What happens if the Body20 Required Trainees are unable to successfully complete the Initial Training?
Body20 Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ires or is otherwise terminated, you must secure our approval of another site and enter into a Site Lease for the new approved site within 90 days. You agree to pay us the Relocation Fee upon notifying us of your intent to relocate the Studio to a new Site, whether or not the new Site is approved. We reserve the right to terminate this Agreement if you fail to secure a new approved site within 90 days after you lose the Site Lease.
Section 5 Training and Assistance
- 5.1 Initial Training. Prior to opening the Studio, you (or your Operating Principal, if you are an Entity) and your Designated Manager (collectively, "Required Trainees") must personally attend and satisfactorily complete our initial training program ("Initial Training"). We will provide Initial Training as soon as practicable after the execution and delivery of this Agreement at our offices, at any other location that we designate, and/or remotely via recorded media, teleconference, videoconference, the Internet, webinar, or any other means, as we determine. We will determine the length, timing, location, and substance of Initial Training in our sole discretion. We may waive a portion of Initial Training or alter the training schedule if we determine that your Required Trainees have sufficient prior experience or training or have previously been trained at one of our Studios. Each subsequent Operating Principal and Designated Manager must attend our Initial Training unless we otherwise agree in writing.
- (a) Cost. We will provide instructors, facilities, and materials your Required Trainees as part of the Franchise Fee, provided that all of your trainees are trained during the same training session. We reserve the right to charge the Training Fee for each person who attends a subsequent Initial Training program, including (i) each person who is repeating the course or replacing a person who did not pass and (ii) each subsequent Operating Principal, Designated Manager, or employee who attends the course.
- (b) Completion of Initial Training. If your Required Trainees are unable to successfully complete, in our sole discretion, Initial Training for any reason, your Required Trainees must repeat Initial Training or you must send replacement Required Trainees to complete Initial Training.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPT (FDD pages 74–251)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Body20's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if the Required Trainees (which include the franchisee or the Operating Principal and the Designated Manager) do not successfully complete the Initial Training, they must repeat the training or the franchisee must send replacement trainees. This training must be completed at least 30 days before the studio opens or by an earlier deadline specified by Body20. The franchisee will not receive a refund of any initial franchise fees paid, regardless of whether the training is successfully completed.
Body20 retains sole discretion in determining whether the Required Trainees have successfully completed the Initial Training. If the franchisee and their personnel complete the training and do not express any concerns about the adequacy of the training at the end of the program, they will be deemed to have been sufficiently trained to operate a Body20 studio.
Furthermore, the FDD states that failure of the Required Trainees to successfully complete Initial Training to Body20's satisfaction at least 30 days before the studio opens (or an earlier specified deadline) constitutes an event of default under the Franchise Agreement. This means Body20 could terminate the franchise agreement if the training is not completed successfully and on time. This could lead to significant financial and operational consequences for the franchisee.