My #1 Gym Rule Got Broken

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[OhhSamuria]

Alex just wanted a rest day and this was the only way he could do it without looking weak to his team

[officialdannyg]

It’s his personal gym he’s not a control freak. His house his rules. Wtf some of y’all going on about?

[DK_Son]

Gyms are NOTORIOUS for being trashed and left a mess. Good to see someone actually try to keep things in order. Dude is a bit nutty in most of his other things. But as someone who used to see weights all over the floor when I arrived at my local gym, I am all for this.

[johncuser]

It cracks me up to see people get upset about accountability. Grow up people.

[chsims]

If you look closely at #7 there is an exception to leaving weights on machines. Yall are freaking out over him letting his employees have access to his personal gym? Gym memberships are hundreds of dollars a year typically. Hes giving them access to his personal gym he can have whatever rules he wants to have.

[MrPhilts]

Here's a counter-argument I heard somewhere: Leaving a plate on the leg press is better than no plate since 99% of the time people will use "at least" 1 plate for every set, even warm-ups. I thought the shorts was about that argument 😂

[jakeclark]

Man when I opened the gym in college. I stacked so many weights every morning. Came in to work out at night. A complete mess. No respect.

[seagie]

I was very nearly pissed off until I heard it was his personal gym

[prodigy]

We had one of those day counters in the miliary, but it was for DUIs lol

[EMH-Ascending]

This is a good take honestly. His videos on food … well he’s a great businessman.

[davidagbona]

For everyone saying “It’s one plate” One plate easily turns into three.

[icecoldchilipreppers]

reminds me why i dont work for anyone else

[ranteater]

Again after rewatching this video, bro power tripped too hard. How does he have time to pick a battle like this with his team? Bro must not have bigger battles to face

[anthonyzawisa]

The poor dude that was running late and accidentally forgot to rack the plate

[AKAchillez]

Where are gyms like this. I would join in a heartbeat.

[duesaces]

it's 2 am right now and that slack notification made my heart stop fr

[malik]

Yessir this is good because success is inconvient and you literally do what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it. Guy is creating a conducive environment for growth and excellence. Nit picking typically is just picking at one individual setting the tone for a team like this just makes everyone value the team as a whole.

[ConstructionVest]

I did this the other day😔 it was an accident, though I was in a huge hurry, and I only remembered after I was at work still I’m gonna learn from that mistake

[CharlesMcHaley]

Andy Frisella does the same thing. Even puts the weights back correctly and numbers right side up

[georgejackson]

This seems like an unnecessarily harsh punishment. Especially punishing everyone else for something they didn’t do doesn’t sit right with me.