Coursework Information 

All great hospitality and service businesses, whether it’s a hotel, boutique clothing store, dining establishment, fitness club or fitness studio, establish operational standards and systems in order to ensure consistent delivery of its value proposition against organizational and customer expectations.

This coursework covers a host of different systems related to the efficient and productive execution of specific practices, including areas of operations from the development of operating standards to the process of programming.

Key Takeaways include:

  • The role a business owner, leader or manager plays in the development, and execution of these operational standards and systems
  • Importance to a fitness studio/gym of having a program plan and supportive programming systems in place
  • Various steps needed to bring a program idea to fruition
  • Learning and applying some of the most important attributes of successful studio/gym operators

CEC/CEUs- ACE: 0.3, NASM: 0.3, AFAA: 3, NSCA: 0.3 ACSM: 3

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Course One - How to Create Operating Standards for Your Business

Learning Objectives

  • Why it’s important for a fitness studio/gym to have standards of operation 
  • Various operating practices and systems most often addressed 
  • The role a business owner, leader or manager plays in the development, and execution of these operational standards and systems

Learning Activities

  • Building Operating Standards and Systems for a Fitness Studio
  • Fundamental Operating Practices for Fitness Studios
  • The Difference between Systems and Process
  • What are Systems and their Importance

Course Two - Building a Program Plan for Your Studio or Gym

Learning Objectives

  • Identifing the importance to a fitness studio/gym of having a program plan and supportive programming systems in place
  • Be able to describe the various steps needed to bring a program idea to fruition

Learning Activities

  • The Basics of Programming
  • Maximize Your Programming Mix
  • Setting Up Your Programming to Increase Revenue

Course Three - Best Practices for Operational Efficiency from Successful Studio/Gym Operators​

Learning Objectives

  • Learn, and To describe some of the most important attributes of successful studio operators
  • To describe some of the “best practices” in operations that successful studio/gym owners have incorporated into the business

Learning Activities

  • Stories of Success
  • The Transition from Trainer to Owner
  • Key Characteristics of Great Fitness Studio Operators
  • Master the Basics to Create Success

Testing Your Knowledge

Once each course is completed, you will take a short eight question test that is designed to measure your retention of the content from the course. A score of 75% on all three course tests represents mastery and will result in earning the designated course CEC/CEUs.

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