Hosted by Stuart Aitken · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 39 episodes
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The podcast where gym owners who mainly run a small-group personal training model share their stories, struggles, and strategies so you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Stuart Aitken hosts The Small Group Gym Pod, a health show with 39 episodes published.
In this episode, Stuart sits down with Michael Keeler from Business for Unicorns to discuss what separates thriving gyms from struggling ones in 2026. The conversation centres around a simple idea: successful gyms aren't
In this episode, Stuart interviews Emma Storey-Gordon (@esgfitness & @afmentors) about personal finance, investing, pensions, and financial freedom for PTs and gym owners. Emma's core message is simple: Financial freedom
In this short episode, Stuart details some key things that help turn a new client into a long-term member of your gym. Stuart's email: stuart@theptroadmap.com Stuart's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stuart__aitken/
This week on the Small Group Gym Podcast, I sit down with Greg Mikolap from ICON to unpack nearly a decade of gym ownership, the realities of scaling small group personal training, and why the model he originally built n
In this episode, Fionn MacCullagh shares how Tailormade Coaching scaled to 8 locations and more than 850 clients by simplifying its offer, raising prices, systemising referrals and obsessing over retention. You’ll learn:
In this episode, Stuart sits down with Mike Bouranis, owner of Stoked Athletics in Long Island, to unpack how he grew to around 200 members by becoming “Three Mile Famous.” Mike shares why he moved away from paid ads, ho
In this short episode, Stuart shares some lessons he's picked up since being a customer of an SGPT gym.
In this roundtable-style conversation, Stuart speaks to three gym owners (Stuart MacDonald from True Fitness, Chris Travis from Seattle Strength & Performance and Tim Reid from ETC) who have successfully built youth coac
What should gym owners actually know about VAT, expenses, business structure, and becoming more tax-efficient? In this episode, Stuart sits down with Gareth from Coach Accounts to break down the money side of running a g
I visited Foundry in London and took part in a small-group session. Here are some of the things I learned!
In this episode, I sit down with James and Callan from Scope Health and Fitness in Bathgate — a small-group personal training gym based in Bathgate, Scotland that has grown to more than 200 active members while building
Dan Moore didn’t build his gyms the way most people expect. In fact, at one point, he had 250 members… with no booking system at all. In this episode, Dan breaks down how he grew DM Elite to 3 locations and 500+ members—
What does it really take to grow from one successful training studio to four locations... with more on the way? In this episode, Stuart sits down with John Farkas, owner of Blue Ocean Fitness and multiple Alloy Personal
In this episode, Alloy Personal Training founder and CEO Rick Mayo breaks down why the most scalable gym model might actually be the smallest. We dig into the logic behind the 150-member “neighbourhood gym” ceiling, the
In this episode, I sit down with Rhys Lewis , owner of Totem Fitness — a small-group training gym in Surrey that hit 160 members in under two months after opening on January 5th . We unpack the thinking behind launching
Katie Hughes runs Bodyworks — a small-group training facility in a small Scottish town… and in just 9 months she’s gone from 30 garage-gym members to nearly 120 recurring members , with trials lined up and capacity in si
Previous guest Mike Waywell returns to discuss selling his gym, Steel Habitat in Liverpool, after running it for 12 years. In this episode, Mike breaks down: • The 3 questions that determine if your gym is sellable • The
Emma Regan didn’t set out to build a multi-site women’s strength brand. She started with a 6-week course in her mum’s back garden… and seven years later she’s leading a team across two sites, supporting 400+ women, and s
Dan Mee is nearing 10 years of running MeeFit, and he doesn’t sugar-coat the parts gym owners usually gloss over. In this episode, Dan breaks down the hardest stretch of his entire journey: a price increase that triggere
In this episode, I sit down with Mike Waywell from Gym Ownr to unpack the things he's learned after building and running his own gym, Steel Habitat, for 12 years, and helping 100s of gym owners through his GymOwnr system
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The Small Group Gym Pod is hosted by Stuart Aitken. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 39 episodes.
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