18/12/2025
What a year! Couple of things I have taken away from this year.
1. I have incredible members - And they are the biggest reason that makes me want to continue to make our gym work.
The culture that they have helped me create is out of this world. What I like the most about our members, is they don't feel like clients, they all feel like really good friends and it really feels that they are all great friends with one another.
Everyone makes everyone else feel welcomed, especially when someone new joins. They are welcomed from the moment they walk through the doors.
They all cheer each other on, especially when they see someone do well or trying to achieve something new and no one cares whether someone can't do a push up and someone else is doing 25, no one feels like they are left behind.
And the results they are getting from the amount of weight they are losing, to the level of fitness they are achieving. But the best thing; is watching their belief change, by seeing how they once thought they couldn't do something (like mission unbreakable) to completing it and then wanting to do more.
Without the members I have now, it would of been a lot harder to want to continue.
2. I have manage to partner with a fantastic business partner, who has been more help then I could imagine.
From constant support, guidance and advice. He has helped encouraged me to go bigger and steer the business in a way so our members can get the best value for what they want and to help serve the people of Barnstaple and North Devon.
He has helped me create a gym that can offer a lot more than I was able to on my own and create a space for people who would like to become fit and healthy and is on their doorstep. We are able to offer a fully equipped 24 hour gym, our fitness classes have now been upgraded with more equipment to do more things. We can offer a place, for people to come and train for events such as Tough mudder, Spartan races, Hyrox, Triathlons etc and without him, I wouldn't of been able to do this.
So thank you to both
