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Buy a My Gym Children’s Fitness Center Franchise

My Gym Children’s Fitness Center is an early-childhood fitness and enrichment franchise serving children from about six weeks to ten years old. Founded in 1983 and franchising since 1995, the brand runs structured, noncompetitive classes built around pre-gymnastics, movement, music, and games that develop strength, coordination, balance, and social skills in custom-equipped facilities.

The model is membership-based and recurring, with weekly classes supplemented by birthday parties, camps, school-break programs, and special events. The curriculum changes each week and most classes are staffed with at least two teachers. Franchisees typically run a fixed center within a protected territory, though a lower-overhead mobile format serving daycares and preschools also exists.

Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, My Gym is an international system with more than 550 locations across 30-plus countries and a customer base exceeding one million children. Its long operating history, proprietary curriculum, and recurring-membership structure set it apart within the children’s fitness category.

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Why buy a My Gym Children’s Fitness Center Franchise?

Buying a My Gym franchise means entering a children’s fitness category that has held up well across economic cycles, behind a brand with four decades of operating history and an established international name. The recurring-membership model produces predictable revenue, while parties, camps, and seasonal programs add income beyond core class enrollment.

Owners gain access to a proprietary, weekly-changing curriculum, established operating systems, purchasing co-ops, and a close-knit franchisee network that corporate treats as a core support advantage. A protected territory and a recognizable name give an owner standing that an independent children’s gym would have to build from scratch.

My Gym Children’s Fitness Center Franchise Costs & Information

  • Minimum Qualifications

    • Initial Franchise Fee

      $25,000 - $55,000

    • Initial Investment

      $36,760 - $277,200

  • Royalty

    • Royalty Fee

      7-8%

  • Training & Support

    • 40 hours on the job training

    • 17 hours classroom training

    • Ongoing support

    • Marketing support

My Gym Children’s Fitness Center – Additional  Information

  1. Training & Support

    Initial training runs roughly 57 hours, combining about 17 classroom hours with 40 hours of on-the-job instruction in the My Gym curriculum and operations. Ongoing support includes proprietary management software, a franchisee intranet, purchasing co-ops, regular newsletters, franchisee conventions, and continuing operational guidance from corporate. Note that corporate's on-site grand-opening visit applies to new facilities only and not to resales, so buyers of an existing My Gym should confirm what transfer training and software access the franchisor provides when ownership changes.

  2. Ideal Owner

    The model suits hands-on, community-minded operators who enjoy working around young children and families. No prior fitness or childcare experience is required, since training covers the curriculum, but owners should be comfortable recruiting, training, and managing a team of coaches, driving local enrollment and membership retention, and giving parents a warm customer experience. Day-to-day operational involvement and local marketing instincts matter more than industry background, making this a fit for owner-operators rather than passive investors.

  3. Recognition & Awards

    My Gym positions itself as a leading name in children's fitness, supported by a four-decade operating history, a network of more than 550 locations across 30-plus countries, and a customer base exceeding one million children. The brand emphasizes franchisee satisfaction and a close owner community as reputational strengths. For resale buyers, brand-level standing should be weighed alongside the specific territory's local reputation, parent reviews, referral sources, and community visibility.

  4. Industry / Market

    Demand for structured children's fitness is tied to parental spending on youth physical activity, which has grown sharply in the US: the Aspen Institute's Project Play found the average sports family spent $1,016 on a child's primary activity in 2024, up 46% since 2019. Dual-income households, early-development awareness, and demand for noncompetitive options outside school support the category. For resale buyers, local enrollment depth, birth-rate trends, and competition from other enrichment providers shape a specific territory's strength.

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