Completing a Personal Health Transformation and Paying It Forward

Randall Hunt first built a noted golf career as a championship college athlete, then as a professional on the PGA circuit, competing and winning matches on three continents from 2002 to 2006. He then pivoted to a career as an entrepreneur, leading sports coaching clinic Back9 Performance as co-founder, president, and CEO from 2006 to 2008, and the Athletic Apex chain of fitness clubs as founder, president, and CEO from 2006 to 2019. At Athletic Apex, Randall Hunt led an award-winning business with locations in three states.

A range of publications and organizations have featured articles on Mr. Hunt and his success in sports and business. In 2017, the International Health, Racquet & Sports Association (IHRSA) profiled him as a health club owner who overcame multiple challenges to achieve his goals.

The IHRSA piece noted Mr. Hunt’s focus on transforming the way people look at the whole issue of health and fitness, a perspective that grew out of one particular incident during his time as a college athlete.

Although he gained fame as a member of the Pepperdine University 1997 NCAA Division 1 men’s golf championship team while attending on a full athletic scholarship, he also suffered painful injuries that year due to an automobile accident. Mr. Hunt emerged with a partially paralyzed right arm, lasting pain, and a bleak prognosis.

Out of that challenge, he began to learn everything he could about the body, physiology, and training. The result: He tried various approaches to see what would work best, and developed his own program, now branded as Bionetics, designed to provide relief from pain without recourse to surgery. The Bionetics system has been taken up by the United States Navy and by numerous professional athletes, including those training for the Olympics.

He put the same empirical approach to work in developing some of the nation’s most successful health club locations, working to make each a place where clients can learn the best new techniques, using the most innovative fitness technologies available, that work best for their own long-term fitness goals.

What is the Bionetics Personal Training Program?

A business executive with extensive expertise in organizational and strategic leadership, Randall Hunt has served as a state council member, the CEO of a state lottery, and as a board member for a major aviation authority. From 2006 to 2019, Randall Hunt served as the president and CEO of Athletic Apex, a health club he founded and expanded to operate in three states. He is also a pioneer of the Bionetic system.

Used by thousands of people around the globe including physicians, athletes, and the United States Olympic Training Center, Bionetics is a scientific-based personal training program consisting of multiple elements including assessment, exercise, nutrition, and supplementation. Unlike other training programs, Bionetics analyzes the unique needs of each individual’s body to gain the information required to formulate a program to optimize its functioning and maintain results for life.

Bionetics uses proprietary methods to help improve body composition, enhance the function of the body, and strengthen it against disease. There are six Bionetics programs available including Golfnetics for golfers, Tennetics for tennis players, Chronic Pain, Body Transformation, Performance, and Optimal Health.

Improve Your Tennis Game with Tennetics

A professional athlete and business executive, Randall Hunt is the founder of Athletic Apex, a health club that operates in multiple cities. An entrepreneur and health and fitness advocate, Randall Hunt developed the Bionetics Tennetics system to improve tennis players' games.

A unique program comprised of assessment, nutrition, supplementation, and exercise components, the Tennetics Bionetics system is designed to improve tennis players’ performance and lengthen their playing career. Approved and used by the United States Professional Tennis Association (USTPTA), this system determines and corrects the physical limitations of the body that are interfering with an ideal playing performance. The Tennetics program helps tennis players to improve the range of mobility in their shoulders, hips, and trunk, and helps to prevent injuries and minimize inflammation.

The Tennetics Bionetics system is one of six Bionetics programs offered by the Athletic Apex. The other programs include Golfnetics, Body Transformation, Chronic Pain, Optimal Health, and Performance.

 

Fitness Centers Can Play a Role in Managing Stress

Randall Hunt founded the Athletic Apex, a fitness club that has branches in New York, Florida, and Texas. As the company head, Randall Hunt developed Bionetics, a program that matches a person’s biology with the appropriate fitness plan. This resulted in the fitness center being featured in publications such as the International Health Racquet and Sports Association (IHRSA), an organization that supports the health and fitness industry.

In October, the IHRSA published an article highlighting the significance of the fitness center in helping members cope with stress. The backdrop to the article was the pandemic, and the author used data to support the effect of gym closures on people who had memberships looking at various factors including stress.

The figures show that many people (57 percent) were not as active during the stay-at-home orders. With more time at home, people had plenty to stress about during this time away from work and the gym. Some of the most common stressors included health-related issues (76 percent), the economy (65 percent), the presidential election (58 percent), their own immunity (49 percent), and racial inequality (39 percent).

Now that many establishments have re-opened some people have chosen to return to the gym. The data shows that people who returned to the gym have experienced less stress in comparison to those who chose to cancel their membership or refrain from attending the gym. For instance, forty-four percent of those who returned to the gym were concerned about their immunity as opposed to 54 percent of people who have this same worry but do not work out at the gym.