Then he winds up his pitch and...BAM!...fires off the signal. The all-or-none law states that, once the neuron receives the signal, it has to fire it off. Like a pitcher who winds up and starts delivering the pitch, the neuron can't balk. There's no stopping once the nerve impulse has been activated. But, if your neurons don't get the signal, they don't fire.
Anytime Fitness, Hastings, MN, is the No. 1 franchise on Entrepreneur magazine's 2014 Franchise 500 list. Anytime Fitness co-founders Dave Mortensen (left) and Chuck Runyon celebrate their company's ranking as the No. 1 franchise on Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500 list.
1 In terms of the number of gym franchises in 2011, Snap Fitness is the smaller of the 2 gym chains (1,151 gyms for Snap Fitness versus 1,625 for Anytime Fitness). 2  A unique aspect that Snap Fitness highlights is the fact that they do not require their members to sign contracts. 3  Members pay on a month-to-month basis. The average EBITDA reported by all its franchisees in 2009 is just shy of $300,000, which is still an outstanding number, especially when compared with other popular fitness franchises like Anytime Fitness and Snap Fitness (where average EBITDA tops off in the $100,000 to $150,000 range with 800-900 members).