to interview Markus Gerszi, the owner of Gymwright. Markus coaches gym owners on how to run a better business, and he has been one of the most influential people in the growth of CrossFit Palm Beach over the last 3 years. In fact, when we started working with Markus and Gymwright starting in the back half of 2017, it led to the fastest growing 6-month period that we have ever experienced at CFPB. Markus has a unique perspective on the industry as a former affiliate owner, and now as a business coach, as well as someone who is leading a team of business coaches. We break down the current state of the gym industry, including which trends you should jump on, and which trends you need to ignore. We also talk a lot about marketing, how he defines being a coach, and what success really looks like in our industry.

Over the last 3 months we've effectively tripled our monthly personal training revenue at CrossFit Palm Beach, and are finally growing an area of our gym that we neglected for most of the first 6+ years we've been in business.  The turning point for us, was working with Active Life, and having all of our coaches go through their coaches' workshop this past March.   While this likely won't be a magic bullet for your business (and it wasn't for us either), no other seminar or certification has had a faster ROI on our business, which is why I feel so compelled to share our experience with you guys.   Active Life gave us a set of tools that we never had before as coaches, they taught us how to communicate and sell that new value to our potential clients, and they helped us standardize our rates and stop undercharging for our services.   This episode covers why and how this was so impactful for our business, and what steps you can take to dramatically grow this area of your gym.  

Want to learn how to get a Micro Gym to $1,000,000 a year? Well, then you need to speak with someone who has done it. Prepare to meet Andrew Frezza, the owner of the unassuming, mega successful, CrossFit Palm Beach. . Andrew and his brother, Tony, have recognized some major holes in the way traditional CrossFit is delivered, they plugged those holes, and members, and staff, stopped falling through them. This approach to business is a human approach and one that emphasizes the soft skills most gyms ignore. . Andrew teaches these skills to other gym owners through his mentorship program, the Rockstar Coaching Course. If you love this podcast , please click HERE to leave a review. Thank you again for all of your trust, attention, and support. Follow us on instagram at @ActiveLifeRx @DrSeanPastuch  @ActiveLifeProfessional

A boot-camp style class can be a great way to get more people to try your gym, increase revenue and profits, and allow you to help people earlier in their fitness journey. But many gym owners are adding boot-camp style programs with no strategic plan, and the program ends up looking like a watered-down version of their CrossFit classes. We made this mistake the first time we launched this type of program at CrossFit Palm Beach, and we ended up having to shut it down after a few months. If you want to make this new program successful, you have to treat it as its own brand and culture. You need to aim to create a different experience from start to finish, not just remove the barbell and some technical gymnastics movements, and hope people won't notice that it's actually CrossFit. This episode covers some of the key ways to launch and run a successful bootcamp program, including branding, programming, and how long these classes should be.

A little over a year ago, we stopped using a private coaches Facebook group, and exclusively started using the Slack app for our internal communication amongst our CrossFit Palm Beach team. Not only did this allow our team members to spend less time on social media, but it created more communication amongst our team, and allowed us to organize our communication in a consistent and searchable format. I now recommend Slack to every gym owner (and business owner) that I speak to. The best part is, 99% of gyms out there should be able to function with the free version of the app. This episode covers in detail why you should use Slack, and also breaks down the exact way we use it at CFPB on a daily basis.

One of the best investments I have ever made in myself and our gym is paying for a business coach. Recently I started working with another business coach (I have 2 now) to help me dial in my schedule and continue to build the Seven Figure Box brand and podcast, without taking away from the goals we've set for CrossFit Palm Beach. In just our first week working together, I already feel like I've accomplished more than I have in the last couple months, and I've paved the way to live a happier, healthier, and more productive life in the coming months and years. This episode breaks down everything I am working on with my coach, so you as the listener can take advantage of all the things I am learning and implementing.

You guys know I live with an abundance mentality. I frequently invite what would be "competitors" in my space (either gym or consulting related) onto my podcast because I always want to fuck with the best and continue to learn from other. And I'm continuing that trend by having Andrew Freeza, owner of CrossFit Palm Beach and Seven Figure Box podcast/coaching, onto the podcast today. Imagine if you got to be a fly on the wall while two guys who have built successful businesses, walked away to build successful consulting/coaching services were just shooting the shit on business + industry. That's what you're going to get on this podcast.

When I attended Ben Bergeron's Business of Excellence Seminar back in 2013, I was shocked to hear that his affiliate was bringing in over 7 figures in annual revenue in a small town in Massachusetts. At the time, we hadn't even celebrated our first anniversary at CrossFit Palm Beach, and barely surpassed $200,000 in revenue that first year. I felt like we were so far away from the success they were having at CrossFit New England, but it was extremely inspiring to me, and forced me to think differently about our business moving forward. What I didn't realize at the time, was the power of the compound effect. When we repeat positive actions day after day in our personal and professional life, it's almost impossible for us to fathom the level of success and fulfillment we can achieve over the course of 5 or 10 years. This episode covers how we have benefitted from the compound effect at CrossFit Palm Beach (including our annual revenue numbers from the last 6 years), and how I use the compound effect as a guiding principle with new ventures that I take on, like the Seven Figure Box podcast and the Rockstar Coaching Course. This is one of my favorite episodes to date and one that I hope you get a lot of value out of!

The Open has always been a huge community event for us the last 6 years at CrossFit Palm Beach. Last year, we had over 130 athletes sign up for the CrossFit Games Open and participate in our intramural CFPB Open. This year, we are making a few key changes to our in-house Open. One of the biggest changes is we are only counting the first attempt of each Open workout towards the intramural team score, and are encouraging all of our athletes to do “one and done” this year. This will bring even more fun and excitement to our Friday classes and Friday Night Bar Fights event, and improve the class experience on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday when athletes would normally be retesting the workout. This episode covers everything you need to know to run a successful 2019 Open, including sponsors, prizes, skill seminars, and how to leverage the Open for improving retention and signing up new members.

We've spent the last month interviewing and hiring a new full-time coach for CrossFit Palm Beach, and have spent countless hours on the phone and in-person interviewing candidates for the position. One of the most integral parts of the hiring process is asking the right questions. In this episode we share our favorite questions to ask in an interview, to help you better connect with coaching candidates, and learn about them on a deeper level.

When it comes to yearly planning, most affiliate owners are playing defense, when they should be playing offense. We allow outside influences, or the urgency of the day-to-day, to determine how we spend our time, money, and attention throughout the year, instead of defining in advance what our priorities are going to be. This episode covers some of the things we will be doing at CrossFit Palm Beach over the next couple weeks to prepare for 2019, like reviewing our 2018 numbers, automating our savings for big one-time expenses, and setting our calendar of events for 2019. We hope this podcast helps you make 2019 your best year yet!

One of our six core values at CrossFit Palm Beach, is the class comes first. While most core values at a lot of companies are generic words like honesty, integrity, or commitment, we've specifically tried to create core values that are more tangible, actionable, and help differentiate us from other businesses. The class comes first is a reminder for us to constantly reinvest our time, money, and energy into the class experience, since it makes up more than 80% of our business. We use this core value daily to address potential distractions, guide equipment purchases, make hiring decisions, and shape new product offerings. This episode dives into the why behind the class comes first, and how we use it constantly to guide our day-to-day decisions.

Whenever we hire a new coach or employee, we always put more value on the character and personality of a person, more than their experience or technical knowledge. While expertise is a nice bonus, it can sometimes distract us from the most important thing, which is whether or not this person is a cultural fit for our team and our community. We're currently in the midst of hiring a new coach at CrossFit Palm Beach, and I created a short list of questions to help me prioritize the right things when evaluating new applicants. This podcast episode is sharing those exact 6 questions I am using to narrow down our coaching search, and make sure we add the right people to our team.

In this episode, we talk with Andrew Frezza, co-owner of CrossFit Palm Beach and the awesome podcast Seven Figure Box. We discuss hiring coaches, when certifications don't matter and awesome new course for coaches! Check it out and get ready for the knowledge bombs! This podcast is sponsored by Beard Bros Ink Shop, the best damn place to get custom apparel at a great price for the CrossFit industry. Find them at www.bbinkshop.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/barbelljobs/support

Most of the growth that we have experienced over the last year at CrossFit Palm Beach is due to the exponential growth of our BeachFit program. Creating your own non-barbell class can you help you create a lower barrier to entry to your gym, have class options for people who are intimidated or uninterested in CrossFit, and help you to appeal more to the masses. In this episode, Tony and I discuss the many benefits CFPB has experienced from having a boot-camp style class, and some tips for implementing this into your own gym.

To turn coaching into a true career opportunity, we need to provide both compensation and fulfillment to our employees. Compensation could include pay for group classes, personal training, nutrition coaching, social media roles, administrative tasks, cleaning, or any roles other roles outside of coaching. It can also include miscellaneous things like vacation days, health care, free memberships, continuing education, retirement plans, retail products, and raises that may happen in the future. Fulfillment usually comes from a combination of opportunities for growth, feeling like there's a purpose behind what you do, and having strong relationships with those you work with and interact with each day. It's less tangible and harder to measure, but may be even more important than the compensation piece. This episode covers how we think about compensation and fulfillment at CrossFit Palm Beach, and how we try to create more of it for our coaches.

Want to know our top 3 tips for new gym owners? Want to know the things we would do differently if we opened CrossFit Palm Beach today? This episode covers our top 3 tips for new gym owners and elaborates on why I chose those 3. I also cover some additional tips that we would implement if we had to start from scratch and rebuild CrossFit Palm Beach today.

This episode covers how we do our programming and lesson plans at CrossFit Palm Beach. We cover how we evolve the programming throughout the year to keep it fresh and fun for the members, and how we look at programming from both a macro and micro view. We cover the step-by-step process we take on a weekly basis, and why its important to have deadlines and accountability built in to the programming process. And lastly we show you how to take programming and make it into a great lesson plan, which is ultimately the most valuable part of a consistent and great class experience.

Sundays have long been a sacred day in the affiliate community, and there are still lots of gyms that never offer Sunday classes. We followed a similar path at CrossFit Palm Beach for the first 5 years we were in business, opting to offer Sunday open gym instead of Sunday classes. In many ways, taking Sundays off can be a much needed break for our coaches, our programming, and most importantly, ourselves. But once we begin to grow our teams and delegate some coaching hours, offering classes 7 days-week should be one of the first things we consider. This episode covers why and how to run Sunday classes, and how our Sunday attendance exponentially grew at CFPB, when we switched from open gym to classes.

Most programming is not overrated because it's bad or not effective, it's that we're optimizing for the wrong things. Too many of us who do programming are focused on the competitive side of CrossFit and getting our members fitter in the short term, instead of fueling our members lives outside the gym, and pushing off the nursing home as long as possible. This episode reveals the top 3 things we focus on when doing our programming at CrossFit Palm Beach, and why a great lesson plan is far more valuable than "great" programming ever could be.

In this episode, I talk about why I take classes every day at CrossFit Palm Beach, and why I feel that it is one of the most productive hours that I spend improving our business. As a gym owner, the benefits of taking classes extend far beyond improving your own fitness and personal stress relief, although those two things can't be overlooked. Taking classes is a chance to connect with our members, improve our programming, develop our coaches, lead by example as an athlete, and help to create an in-class experience that the members and I look forward to each day.

When hiring coaches for our affiliates, we are no longer limited to the local relationships we have, or the members who are currently a part of our gym. We truly have access to a global market of coaches and owners that we can hire from, or find career opportunities with. This podcast covers how and why we went about hiring our last 2 coaches at CrossFit Palm Beach from across the country, and how there are advantages to hiring from the outside.

We started a committed club at CrossFit Palm Beach in 2017 as a fun way of increasing member engagement, setting clearer expectations of our clients, and increasing retention. Since instituting the committed club, we couldn't be happier with the results. This episode dives into the specifics of how we run our committed club at CFPB, and all the benefits we have seen since starting it.