The Complete Guide to Fitness Facility Management: Complete Guides
Ebook
Overview
The Complete Guide to Fitness Facility Management is the must-read guide for any fitness professional who aspires to become a manager.
Managing a fitness facility is different to all other forms of management, and requires a range of skills, knowledge and expertise. This book reflects the different needs of this particular market – from legal obligations, staff management best practice, budgeting, marketing and sales, to customer service, health and safety, personnel management and much more.
Gym chains and leisure centres are more popular than ever, but it is a cut-throat business of targets and high turnover - learn how to make your business a success, stand out from your peers, and make your mark on the industry.
This is the first UK-focused book to outline the skills and knowledge needed to be a successful gym manager - a core manual for any fitness professional with career ambitions and a necessary purchase for managers looking to improve their skills or upskill their staff.
This is the essential handbook for fitness professionals promoted to gym management.
Written by experienced fitness manager Paul Conway and experienced fitness professional Sarah Bolitho, this guide is for anyone looking for the skills to improve as a fitness manager.
The only book to focus on the needs of the UK gym market, as opposed to the US concerns
A must read for all ambitious fitness professionals and all new managers looking to improve their skills
Managing a fitness facility is different to all other forms of management - and this book reflects the different needs of this particular market
Written to appeal to a range of learning styles
Carries REPs (Register of Exercise Professionals) CPD points (continuing professional development)
Written by experienced fitness manager Paul Conway, with experienced author and trainer Sarah Bolitho.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The modern fitness facility
1 The fitness industry and the rise of the fitness facility
2 Fitness facilities
3 Key staff
4 The management team
5 The fitness team coordinator/supervisor
Part Two: The fitness facility
6 The gym/fitness suite
7 The studio
8 Screening, assessment and tracking
9 Other areas
Part Three: The core skills
10 Management skills
11 Staff management
12 Customer care
13 Managing and building the business
Part Four: The background procedures
14 Operating procedures
15 Legal obligations
Appendices
References
Index
- Title: The Complete Guide to Fitness Facility Management
- Authors: Sarah Bolitho, Paul Conway
- Series: Complete Guides
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472900562, 9781472900586, 1472900588, 1472900561
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472900562
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:05:59Z
Sarah Bolitho is an experienced fitness trainer and the author of a number of other titles in the Complete Guide series. She has worked as fitness coordinator and programme and booking officer for a large multi-use club and also helped run smaller fitness facilities.
Paul Conway has run a number of very successful fitness facilities during his career, including being general manager at a Duncan Bannatyne gym and setting up his own club, which ran successfully for ten years.