From the desk of Alwyn & Rachel Cosgrove

Over the years, speaking to thousands of fitness professionals, signing copies of our books, answering questions and connecting with them, we realized they are JUST LIKE US when we first started in this industry! They are having the exact same struggles and challenges that we had!

We often think back to when we first decided to open Results Fitness. We were passionate, excited, and we knew how to train people and get great results; so we opened our gym! We can’t begin to tell you how quickly we became discouraged when we realized we didn’t have a clue how to run a business. There were so many times when we felt as if we were just spinning our wheels, getting nowhere. Sound familiar?

We were training clients from 5:30 in the morning until 9:00 at night, with no money in the bank to show for it. We were barely making ends meet, literally living from paycheck to paycheck, sometimes NO paycheck to NO paycheck. One night, a few months after we opened our gym, we came home to our tiny apartment, which was a half an hour drive by freeway because we couldn’t afford to live near the gym, to find that our back door had been forced open and our home broken into. They stole our laptop, which had all of our clients’ programs, and everything we had for the gym on it. On the bright side, there wasn’t anything else for them to steal because we didn’t have much – no money, no jewelry, but that laptop had everything we had created on it!

Financially things were tough, yet our schedules were full, so we had to hire our first trainer. A few months after she began working for us she drove up in a brand new Ford Explorer. She excitedly ran into the gym and asked us to come and check out the stereo system.

At that time (pictured on our grand opening day) we were sharing a used Dodge Shadow my parents had bought at an auction for $1000 and given to us when we got married, we could barely pay our bills while working 15 hour days.

It was at that moment, when she drove up in her brand new car that she bought with money we were paying her, we looked at each other and realized something was not working and we had to make a change!

We were on a mission to create something bigger than us! We wanted to change the way fitness is done, while creating a business that would support our life, instead of having to live our life supporting our business.

During these challenging times you can either fall back into victim mode and give up, or you can redesign your business to support your life, and we'd love to help you!

We are dedicated to your success!

-Alwyn & Rachel Cosgrove