{"podcast":{"title":"Future of Fitness","slug":"future-of-fitness-60424","podcast_index_feed_id":60424,"rss_url":"https://futureoffitness.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.futureoffitness.co/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/2/6/f/826f41f662c56a0716c3140a3186d450/Podcast-20260721-fr734mts7t.png","author":"Eric Malzone","episode_count":566,"summary":"We are putting a shoulder into the fitness industry and pushing it forward into the modern digital age. Eric Malzone, a 14-year industry veteran, entrepreneur, advisor, and coach, interviews the brightest movers and shakers in the fitness and health industries. Interviewing some of the industry's top executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders, topics will vary covering cutting edge technology, entrepreneurship, hot industry trends, and so much more. If you're in or around the industry, this is how you keep your edge sharp.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:17:17.689438+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-fitness-60424"},"episode":{"title":"Will Bartholomew - From Peyton Manning's Teammate to D1 Training Founder","slug":"will-bartholomew-from-peyton-manning-s-teammate-to-d1-training-founder","published_at":"2026-07-08T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-fitness-60424/will-bartholomew-from-peyton-manning-s-teammate-to-d1-training-founder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-fitness-60424","url":"https://futureoffitness.libsyn.com/will-bartholomew-from-peyton-mannings-teammate-to-d1-training-founder","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/futureoffitness/FOF_WillB_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=577851","summary":"Before he built one of the biggest names in youth sports training, Will Bartholomew was a walk-on at the University of Tennessee trying to survive fall camp with a quarterback named Peyton Manning. In this episode, the D1 Training founder sits down with Eric Malzone to trace the whole arc — training athletes in an open field back in 2002, opening a patio-carpet-and-turf gym with racks he screwed together himself, and slowly turning that into a franchise system now closing in on 220 locations nationwide. Will gets honest about the messy middle: no point-of-sale system at location two, why D1 doesn't open on Sundays, selling off 27 real estate properties and a physical therapy business to go all-in on the gym he actually loved, and the advice from his father that changed everything — \"never scale anything until you've scaled it yourself.\" He also digs into what makes a great youth strength coach today, how D1 uses radical transparency and scorecards to keep coaches bought in, why he thinks the $115 billion youth sports market is still in its first inning, and the balance every sports parent is chasing between competing hard and keeping the game fun. Whether you're a gym owner thinking about franchising, a coach trying to build a real career in strength and conditioning, or a parent navigating the youth sports world, this conversation is packed with hard-earned lessons from someone who's lived every side of it. 🎯 Key Takeaways 🏈 Will's path ran through a state wrestling title, a full ride to Tennessee, a national championship alongside Peyton Manning, and an NFL knee injury that redirected him straight into the weight room business 🌱 D1 Training started in 2002 in an open field before opening its first real location in spring 2003 — patio carpet, hand-built racks, and bur…","meta_description":"Before he built one of the biggest names in youth sports training, Will Bartholomew was a walk-on at the University of Tennessee trying to survive fall ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3104,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-of-fitness-60424/episodes/will-bartholomew-from-peyton-manning-s-teammate-to-d1-training-founder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-fitness-60424/will-bartholomew-from-peyton-manning-s-teammate-to-d1-training-founder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}