The Small Group Gym Pod

Stuart Aitken

The podcast where gym owners who mainly run a small-group personal training model share their stories, struggles, and strategies so you don’t have to figure it out alone.

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The Small Group Gym Pod

Episodes (37)

Yesterday #38 Why Running a 4:1 Model Nearly Destroyed My Gym (w/ Greg Mikolap)
Wed May 20th #37 How Fionn MacCullagh Scaled Tailormade to 850 Clients
Wed May 13th #36 How Stoked Athletics Became “3-Mile Famous” w/out Ads

The Small Group Gym Pod

May 27, 2026
52 minutes
47 MB

This week on the Small Group Gym Podcast, I sit down with Greg Mikolap from ICON to unpack nearly a decade of gym ownership, the realities of scaling small group personal training, and why the model he originally built nearly broke the business. Greg shares: Why he moved from a 4:1 model to sessions as large as 16:1The financial mistakes that cost him almost £300,000What he learned from visiting elite US training gymsWhy most gym owners think about attrition the wrong wayHow to make difficult business changes without panicking about member backlashThe balance between coaching quality, profitability, a...

The Small Group Gym Pod

#38 Why Running a 4:1 Model Nearly Destroyed My Gym (w/ Greg Mikolap)

Stuart Aitken

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