Industry leaders share their learnings from tough times / FRAME / MORGAN WHITE
Dan Summerson
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms, reflects on powerful learnings from the early days of TRIB3, the boutique gym business he co-founded with Kevin Yates.
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms Everlast Gyms
It’s difficult to get to a good position without having made a few bad calls
Pip Black and Joan Murphy co-founded group exercise concept, Frame, in 2008. Taking on investment, they expanded to eight London studios, then when the pandemic killed footfall they bought it back to save it. Here, Black talks about the heart-wrenching decisions needed to make their much- loved business sustainable again.
Pip Black, Co-founder, Frame FRAME
I’ve given my business everything, and it’s sucked half of my soul out of me, but I can’t imagine life without it
Entrepreneur Tony De Leede launched a stamp trading business at the age of 12, opened a surfboard shop at 16 and ran a fashion business with his mum before moving into the fitness industry in 1982.
Tony De Leede, entrepreneur Tony De Leede
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space
Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen took a risk buying out a partner in the early days of Anytime Fitness. Runyon talks about how that led to him and Mortensen creating the company culture that turbocharged expansion.
Chuck Runyon, Anytime Fitness Anytime Fitness
Our culture acts like gravity. It attracts good people and keeps them there
Born in South Africa, Terrence started his career working for Reg Parks launching Gold’s Gym in South Africa. In 2014, he suffered two cardiac arrests, prompting him to study mindfulness and meditation.
Terrence the Teacher, wellbeing expert Terrence the Teacher
I’d lost my sincerity and my authenticity and forgotten to take care of myself
When Jetts CEO, Elaine Jobson, received a shock cancer diagnosis she looked for templates from other leaders about how to share the news with her team. Unable to find one, she created her own. She shares her story.
Elaine Jobson, CEO, Jetts Jetts
You have two lives. The second begins when you realise you only have one
The entrepreneur and co-founder of the Urban Gym Group on how personal loss inspired her to establish Renessence, one of Europe’s first wellbeing clubs
Marjolijn Meijer, Urban Gym Group Urban Gym Group
I’ve learned that sometimes life gets very dark, but that the sun always shines again
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right
client in under 10 seconds. [more...]
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy. [more...]
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Industry leaders share their learnings from tough times / FRAME / MORGAN WHITE
Dan Summerson
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms, reflects on powerful learnings from the early days of TRIB3, the boutique gym business he co-founded with Kevin Yates.
Dan Summerson, MD of Everlast Gyms Everlast Gyms
It’s difficult to get to a good position without having made a few bad calls
Pip Black and Joan Murphy co-founded group exercise concept, Frame, in 2008. Taking on investment, they expanded to eight London studios, then when the pandemic killed footfall they bought it back to save it. Here, Black talks about the heart-wrenching decisions needed to make their much- loved business sustainable again.
Pip Black, Co-founder, Frame FRAME
I’ve given my business everything, and it’s sucked half of my soul out of me, but I can’t imagine life without it
Entrepreneur Tony De Leede launched a stamp trading business at the age of 12, opened a surfboard shop at 16 and ran a fashion business with his mum before moving into the fitness industry in 1982.
Tony De Leede, entrepreneur Tony De Leede
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space
Chuck Runyon and Dave Mortensen took a risk buying out a partner in the early days of Anytime Fitness. Runyon talks about how that led to him and Mortensen creating the company culture that turbocharged expansion.
Chuck Runyon, Anytime Fitness Anytime Fitness
Our culture acts like gravity. It attracts good people and keeps them there
Born in South Africa, Terrence started his career working for Reg Parks launching Gold’s Gym in South Africa. In 2014, he suffered two cardiac arrests, prompting him to study mindfulness and meditation.
Terrence the Teacher, wellbeing expert Terrence the Teacher
I’d lost my sincerity and my authenticity and forgotten to take care of myself
When Jetts CEO, Elaine Jobson, received a shock cancer diagnosis she looked for templates from other leaders about how to share the news with her team. Unable to find one, she created her own. She shares her story.
Elaine Jobson, CEO, Jetts Jetts
You have two lives. The second begins when you realise you only have one
The entrepreneur and co-founder of the Urban Gym Group on how personal loss inspired her to establish Renessence, one of Europe’s first wellbeing clubs
Marjolijn Meijer, Urban Gym Group Urban Gym Group
I’ve learned that sometimes life gets very dark, but that the sun always shines again
An ambitious women’s-only strength and lifting studio concept is set to launch in Dallas this
September, with a wider US rollout already in active development.
Finnish outdoor fitness equipment specialist, Omnigym, has partnered with charity, Emmaüs
Solidarité, to launch an outdoor gym installation at a homeless shelter in Paris.
People taking GLP-1 weight loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound
may be losing weight, but they’re also becoming less physically active, according to new
research presented at the ENDO 2026 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right
client in under 10 seconds. [more...]
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy. [more...]
+ More featured suppliers
COMPANY PROFILES
PSLT Ltd PSLT Fitness Solutions manufacture, remanufacture and buy back commercial gym equipment. [more...]
