LA Fitness

Lots of phone calls, your conversational skills via phone have to be on point (it gets a bit intimidating/discouraging when you’re cold calling up to 70 people a day). Your goal is to book sets (free pt consultations) with potential clients. During these your goal is to sign a member to a trainer...

Demanding. The hours are long, split between times people are most often at the gym: 9-1 and 4-9 (though this may have changed since my tenure there). Numbers are everything and if you are unable to show consistency in sales during your first 3 months, chances are you will not be there long.

Dress professional for the interview. Bring copy of resume. Offer to schedule a time to demonstrate the specific task that you are applying for. Bring or email a copy of prerecorded performance if applying for a group fitness instructor. Be prepared to offer a twenty minute routine with and with ...

Understand various different workout programs for different individuals and understand the main reason as to why you are doing what you're doing. Meaning, you're doing personal training to help people, see results, you just find it enjoyable, etc. Having conviction in something is critical in mos...

Preparing for this interview, it is important to think about the ultimate goal you have as an assistant director and the key elements that help you reach your goal. This department of LA Fitness is all about selling personal training packages. In your role, you are also motivating and training st...

Mornings start with a conference call - sometimes the regional director will make some announcements and ask how each gym is doing. Everyone will then take turns giving progress reports. If all is good, just say how many new accounts you signed up or if you have a potential deal lined up you can ...

Be prepared to go through a mock consultation with a potential client. Typically the interviewer will give a scenario; for example, "I'm a 45 year-old office worker with chronic lower back pain and the doctor told me I'm pre-diabetic", and then you need to be able to talk them through exercise pr...

While you're building a client base, you'll likely be doing things like free consultations, free group training workouts, cold-calling new members, greeting members at the front desk, free body-fat assessments, handing out samples, etc. Anything you can do to get to know potential clients really....

Same way you would prepare for any other job interview. Dress the part, have your resume memorized so you can speak eloquently and concisely when asked about anything on it. Be prepared with a story or two to serve as an example of the kind of person you are and why you would be good for the job.

The job is to sell LA Fitnesses personal training packages. You work closely with the membership team to scout potential clients from new members as well as gauge interests from existing members of the club. Charisma and interpersonal skills are a huge part of the job so be prepared to be talking...

No matter what time your class begins, it is important to go in no less than fifteen minutes early. It is good to go in early and set up your music and room prior to your class. Also, teaching fitness is about making a personal connection with your students. Therefore, be prepared to get to know ...

Have a class plan designed in advance. La Fitness has a lot of people who are there to get fit, they are not necessarily there for yoga spirituality. Don't use Sanskrit words, and prepare to practice with the class. Do encourage the class to do what is most appropriate for them instead of what ot...

A typical day of an Assistant Director of Personal Training at LA Fitness, depending on departmental sales goals / metrics for the day/week/month, often involves following leads generated by the club's sales team to pursue new personal training subscriptions from new and existing club members. Th...

A day in the life of a Receptionist at LA Fitness could either be a very smooth sailing one or a hectic environment where you are helping five members at a time while checking members in still. A normal day requires you to stand at the front of the gym and sign in each and every member that walks...