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To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.

Incentive prizes work.

My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.

I need to pay people to make me work out, or I wouldn't do it.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

After I stop competing, I'd like to do something that inspires people to get active and fit.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

If other people have problems with my competitions, then there's nothing I can do.