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Plan your gym opening

Six questions, no email gate: your next three actions for exactly where you are, the nine-stage checklist, and — if you have a date — a countdown laid back from opening month. Every action links the tool or guide that does it.

Target opening month

The nine stages your plan sequences

Answer the six questions above and the plan orders these for your gym type, stage and date — with the next three actions on top.

  1. 1.Concept and feasibility

    Write the brief in numbers — floor area, every powered system, price, opening date — before anything is signed.

  2. 2.Location and lease

    Run candidate sites through the cheap checks first: power, floor, permitted use — before the lease.

  3. 3.Approvals and compliance

    Council pathway, certifier, WHS regulator, insurer, OneMusic and membership terms under the ACL.

  4. 4.Budget and finance

    Build the full cost stack with sourced rates, do the break-even ramp arithmetic, then get written finance quotes.

  5. 5.Design and fit-out

    Draw the floor at true scale, put floor loading in front of a structural engineer, export the pack for builder quotes.

  6. 6.Equipment and freight

    Shortlist manufacturers, send the same RFQ to each, and turn FOB quotes into landed cost.

  7. 7.Systems and staffing

    Stand up billing, access, bookings, pipeline and money visibility; check award rates before modelling the roster.

  8. 8.Pre-sale

    Set the pre-sale target from break-even, keep the founding terms honest, count weekly.

  9. 9.Launch and first 90 days

    Run the 13-week numbers page and re-run the calculator at week six with real figures.