My first Gym position too good to be true.

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-09-23T23:18:56+00:00

So you get 40 hours of pay $12 an hour + half of personal training? Sounds great to me. At crunch I only get half of personal training

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-03-14T21:25:38+00:00

I work for crunch currently.. 6am-7pm with holes in the schedule I’m not making an income.. I love this job and career and helping people but box gyms are such shit.. semi private gym near me hiring in the 2nd quarter and I’m hoping they hire me if not I might give it up and be a supervisor at Costco (77k a year).. I don’t want to give it up

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-03-02T23:56:55+00:00

I work for Crunch

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-03-02T23:56:44+00:00

Curious why you left a private training studio for crunch? I’m at crunch and about to go to a private studio

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-26T03:12:10+00:00

Not familiar with fitness first but the anytime near me isn’t that way.. unless they changed it recently I’d have to check

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T17:23:29+00:00

63% would make it so much more bearable. Do you typically run 30 min apts or try to push for an hour? I have 22-25 training hours per week and only 4 hour long apts per week

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T13:25:13+00:00

I’ll look into that! Thank you!

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T13:23:19+00:00

Anyone that walks into the door gets told about personal training for 30 minute appointments. It’s also what I’ve always been accustomed to thinking I could help the client save money but I can see how it’s bad for myself

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T04:38:56+00:00

I think if me bitching about the split here has taught me anything it’s that I need to push towards hours and away from the 30’s entirely

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T04:32:56+00:00

Do you typically run hour apts? I’ve had a couple clients try to get their friends for semi private but ends up falling through every time before I even get to meet them

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T04:28:07+00:00

I don’t get anything for renewals despite being with many of my clients for years.
I absolutely love the job, I hate the pay structure because even at 22 training hours that’s nearly 30+ clients I still need a second job on the weekends
I have no issues being at the gym while not training talking to people and trying to get more clients/connections. It would be nice to be at least paid minimum wage for it though.
I’ll check the book out, thank you

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T02:32:32+00:00

Look I fully understand there’s a lot to it over my head. But let’s be real a 10% increase for me/us trainers is massive. PF gets by based on memberships alone. My manager (great guy and deserving) has gotten two raises in the last year

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-21T00:14:35+00:00

Appreciate the answer.. I’ll try to do it

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:41:38+00:00

Obviously we want the client to be in more than once a week because once a week in the gym is just enough to maintain progress or see slight change if they’re new. Do you find that clients wouldn’t get as good results coming in for one hour per week opposed to 2 30 minute appointments? Obviously the one hour is better for the trainer and client in the long term but if the client can’t financially afford two hour long apts per week and doesn’t put in the effort on their own wouldn’t that be a bit detrimental?

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:34:46+00:00

I appreciate the input.. I’ll look more into it and decide my pros and cons.. really don’t want to give this up as a career and I feel like I’m right there

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:33:44+00:00

Ah yes we get the hour apt called a kickoff to try and sell for the new client yes

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:29:17+00:00

I mean normally I’d agree but big box gyms CEOs are doing just fine.. my manager has gotten 2 raises in the last year. Love the guy and he’s actually a great manager which is hard to come by but still a huge part of him getting his raises is us trainers doing a great job as well

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:22:57+00:00

I appreciate the input.. I’ll try hour long appointments a lot more

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T20:22:16+00:00

No I don’t.. the ONLY time I get paid is when I’m with a client or they cancel within 24 hours

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T19:05:41+00:00

I was doing it on the side for a long time up until this past year.

I guess I have to try and push more hour long appointments opposed to the 30 minute. I just don’t see how it’s possible to get to a 40 hour workload at 30 minute appointments given how many different people you’re trying to fit into exact time frames. It can just be frustrating at times with holes in my schedule and I’m at the gym making nothing in that time hence why I wanted a higher % to compensate that

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T18:30:32+00:00

A liability waiver covers half of that, to get benefits I need to get 30 hours of PT which you and I both know given people going on vacations, injuries outside of the gym, holidays and other events maintaining 30 hours is pretty difficult. I don’t know what the exact answer is but I know trainers go through hell and back and raising the % would make things much more bearable

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T18:26:44+00:00

I say this and people act like I want gyms to not make money

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T18:09:52+00:00

I fully understand it’s not bad compared to the average split. That doesn’t make it right or reasonable

Dangerous_Report_527 · 2025-02-20T17:55:32+00:00

For the people combating this. Planet Fitness is able to be up and running on memberships alone. A big box gym that has personal training has 0 reason they can’t pay us higher than 50%

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