About Us

WABBA is the UK’s longest-established and most experienced fitness trainer organisation. WABBA is the world governing body for Bodybuilding and Fitness Education, recognised in over 100 countries, and comes with over 40 years UK & worldwide training experience.

WABBA fitness trainer courses are famously unique due to its world class founders – legendary 5x World Champion Serge Nubret, and award winning author, former GB Olympic Weight-Lifting & Senior Powerlifting coach Alan Runacres. WABBA Sports Programme Course Director is 6x British, 2x European, and 2x World Junior Swimming Champion Scott Burton.

What’s in this for you?

• 94% of all sales income from within your territory is kept by you
• Exclusive territory rights, with opportunities for expansion
• Comprehensive training for you and key team members
• Online learning platform for your students to learn their theory knowledge
• Online assessment platform, certification, CV building and job skills references for your students
• Referral process for all past, present and future customers within your territory
• The commercial strengths of running your own proven and profitable business model
• Trading under one of the most trusted, respected, and the longest established UK fitness brands
• Massive global job opportunities for your student graduates
• WABBA Franchise Partner website designed by our IT support partners.
• Twitter and Facebook Promotions about you featured on our social media pages
• A start-up database with demographics on average of over 3,000 fitness leads per territory
• A start-up database with all key postcodes within your territory
• A start-up database with all key fitness outlets within your territory

Are you who we are looking for?

WABBA franchise partners need these qualities:

• Interested in health and fitness and gym training
• Aware that there’s a better life than working around the clock for others
• Enthusiastic with a friendly disposition and a good communicator
• Committed to building a successful business
• Able to raise funds in the region of £15 – 25k towards the typical franchise fee costs

If you answered YES to these 5 qualities, we would love to hear from you!

What are your chances of success?

WABBA Qualifications group, backed by over 40+ years of fitness industry experience and knowledge, was developed by our founder Alan Runacres, who is now training the next generation of WABBA leaders by creating fitness franchise partnerships to take the name forward for the next 40 years.

A WABBA fitness franchise is a fantastic business opportunity for you to develop and grow your very own fitness franchise business with the knowledge that you have one of the fitness industry’s most experienced world-class members by your side!

Our fantastic online learning and assessment platforms, coupled to our superb student support process with our ISO 9001 and International Accreditation Board Quality Assurance Programmes, plus regular contact with our franchise partners, ensure that franchisees enjoy what has become known as ‘The WABBA Way’.