Welcome to the AXIS Experience Blog where we share our favorite new research and interests in all areas of health and wellness, as well as stories of our business and the many lessons learned along the way.
How to Destroy Your Business
This is a story of stupidity and survival, of a young company with a lot of money and poor leadership. This was us in the early 2000’s. We had raised a substantial amount of ...
The Future of Personal Training
Can Robots Replace Trainers? There is a lot happening in the realm of innovation and automation. We are in the thick of it, just up the road from Silicon Valley, down the street from ...
It’s Easy to Sell in Good Times
This past week we attended the IHRSA show in San Diego. IHRSA, the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, is a not-for-profit trade association representing health and fitness facilities throughout the world. With less ...
March Madness (The Ultimate Team Building Game)
Each year millions of basketball and non-basketball fans go crazy over March Madness. Hours are wasted at work and productivity goes down because everybody involved is filling out their brackets and talking about the ...
The Ketogenic Diet: The New Atkins?
Fat is not the enemy The Atkins Diet still seems to be best known as the “eat all of the eggs and bacon you want” diet. While this may not be exactly true, it ...
Trust, From the Ground Up
18 Years... Having been at one company for 18 years seems almost unheard of these days; many people move from one opportunity to the next to find what makes them happy, what they’re passionate ...
Own the Pain
I was 5 years old, running, swinging, laughing and living a youthful and active life. Suddenly, I started writing with my left hand, but I am right-handed. The doctor said it was not out ...
The Gut Microbiome, Part Two: The Road to a Healthy Gut
We often think of bacteria as something bad, something that will make us sick, something we need to get rid of, but as we are now learning, good bacteria is essential for our bodies ...
The Gut Microbiome, Part One: Are We Human?
Wait, I'm more bacteria than human? Yes, our human cells are outnumbered 10:1 compared to microbes. We have over 20,000 different genes in our body but 2 million or more bacterial genes in our ...