A private POD for every session. No crowds, no waiting, no shared kit. GYMPODS is looking for franchise partners to bring its five-star private gym concept to towns and cities across the UK.
Brand Overview
GYMPODS was built by two gym industry veterans, Mike and Simon, who between them have spent over 50 years on the gym floor, in management and at board level. Frustrated by what the mainstream gym model gets wrong, they spent three years designing and testing a different idea before opening the doors to their first club.
Instead of one shared floor, every GYMPODS member trains in their own private POD. No queuing for kit, no self-consciousness, no other members watching. Members book a Strength, Power, Pilates or Cardio POD by the session, train alone, with a friend, or with their own personal trainer, and pay only for what they use.
Proven Concept
The concept is proven. Two clubs are trading in London, at Dalston and Putney, with over 5,000 five-star reviews and ratings of 4.9 to 5.0 stars across Google, ClassPass and Wellhub. The brand has been featured in Women's Health, Women's Fitness, Men's Fitness and Mail Online, and every location is integrated with ClassPass and Wellhub from day one, putting new sites in front of millions of active UK fitness consumers before a single local marketing pound is spent.
GYMPODS is now opening the concept to franchise partners across the UK. Franchisees do not need a fitness background. What they need is the drive to run their own business, the capital to invest in a premium fit-out, and the ambition to bring something genuinely different to their local high street.
Serious Demand
The UK fitness market is not just recovering, it is breaking records, and the fastest growth is happening exactly where GYMPODS sits: private, premium and boutique training.
London's boutique market is well served, but demand is outgrowing supply everywhere else. CBRE research shows boutique studios are heavily concentrated in London, where 56% of adults live within a mile of one, while most secondary cities, commuter towns and affluent suburbs remain significantly underserved. That gap is the GYMPODS opportunity: a proven, five-star concept, ready to move into UK towns and cities that have real demand and very little premium private training to meet it.
Why GYMPODS
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A category of one on the high street. GYMPODS is not another lookalike gym competing on price. It solves a problem members already talk about, the crowds, the queuing and the self-consciousness that stop people training the way they want to.
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You control your biggest cost. Every site can run staffed, hybrid or fully unmanned, so franchisees choose the operating model that fits their site, their market and their margin.
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A built-in second customer base. Personal trainers rent GYMPODS space to run their own client business, driving footfall across quiet daytime hours and becoming some of the brand's most loyal advocates. With over 22,000 personal trainers working in the UK, this is a large and largely untapped revenue stream.
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Demand from day one. Integration with ClassPass and Wellhub puts every new location in front of active fitness consumers as soon as it opens, cutting the usual slow ramp-up new gyms face.
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Multiple revenue streams from one footprint. Pay-as-you-go credits, monthly memberships, buddy sessions, personal training and corporate wellness all run through the same space.
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A model that has already been tested. Two London clubs have been trading since 2022, refining the systems, standards and member experience that franchisees now step into. This is a proven business, not a prototype.
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Full support, start to finish. Site selection, fit-out, technology setup, launch marketing, training and ongoing operational support are all part of the package.
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE GYMPODS FRANCHISE?
Please contact steve@platinumwave.co.uk and request the franchise prospectus!