Chris Cooper

Run a Profitable Gym

Run a Profitable Gym is packed with business tools for gym owners and CrossFit affiliates. This is actionable, data-backed business advice for all gym owners, including those who own personal training studios, fitness franchises, and strength and conditioning gyms. Broke gym owner Chris Cooper turned a struggling gym into an asset, then built a multi-million-dollar mentoring company to help other fitness entrepreneurs do the same thing. Every week, Chris presents the top tactics for building a profitable gym, as well as real success stories from gym owners who have found incredible success thr...

Author

Chris Cooper

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.twobrainbusiness.com

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Food For Thought Friday- What Is Your Perfect Day? 15.03.2019
Episode 159: Buying Assets With Joe Flanigan 14.03.2019

Episode 159: Buying Assets With Joe Flanigan On this episode, we take a step in a different direction. Joe Flanigan joins us to talk about what to do once you get to a point where you are ready to buy other business assets and grow your wealth. We specifically focus on buying multifamily apartment buildings and gain a better understanding of the risks and rewards of investing in real estate. Join...

Two Brain Mentor Series: Anastasia Bennett 13.03.2019
Two Brain Stories- Drew Thomas 12.03.2019
Food For Thought Friday- Leadership Traits 08.03.2019
Episode 158: Strategic Advantages with Josh Martin 07.03.2019

Episode 158: Strategic Advantages with Josh Martin How do we celebrate our strategic advantages? In this episode we talk with Josh Martin, a mentor on the Two Brain Team, about the three most common strategic advantages to a CrossFit Gym: Coaching, Programming, and Community. Many gyms claim to have the best coaches, the best programming, and best community but do they in reality? Learn how you ca...

Food For Thought Friday- Taking Action 01.03.2019

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Two Brain Stories- David Pope 28.02.2019
Episode 157: Running a Successful Event with TJ Belger 26.02.2019

Episode 157: Running a Successful Event with TJ Belger   Overseeing or orchestrating an event within your business is never easy. Today we talk with TJ Belger about running the CrossFit masters event in Northern California. We get into how he got started with CrossFit and how to identify problems, find the right people, and execute to a plan. Additionally, we cover a whole host of dos and don’ts f...

Food For Thought Friday-Do You Trust Your Staff? 22.02.2019
Two Brain Stories- Kristy Anderson 21.02.2019
Episode 156- Youth CrossFit with Gretchen Bredemeier 19.02.2019

Episode 156- Youth CrossFit with Gretchen Bredemeier Today we talk about CrossFit youth programs! If you are like me, you were very enthusiastic to start one but didn’t realize just how much work CrossFit Kids can be! On this episode, we talk with Gretchen Bredemeier who has started a really excellent program for CrossFit Kids. We dive into what sort of challenges a gym owner will face with a yout...

Food For Thought Friday- Do You Praise For Process Or For Talent? 15.02.2019
Two Brain Stories- Josh Melendez 14.02.2019
Two Brain Mentor Series: Brian Strump 13.02.2019
Episode 155 – Driven Nutrition with Jason Rule 12.02.2019

Announcer:                            00:02                        Welcome everyone to to brain radio. It is our mission at TwoBrain is to provide 1 million entrepreneurs the freedom to live the life that they choose. Join us every week as we discover the very best practices to achieve perfect day and move you closer to wealth. Announcer:                            00:26                        Thi...

Food For Thought Friday- What Are Bright Spots Friday? 08.02.2019
Two Brain Stories- Ashley Andrews 07.02.2019
Episode 154 – The Intramural Open, with Mike Lejeune 05.02.2019

Episode 154 – The Intramural Open with Mike Lejeune The Intramural Open is a fantastic way to build your community during the CrossFit Open. The focus is on inclusion and celebration instead of competition (though there’s a good bit of that, too.) Every year, we’ve built and improved on the idea thanks to the feedback from those gyms.   The Intramural Open was invented by Chris Cooper, founder of...

Food For Thought Friday- Is Your House Running Properly? 01.02.2019
Two Brain Stories: Ruth Cheng 31.01.2019
Episode 153 – UpLaunch with Matt Verlaque and Jake Johnson 29.01.2019

Episode 153 – UpLaunch with Matt Verlaque and Jake Johnson   If you were building the perfect software tool for gyms from SCRATCH, where would you start?   I would start with a CRM. The most important work we do is the work that helps our clients. That doesn't mean a scoreboard; that means a way to help them get started seamlessly, stay excited and engaged, and reward them for great behavior....

Food For Thought Friday- 5 Mantras To Live By 25.01.2019

1. “Heartily know, when demigods go, the gods arrive.” – Emerson. People leave your gym (or life) for a reason. Usually it’s to make way for better people. 2. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. Seriously, you’re the only one worrying about your programming and most of the “box drama”. Your clients have lives outside...

Two Brain Stories: Ryan Stemper 24.01.2019
Two Brain Mentor Series: Jeff Burlingame 23.01.2019

Two Brain Mentor Series Jeff Burlingame At Two Brain we have over 20 mentors from around the world. In this episode I interview mentor Jeff Burlingame to hear how he got started in the gym business, and his path to becoming a mentor.  Jeff knew he wanted to be mentor in his late teens after years of watching TV shows like Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell and Bar Rescue. As he started frequenting gym...

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