{"id":1367,"date":"2016-03-01T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2016-03-02T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:36:38","slug":"industry-icon-neal-spruce-ramps-up-to-grow-another-impactful-brand-with-ptonthenet-and-pta-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/industry-icon-neal-spruce-ramps-up-to-grow-another-impactful-brand-with-ptonthenet-and-pta-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Icon Neal Spruce Ramps Up to Grow Another Impactful Brand With PTontheNet and PTA Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT-on-the-Net-300x80.png\" alt=\"PT on the Net\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT-on-the-Net-300x80.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT-on-the-Net-200x53.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT-on-the-Net.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PT on the Net<\/p>\n<p><strong>DENVER, CO<\/strong> &#8211; Neal Spruce and his investment group have officially acquired two of the industry\u2019s most trusted and relied on development companies; Personal Training on the Net (PTontheNet) and Personal Training Academy Global (PTA Global).<\/p>\n<p>Through the strategic alignment of resources, Spruce has founded, owned, operated and partnered to build some of the largest and most successful fitness brands in the business such as Gold\u2019s Gym, Apex Fitness, National Acad-emy of Sports Medicine (NASM), the Bodybugg (winner in 2005 of \u201cBest of What\u2019s New in Personal Health in the U.S.\u201d awarded by Popular Science), and 24Hour Fitness, among others.  Most recently, Neal developed the evi-dence-based fitness programming company, dotFIT Worldwide. His vision and deep understanding of creating re-sources for club operators and fitness professionals has led him to be one of the most respected entrepreneurs in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn&#8217;t be more excited to have found the best possible organization to hand our baton to,\u201d says Kevin La-ferriere, CEO of FitPro. \u201cWe believe Neal Spruce and team are certainly the right group to liberate the full potential of the PTontheNet and PTA Global brands. Their commitment to growing meaningful fitness resources is unparal-leled in our industry. We\u2019re inspired by their vast network; and most importantly, our customers will be the un-doubted benefactors of a significant uplift in our product and services.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Neal Spruce, Chairman says, \u201cWe anticipate improving operating efficiencies; including customer support, rapid deployment of resources, and expanded services. The new organization will quickly move to amplify its current position as the preferred provider for all customized health, sport, fitness professional and facility needs.\u201d By host-ing the sport and fitness industry\u2019s most respected education and business resource providers on a single platform PTontheNet and PTA Global are able to deliver a comprehensive, one-stop solution for building and maintaining a successful fitness business. Resources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete education and staff training resources;<\/li>\n<li>NCCA Accredited Certification;<\/li>\n<li>CECs and advanced continuing education;<\/li>\n<li>Systems and sciences to position a business for success;<\/li>\n<li>Recruitment and new employee onboarding tools;<\/li>\n<li>Compliance-based education, like CPR and AED training, workplace harassment, etc.;<\/li>\n<li>Access to industry\u2019s premier fitness insurance provider, Sports &#038; Fitness Insurance Company;<\/li>\n<li>Exercise library and program design tools;<\/li>\n<li>Library of compelling educational resources from renowned industry educators and business leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spruce\u2019s success is rooted in the belief that sport and fitness facilities with properly trained staff are the key to solving America\u2019s health care dilemma.\u201cAccurate delivery of the best tools and talent needed to run a successful fitness business within an organization&#8217;s own footprint will bring and keep more people coming through the doors,\u201d says Spruce.<\/p>\n<p>The new ownership\u2019s intent is to continually support talented fitness professionals and facilities that not only pro-vide immediate results through complete programming but also set consumers up for long-term health and fitness benefits. The assets housed within PTontheNet and PTA Global are key to achieving this vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DENVER, CO<\/strong> &#8211; Neal Spruce and his investment group have officially acquired two of the industry\u2019s most trusted and relied on development companies; Personal Training on the Net (PTontheNet) and Personal Training Academy Global (PTA Global).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[190,191,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}