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Dave Tate's Table Talk

#269 Mark Ehnis | Opening A Gym, Business, Powerstrength Training Systems

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9586 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 171 minutes

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In this 269th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Mark Ehnis takes a seat.

 

Mark Ehnis is the founder, owner, and CEO of PowerStrength Training Systems located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. PowerStrength is a premium sports performance and personal training company specializing in youth, high school, college athletes, and adults ages 40-65.

Mark has successfully scaled his unique business model from humble beginnings without selling out on his core beliefs. Over the last 12+ years, PowerStrength has become one of the most successful fitness businesses in the country. Mark leads a team of 30+ staff members across four state-of-the-art facilities in the West Michigan area.

Mark is an expert when it comes to scaling multiple facilities, creating a centralized operating system to deliver a consistent experience, building career opportunities for staff, and developing stronger leaders.

In addition to leading PowerStrength, Mark enjoys helping gym owners who are serious about taking their business to the next level through business coaching and private consulting.

 

Contact Mark - www.MarkEhnis.com 

 

PowerStrength Training Systems - www.powerstrengthpro.com

 

Instagram - @Meatheadmark, @PowerStrengthTS

 

 

 

ABOUT THE HOST

 

Dave Tate is the founder and co-owner of elitefts.com. He is the author of twenty books and has logged more than 40,000 hours of training and consulting. Dave is married to elitefts co-owner Traci Arnold-Tate, and they reside in London, Ohio, with their two sons. Personal Credo: Live, Learn, Pass on™.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, you wake up one day.

0:45.8

You see this gravestone, has your business on a power strength training systems, 2011 to 2024. It's like, all right, my business is dead. What killed it? Thank you. Fucked out of Fuck the shit now! Block shit now! Hey It's time. It's time to sit down.

0:49.9

Welcome to Table Talk.

1:03.0

I'm Mark Ennis and I founded Power Strength Training Systems in June 2011 with my childhood friend Jared Beldeer. I was a 23 year old hometown kid with no business background but saw a void in the West Michigan training community and I wanted to fix it. In doing so, Power Strength has provided a platform for us to deliver our passion to hundreds of people across West Michigan.

1:17.6

It is a no-nonsense blue-collar atmosphere where self-intettlement doesn't belong.

1:22.6

As we always say, it doesn't matter how strong you are in the gym if you're a weak person outside the gym. We're in the business of developing people that goes far beyond the gym or the athletic field.

1:32.3

First impressions are a funny thing. We're best known for producing some of the best athletes in West Michigan.

1:37.3

That's kind of how we got our start initially. And now people are a little bit intimidated when they come in here and that's completely normal

1:43.3

until they come in and see our 12 year old athlete in our youth program or our 48 year old mother of three in our adult program or the 38 year old office manager coming in just to get a workout in.

1:55.0

We're always a results based gym around here putting a couple extra inches on the volleyball player is vertical or helping that NFL athlete perform better at a combine is always great and always our goal

2:05.3

but it goes much more beyond that it's about having the dad who had back surgery

2:09.2

have a little more energy to play with his kids it's about having that lifelong

2:12.4

bench-warmer create memories under the lights on a Friday night that will last a

2:15.9

lifetime we know what we have at PSTS is unique and special. We have tremendous support within our family and community. It's

2:22.4

always been our goal to only work with quality people, both inside the gym and out. Today's episode is

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