The Platform Story
Platform started as nothing more than an abandoned mill in Dukinfield and a Vision.
Mark and Ste who formed Platform decided that the health and fitness services in the area were all lacking huge parts of the process and that ultimately the people of Tameside weren’t getting what they needed.
The budget gyms leave you with an intimidating environment and no clue of what to do.
The slimming clubs were giving poor nutritional information and setting people up for a cycle of failure by not getting to the root cause of what was causing people to gain weight.
The bootcamps and fitness classes just weren’t providing enough support beyond the gym or enough training inside it.
And 1-2-1 personal training is just far too expensive for most people to use it the way it is needed.
So late night they got together, started at the end and worked backwards.
What would the ultimate health and fitness service look like that would tick all those boxes?
Bit by bit over the coming years they worked relentlessly on this vision growing both the gym in size and number of members and the coaching team to accommodate the people who were leaving the sub-par services in the area and becoming Platform Shark’s.
Now what was essentially an idea born early morning over a coffee in McDonald’s is helping 100’s of people each month in and around Tameside physically and mentally to realise that taking care of themselves can be a fun process, is ever rewarding on yourself, can become a natural part of their life and not a chore that gets forgotten about until it becomes an issue.
