#76 - How to Build a Gym That Lasts: Andy McCloy on World-Class Coaching & Business
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Choose Hard Podcast, Cody McBroom sits down with Andy McCloy, owner of BCI in Alabama and a respected leader in the strength and conditioning world. Andy has been building a successful gym for decades, and in this conversation he shares what separates world-class gyms and coaches from those that fail within a few years.
Cody and Andy dive into the core principles of long-term business success, the importance of mentorship and guidance, and what today’s generation of coaches are missing compared to the OG’s who paved the way. Andy also shares powerful lessons from his own upbringing, the one book every listener should read, and his take on what’s overrated and underrated in fitness, business, and life.
If you’re a coach, entrepreneur, or anyone striving to build something that lasts, this conversation will give you the tools and perspective to stay in the game long-term.
👉 In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The 1–3 keys to long-term gym success- Why mentorship and guidance are non-negotiable for growth- The difference between average coaches and world-class coaches- What lessons from the past today’s world has forgotten- Andy McCloy’s current “Choose Hard” battle
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. I'm your host, Cody McBroom. I am a father, husband, entrepreneur, |
| 0:04.8 | and coach with one sole mission in life, and that is to help individuals live their best life |
| 0:09.6 | possible. Step one, and that is choosing hard. I'm going to help you do today. Today's guest on the show |
| 0:14.7 | is Andy McCloy. This is a man that I have known for 13 years and has been a voice of reason, a voice of wisdom, a voice of |
| 0:22.9 | knowledge, experience, and so much guidance over the years. He is somebody who has been a mentor |
| 0:29.2 | to me in many ways. I met him very early on in my career. As I did, a lot of strength coaches, |
| 0:35.1 | which we're going to talk about today, is just the, what the strength coaching world is missing in today's age, in today's industry, what |
| 0:42.1 | gyms are missing, what coaches are missing, what business owners do not understand, and what |
| 0:46.3 | has allowed people like Andy to be running a gym for 16 years. |
| 0:50.6 | And before that, before this gym opened, 25 years in total of running gyms. And this guy is the |
| 0:56.1 | epitome of enduring the long haul of success in the fitness space. He has trained everybody from |
| 1:01.7 | moms and dads to NFL players, NBA players, college athletes. He has taken kids that are |
| 1:07.6 | playing football and trained them in the gym all the way through their high school |
| 1:11.7 | career, college career and into the NFL. He has jerseys all around his gym. It's so |
| 1:16.4 | unbelievably just cool, but also impressive and inspiring. And we are going to pick his brain today |
| 1:22.7 | and learn how he has done what he has done in his career, how he has developed the career in the business |
| 1:28.6 | that he has developed and how he has mastered the art of coaching and refined that over the last |
| 1:34.1 | two plus decades. So without any further ado, let's chat with a good friend and mentor of mine, |
| 1:40.2 | the one and only, Andy McCloy. |
| 1:44.3 | The greatest things in life all start with a challenge. |
| 1:48.2 | You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. |
| 1:51.9 | Everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
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