StretchMed Studios : A Marlborough Owner Hit 150 Members in Month One With StretchMed

This testimonial features the owner of StretchMed Marlborough — a 20-year fitness industry veteran who opened the studio after evaluating multiple assisted-stretching franchise concepts and choosing StretchMed. Her path into the franchise was deliberate. She had spent two decades as a personal trainer and assisted-stretching practitioner, recognized the demand building in the category, and met with several franchisors and tested their services personally before deciding. After a single session at StretchMed, she fell in love with the experience, and the brand's onboarding then carried her through a process that was entirely new to her — finding the studio location, negotiating with the landlord, and walking through the LOI and lease. The opening was strong out of the gate. She opened the books a few weeks before launch and they filled quickly thanks to a corporate marketing team handling social media, with new bookings coming in continuously. Membership grew to over 150 in the first month and she expects to close in on 200 within a few months — momentum that has continued in the same direction since opening. She emphasizes the franchisor's responsiveness as a defining feature of the system. As a first-time franchisee with frequent questions, she gets immediate answers from corporate — IT, the VP of sales and operations, or specialists on the actual stretches themselves. What she finds most rewarding is hearing from members who started just a couple of months ago and are now getting out of bed without pain. She closes on her team — five people per studio, treated like family — and on her conviction that StretchMed delivers a service people will need forever, not a fitness gimmick.