It’s not as difficult as you think. You do not need a big sum of capital, and you will be guided along the way. You don’t have to be in the fitness industry. I was an engineer with no franchisee experience, no business experience.

Anytime Fitness is genuinely very happy to talk with prospective franchisees and just get the idea from people who have done this before. More importantly for franchisees, they need to be interested in fitness, and you need to have some passion for fitness but you don’t need to be an expert at it.

The healthier place for my members is a happy community. As a community here in Anytime Fitness, we believe that you will achieve your goals faster and better if you have people at your back supporting you.

I initially started out as a member in one of the clubs near my home. When I was convinced that Anytime Fitness was a good product, and I can actually do it, I decided to get in touch with the people at the franchising office, and it started from here.

Ever since, I really loved being into fitness. Even when I was working as a real estate agent, I'm working out. It's a business that feels good because you make people develop themselves, improve themselves. That inspires me a lot. Not only the members, but also the staff.

To create a brand of my own, it is going to be very hard. At the end of the day, I came to the conclusion that I need the support of Anytime Fitness. I like the concept of Anytime Fitness, and the growth is quite fast.

My reason for getting into it eventually was you're better of putting all that hard work into something that is yours than what I had been doing for the previous 10 years doing all that hard work for somebody else.