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The Fitness Business School with Pat Rigsby

Pat Rigsby is a serial entrepreneur and business coach helping others build their Ideal Business. The Fitness Business School is here to give you insight and actionable tips to build your own Ideal Business that will lead you to your Ideal Life. Find out more at www.PatRigsby.com
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Now displaying: March, 2026
Mar 30, 2026

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Success Leaves Clues: Do What High Performers Do 

Pat reflects on a hometown mental health event for athletes featuring high-profile speakers, noting that the only teams who attended were historically successful programs, including a championship coach taking notes after decades of winning. He argues this pattern shows up everywhere: top performers keep learning, show up, and do the work others avoid. While people admire or envy visible outcomes like titles, scholarships, revenue, or lifestyle upgrades, underperformers often aren’t willing to be “jealous” of the consistent behaviors that create those results—extra Saturday work, systems, perseverance, and daily discipline. The takeaway is to focus less on outcomes and more on adopting the proven habits and consistency of those who’ve already achieved what you want, because those behaviors are what separate you from average.

00:00 Success Leaves Clues
00:11 Mental Health Event Story
01:11 Winners Show Up
02:41 High Performers Keep Learning
03:30 Envy the Process
05:32 Consistency Beats Wishes
06:02 Do What Works
07:00 Closing Reminder

Mar 23, 2026

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Diversify Your Marketing: Lessons from Thriving Small Businesses in Hawaii Pat Rigsby shares how a family trip to Hawaii became a reminder to diversify marketing after noticing that thriving small businesses like food trucks, restaurants, and shops used multiple channels to stay popular in a competitive tourist market. He observed they combined strong review profiles, active social media, website retargeting, ads, and local cross-promotions and alliances rather than relying on one tactic. Pat contrasts this with the fitness industry’s subscription billing advantage, arguing gym owners should be even more motivated to “double dip” by using diverse marketing to acquire customers who can become long-term clients. He encourages consistently building reviews, doing grassroots local marketing, asking for referrals, and leveraging ad networks, especially for businesses over $10,000–$15,000 per month, to support growth toward higher revenue levels.
 
00:00 Why Diversify Marketing
00:10 Hawaii Trip Observations
01:05 How Local Businesses Win
01:50 Many Channels Working Together
02:49 Gyms and Subscription Advantage
04:12 Double Dip Customer Value
04:56 Non Negotiable Marketing Mix
05:43 Build Multiple Lead Streams
06:12 Competitive Market Takeaway
Mar 16, 2026

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Simplify to Multiply: How Clarity and Subtraction Make Your Marketing Work

Pat explains that as social media gets more crowded and AI increases content volume, effective marketing requires simplifying by speaking directly to a specific person. He argues that “subtraction” is a targeting tool: removing broad, bland messaging creates clarity, which helps marketing land in a noisy landscape. Using examples like targeting the 50+ crowd or high school baseball players, he warns against generic audiences such as “busy adults over 30,” noting needs vary widely across ages. He emphasizes that simple marketing plans depend on specificity, including local geographic focus (often within 3-5 miles) and narrowing further through neighborhoods, carrier routes, and where the target market lives and spends time, because most businesses lack resources to be everywhere.

00:00 Simplify to Multiply
00:24 Cut Through the Noise
00:47 Subtraction as Targeting
01:33 Clarity Makes Marketing Work
01:51 Define Your Ideal Client
03:15 Get Hyper Local Focus
04:48 Be Specific to Grow
05:16 Final Takeaway

Mar 9, 2026

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Sell More by Selling What People Already Buy (And Making It Better)

In this episode, Pat discusses how to sell more by focusing on selling what people are already buying, using existing market evidence instead of relying on unproven ideas. He explains that the key is to find what’s working in the marketplace and “plus” it by adding value—making it more convenient, niched, faster, more personal, or better suited to a specific target audience. He notes that many successful companies weren’t first movers but improved on proven foundations. Using the fitness industry as an example, he describes the evolution from one-on-one training to large group training and why small group training works well: it offers leveraged coaching with more personalization, attracts a premium clientele, requires less space, and allows higher pricing by anchoring against more expensive services. He encourages entrepreneurs to observe what people already invest in and improve it rather than reinventing the wheel.

00:00 Sell More Overview
00:43 Sell What Sells
01:33 Add Value Angles
02:09 Not First to Market
02:43 Fitness Market Shift
04:05 Why Small Group Wins
05:14 Fix Group Training Gaps
05:40 Steal Like an Artist
06:24 Make It Better Close

Mar 2, 2026

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Eric Cressey on CSP’s Florida Expansion, Building a Sticky Performance Business, and Lessons from the Yankees

Pat Rigsby and Eric Cressey discuss CSP’s major expansion in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida -growing into a two-building, 31,000+ sq ft “one-stop shop” with gym, pitching lab, PT, conference room, and covered cages/mounds - driven by increased demand after COVID and MLB changes, plus added on-field amenities nearby. Cressey explains why integrating strength, skill coaching, and sports medicine improves outcomes, retention, and business resilience, and shares advice for facility owners on designing scalable systems, especially for scheduling and operations. They cover managing baseball seasonality through sports medicine, in-season training, and skill work, then shift to Cressey’s life as a parent of three daughters navigating youth sports and priorities. He shares Yankees takeaways on brand stewardship, professionalism, and avoiding controversy, and previews upcoming CSP initiatives including returning seminars, leveraging the biomechanics lab, and a forthcoming CSP app to replace an unwieldy exercise video spreadsheet.

00:00 Annual Check In
00:54 Florida Facility Expansion
03:54 One Stop Baseball Hub
05:35 Staff Development Space
07:17 Seminars And Mentorships
08:21 Hybrid Performance Trend
10:02 Building A Full Team
14:32 Community Over Tech
17:05 Advice For Local Owners
20:18 Handling Seasonality
22:05 In-Season Revenue Strategy
23:31 Family Life With Athletes
26:25 Juggling Schedules And Sleep
30:07 Yankees Role And Growth
32:04 Brand And Professionalism
38:19 Longevity Through Curiosity
39:37 Whats Next For CSP
42:20 Final Thanks And Signoff

 

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