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Run a Profitable Gym

Run a Profitable Gym

By: Chris Cooper
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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 through Two-Brain Business mentorship. Chris’s goal is to create millionaire gym owners. Subscribe to Run a Profitable Gym and you could be one of them.

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Episodes
  • A Week of Gym Content in 30 Minutes With AI
    May 21 2026

    No time to make content for your gym? Not anymore.

    In this episode of “Run a Profitable Gym,” Two-Brain founder Chris Cooper walks you through the exact system he uses to turn one idea into a full week of content in 30 minutes with AI.

    Chris demos the entire workflow live, starting with a brain dump audio recording answering a question that came up naturally in his gym.

    Then he uploads the audio and transcript into Claude with a prompt that generates a week’s worth of content:

    - A podcast script
    - A blog post
    - An email newsletter blurb
    - Five Instagram carousel slides
    - A YouTube description and thumbnail

    For gym owners who want to go further, Chris also shows the AI stack he uses to create fully polished and edited video content for YouTube and short-form reels.

    After this episode, you’ll have the system and tools you need to create consistent content every week.

    Links

    Gym Owners United

    Book a Call

    0:00 - Intro

    4:17 - Brain dump & QuickCast

    5:34 - Claude workflow

    10:25 - Podcast distribution

    18:27 - Descript AI video editor

    26:12 - Reels with OpusClip

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    31 mins
  • The Content Strategy That Gets Gym Clients
    May 18 2026

    Chris Cooper has been publishing content since 1998. It got him fired from one job—but it also built all of his businesses.

    In this episode of “Run a Profitable Gym,” Two-Brain CEO John Franklin and founder Chris Cooper give gym owners a step-by-step content system that builds trust, brings in leads and keeps working long after you hit publish.

    Chris shares his personal content creation process: how he plans everything during his 25-minute drive to work and then spends another 10 minutes producing the content with AI.

    He also explains why AI search is changing the game, with 30 to 40% of your audience searching for your gym using tools like ChatGPT.

    The pair also share the four principles your content should follow to get results: local, helpful, shareable and authority-building.

    You’ll see real examples of the kind of content that works and walk away with a clear starting point for your gym’s content strategy.

    This is episode 3 of 4 in the Marketing May series. Next week: the paid ads funnel.

    If you missed the previous funnels, check them out via the links below.

    Links

    The Social Funnel

    The Referral Funnel

    Gym Owners United

    Book a Call

    2:35 - Content vs. social media

    3:43 - The content playbook

    9:40 - Distributing content

    13:40 - Where AI comes in

    16:14 - Your action steps

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    18 mins
  • Turn Your Gym's Social Media Into a Lead Generation Machine
    May 14 2026

    The average gym gets 28.9% of its leads from social media.

    Most gym owners leave them on the table by posting the wrong things—or worse, nothing at all.

    Today, Two-Brain CEO John Franklin walks through a simple social media system gym owners can use to get more prospects onto their page and convert them into paying members.

    He gives you side-by-side comparisons of real gyms’ pages, showing you what attracts leads and what doesn’t.

    He also presents examples of gym owners who are crushing it on social right now, such as:

    - Joseph Strada, who built an audience by leaning into his love of White Monster.
    - Anthony Wu, who gets one to two new small group clients from social every month with under 100 followers.
    - Elvis Fisher, whose fun karaoke video became a magnet for new members.

    Plus, he hands you DM scripts for starting conversations with new followers, re-engaging old members and turning comments into clients.

    Watch this episode and walk away with a clear posting plan, real examples to model and word-for-word scripts to start generating more gym leads from social media today.

    Links

    Gym Owners United

    Book a Call

    3:14 - Convert leads from social

    5:47 - Create social proof

    9:58 - Make prospects like you

    12:57 - Build authority

    14:27 - 3x5 story method

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    19 mins
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