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.

 

PGA Reach Provides Access through Fellowship

Randall Hunt is the CEO and founder of Athletic Apex. Also a golf player, Randall Hunt not only attended Pepperdine University in Malibu on a golf scholarship but also went on to play professional golf, even becoming a member of the PGA of America right after college.

Long known for its tours, PGA of America is also a home to the PGA Reach program, which provides young adults with internship opportunities through its PGA Works Fellowship. The PGA Reach program is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that seeks to positively impact the lives of those in the military, youth, and diverse populations by providing access to PGA Golf, and the PGA Works Fellowship is one of the programs that carry out this mission.

The fellowship is a one-year, paid internship that immerses the person in the world of golf-mainly its PGA Section’s Foundation operations. The internship is offered during the fall and winter and is designed to give students a glimpse of what a career in golf might be like.

The program focuses on providing access to people from a cross-section of the population, regardless of race, class, gender veteran’s status, disability, religion, ancestry, or national origin. This year, 11 fellows work in 11 PGA Sections, and since the fellowship’s inception, nine of the 10 fellowship alumni have gotten employment in the golf industry with the one gaining employment in another part of sports. 

Gyms Lack Diversity at Both the Employee and Membership Levels

Randall Hunt was a professional golfer before opening his own gym in 2006. As the CEO of Athletic Apex, Randall Hunt is one of only a few minority fitness club owners. In an article with CCX Media in the summer of 2020, he touched on the lack of diversity in the fitness industry.

This lack of diversity includes a lack of representation, not just among trainers and club owners, but also club members. Whether it’s a yoga class, a spinning session, other gym classes, or even weightlifting, the likelihood is that they are overwhelmingly utilized by people who are white. Mr. Hunt believes that educating minority communities about the health benefits of exercise as well as hiring employees who identify as minorities and placing them in customer-facing roles.

Affordability may also be a contributing factor. A 2019 Forbes article noted that for many minorities, a gym membership is a luxury, and in many cases, one that is unaffordable. To join a gym, most would have to budget for between $40 and $50 per month, and this does not include the initial start-up fees. Moreover, boutique gyms that hold spinning and other types of classes charge on a per-class basis.

Some people who are members of minority groups skip expensive gym memberships and choose activities that might not be as expensive, but may not provide as many health benefits. To address this, gym owners may want to offer a variety of membership options at lower price points.

What Is Bionetics?

A former professional golfer, Randall Hunt is a veteran of the fitness industry and a former president and CEO of Athletic Apex, a unique gym model with several locations across the United States. In addition, Randall Hunt is the creator behind Bionetics, an approach to personal training that is grounded firmly in science. He established Bionetics after a car accident left his right arm paralyzed and several surgeries and rehabilitation programs failed to help.

Bionetics uses in-depth assessment attained through cutting-edge technology to create highly personalized regimes. This assessment helps individuals understand the particular needs of their bodies so they can understand how to work toward goals more effectively and set themselves up for continued success. Fad diets and workouts do not work because they are not tailored in the way that Bionetics is. Sustainable results are only achievable with highly personalized approaches.

A number of Olympic athletes and professional athletes have used Bionetics to achieve personal goals they never thought possible. The approach has also been endorsed by numerous physicians.

Science-Backed Bionetics Program Endorsed by Olympic Training Center

A graduate of Pepperdine University with a degree in business administration, Randall Hunt is the founder and former CEO of the health club Athletic Apex. Also the creator of Bionetics, Randall Hunt designed the personal training program that uses science to optimize an exercise, nutrition, and supplementation program.

Bionetics begins with an in-depth, proprietary assessment process that identifies the unique features of the user’s body and metabolism. When users can better understand their biochemical make-up, they can avoid spending their energy and money on small or unsustainable fitness programs.

After the customized Bionetics analysis is complete, users receive a specific course of action to optimize their nutrition and exercise plan. Users achieve rapid results from the targeted program and find it easy to maintain because it is specifically designed to work for them. The Bionetics program has been endorsed by numerous physicians, the United States Olympic Training Center, top professional athletes, and professional fitness models.

Orlando Magazine’s Health Platform

Randall Hunt, of Tallahassee, Florida, is CEO and founder of Athletic Apex-based in Fort Worth, Texas. Since the launch of the gym years ago, Randall Hunt and his venture have been featured in a few magazines, including Orlando magazine.

Since its inception in the 1940s, Orlando magazine has featured a range of articles on the lifestyle, culture, and growth of the city in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The magazine is divided into seven categories that feature stories about lifestyle, food and drink, arts and events, travel, a section titled “Where Florida,” and current issues. Within these categories, there also are articles related to health.

For example, the May 2020 issue featured an article focused on three exercises that Orlando residents can do in their free time. The article advises readers that exercise is an important part of health, and that allocating 30 to 60 minutes of exercise daily is important to fitness. It also mentions biking, walking, and yoga as ways to get in the right amount of fitness.