The Black Diamond Podcast
Ep.16 Elin Linqvist & Marko Oivo: OPEX Aland & The Business of Individualized Coaching
September 10, 2020
Elin Lindqvist and Marko Oivo opened their gym in July 2016. They opened as CrossFit North AX and worked with the CrossFit and group fitness model for 3-5 years before they transitioned over to an OPEX gym. As a CrossFit gym they had around 100 group class members and as of this moment, they are at 35 individual design clients. In this episode, they talked about how they provide their clients with guidance, tools and over time knowledge to be autonomous in their health and fitness, how important is building relationships with each of their clients, how pandemic affects the business, what is individual fitness and how it differs to other model and their concept of 100% Individualized coaching - individualize the prescription (exercise, nutrition and recovery) to take them from where they are currently and also towards where they want to be.
Elin Lindqvist and Marko Oivo opened their gym in July 2016. They opened as CrossFit North AX and worked with the CrossFit and group fitness model for 3-5 years before they transitioned over to an OPEX gym. As a CrossFit gym they had around 100 group class members and as of this moment, they are at 35 individual design clients.

In this episode, they talked about how they provide their clients with guidance, tools and over time knowledge to be autonomous in their health and fitness, how important is building relationships with each of their clients, how pandemic affects the business, what is individual fitness and how it differs to other model and their concept of 100% Individualized coaching - individualize the prescription (exercise, nutrition and recovery) to take them from where they are currently and also towards where they want to be.
 

Quotes:

·         “It's showing that we really care about the basic things in health and taking care of yourself”
·         “So we have a limit to how many clients we can serve. Per coach. Before we have to hire more people, which is a challenge to find the right individual to coach together with us.”
·         “I would say that their ideal client is a person who is willing to put in the effort in actually listening and changing things in their lives.”

Resources and Links:

https://www.instagram.com/opexaland/

https://opexaland.as.me/consultation

https://www.instagram.com/oivo 

Email Elin