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GYM OWNERS

Create more income, impact, and freedom

Get personalized coaching, a proven system, and expert guidance to help you grow.

Does this sound familiar?

Most gym owners are stuck in one or more of these four ruts.

Our systems help you build a gym — and life — you love. You’ll improve profitability, build a rock-solid team, and be able to step away from the day-to-day without the wheels coming off.

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You’re working your ass off. But you’re not making the money you want.
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Your gym is fully on your shoulders. If you take a day off, chaos ensues.
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You struggle to build a reliable team that you — and your clients — love.
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You’re overwhelmed by endless marketing and operations to do lists.

The Gym Owner Freedom Formula™

Here’s our proven system for helping gym owners create more income, impact, and freedom.
Unicorn Society 4 Week Kickstart™

Unicorn Society 4-Week Kickstart™

Jumpstart your growth with a series of live workshops designed to help you clarify your goals, build momentum, and start making progress in just 30 days.

Quarterly Planning Workshops Progress Check ins

Quarterly Planning Workshops & Progress Check-ins

Every 90 days, you’ll step back from the daily grind to set goals, review numbers, and troubleshoot challenges - so you always know what to focus on next.

Spring Fall 2 Day Live Retreats

Spring & Fall 2-Day Live Retreats

Join fellow gym owners for an immersive, in-person retreat where you’ll get fresh strategic insight, deepen your leadership skills, and return home recharged and refocused.

1 1 Coaching Calls Accountability

1:1 Coaching Calls & Accountability Texts

Work directly with your coach to tackle challenges, make confident decisions, and stay accountable—all with personalized support that meets you where you are.

Unlimited Weekly Office Hours

Unlimited Weekly Office Hours

Bring your questions to our live weekly calls and get real-time answers, fast feedback, and consistent support from experienced coaches who know how to help you move forward.

Group Workshops

Group Workshops

Dive deep into topics like leadership, systems, sales, and retention—so you can build a stronger business with practical tools you can use right away.

Unicorn University

Unicorn University

Access a growing library of on-demand courses to help you master every corner of your gym business—from marketing and hiring to leadership and finances.

Private Facebook Group

Private Facebook Group

Stay connected with a supportive community of gym owners who get it—ask questions, share wins, and learn from peers who are walking the same path.

Content Library

Content Library

Get instant access to 70+ proven playbooks, tools, and templates that help you implement best practices without reinventing the wheel.

Real Results from Real Gyms

Mickey Brueckner ANNEX SPORTS PERFORMANCE

We’ve increased $190,000 in total revenue and about $140,000 in profitability. I am no longer coaching crazy hours on the floor.

Mickey Brueckner

ANNEX SPORTS PERFORMANCE

Marie Merrit MOMENTUM FIT
Since joining Business for Unicorns, our revenue has increased from an average of $60,000 a month to $75,000 a month.

Marie Merrit

MOMENTUM FIT

Tim & Jen Concannon NOTHING STRONGER
We have increased our monthly revenue by $20k and our annual profit was nearly $100k more while doubling our gym space.

Tim & Jen Concannon

NOTHING STRONGER

We’ve increased our gross revenue by 73% and I was able to take a three month paternity leave, ad I’m still able to take my son to daycare and pick him up. I have weekends again to spend with my family.

Sean Del Ben

SALTUS PERFORMANCE

Since I started Business for Unicorns, my recurring billing has increased $20,000 a month. My total active member base has increased 55% and I’ve also doubled my take home pay.

Tina Morin

MSC STRENGTH

Who We Are

Seasoned gym operators sharing hard-won lessons to help you build a wildly successful fitness business.
Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher

Built Mark Fisher Fitness into one of the country’s highest-grossing gyms, generating $34m in sales over 13 years before selling it in 2024.
Michael Keeler

Michael Keeler

Co-founded Mark Fisher Fitness, a two-time Inc. 5000 company featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Pete Dupuis

Pete Dupuis

Co-founded Cressey Sports Performance, which is widely considered one of the most successful athlete-training gyms in the world.
Ben Pickard

Ben Pickard

Founded Lean Strong Fitness & Wellness, where he averaged $150k+ in profit over the last 10 years, and is now the COO of BFU.

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FAQs

What exactly does the US include?

Ok, hold on to your hats. Here are all the bells and whistles…

COACHING

  • Up to 60 minutes of 1-on-1 Coaching Calls
    – So you get customized support to decide what to fix next and coaching on how to fix it
  • Weekly Accountability Text Check-Ins
    So you stay on track with your Most Important Next Action
  • 10+ Office Hours Per Week
    – So you can always  access on-demand coaching
  • Complementary Access to BFU’s 12-Week Marketing Sprint
    – So you can follow along a  done-for-you curriculum to master gym marketing
  • PLUS We will coach your team for you
    – So you can rely on industry experts to help develop and upskill your staff

CONTENT

  • 60+ Playbooks
    So you have a done-for-you solution to any problem and any copy-pastable system you may need
  • Unicorn University Library of Video Courses
    – So you can go deep on important topics for gym owners like time management, leadership, customer service, wealth-building, and more
  • Live Weekly Trainings
    – So you stay up-to-date with fresh trainings on exactly what’s working now
  • SOPs for Mark Fisher Fitness and Cressey Sports Performance
    – So you can model the systems used by two of the most successful gyms in the industry
  • Done-for-you 2025 Marketing Calendar with swipeable copy, scripts, offers, dates, and more
    – So you can have a simple, effective, and copy-pastable plan of action to grow your gym in 2025
  • Did we mention your team gets access to all of this too?

COMMUNITY

  • In-Person Retreats:
    – Toronto March 21st-22nd: Marketing & Sales
    – Denver September 26th-27th: People & Systems
        – 3 Free Tickets for You and 2 Team Members
    So you can travel to awesome places, connect with like-minded gym owners, and  learn from industry experts
  • Small Group Meet-Ups in Seattle, Austin, NYC, Boston, NJ, South FL, London, and more
    So you have even more chances to meet in-person with other members and gym owners in a small group setting
  • Members Only Facebook Group
    – So you can immediately crowdsource solutions and resources from the entire group

The Unicorn Society is a 12 month commitment. Just like you expect your clients to take their commitment seriously, we expect the same.

That said, we know sometimes life really and truly gets in the way. So we’ll always work with you if truly extenuating circumstances pop up.

And/or you try it out and for some reason you hate our guts. 😉

We have 10+ Office Hours calls per week. So it’s very unlikely you won’t be able to find an Office Hour.

Also, you have up to 60 minutes of 1-on-1 coaching per month that fits around your schedule. PLUS you get access to video recordings of our weekly trainings.

We’ll be sad and cry! But we’ll still love you.

The retreats are one of the most valuable parts of membership, and our most successful members attend at least one (if not both) each year.

That said, we understand it can be hard to get away. That’s why we make high-quality video recordings of all talks to upload to our online learning platform.

Pretty much. Technically we had 2 locations in New York City at one point. But the second wasn’t open very long. So the vast majority of our revenue came from 1 location. And yes, it was over $30 million. In fact, almost $34 million between 2012-2024. But who’s counting? 😉

If you have less than 30 active clients and don’t work full time in the business, sadly we can’t help you. In most cases, you’re best served by our free resources while you grow to 30 active clients. We recommend starting HERE.

Once you have 30 clients, you’re eligible for our 12-week marketing sprint. For the Unicorn Society itself, we usually suggest a minimum of 50 clients. We occasionally break this rule if you’re a stone cold killer.

You also need to have some time to work on your business. If you have absolutely no time to do anything at all, it’s not going to be the right fit. We give you plenty of copy-pastable stuff, but even those resources need some time to be implemented.

Also, if you don’t actually own a gym or fitness studio, then we can’t help you. Sorry personal trainers and online coaches; we love ya, but we are not the droid you are looking for.

Our bread and butter is gyms and fitness studios that offer small or large group strength training and/or sports performance. That’s what most of our members do. And it’s what our co-founders and coaches offer at their gyms.

We also work great with class-based models that have a strength component, like CrossFits and other independent brands. And some of our client gyms offer primarily one-on-one personal training.

We’re not the best fit if you’re a big box gym with open access memberships (unless you’d like to roll out a small group training option, then we can help). We’re also not the best fit for non-strength training modalities like yoga, pilates, cycling, kickboxing, etc.

While we’re fitness agnostic and love to see people moving and being active, we also know enough to stay in our lane. So we focus on modalities and business models where we have a proven track record, both in our own gyms and with our clients.

We do! In fact, our co-founder Mark Fisher currently owns a fitness franchise, Alloy Personal Training. So he’s very familiar with the in’s and out’s of franchising as a model, and we have other franchisees in our group.

That said, check out the FAQ above about “what kind of gyms we work with” to learn more about what modalities are — and aren’t — a fit. And remember, when you work with a franchise system, the franchisor will make a lot of the final calls about what plays you can and can’t run.

So while we do work with franchisees, we take that relationship seriously. Mama didn’t raise no home-wreckers! So we’ll give you playbooks you can implement, and we’ll also invite you to honor the sanctity of your business marriage. 🙂

Yep! We guarantee a $60k return within 12 months of being a Unicorn Society member. (Many of our members do a lot better, btw.) If we don’t help you achieve that, we’ll work with you for free until we do.

Definitely not. But if you wanna pay for the year up front, we’ll give you a few bucks off.

$1299 per month.

But again, you can save some cash if you want to pay-in-full.

Honestly? You don’t. And neither do we.

Because at the end of the day, it will be up to you to implement. If you’re not coachable and you execute poorly and/or slowly, we wouldn’t expect you to get different results.

And you know what else? We have no idea how good your product is. We assume you’re at least ok, as the vast majority of gym owners are not reading this or even thinking about how they can improve their business. We do provide some guidance here, mostly through our partners at Certified Functional Strength Coach. But even with the best business systems, the strength of your product is going to be a huge deal when it comes to word of mouth and retention.

Not only that, you know what else no one ever seems to talk about? Some markets are just harder than others. And that means even when you do things right, it’s going to be harder than less-crowded markets.

Ok, ok.. Did I crush your dreams? 😉 I hope not! 

Because in most cases, we CAN help.

What we know for sure is: when gym owners implement our systems, we have a track record of consistently adding $100k, $150k, $250k and more. We’ve done it again and again and again. And again. And again. 

That’s why we can guarantee you’ll add at least $60k revenue within 12 months. We’d look like idiots and go out of business if we couldn’t deliver on this.

For more, check out a bazillion testimonials and vids HERE.

And for what it’s worth? While you should damn sure DEMAND a return on your investment…

Sometimes there’s value in slightly more modest returns that ALSO cut your work week in half and lower your blood pressure with a clear plan to win over time.

That’s up to you to decide!

You can see all our bells and whistles above. And we think we got us some good-ass bells and whistles. They’ll make it a metric ton easier to increase your income, impact, and freedom.

And it’s also true we have a unique and varied track record between our partners’ experience:

  • Making nearly $34m running a gym in NYC
  • Partnering with Eric Cressey to create the world’s top baseball performance facility
  • Running a gym in Guelph, Ontario that’s pulled in multi-six figure profits for almost a decade
  • Opening up and running a franchise gym
  • Speaking and consulting all over the world to businesses in and out of fitness, from mom and pop independent gyms to globally recognized brands

 

All of this is to say nothing about our coaches who run multiple locations, operate other companies in other industries, and generally put up gonzo numbers of revenue AND take-home income.

But we’re not here to tell you we’re “better” than any other solution. Yes, there are many shady-ass characters in the “get rich quick online business coaching space.” But there are definitely other good options.

And sometimes we’re not the right vibe fit (we’re not offended).

Or sometimes you’re not ready to make this big of a commitment and investment.

Or sometimes you probably should just hire an ad agency to get you more leads.

The good news is we’re playing a long game here. And we ain’t going anywhere. If and when you want you to hop on a call, we’ll tell it to ya straight. That may mean sending you elsewhere OR telling we can help and if you don’t sign up right now you’re making a big mistake. 😉

But at the end of the day, our most important principle is this: you know your business best.

And we’re here to support in any way that feels right to you.

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