FOR GYMS & FITNESS BRANDS
Add weight care to a gym or fitness brand
Your members already come to you to lose weight, and some are asking about GLP-1 medication. Tessic lets the gym offer it the right way: a weight program under your brand where licensed providers make every medical decision and medication ships to the member's door.
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Clinicians the gym has to hire
Days
To open the program to members
$25
Per completed provider visit
50
States, for every location and online member
WHERE YOU START
The gym brings members. Tessic brings the medical side.
A gym already has trust, routine and a coaching team, which are the hard parts of any weight program. It has none of the medical pieces and shouldn't try to build them.
What a gym already has
- Members who show up several times a week
- Coaches who already track weight, food and training
- A brand people trust with their health goals
- An app, email list or front desk that reaches members daily
What Tessic runs for the program
- Licensed providers who assess each member and decide on treatment
- The legal structure that lets a gym-owned brand offer medical treatment
- GLP-1 and metabolic medication at wholesale, shipped cold-chain
- Lab orders when a provider calls for them
- A storefront and portal for the program under your gym's name
HOW IT WORKS
How a gym launches a weight program
Coaching stays with your team. Everything medical stays with licensed providers.
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Brand the program
Name the weight program, set its price and decide how it sits beside memberships. Tessic builds the storefront and portal in your branding.
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Members apply online
A member completes intake through the portal. A licensed provider reviews it, orders labs if needed and decides whether medication fits.
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Medication ships home
Approved prescriptions go to Tessic's pharmacy and arrive cold-packed at the member's door. Nothing is stored or handed out at the gym.
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Coaches keep them training
Members on the program keep working with your coaches, and refills renew every month on their own.
YOUR CONCERNS
What gym owners want to know first
A gym has no medical team to lean on, so most concerns are about where fitness ends and medicine begins.
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“We're a gym. Are we even allowed to offer weight-loss medication?”
The gym doesn't prescribe anything. A clinic under the gym's brand does, and it runs on an MSO and friendly-PC structure: your company owns the brand and the business, and a physician-owned practice employs the providers who treat members. No one at the gym needs a medical license.
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“Our coaches aren't medical. Where is the line?”
Coaches handle training, habits and accountability. Providers handle eligibility, prescriptions, dose changes and side effects. Members message their provider through the portal, so medical questions have somewhere to go besides the gym floor.
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“Won't members on GLP-1s stop training?”
They have more reason to train. Providers commonly tell patients losing weight on GLP-1 medication to lift and eat enough protein to hold on to muscle. A gym that pairs the medication with coaching supplies the part a prescription can't.
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“What happens when a member doesn't qualify?”
The provider declines, and the member keeps their membership and coaching. That's why the gym's marketing should offer an assessment by a licensed provider and never promise a prescription.
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“We don't want to store or hand out medication.”
You won't. Prescriptions ship from Tessic's contracted pharmacy straight to the member's home, cold-chain for GLP-1s. The front desk never touches a vial.
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“How does the gym make money on it?”
You set the program price. Tessic charges the platform fee, $25 per completed provider visit and the wholesale cost of the medication. There's no markup and no share of what members pay, so everything above those costs belongs to the gym.
PROOF
Why the numbers work for a gym
Published Tessic terms, plus what a weight program on Tessic has done for retention.
+38%
Six-month retention
A weight-care brand raised six-month retention 38% after moving refills and failed-payment recovery onto Tessic. Retention is the number gyms run on too.
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Markup on the medication
GLP-1s are the costliest line in a weight program. At wholesale, the gym prices the program with nothing added in between.
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Vials kept at the gym
Medication ships cold-packed from the pharmacy to the member's home, so the gym carries no inventory.
$4,999
A year for a branded app
The Branded Mobile App add-on puts booking, provider messaging and refills in an iOS and Android app with the gym's name on it.
See add-ons“Zero markup on medication and no revenue share completely changed our unit economics. The math finally works at scale.”
WHICH PROGRAM
The program for a gym with a member list
Grow ties the weight program to members you already have and keeps monthly refills billing without staff chasing cards.
- Email, SMS and iMessage sequences to announce the program
- HubSpot and GoHighLevel sync, plus API and webhooks for other gym software
- Failed-payment recovery on monthly refills
- Retention and LTV reporting for the program
Recommended program
Grow Program
Built for recurring revenue
$2,000/mo
+ $15,000 one-time setup
Also consider
Launch Program
$1,000/mo
A single studio testing demand can start on Launch and move up to Grow once the program has members to keep.
FAQ
Gym and fitness questions
The clinic belongs to whichever company signs, whether that's the franchisor or a single owner. A franchisee should check the franchise agreement before putting a medical program under the gym's name.
It's the obvious first one for a gym, but all eight Tessic categories are included, among them hormone therapy and longevity and peptides.
You decide. You own the pricing and the marketing, so the program can be sold to members only, to the public, or to both.
The member's provider. Members message their care team through the portal, and providers manage side effects, dose changes and whether treatment should continue.
Yes. The program runs entirely online, with providers in all 50 states and medication shipped to the member's home. A training app or online coaching brand launches the same way a gym does.
Grow is $2,000 a month after a $15,000 one-time setup. Launch is $1,000 a month after $8,000. Both add $25 per completed visit and wholesale medication, and qualified applicants can finance the setup fee.
Yes. Members join online, so one program serves every location under the same brand, in any state.
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