About Norm Cates
Norm Cates
Norm Cates, Jr. is the Founder of Club Insider, now in its 30th year of publication, and its Tribal Leader Since 1993. He is a 50-year veteran of the health, racquet and sportsclub industry. As IHRSA’s First President and a Co-Founder of the Association with Rick Caro and five others, in 1981; the 2001 DALE DIBBLE Distinguished Service Award winner, one of IHRSA’s highest honors; and Club Industry's Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2017, Norm Cates, Jr. is a highly decorated veteran who cares about you. And, he wants to hear from you.
Phone: (770) 635 - 7578
Email: Norm@clubinsideronline.com
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Norm's Notes for September 2017
September 2017 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Publisher and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 285th monthly edition! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2018
September 2018 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Publisher and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in! Folks, it's great to be with you today as we bring you our 297th monthly edition of Club Insider! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2019
September 2019 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Publisher and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with Club Insider Edition #309! Happy Football Season, Y'all! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2020
September 2020 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 321st monthly edition! I hope this finds you and your family, your employees and your members ALL avoiding this dreaded Coronavirus! Our prayers have been with all of you every day. Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2021
September 2021 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 333rd monthly edition! Is America a GREAT COUNTRY or what!? By the time you read this, the college and pro football seasons will be rolling, and I, for one, am really excited about that! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2022
September 2022 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 345th monthly edition! Folks, I hope this finds you and your family finishing up a very healthy and great Summer! And, that means the GOOD NEWS is college football season is here! YAHOO! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2023
September 2023 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 357th monthly edition of this 30+ year running club business newspaper I refer to as: A Labor of LOVE! And, let me just say this here and now... YAHOO!!! I'm saying YAHOO!!! to y'all because, with this issue of Club Insider, we've launched the first edition of our brand-new Digital Era of production! Yep, no more trees will have to die to make paper for Club Insider's printed editions! And, we are not alone! The publishing industry worldwide has been making this change, too! So, JUSTIN CATES, my son, and partner in Club Insider, our highly esteemed Publisher, and I are very excited to send you our first-ever ALL DIGITAL EDITION! Read on. Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2024
September 2024 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 369th monthly edition of this 31+ year running club business publication I refer to as: A Labor of Love! I'm very thankful that you've tuned in again for this iteration of Norm's Notes, as I proceed on my keyboard with my longtime habit of "Telling-It-Like-It-Is!" I'm really happy that you're reading this edition, and I want to THANK YOU ALL for sticking with us every month! As usual, we have a bunch of health and fitness club business news, so please read on! Read Article...
Norm's Notes for September 2025
September 2025 - Hello Everybody! This is your Club Insider Founder and Tribal Leader Since 1993 checking in with our 381st monthly edition of this 30+ year running club business publication I refer to as: A Labor of Love! I'm very thankful that you've tuned in again for this iteration of Norm's Notes, as I proceed on my keyboard with my longtime habit of "Telling-It-Like-It-Is!" I'm really happy that you're reading this edition, and I want to THANK YOU ALL for sticking with us every month! As usual, we have a bunch of health and fitness club business news, so please read on! Read Article...
Norm's Personal Notes
February 2006 - Read Article...
Norm's Personal Notes
June 2005 - Read Article...
Norm's Personal Notes
GOD BLESS Our Troops, Airmen and Seamen
December 2005 - Read Article...
Norman L. Cates, Sr. Passes Away at 92
December 27, 1917 - April 6, 2010
April 2010 - Norman L. Cates, Sr., 92, joined our Lord on April 6, 2010. He passed away due to complications from a severe accidental burn on his right leg that happened at his home on January 31, 2010. He was treated at the LSU Burn Center in Shreveport, Louisiana and Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Read Article...
Obesity Pandemic
September 2006 - Read Article...
Paramount Fitness
Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence!
January 2005 - Read Article...
Patricia Laus
World Class Visionary and Creator of the Atlantic Club, One of the World's Top Clubs
October 2001 - Read Article...
Paul Toback Takes The Helm At Bally Total Fitness
A Bally Total Fitness Historical Review and In-Depth Interview With New Bally Total Fitness CEO, Paul Toback
February 2003 - Read Article...
Personal Training Studio Owner Shares Experiences With SOFA
March 2007 - Read Article...
Pete Kight
Leading The EFT Way With CheckFree
January 2006 - Read Article...
Phil Wendel and ACAC in a Top 5% Category
An Interview With Club Industry Leader Phil Wendel
April 2009 - I don't know many people who have hit a business home run in two different industries, but Phil Wendel has. Read this story and find your passport to a much more financially successful club. Read this story and learn how to get new membership referrals by the bucketful from doctors in your community. Read Article...
Planet Fitness
The IPO of The Juggernaut
August 2015 - The story of Planet Fitness is one of determination, innovation and good business. The company's Co-Founders, Mike and Marc Grondahl, were determined to succeed in the health and fitness club business. Their original rural market had several competitors, so this was not an easy task. Like the inventor of the pulley in order to make pulling a weighted object via a rope easier, Planet Fitness began to innovate to make the future of building a viable business possible. Instead of churning the usual 15% of the market that would consider their club and the clubs of their competitors, they elected to go after those who might not be a typical health club member: the 85% our industry has tried so hard, with varying success, to attract. Read Article...
Planet Fitness
Home of the Judgement Free Zone©
September 2018 - Chris Rondeau, 45, CEO of Planet Fitness, is a man who, amazingly, has had only three jobs in his entire life! And, his current role, that of CEO of Planet Fitness, looks like both the company and Chris have hit homeruns. Chris is doing a great job for his staff and the company's stockholders, and the company is performing very well. Planet Fitness is a powerhouse in the health and fitness club industry with over 1,600 clubs now open, and over 1,000 new club deals inked and in various stages of development and construction. The Hampton, New Hampshire-based company employs over 200 in their Headquarters and has over 12 million members. Read Article...
Planet Fitness Drops Personal Training!
December 2010 - Big news just hit the industry, and it will alter the competitive environment of the health and fitness club industry for some time to come. Planet Fitness Co-founders Mike and Marc Grondahl and Chris Rondeau, have announced that the company will be dropping personal training as a service in all locations nationwide, in both corporately- and franchisee-owned centers. Read Article...
Planet Fitness Under Contract to Be Sold!
October 2012 - During the past year, Planet Fitness has been in the news quite a bit. First, early in the year, there was news that Planet Fitness was working on an Initial Public Offering (IPO). This development was kept very quiet by Planet Fitness' Founder, Mike Grondahl, and was put aside a few months ago when the next big Planet Fitness news item hit. Read Article...
Positive California Legislation!
October 1995 - Read Article...
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