PureGym Limited

When I was most competitive, I was probably 18 to 20.

I'd started going to the gym in that time, but literally go into like a commercial gym here, like a pure gym and just doing bits like bodybuilding stuff, trying to grow muscle.

And then it was when I moved back in 2019 where I sort of went back to a gym in Banbury where I'm from.

And they said, like, you're very strong.

Yeah.

Um, I wish I knew the reason why.

Um, so when you, when you said that you went to Pure Gym, at what point were you like, So people, other people are saying you're pretty strong, but like there's pretty strong.

And then there is rogue invitational and strong man and all that

But yeah, so I've ran two blocks off.

transformer chris right and i'll do my first build walk with him um probably got into training i'm 25 year old probably got into training just before covid um and got a good few months at it kind of unstructured kind of just finding my feet in the gym would literally just go into the gym and like jump on one of the bikes for like 10 minutes and then jump between the pen loaded machines in pure gym and just kind of you know i think i think when you first start like just getting comfortable in that environment is pretty important so started like that and then um kind of used youtube videos and stuff for tutorials And then lockdown happened.

So this must have been...

So I started university in 2019.

I can't remember.

It was just starting out.

um followed that and then at this point like cardio was just like it was completely on an uninteresting cardio obviously chris mentioned running that i don't know um but was just just wanted to get big like most 18 year old lads to be honest um yeah um followed that and then obviously the gyms reopened to some extent in fact chris Were you at Pure Gym around? I was, yeah.

I was there.

I must have went to...

I must have went to Pure Gym.

Yeah.

Pure Gym is...

Yeah, Pure Gym.

You know the gym.

One of the ones, anyway.

Now, I just wanted to dive into a little bit of data about the industry.

So I think Pure Gym's latest fitness report says that more than 20,000 new fitness professionals qualified in the UK in the previous year, but only 7% of the PTs they surveyed had been working in the industry for more than 10 years.

So lots of people... are leaving, right? So why are so many newly qualified PTs struggling to build, I suppose, a sustainable career in the industry? And I suppose, what would you say are the biggest barriers between qualifying and actually becoming successful? Because they're two different things, right?

Yeah.

There are still barriers to entry.

Do I feel confident going into the gym? Where does that sit within your model? And do you think the gym industry is catering for that?

Yeah, I think going back to the Pure Gym report, I think it was like 12% of people reported that they had gym intimidation.

Yeah, which when you look at how many you said gym visits and how many gym members there are, it's a massive market of people that quite frankly just don't feel like they're fitting in.

Yeah

... where they'll be as expensive as going to a Pure Gym, but you get an incredible atmosphere.

You're around jacked people, and actually some of the kit, the old school kit's so cool, isn't it?

It was great.

A non-commercial gym?

Like not a Pure Gym, not a gym group, not a Nuffield, not a-

All right

...

It's like they've got something to prove.

Yeah.

Like at a, a Pure Gym.

Mind you, I say it, I'm slagging off people who say a Pure Gym is too good for me.