Chapter 277 Guo Licheng's Embarrassment

Guo Licheng felt slightly embarrassed.

Generally speaking, fitness coaches are not allowed to use equipment for their own workouts during work hours.

Because in most gyms, the primary job of a fitness coach is to train members and sell courses, while maintaining their own physique is relatively less important.

Guo Licheng had seen that there were no customers today, so he let the coaches try out the equipment, only to be caught by President Pei.

"President Pei, I was the one who told them to try out the equipment to see if it was working well. I'll call them back to prepare for work right away..."

Guo Licheng turned around, intending to call all the coaches over.

Pei Qian quickly stopped him, "What are you talking about! Isn't it natural for coaches to work out?"

Guo Licheng was stunned. "Huh?"

Pei Qian said seriously, "As a fitness coach, you must first manage your own physique well. How can you be embarrassed to teach others if you can't even train yourself?"

"Besides, the equipment is just sitting idle anyway, so of course, we have to use it."

"Let me emphasize that as long as they complete their duties, all coaches can use these machines at any time during working hours."

"As the store manager, you must set an example! Your physique must be the best among all the coaches!"

Guo Licheng felt a warmth in his heart. "Okay, President Pei!"

"Then… can we use these machines outside of working hours?"

Pei Qian glanced at him, "You can use these machines outside of working hours, but you can't come to the gym because overtime is strictly prohibited."

Guo Licheng was speechless.

Although this sounded a bit absurd, Guo Licheng still felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

Previous gyms didn't treat coaches like people. Many internal groups were constantly comparing performance, such as who sold the most cards today and who sold the most sessions tomorrow. They had to make military pledges every month, and those who failed to meet their targets even had to shave their heads.

As for the fitness coaches' physique management, the gyms didn't care at all.

Most coaches could only train for an hour or two late at night when the gym closed. With such heavy marketing tasks usually, where would they find the energy to exercise?

But President Pei was completely different, not requiring performance at all, and instead, valuing the fitness coaches' physique management and physical health!

It was truly a blessing to have such an enlightened and good boss!

As for Pei Qian, he looked at the coaches who were diligently exercising and thought to himself, getting Guo Licheng to train his body to the best level among all the coaches would definitely consume a lot of his energy, right?

That way, he would have even less time and energy to manage the gym and attract new customers.

Planned perfectly!

Soon, the coaches gradually came over, greeted Pei Qian, and then started eating their meals.

Pei Qian looked at today's fitness meal.

The fitness meal was delivered in a transparent meal box from Moyu Takeaway, containing a small portion of brown rice, two boiled purple sweet potatoes, chicken breast, shrimp, salmon, boiled eggs, avocado, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, etc. [See author's notes for this chapter]

Low in oil and salt, large in quantity and filling.

In addition, some fruits and cooked corn were attached as extra meals.

Fitness meals emphasize eating small meals frequently. Appropriately adding some extra meals in the morning and afternoon, even if it's just a glass of milk, an apple, or a cob of corn, can improve satiety, increase basal metabolism, and reduce the intake of lunch and dinner, which is very helpful for fat loss.

While eating his fitness meal, Guo Licheng reported his evaluation of the fitness meal to President Pei.

"The ingredients are very fresh, and the quantity is good, providing enough nutrition."

Pei Qian carefully observed the expressions of Guo Licheng and the other coaches and did not find anything unusual, not the kind of "eyes lighting up, background music playing" situation.

This showed that the fitness meal was not delicious!

At least compared to other fitness meals in terms of taste, there was no advantage.

However, to be on the safe side, Pei Qian asked another question, "How's the taste of the fitness meal?"

Guo Licheng thought for a moment, "It's about the same as common fitness meals. Fitness meals, after all, aren't going to be delicious. As long as the quantity is sufficient, that's enough."

Pei Qian was relieved.

As long as the fitness meal had no advantages over fitness meals outside, except for price and quantity, then there was nothing to worry about.

Because this version of the fitness meal was prepared by the chefs of Moyu Takeaway, only meeting the requirement of reducing calorie intake while providing the necessary nutrition, without making any improvements in taste.

And the coaches had obviously eaten too many similar fitness meals. The only advantage of this set of fitness meals for them was "free" and "large quantity."

If they were forced to make customers pay for it themselves, most people would definitely not be willing.

Soon, lunch was over.

The coaches cleaned up the tableware and waited for the delivery guy to come and collect it, while Guo Licheng led Pei Qian to see the situation inside the gym.

According to Pei Qian's requirements, the gym purchased a batch of wristbands, with numbers on them. After the members arrived at the gym, they would receive a wristband from the front desk, find the corresponding locker according to the number on the wristband, and use the wristband to unlock it.

When leaving, the front desk staff would retrieve the wristbands and record the data on the wristbands, entering it into the computer.

In this way, the members' exercise data could be recorded.

Of course, currently, they could only use the stupid method of manually entering the system. Guo Licheng considered developing an App specifically to solve this problem in the future, but since there were no members yet, doing this didn't seem to be very necessary.

Pei Qian looked at the changing rooms, shower rooms, and toilets, and was quite satisfied.

Especially each shower room compartment was equipped with high-end shampoo and shower gel like a high-end hotel, installed in soap dispensers, making it impossible to tell the price.

Increasing the cost in places that outsiders couldn't see made Pei Qian feel very good.

After taking a look around, Pei Qian was very satisfied.

"Very good, keep it up. I'll be leaving first."

Pei Qian was just about to go out when he stopped again.

Because he discovered that a couple had peeked in at the door and then pushed the door open and came in!

Customers had arrived!

Pei Qian looked at Guo Licheng, "You go and greet them. I'll sit for a while longer."

This place was originally a high-end gym near the school. The location wasn't great, but it certainly wasn't bad. Although the previous gym's members had all transferred, it was normal for new people to want to join.

Pei Qian decided to stay and see the feedback from these two people on the gym's pricing before leaving!

Guo Licheng was just about to go and greet them when he saw Ya Ling step forward and then winked at Guo Licheng.

Guo Licheng understood and stepped back.

Obviously, if you want to win over a couple, you must first win over the girl.

Boys definitely don't want male coaches to teach their girlfriends, so Ya Ling, a female coach, had a natural advantage in this regard.

In addition, although she was muscular, she had a sweet appearance, which had a certain deceptive effect on boys and was definitely more suitable than the more taciturn Guo Licheng.

Pei Qian frowned when he saw this scene.

"What's her name?"

Guo Licheng immediately replied, "Her name is Li Ya Ling, a very powerful female coach. In the previous gym, she didn't need to actively promote and sell courses. Her loyal members had already filled up her bookings. Because we are quite familiar with each other in private, I brought her over as well."

Pei Qian: "?"

Didn't need to actively promote and sell courses, loyal members had already filled up her bookings?

Who told you to bring such an unstable factor!

And this Ya Ling took the initiative to greet new customers, which was absolutely not allowed!

It would be fine if she couldn't attract customers, but if she did...

Hmph, then he would have to find a way to arrange a promotion for her.

Pei Qian was silent, randomly grabbed a banana from the side, ate it while silently observing.

Ya Ling took the couple around the gym and then found a place to sit and chat in the rest area.

After about ten minutes, the couple left.

Ya Ling then came to Guo Licheng with some helplessness.

"Didn't work out?" Guo Licheng asked.

Ya Ling shook her head. "Didn't work out."

Pei Qian was secretly delighted, but on the surface, he asked calmly, "What happened?"

Ya Ling said helplessly, "President Pei, everything was fine before. I introduced them to our gym's equipment, coach qualifications, and supporting facilities, and they were both obviously interested."

"But as soon as I mentioned the price, the boy's face changed immediately. Obviously, he had a card at another gym before and calculated that our place was too expensive."

"But the girl thought the environment here was good, and the pay-per-session thing was more friendly to a newbie like her."

"Originally, the boy was considering accommodating the girl, but then I told him about our gym's special requirements, and they both couldn't accept it…"

"Because the cost of fitness itself already made them feel expensive, plus the mandatory purchase of fitness meals, it was completely beyond their budget."

"So… they left, probably to look at other gyms nearby."

Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief.

What was this called?

A narrow escape, or a successful start?

Sure enough, the strategy he had set before to dissuade customers had worked. Even coach Ya Ling herself couldn't keep the two customers!

However, although the start was good, Pei Qian still remembered to be steady.

He cleared his throat twice, "It's okay, it's just two customers. Our gym has a good prospect. It doesn't matter whether we have a few more customers or a few less."

"As long as we wait patiently, customers will definitely come!"

"By the way, Coach Guo, remember to order a sign and write down our gym's prices and requirements, and put it directly at the door, so that many people don't keep coming in and asking questions, disturbing your workouts."

"Those who can't accept these conditions can be dissuaded directly with the sign."

"Rather than answering these people's questions, it's better to train your bodies better. Your physique is the best brand advertisement for managed fitness!"

Ya Ling was a little confused. "Huh?"

Putting the price and conditions outside directly, was he afraid of having too many customers?

Not distributing leaflets for promotion was one thing, but doing this kind of negative promotion, what was President Pei thinking?

Pei Qian stood up, "Okay, I'll be leaving first. Hurry up and get the sign done."

Guo Licheng quickly said, "Okay, President Pei, don't worry."

From the current point of view, Guo Licheng was still very obedient. Although this Li Ya Ling seemed to be a bit of a threat, as long as Guo Licheng was still the store manager and strictly implemented President Pei's requirements, there would be no problem.

Pei Qian walked out of the gym, in a very good mood.

But he also realized a problem, which was that he was starting to spread himself too thin.

Now there were a few too many industries, and the people in charge of many departments were silent when planning, only running to President Pei to report good news when they succeeded, which was really difficult to handle.

Pei Qian increasingly felt that he had to start planting his spies in various departments and strengthen his control over the entire company.

Otherwise, it would be more and more difficult to lose money in the future, and even if he transformed into a firefighter, running his legs off would be useless.

Tengda's Jinyiwei (imperial guards), had to be arranged as soon as possible!