Day 5 of Beyond Fitness Was a Success!

We started the day planning our future outlook and designs for the group gym businesses. We then traveled to Concord for the afternoon and met a fitness trainer at his own gym, Fun Intelligent Training. He spoke to our group about some amazing real life challenges and roller coaster moments in his career in this industry and as an entrepreneur, and he hit home the idea that hard work goes a long way, especially while you are having fun in what you do! His lecture was awesome, and he even put us through one of his Bootcamp style class workouts... boy were we sweating! So much fun!

We got back to school in the afternoon and put some last minute touches on our business proposals and ideas. We then finished the presentations... and the winner was...

Auden, Teddy and Jake with their gym called Young Souls! Becca and Kaitlyn created a Zumba facility. Stella, Riley and Nastia put a unique spin on a spa and fitness facility. Cheickna, Chuk, Ethan, Beckoff, and Carter took a big plunge into a large sports and fitness facility with a little bit of everything for a spectrum of clientele.

Each business proposal was unique and innovative - the students really worked hard and made their ideas really come to life in their sales pitch!

It was a wonderful week overall! :)

Beyond Fitness Meets with Alex Ray of Common Man

Beyond Fitness Day 4 brought us to our first full day on campus. Today's focus was project work time and workout lessons in the morning, then a wonderful guest speaker, Alex Ray the owner of the Common Man, midday. Alex was an amazing speaker, showing great expertise in the business world with 45 plus years dominating the NH restaurant market. He possesses a great humor and some fabulous insight into the challenges and risks that go along with starting up a business! The afternoon brought about additional project time putting in the work of actually creating our Gym designs and structures.

Day 5 is around the corner and will allow for us to put some final touches on our gym presentations and business proposals. Also we will be traveling to meet a gym owner who started his business through a grad school project opportunity just like the one we are doing, and he will be showing us a specialty workout in his own gym!

Stay tuned...

Beyond Fitness: Day 3

Beyond Fitness took on day 3 of Project Week in great stride! After a long day in Boston on day 2, day 3 started out with a late morning lesson on Body Weight workouts by Riley, Auden and Teddy. Then we got a workout in, because as gym owners exercise is a must each day. From there we began breaking down our ideas for our new gyms in our small groups, brainstorming, organizing, and strategizing ideas on philosphy, finances, and the overall market.

In the evening hours, we traveled to Tilton and visited a local entrepreneur at Awakening Chiropractic. Dr. Jilian was super impressive with her innovation, risk taking, brand management, and overall mission focus. The versatility in her company was so impressive... chiropractic services, whole health nutrition, exercise classes, and even a healthy cafe option. We were so happy to have the opportunity to explore her business and her insight into starting up a business.

Tomorrow we take on the Common Man and how to manage a business after the start up process.

Stay Tuned...

FitBiz in Boston

Beyond Fitness explored the business world of Boston today, continuing to create their vision of their individual fitness businesses and bettering their planning processes on how to go about putting their visions into action!

From venturing through the busy business district of the North End, to meeting with a tech-savvy company called Evertrue in the ever-growing start-up district of Boston, our group learned a lot! Networking, mentors, Linked-In, and angel investors are all various ingredients to get a business off the ground!

Business 101 with Beyond Fitness

NHS Project Week is off and running and ideas are already rolling. Beyond Fitness talking some Business 101 and goals for the week in an opening classroom session. Next, we're off to explore some local gyms and start building ideas for our own gyms!