Excel Fitness Holds Unique Monthly Meeting
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Excel Fitness team members held their October operations meeting in the
Ozark Mountains.
ast October, Excel Fitness went above and beyond for a
monthly operations meeting by hosting it in the Ozark
Mountains.
Planet Fitness® team members and club management trekked
for an hour before reaching the summit where the meeting was
held. In addition to being a great team-building exercise, the
meeting helped relieve stress by being outdoors and surrounded the
team with positive culture development.
“At Excel Fitness, we have been laser focused on creating a
core culture where each employee is happy to be a part of our
team,” said Brandon Sebald, regional director for Excel Fitness,
which is owned by Michael Turner. “It is events like this, where we
take them out of the office, which really have an impact as it is so
different from their day-to-day. We have also been working hard on
team and leadership development, so we figured there is no better
way to achieve both than hiking a mountain together as a group
where it’s just us and the mountain, bonding as a team. It was a
blast, and we intend to do it annually at minimum.”
The three-hour meeting was held at Devil’s Den State Park in
the Ozark Mountains and followed a previous meeting where team
members were able to paddle board to the meeting spot, which also
proved to be successful.
“I highly suggest everyone do some type of team -building
events a few times a year outside of the club,” said Sebald. “At a
minimum, it gets the team together where they can match a name
with a face from their daily emails, but more than that, they are
able to build strong relationships with their fellow managers and
upper management, which is important to everyone’s long-term
happiness and success!” G
ECP-PF Doubles the Give Back
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n early November, ECP-PF provided assistance to not one but
two local Boys & Girls Clubs by rebuilding and revamping the
locations’ workout areas into a Mini Judgement Free Zone®.
For a combined total of 14 days, 25 Planet Fitness® staff
members cleaned out the old spaces in the Rochester and Albany,
New York, Boys & Girls Clubs and made room for the new equip-
ment. PF® staff spent the two weeks repainting the walls, adding
PF signage and rubber flooring, and stocking the centers with new
cardio and strength equipment.
“The kids were overjoyed that they now have their own
judgement-free space,” said John Hrinda, division president with
ECP-PF Holdings Group, which is owned by Joe Pepe. “In the
Albany Boys & Girls Club, we repurposed an old storage room
to become their PF-brand fitness room, and in th