Listen To Your Body (LTYB) are excited to announce a great opportunity to partner with Aligned Leisure, a fully owned subsidiary of the Richmond Football Club.
The LTYB arrangement with Aligned Leisure allows us the opportunity to establish a Listen To Your Body Group Personal Training Studio within a large leisure facility in Eltham. The facility has approximately 750,000 visits annually with growth targets of 5,000 members within 12 months.
What's included in a Listen To Your Body franchise?
The keys to make the model successful will be to execute our fully supported Marketing plan inside and outside the centre to ensure we have many channels of member recruitment and most importantly ensure we deliver high quality, personalised training sessions whilst running the model and all systems efficiently.
We look for franchise partner’s who are passionate about health and fitness, have their personal training qualification and have an interest in developing their skills as a leader in a fitness business through the LTYB franchise system.
A great LTYB Franchisee will follow the proven systems that have been tried, tested and developed since 2001 (+will continue to be tested and developed) and leads from the front with their fitness and personal brand.
Is a LTYB franchise right for you?
There are many benefits to this opportunity including:-
- Exclusive Advertising to all members
- Advertising opportunities to all members
- Opportunities to market and advertise to your exclusive territory
- Low overheads
- 5 x 5 year rental with very good rental terms already negotiated on your behalf
- No utility outgoings
- Building works complete prior to lease commencement
- Low Start-Up Cost
- 90% funding available for approved LTYB Franchisees.
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