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.
This story appears in the January 2013 issue of Entrepreneur. This is a season of milestones for Anytime Fitness. The 24-hour micro-gym concept not only hit the top 10 of the Franchise 500Â© for the first time, it also just celebrated its 10th anniversary, recently opened its 2,000th unit and is launching a sister franchise, Waxing the City.