Fitness Business University Podcast
The Fitness Business University Podcast — The #1 Fitness Business Podcast — is the go-to educational show for gym owners, by gym owners. Hosted by Vince Gabriele, a seasoned pro with 18 years in the trenches of the fitness industry, this podcast pulls back the curtain on the real strategies, systems, and money-making wisdom that have helped gyms around the world grow and thrive.If you’re a Gym Owner or Fitness Entrepreneur ready to get more clients, make more money, and free up your time to do what you love, this is your playbook. Vince delivers a funny, straight-talking, no B.S. approach — no fluff...
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How to Get Clarity
<p>Click Here to learn more about how I help gym owners:<br>https://vincegabriele.com</p><p>20 years of owning a gym, and one thing I've learned is that being busy and knowing what you're doing are two very different things.</p><p>It's easy to get caught up in the day to day. You have a million things demanding your attention. Your staff needs answers. There are decisions to make. And somehow, with all that going on, you can still feel like you're not getting anywhere.</p><p>That's where clarity comes in. Not another complicated business strategy...
Weird Ways Gym Owners Are Getting New Customers in 2026
<p>Click Here to get free books and resources to grow your gym:<br>https://www.vincegabriele.com/</p><p>15% of one gym owner's customers came from BNI. I went to one BNI meeting years ago and hated it. Thought it was boring, weird, and had no interest in ever going back. So naturally, I just had Mike join one. I'll explain why.</p><p>Facebook ads are getting more expensive, the quality of leads is getting worse, and a lot of gym owners are sitting around wondering what happened. The funny thing is, some of the most successful guys...
How to Go from 6 to 7 Figures
<p>Click Here to join us in Denver on November 13th and 14th: https://www.vincegabriele.com/events/7-figure-breakthrough/</p><p>First solo episode in a while. I recorded this one outside walking around a field, so if you hear birds and a train going by, that is why.</p><p>I want to talk about going from six to seven figures, and I want to start by taking the air out of it. Over a decade ago I was one of the only gyms I knew doing seven figures. A buddy was so stunned by it that he talked...
Getting Naked in Front of 12 Other Gym Owners
<p>Click Here to join us in Denver on November 13th and 14th: https://www.vincegabriele.com/events/7-figure-breakthrough/</p><p><br>Weird title, I know. Here is where it came from.</p><p><br>Back in 2019 I was coaching a lot of gym owners and almost all of it was built on assumptions. I would ask somebody a specific question about their numbers and nobody had the answer. It is the same thing we all deal with on the training floor. The client who is 40 pounds overweight tells you he eats eggs for breakfast and salad for lunch. Business...
The Coach You Can’t Fire (And 4 More Gym Problems, Solved)
<p>Click Here to get a custom local marketing plan for your gym, completely free: https://www.vincegabriele.com/helpmemarket</p><p><br>Big Tom and I did something different this week. Instead of picking a topic, we took the questions straight from my SPF group. Five of them. All the same problems I hear every week on deep dives and coaching calls.</p><p><br>We start with pricing, because Mike Williams from Florida asked how often you should actually raise your rates. That turned into the bigger conversation about why gym owners refuse to do it. I just...
20 Years of Gym Owner Gold in 1-Hour
<p>Most gym owners are grinding on the wrong problem for the stage they are actually in. Take the 5 minute audit and find out what deserves your attention right now: https://fourstagesquiz.com/<br><br></p><p>Dustin Bogle is a former pro wrestler who trained in a backyard ring built by his buddy's dad. Those buddies turned out to be The Young Bucks. He wrestled for ten years, set himself a hard deadline of age 28, and when the big contract never came he walked away cold turkey and went all in on his gym.</p><p>What happened next...
Fitness Business Advice that is Killing Owners
<p>Find out what stage your gym is in and exactly what to focus on right now. Takes 5 minutes: https://www.fourstagesquiz.com/<br><br></p><p>Some of the advice killing gym owners sounds perfectly reasonable. Never raise your members’ rates. Open another location. Copy the model that’s working for somebody else.</p><p>Tom and I break down the advice owners need to stop following, and why even good advice can be wrong for your business right now.</p><p>Tom starts with one that a lot of trainers hear: you’re great at this, you should open y...
The # 1 Cause of Stress in Gym Owners (and how to reduce it dramatically)
<p>Find out what stage your gym is in and exactly what to focus on right now. Takes 5 minutes: https://www.fourstagesquiz.com/<br><br></p><p>Quick one today. The new book is close to done and it has a new title.</p><p>It was originally The Four Stages of Fitness Business Success, which sounds terrible once you say it out loud. Then I sat down at a seminar next to the book editor for all of Tim Ferriss' books and he spent an hour with me on titles. </p><p>New title: The Four Stages of Gym...
The #1 Chokehold on Any Business
<p>If you need help and you'd like to reach out to Vince personally, send an email to him directly at vince@gabrielefitness.com<br><br></p><p>Last year I hired Dax Moy. I'd just sold a company, my mom was in the thick of being very ill, and I wanted to take my consulting business to the next level. I'd had business coaches for two decades at that point. What I realized was that the thing standing between me and the next level wasn't more knowledge. It was my development as a leader and as a man.</p><...
I triple checked with my wife that I can share this story with you… she said yes (surprisingly)
<p>If you need help and you'd like to reach out to Vince personally, send an email to him directly at vince@gabrielefitness.com<br><br></p><p>I'm four hours into a ruck in the Watchung Reservation training for the Grand Canyon, and I'm not talking about business today. I'm talking about your marriage. Or your significant other. Which I'd argue is the most important business relationship you have.</p><p>I told the story I've never told publicly. Vanessa and I separated six months after we got married. She moved back to California. I mailed the divorce papers...
