Ellen Latham
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Latham: Orangetheory split leadership across workout design, management, and franchise expansion
“So I consider myself like the artist. So the artist is the one I created, right? The art of the workout. Then we see like Dave Long as the manager. He manages the business. He's the CEO, and Jerome is without a doubt an entrepreneur a thousand percent. His con…”
Latham: Scaling boutique fitness requires depersonalizing the operating model
“You know, if you're going to duplicate this, you have to find ways that you're going to be able to do it and it not be about Ellen. So interestingly enough, in the early days, they basically said, just so you know, you can't coach here. You can't show up a lot…”
Latham: Orangetheory Fitness's oldest member is 95 years old
“Our oldest member is 95 years old in Colorado, and, you know, people can do the workout.”
Latham: 20 minutes of high-intensity cardio matches 90 minutes of jogging
“Because what you can do in 12 to 20 minutes of getting your heart rate over 80%, you would have to go jog at just a steady state pace for an hour and a half.”
Latham: 12 to 20 minutes at 80% max heart rate boosts metabolism
“If you do at least 12 to 20 minutes of that in your workout, your body has to repay that debt. So over the next 12, 24 hours, the human cells, your body is working harder to bring it back to that homeostatic state. So that is what is changing your metabolism, …”
Latham repaid a $38,000 Pilates equipment loan within four months
“I think the whole thing cost about 38,000 dollars that he loaned me. And I bought them right out, and I put them in there... And it exploded. And I paid Nick back in four months.”
Latham: Shift momentum during setbacks by focusing on what is working
“So there's a sports psychologist theory called momentum shifting, and you can momentum shift up positively or down negatively. So, you know, your team's losing, your players are not performing. Instead of focusing on what's not going right, Focus on what they …”
Latham claims she brought indoor spinning to Florida in the 1990s
“I literally brought spinning to Florida.”
Latham: The vast majority of people do not naturally enjoy exercising
“Fitness and exercise isn't something that people skip through the tulips and want to do, at least not the masses. You know, you've got some that are innately love exercise, but it's not like a massage.”
Orangetheory rejected 'boot camp' branding to avoid drill-sergeant fitness culture
“When we created Orange Theory, I told the guys, please, let's not have boot camp in our name, because I did not like that.”
Latham used heart-rate training with spa clients in the late 1980s
“So when the clients came in, I would do like sub max cardio testing, that type of thing on a bike usually to see where they're at. I then gave them some information of what they should train at heart rate wise. So I was doing this way back and then give them a…”