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Jean-Paul · 10-12-2007, 04:59 PM

That's a tough question (but a good question for sure!), because I know how I'd like to start one now, but the fitness industry has really changed in the 20 years that I've been a trainer.

To tell you the truth, I don't know that I could put myself through starting up from the beginning again. If I knew then what I know now I would never have opened a fitness center. It's more cost effective to work for someone else.

Well, I say that but I also know that I'm really not employable. I gotta do things my own way.

I would probably go with a franchise that has a built in system for management and not go out and reinvent the wheel. I would have not had to make every mistake ever imagined (and then some).

10-12-2007, 04:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jean-Paul I think, therefore I post Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Little Rock, AR Posts: 15,441 My Profile	That's a tough question (but a good question for sure!), because I know how I'd like to start one now, but the fitness industry has really changed in the 20 years that I've been a trainer. To tell you the truth, I don't know that I could put myself through starting up from the beginning again. If I knew then what I know now I would never have opened a fitness center. It's more cost effective to work for someone else. Well, I say that but I also know that I'm really not employable. I gotta do things my own way. I would probably go with a franchise that has a built in system for management and not go out and reinvent the wheel. I would have not had to make every mistake ever imagined (and then some). __________________ Jean-Paul Francoeur www.jpfitness.com http://forums.jpfitness.com "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain