/blog Workout Muse - The Best Interval Workout Music & Interval Training Music For Your Workouts Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © workoutmuse@gmail.com () workoutmuse@gmail.com() Fitness 1440 workoutmuse@gmail.com No no http://www.workoutmuse.com/blog2/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg /blog 144 144 /blog/bj-accepts-workout-challenges-from-band-man-and-kettlebell-karate-kid /blog/bj-accepts-workout-challenges-from-band-man-and-kettlebell-karate-kid#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:46:01 +0000 bjgaddour /blog/?p=3599 /blog/bj-accepts-workout-challenges-from-band-man-and-kettlebell-karate-kid/feed 0 /blog/the-bandzilla-exercise-and-bj-challenges-the-band-man-to-a-rivalry-workout /blog/the-bandzilla-exercise-and-bj-challenges-the-band-man-to-a-rivalry-workout#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:17:03 +0000 bjgaddour /blog/?p=3591 /blog/the-bandzilla-exercise-and-bj-challenges-the-band-man-to-a-rivalry-workout/feed 6 /blog/interview-with-alwyn-cosgrove /blog/interview-with-alwyn-cosgrove#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:47:54 +0000 bjgaddour /blog/?p=3478 /blog/interview-with-alwyn-cosgrove/feed 0 00:01:01 This is BJ Gaddour with workoutmuse.com.nbsp; I've got a very special guest today, Alwyn Cosgrove, one of the top fitness pros in the business.nbsp; I'm ... This is BJ Gaddour with workoutmuse.com.nbsp; I've got a very special guest today, Alwyn Cosgrove, one of the top fitness pros in the business.nbsp; I'm a big fan of his personally.nbsp; I own a lot of his products.nbsp; I remember when I first started getting into the business, I wanted to make sure I got my head focused on the best people in the field and he was definitely one of the people that came up first.nbsp; It's an absolute honor to have him today to talk about one of his many specialties regarding running a very successful fitness facility.nbsp; He's also very well known for designing crazy, effective, semi-private workouts.nbsp; Being that we have a lot of bootcamp owners here that are looking for different ways to add multiple revenue streams to their business or maybe have a semi-private profit center to add to their bootcamp style workouts, this is the guy that you want to go through.nbsp; Alwyn thank you so much for being here today.nbsp; For people that might be living in a cave, can you let us know a little bit about your backgroundnbsp; and what you're best known for in the fitness business? I'm best known for having a funny accent, I think.nbsp; I was born in Scotland, went to college in England and when I was in college, I was working in summer camps and teaching martial arts classes and soccer.nbsp; At the end of mynbsp; last year in college, and this is way before September 11, I was given an extended work visa for 5 years, so I was allowed to stay in the U. S.nbsp;nbsp; So after I finished a college job, I started working at a gym in New York city.nbsp; Shortly after that I met my wife Rachel. From there we opened a gym - a small place in Southern California called Results Fitness which has now become one of the top 10 gyms the United States as voted by Men's Health magazine for 3 years in a row now which is pretty exciting.nbsp; We've expanded and as a result of the gym's success I've got a couple of books published, I'm on the Perform Better tour.nbsp; What else have I got going on BJ?nbsp; I just signed on a deal as a consultant with Nike.nbsp; Yeah that's about it.nbsp; Not much else going on. All well deserved!nbsp; I'm thrilled to hear of all the recent successes.nbsp; It couldn't happen to better people.nbsp; Some of the top people in the industry call Results Fitness which is the facility that Alwyn and his wife Rachel own.nbsp; It's the most profitable fitness center per square unit in America - potentially the world, if would be researched I wouldn't be surprised.nbsp; So do you want to share - and obviously it doesn't happen by accident.nbsp; There are a lot of great systems in place both business and training wise, behind the scenes.nbsp; So let's just start with the training side of things and again Coach Cosgrove is one of the first people to really propose training people in a semi-private setting.nbsp; Sure it's been done in the past, but no one before Alwyn really modeled it in a way that really made it extremely profitable and something that can be rolled out anywhere, anyhow.nbsp; I was blown away by the system.nbsp; Everything's got to have a system in place so that no matter who is there you can deliver 80-90% of what people would experience even if the business owner isn't there.nbsp; I love how you kind of went through your Perform Better presentation this year and went over each component of what that workout needs to look like from the preworkout routines to some core training to strength training to metabolic work and a postworkout section to finish.nbsp; I know that people here listening are going to be really interested to hear you break down each section ofnbsp; an effective semiprivate workout and please give a bullet point or two for the importance of each section if you could. No problem.nbsp; The concept came from in the past.nbsp; We used be able to do body part splits because people were active.nbsp; They were golfing, they were playing racquetball, they we... 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