Haslett Businessman Builds the Country's First Million Dollar Training Program

Not only did On Target Living owner Chris Johnson create the country’s first million dollar training program, he’s also created the premier training facility for trainers in the Midwest.

According to excerpts from the article:

It seems too good to be true that one of the most sought after experts on fitness and nutrition lives right here in the Lansing area—and there is a studio staffed with personal trainers right around the corner.

After Chris Johnson, owner of On Target Living in Haslett, received his undergraduate business degree from Western Michigan University in 1980, and after a multi-year, multi-job stint in the working world, he came to Michigan State University and earned his master’s in exercise physiology.

Then, in December of 1990, a month before the Michigan Athletic Club opened, Johnson was hired as its fitness director. He built the program from the ground up, and says that what he learned along the way eventually helped the MAC have the first million dollar training program in the country (circa 1996).

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