Who needs these people? All they do is ‘rent a friend’. That is the opinion of Mike Grondahl, CEO of Planet Fitness Gyms. And while he has a right to that opinion, he is doing more than that. He is going to eliminate all personal training sessions at the gyms. Wow.<\/p>\n
Here is the article from Club Industry Magazine. <\/p>\n
Planet Fitness is discontinuing personal training at its clubs, according to CEO Mike Grondahl. In a letter written to Planet Fitness owners, Grondahl says the Newington, NH-based company\u2019s corporate-owned clubs will end all personal training sessions by Dec. 16. Franchisees will have until the first quarter of 2011 to end their personal training sessions. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision to end personal training has been long and arduous,\u201d Grondahl wrote in the letter. \u201cIt goes right to the essence of our business model. We\u2019ve always tried to keep personal training to a minimum at Planet Fitness. But the problems related to having trainers in our gyms have never completely gone away. Lately, they\u2019ve gotten worse. Too many trainers are pushing PT on our members, the vast majority of whom have zero interest in it. These clubs are opening themselves up to trouble.\u201d <\/p>\n
Grondahl says the clubs will continue their \u201cP.E. at P.F.\u201d\u2014physical education at Planet Fitness\u2014group fitness training sessions. Grondahl began the letter by claiming that most people doing personal training are \u201cjust renting friends.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cFor us to be selling personal training is a fraud and downright condescending to anyone who can breathe,\u201d he wrote. Grondahl adds in the letter that personal training did not fit Planet Fitness\u2019 \u201cjudgment-free zone\u201d and that the company plans to use its no personal training model as a marketing tool. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be the only fitness chain that can say we\u2019ll never try to sell you personal training,\u201d Grondahl wrote. \u201cA lot of people will say we are dead wrong with this historic move. But the world was flat once, and who the hell needs a friend for 50 bucks an hour?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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