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A Message from your Area Director:

Since beginning my personal training career in
late 1996, I have always had the vision of owning
my own personal training studio. Within a year
and a half of beginning my career, I had formed
my own independent contractor business and
was very successful in that endeavor, often
training in excess of 40 clients per week, and
becoming a local expert amongst my peers.
However, my income was dependent solely on me
being “in the trenches”, and at the end of the day,
if I wasn’t training, I wasn’t getting paid. Not to
mention, even though I had a successful
business, I had no tangible assets that I could
someday sell. I knew there had to be a better way,
and began to research my options.

I stumbled across Fitness Together in a trade
journal, and sent for some FREE information. I
was impressed with the literature, and soon
scheduled a trip to visit their home offices in
Colorado. I continued to be impressed when they
showed me around at Discovery Day. I realized
quickly that I was indeed a great trainer, but
lacked the business skills and structure to
successfully open my own studio. Besides, I was
paralyzed with fear. Fear of failure, fear of doing it
wrong, fear of messing up my already successful
business, fear of…you get the message. After
visiting the corporate offices, I knew they had
what I was looking for, but then I had a new set of
fears. I had fear of what my friends and family
would think about me joining a franchise versus
doing my own thing…after all, I was the expert to
them, not Fitness Together. I had fear of not being
able to do my own thing, and that the franchise
would try to change my “training style”. Needless
to say the first step I needed to make was to
overcome my fears. Once I did that, the rest is
history. My only regret is that I didn’t start the
process sooner.

I opened my first Fitness Together studio in
February of 2005 in Boise, Idaho, and currently
own 3 locations in the Boise area. Two years ago,
I was personally training 160 sessions per
month. Today, my studios produce nearly 1400
sessions per month (nearly 10 times what I was
able to do on my own)!

Fitness Together Utah News:

We are excited to announce that the very
first Fitness Together will be opening for
business in June 2007. Jacob Jones, a
former Fitness Together personal trainer in
Kansas City, has relocated to Salt Lake City
to realize his dream of opening his own
Fitness Together studio. The studio is
located in Cottonwood Heights at 2242 E.
Fort Union Boulevard and is positioned to
become the premier personal training studio
in the area. Congratulations Jacob!

Other Fitness Together locations in Utah that
are pending include St. George and
Murray/Holladay. To find out more about
available locations in Utah, please click the
link of the State of Utah on the right hand
side of this page.

There are many more exciting happenings
with Fitness Together in Utah.

Please email me at
toddopheim@fitnesstogether.com to
receive your complimentary copy of our
Utah Fitness Together Newsletter.

There is no doubt that the structure
and systems Fitness Together
provides is the primary reason I have
been able to grow so quickly.
With these successes, I decided to
spread my wings and develop the state
of Utah. Within the next 3 years, there
will be at least 20 Fitness Together
locations in the state. If you feel like
your story mirrors mine, or you are a
successful business person looking
for a sound investment, we need to
talk. There are limited protected
territories available and the top
locations are going quickly. Don’t let
your fears hold you back, call me today.

Yours in health and fitness,

Todd Opheim
Utah Area Director