About Us

Meet Your Business Coaching Team

Success Leaves Clues, No Need To Reinvent The Wheel!

No One Ever Taught Us How To Run A Successful Fitness Business!

You learn how to become a higher-quality trainer or coach, so you can help your clients better, but did anyone one teach you how you can grow beyond just yourself and create a fitness business that will serve you the owner, your staff and your clients?

We Practice What We Preach! All of our coaches currently own and operate their fitness business or have successfully sold one. We have simple criteria for qualifying to become an FBDA Business Coach.

"You First Must Have Done It Yourself Before You Are Qualified To Help Others"

NICKY SEHGAL

Position: Owner & Head Coach

Interests: Sport, More Sport, Health & Business

Nicky started out as a fitness instructor working for a big box gym in 2001. Working for someone else was never going to work for him long term so he went solo and started his own PT business shortly after.

Within 24 months, he was broke! Failing was the best thing that ever happened to him as it forced him to learn the business side of fitness rather than just the technical side. After immersing himself into the business side of fitness he built and eventually sold a fully operational PT studio business

He created the Fitness Business Development Academy to provide a platform for fitness business owners like you to learn and develop the skills required to build, grow and sustain your business.

Our Mission

To help support our fellow fitness business owners so they can support the growth of their team, their clients and their life

JAMES BRAMWELL

Position: Business Performance Coach

Interests: Sport, Banter, Health & Business

Owner: JB Fitness

James started out in the fitness industry back in 2010 at LA Fitness as a freelance Personal Trainer in North London. That’s right, he dove straight into the deep end!! After the mild success of growing his 1:1 business to 20-25 hours per week over 18 - 24 month.

He then delivered Corporate Fitness Training and taught personal training courses. Whilst this was a great experience, after 2 years he somehow found himself as an unhappy and unfulfilled employee, it was at this stage he started to crave the freedom as being an employee was never on the cards.

Since then he has gone on to establish JB Fitness UK as a Six-Figure Fitness Business without a studio using a small group personal training and mobile personal training model. Much of this success was due to the help and guidance of Nicky as a business coach and mentor. As a certified FBDA Business Coach James has seen tremendous growth with his clients thus far.

Our Vibe

Be in a hurry but don't rush, we help you build your business at a speed that you can handle. We encourage you to make informed decisions based on numbers, not emotion and we stress the importance of building your life alongside building your business. If your looking to get rich quick we ARE NOT the right company for you.

MAXINE HAYES

Position: Business Performance Coach

Interests: Working out, walking, education & business

Owner: Potential Personal Training

In 2012 Maxine set up her business Potential, she was a single parent on benefits and wanted to provide a better life for her and her son. She started with outdoor bootcamps and in home 1:1 personal training and experienced phenomenal, fast growth.

Maxine opened her studio in 2014, had 8 members of staff and 250 clients, she had achieved her ‘dream’. However, Maxine was consumed by her business, working long hours and struggling to keep the finances under control. Instead of Maxine running the business, her business was running her.

In 2018 Maxine sought the help of Nicky at the F.B.D.A, she needed help to make her business the vehicle for her to live the life she wanted. Within a year Maxine had transformed 'Potential PT'. Her team were happy, she could pay her bills and she even purchased her first home. With the help of Nicky, Maxine built a strong business that thrived during the COVID lockdowns (something that it wouldn’t have survived before) and now provides the lifestyle and happiness that she always hoped for.

Core Principles

Manage Yourself Before You Manage Your Business - 1% Rule - Simplification - Stay Humble But Stay Hungry - Enjoy The Process

Barrie Mark

Position: Business Performance Coach

Interests: Family, Liverpool FC, Business Development, Helping People Succeed

Owner: Barrie Mark Personal Training

With over 15 years of experience in the fitness industry, Barrie comes with a wealth of experience in operating various fitness businesses. From fitness model to facility owner there has been no area left untouched to gain every experience possible to become the best PT business in his area, he even moved to New York and Chicago in the USA to learn from some of the best coaches in America in 2012 before opening his 1st PT studio on his return.

Quickly outgrowing the small studio with his developing coaching team Barrie moved the business into his current site in 2017 and switched from just 1-2-1 and Large Group PT to include Semi-Private (4-2-1) Personal Training.

Having teamed up with Nicky in 2020 the financial growth in BMPT has been incredible, using the systems and processes that the FDBA offer we have ensured the financial side of the business is now as good as the operations and coaching side.

When all things move forward in tandem, great things can happen, especially with RELENTLESS CONSISTENCY as Barrie always says to both staff and clients alike!