About Us

Doug Spurling is the founder and owner of Spurling Fitness in Kennebunk, Maine. Originally from Haverhill, Massachusetts he moved to Maine to attend the University of New England where he received his degree in Exercise Science. While in college Doug worked in the commercial gym setting, collegiate setting, and in-home settings. Shortly after graduating at 21 years old, Doug opened Spurling Fitness. Since it's opening in 2012 Spurling Fitness has grown from zero clients to almost 400 clients. He started off as a one-man show doing all the training and administrative tasks, working those long days that this industry is known for.

Through strong systems, operations and organized growth he was able to build a solid internship program that has been a strong feeder system for his team growth. As the team grew he was able to step more away from the business thanks to clean and simple systems and operations, do less coaching, and spend more time working on the business.

He now leads a team of 10 full-time team members while having the flexibility to work from home, make his own schedule, and truly be the entrepreneur in the business. On top of the training business, Doug enjoys consulting, real estate investing, reading, and days at the beach with his family, his wife, Megan, and their two kids, Kaden and Ellie.

Pat Rigsby: In the past decade I’ve built over a dozen businesses as a CEO and Co-Owner, with five becoming million dollar or multi-million dollar ventures. Two of those businesses, Athletic Revolution and Fitness Revolution, have been multiple time winners on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 with each being the #1 franchise for it’s respective market. Another business, Fitness Consulting Group, was a multiple time honoree on the Inc. 5000, placing as high as #580 on the list of fastest growing businesses in the U.S. I’ve also been a Best-Selling Author 6 times over, presented in front of thousands of entrepreneurs and been featured in Entrepreneur, Men’s Health, USA Today and on hundreds of other media outlets.

In the fitness industry alone, my coaching & consulting clients have been featured in places like Men’s Health, USA Today, Men’s Fitness, Shape, Women’s Heath, Huffington Post and on ABC, CBS, NBC and pretty much any other media outlet you can think of. In addition to that, they’ve built some of the most successful businesses and brands in ever corner of the industry, from local business and supplement companies to online businesses, certification organizations and even became best selling authors. In fact, many (if not most) of the experts providing business coaching in the fitness industry have been my clients, customers or franchisees.
And the best part of this? I’ve been able to do all of these things and more while working from home, coaching my kids in baseball and soccer and enjoying a type of entrepreneurial lifestyle I would have never thought possible just a few short years ago.

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