Today we celebrate 9 years of being in business!!
9 years ago right after the birth of my first child, I decided to take a leap of faith and a $40,000 pay cut to strike out on my own and go full time in my business. Everyone said I was crazy. My family advised against it, my friends told me not to. We are in the middle of a recession, the economy is terrible, you just had a baby, etc, etc.
But something inside of me said, ‘I know this can work.’ It was probably part arrogance, part ignorance, but I felt like I could do it, so I did.
We started off in 800 square feet of space with 3 people. I borrowed $12,000 from my brother because no bank would loan me any money. We had 3 squat racks, some barbells, a climbing rope, a homemade pull up rig, some wall balls, and a few kettlebells, that was it. In 3 months, we had 30 people and needed to move, and buy more equipment. That’s when we found our current building. I borrowed $25,000 from my step dad to fund the build out and equipment purchases and began growing the business. It was at that point where I knew we had something special and I could make this thing work.
Since then, we have helped thousands of people. Literally thousands. We’ve had the opportunity to change people’s lives and to me that’s amazing. I truly feel I am working where I’m gifted and I love my life, my business, the staff, and all our members.
30% of all small business fail during the first 2 years of operation. 50% during the first 5 years fail, and 66% during the first 10 years.
We are 9 years in and continually change people’s lives. Thank you so much for believing in us, and I can’t wait to see where the next 9 years takes us!
11-12-18
Workout:
‘Bert’
There are 3 versions of this workout Levels 3 / Levels 2/ Levels 1 The rep schemes for each level is listed beside the scaled movements.
Choose which version you are going to do and scale appropriately.
Burpees x 50/ 40/ 20
400m run
Push ups x 100/ 80/ 30
400m run
Walking Lunges x 150/ 120/ 40
400m run
Squats x 200 / 160/ 50
400m run
Walking Lunges x 150/ 120/ 40
400m run
Push ups x 100/ 80/ 30
400m run
Burpees x 50/ 40/ 20