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Day starts with a walk of the fitness floor, clipboard in-hand, prioritizing tasks for the shift. What is broken/what is getting maintenance, etc. Over time you will be expected to develop a rhythm to your work. Maintenance will likely take the bulk of your time, as you will be assigned PM (Preventative Maintenance) tasks and it will be your responsibility to carve out time for these. The job gets significantly more challenging when equipment breaks down. In a club where you can expect a single machine to accommodate hundreds of different users in one day, you can also expect it to break down frequently. Just be ready to address broken equipment before anything else. Maintenance procedures on some pieces can feel repetitive because there are multiple pieces with many steps. You can't skip these steps. They are essential to ensuring the continued functionality of the equipment. You will almost always be working around people. It is very likely some of these people will not acknowledge your presence at all. Others will intercept you as soon as you are visibly on the floor, ready to unload any and all mechanical issues they had observed during their workout that day, or during all the days they thought you were on vacation. Most of the intercepting types also happen to be regulars and will let you know they care very deeply when their favorite exercise equipment breaks down. Some are much more understanding than others.

Staying ahead on maintenance is likely the most important thing I learned doing this job. There are only so many factors within your control, as you work alone most days, you are vastly outnumbered by the assets you are responsible for maintaining, and each asset sees significant daily use from users of varying skill levels. On occasion, you may get help from your club's Engineer who likely has experience doing your exact job and can help you with your tasks. The Engineer has a whole job of their own, maintaining the entire club's systems and may also require your help from time to time. If your Operations Manager does not have technical experience, you and the Engineer will likely be the first and only two called to any scene where something big breaks, but the Technician's priorities will remain on the fitness floor. If an Engineer is not present, you as the Technician will be expected to take over the responsibilities of the Engineer. If your club does not have an Engineer and has not had one in some time, do not take this job. If your hiring manager tells you their club has not had a Technician in months, do not take this job. Walk away because everyone has a boss and yours will be hounding you to make your numbers by the next quarter so that their boss can be eligible for those bonuses they never had to turn a wrench for. You will be expected to perform at a level that is high enough to positively affect the compensation of your superiors while standing to earn the exact same every hour you work.

Management is hit-or-miss. My advice to anyone looking for employment with LifeTime is to remember that managers can say whatever they want to you at performance reviews, and can tell you whatever you want to hear when you ask for an increase to your compensation. This is not unlike many other employers with a stock symbol. You are a number, and there are figures affected by you. Those figures correlate to the overall performance of the club and the performance of your superiors who manage the club. They can see these numbers before you can, and will bring you into their office when/if these numbers get undesirably low.

There are countless opportunities to develop mechanical, organizational and people skills on this job. Whether you choose to grow from them is up to you.

A day at Lifetime Fitness involves a lot of smiling/cleaning/getting yelled at/some more smiling/having great conversations with members/and feeling like you work in a totalitarian state.

Any place you work at that has customers will by definition have some truly terrible people walking through the door, but those people are easy to get over (put on your big girl panties and deal with it).
However Lifetime Fitness has some truly awful people EMPLOYED in the company. I've heard horror stories from other clubs, and until recently I dismissed those stories as hogwash and nonsense.

The management at my particular club is dishonest and cutthroat. We received a new General Manager after the previous one (darn good man, best of luck to him) was promoted within the company. After three months it is safe to say that the new GM is a terrible fit for an upper management position. I understand that I'm just a lowly supervisor within the company, but I'm constantly getting left out of the loop on things that I can change immediately.

For example: Had a fairly light snow not too long ago. The floors in the lobby were a little wet so I grabbed mats to prevent people from slipping in the lobby's atrium. (The rest of the lobby (indeed the rest of the club) has winter carpet down in order to minimize messes and to prevent mishaps). The next day I received an email from my Department Head who had received an email from the GM that wet floor signs should have been posted. The GM walked right by me the night of the snow and said not one thing about it.

That could be his management style, but frankly it is awful and demeaning.

Also I've become aware of far too many stupid things that my own DH does. This DH sends her team members her email and passwords so that her team can do her job, refusal to do so results in employment termination. HR doesn't do a darn thing about it. And she got promoted a few months back! Unbelievable....

Also the way that Lifetime has approached its lower level staff has been very confrontational, I was informed that half of my 'guys' would be fired within the next six months for failure to meet 'The Lifetime Way'. Most of my guys deserve to be reprimanded for an occasional slip-up, but employment termination is certainly extreme.

The corporate mandates are silly and often make my job harder to do, and my DH's unwillingness to perform her darn job is infuriating.

This doesn't even count the personal stuff the lady lets in the club. She is 50 yo and her boyfriend comes into the club and screams at her. Real professional.

In short this company strives to be something great but its personnel decisions for anyone Department Head level on up seem to be truly hit or miss.

Makes me miss my old janitorial job from time to time.

I worked there for a little over a year and got certified in anything and everything you could think of and STILL couldn't make enough to eat due to the way they pay you; Draw system. Yes, when you're hired they explain all that; however, until you're coming home with anywhere from $500-$600/BI-WEEKLY is when you fully understand what this Draw entails.

The way it works, as a PT you work on Commission ONLY. LT will "front" you until you've established your Clientele and start making money. Once you've established your Clientele, while you're paying your debt back to LT, LT is matching you with the price of living costs (according to your state) until you're "out of debt/draw"...

...hence the $500-$600 BI-WEEKLY paychecks. People (even management from different departments within LT) have questioned this form of pay and its legalities. All I know, is there have even been lawsuits against LT, as a company, for non-compensation of work being asked of their employees. *do your research* Until LT gets back what they've "prepaid" you, you will struggle. The only people who are successful at LT are:

* management (they're paid bonuses on top of salary AND have their own Clients)

* the ones who do nothing else but work @ LT, workout @ LT and eat @LT (or bring your lunch b/c heaven forbid you leave the premises without permission)

* have a "specialty" that none of your other TWENTY-SIX co-workers have (no joke! when I left we had anywhere from 22-26 PT's and they were STILL hiring)

* have been w/the company 3+ years.

As far as management, not much positivity and encouragement for growth. You come to management with an idea and unless they see THEIR department (financially) benefitting from it or it's THEIR brainchild, forget it. Commumication between management and employees is weak/non-existant. GM does his best to make sure the gym is clean...and does a great job at it. Whatever you do, stay away from the Nutrition Coach position. You'd be better off getting certified and doing that on the side b/c you definitely won't see your money through LT. The Metabolic specialist is an opportunity; however, that position is more trouble than it's worth, in my opinion. The machines have to be facing a certain way during the test or you could throw off the whole test. If the person is breathing too heavy for a Resting Metabolic assessment vs an Active Metabolic assessment, the results could be skewed....so on and so forth. If you have the time, patience and energy for all that UNnecessary roughness, have at it.  

Did I learn while being an employee? YES! Fortunately for me, I had a co-worker who'd been with the company longer than I, take me under her wing and became somewhat of a Mentor. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have made it as long as I did. Do I have any regrets? No. Would I ever go back? NO! Thanks for everything, LT, it's been real.

My position: Facility Operator

Pros: 
free club membership 

Cons:
This is my honest experience working at Lifetime fitness. I was hired on as a facility operator hoping to quickly switch to the technician position and was told at the job interview that I would be able to transfer. I worked extremely hard at all of my janitorial duties to prove myself as a highly detail oriented employee, hoping that I would be the first candidate for the technician position. After 6 months of grueling work, a tech position finally opened up and they instantly hired someone else and told me to keep working in the locker rooms because I was doing “such a great job”. They kept dangling that carrot over me to manipulate me into working extremely hard, giving me false hope that I would have my chance to grow in the company . They then offered me a “promotion” to be a “facility operator mod”, which required me to wake up at 4 AM and tackle a lot of duties to ready the facility for the members, and I took it. And how foolish I was not to ask if I would be getting a raise. I assumed I would be getting a raise because of the way they presented this job to me as a privilege, buttering me up, praising my hard work and initiative, claiming that I was the only employee that met their criteria for the position. Anyways, I worked that position for about a month and when it was time for me to go back to school they still required me to maintain the same work schedule and work at-least 35 hours a week. After making the decision to put my two weeks in, they made it very difficult for me to leave by guilt tripping me, saying that they had to work a year in the locker room before they were able to grow in the company. At the end of our talk they had guilt written all over their sweating faces, as if they knew they were manipulating me the whole time. Then out of desperation, for fear of losing me, they  made a last attempt to get me to stay by saying they would “consider” giving me a raise. The two upsides were the club membership and the club manager who was very helpful and supportive to his employees, but was totally oblivious to the terrible management working directly under him. I learned a valuable lesson in those 6 months, to not assume a company will be loyal to you just because you are loyal to them.
In conclusion, If you somehow enjoy talking to naked people all day, working under manipulative management, and being worked like a mule 8 hours a day to no end… then this is the job for you. (Only time will be able to heal the scars you get from this job… a lifetime of healing)

My suggestion: Try to find a company that strives for fairness, value's loyalty, and rewards hard work. If you get this job, pray to God for wisdom, discernment, and patience, cuz you’ll definitely need it. I really hope this helps someone!

Being a PT  was a great first career after college, but over time you learn that working at this company has people that do a lot of brown-nosing in order to advance and hypocritical people depending on where you work and who you meet. 

The workplace culture was not bad, you will come across a lot of good people whether they are members, or people from different departments, or even clients. Everyone says hello and it is like a community depending on which club you go to/work at. The people at the corporate office are great people too, they are definitely an example on what a culture of care should be. 

The pay structure being a PT was super challenging with the Draw system being an obstacle, but if you stay long enough and work hard, you will see the light at the end of the tunnel and make good money. The new Draw system for new trainers makes it less scary for turnover in trainers, which I think is a great idea.

Management can use some work, though. True leaders are people who mentor, help, and encourage others. Leaders truly want their people to win. They are also the type of people who are out in the battle field with the staff and are available/approachable instead of hiding in offices focusing on spreadsheets, revenue...etc. I get that being a PT, there is a sales component to it, but with a Culture of Care, people come first! You have to gain relationships, and you accidentally build business from there... The department head does deserve an office, but once it goes down the hierarchy ladder, this is where it gets annoying when it comes to sharing office space (ego issues). 

People taking more credit for what they deserve, calling themselves "leaders" and finding ways to demoralizing staff instead of finding ways together with the staff to accomplish their success. Instead of having the mindset of: 

"hey, do this or else. but don't get mad at what I am doing because that is not what I told you to do" 

It should more be: 

"hey, looks like this tactic is not working. what can we do together to make this work? what are your wins and losses? Lets get to work!"

 I get that each staff has their own task to complete during the day (depending on how busy you are), but be approachable and find other angles to come at an issue if something is not going the way its supposed to production-wise instead of being over-reactive and two-faced; It makes people go into work without fear each day. 


Overall, LT is a good place to work at. The top people within the company are great people, its just the middle people in the management chain that need to work on ego related issues

Lifetime if a prime example of a company that is hypocritical and abusive to the people that work for them.  They will time and time again tell you one thing and change their minds without telling you and do something else.  They change their programs and job requirements weekly without the structure or support network to support he changes while expecting their management to put i the extra work load to compensate for the ridiculous lack of communication with a tremendous amount of hours.  The overall atmosphere is one of "fake positivism" that will be forced down your throat by people that will look you in the eyes and pretend that everything is great, all the while laughing and "joking" that that it is okay with hem they they have no work life balance or support.  They used to have a better support system but they have gotten rid of it for the sake of profit and now leave their management to fend for themselves with nothing other than a "support line or "field support"" to aid in the tremendous amount of bureaucratic nonsense that the company exults in. I have never worked for a company that so many people that work there are unhappy, they company is very dedicated to trying to figure out why everyone that works there is so unhappy and send out surveys  to try and figure it out, it is apparent to anyone that works there however that the expectations of the jobs and the reality do not cross on any reasonable lines.  The truth of it as i see it is the company is not willing to put in the cost to make it a good place to work, just as they disposed of the support positions for profit sake, so too do they ignore the overwhelming evidence of overwork and lack of support, again in support "profit".

It would be my recommendation that you do not seek a career with Lifetime unless you are the type of person that is willing to dedicated your entire life tot he job,  During my time there I worked over 70 hours a week for over nine months without anymore than a hand full of days off, and this not only my experience, but it mirrored by just about everyone that I spoke to in any kind of a leadership role within Lifetime.  The overall mission for Lifetime is about "the healthy way of life" but I do not think that the company really understands what that means, or at least really cares that the people that work for them have one, They will say they do and look at you sad, but they will not so much as lift a finger to aid or assist you in the pursuit of your own.

-An environment surrounded by a supporting cast, that loves what they do and puts the needs of others as priority #1 measuring success by the impact they have in improving the lives of those around them. In addition to the overwhelming support of leadership and colleagues around you, having the financial support and services to deliver exceptional experiences consistently, creates the foundation of trust that so effectively retains members and makes exceeding financial goals and objectives a bi-product cultivated from the relationships built on a daily basis.
-As an organization that goes beyond embracing change, by seeking out ways to be the very best on a daily basis, you live in an environment where everyone can contribute and strives to be a better version of themselves each day creates organic growth both personal and professional within everyone throughout the organization. This has become a key ingredient to remain cutting edge, industry leaders in a league of their own, and what defines this organization as The Premier Leader of Health & Wellness in the industry with our only true competition is that of being a better version of ourselves each day. 
-Expanding and evolving on the needs of our member and being the best in class at everything we do, delivering only the best offerings, services and experiences.
-I would not use the term "hardest" but instead rep[lace it with the most "challenging" part of the job is in the ability to remain the Best! The grit, relentless pursuit of excellence, and drive to always go above and beyond while leading with love and care even in challenging times is a job pre-requisite. Out of this, comes the most rewarding part of the job that comes from helping others achieve incredible feats they never thought possible as the result of the engagement, care and direction you can provide them on their journey to be the Best!
-Best life lesson learned, as a leader, my performance is nothing more than a bi-product of the output from the team members I serve. All the success belongs to them while the failures I own, and the responsibility, as their leader, to learn from these missed opportunities, then share the takeaways with my team to ensure they are prepared for and overcome a similar challenge in the future. 


Members and coworkers are some of the best parts of the job. The environment and the benefits (which include a Diamond membership to access any Life Time) and a 401K plan are fantastic as well. There are also additional benefits to working in each department. Many I talk to, do feel as though Life Time puts too much weight in these benefits over fairly compensating you based on experience and/or performance. Life Time enjoys saving money by hiring department managers to be over 2 different locations, in many cases, which puts unnecessary strain and business success pressure on the minimally compensated employees. Don't expect to receive any raises any time soon at Life Time. At first hire, they told me that we would meet again after a few months to review my compensation based on my performance (this statement alone helped me feel comfortable accepting the job knowing that I would work hard and get a raise after a few months). Then when the time came, I was told that even if I did my job perfectly, the department isn't making our daily/monthly income goals well enough for anyone in my department to get a raise yet, which is not at all what me or anyone I have talked to was told upon hire that our raise was dependent on. I have worked in over a few different departments in vastly different jobs in Life Time over several years, and pay/compensation is the #1 stressor and reason people leave BY FAR. Management is a close #2nd reason people leave. You cannot have a work-life balance with Life Time if you are trying to make a living. I, and many, are burnt out, and constantly looking for opportunities elsewhere. The biggest reason people stay are how amazing the members and coworkers and free membership is. For members, the experience is amazing. And it is nice to experience that too (when you're not on the clock). Truly lifetime connections are made here (no pun intended). It would just be nice once in a while for a boss to explain what exactly you need to accomplish to get a raise and what that timeline looks like. I have never experienced that myself and I've never heard anyone else have that expressed to them either. You truly feel replaceable. And that couldn't be more disappointing for a company I used to love so much.

I worked at Lifetime Fitness for about 8 months and could not wait to get out of there!!! Don't get me wrong, if you are a salaried employee it is great but if you are on the commissioned side...forget about having a stress free work enviornment.  The company only cares about making as much money as possible, and they get alot of this money from the sales being made in the PT department.  I was on the personal training staff which requires you to sell at minimum $6,000 a month.  I missed one month of not meeting this requirement and I immediately recieve an email threatening to let me go if I don't start selling more.  The club that I was at also hired too many people so there was not enough clients to go around.  They tell you to go out and get your own clientele which is harder than it sounds unless you are a seasoned experienced seller.  My boss was higher up on the pyramid so he makes a percentage of what everyone underneath him sells on top of his salary.  So he didn't have to go out at all and sell $6,000 worth of stuff and yet he is pushing it on us all to do it because it makes him look good and makes him more money.  Our club pt department had a goal of hitting a certain amount of sales each month which if we hit that goal it makes our boss look awesome to the executives.  We always met our goal and my boss moved up to a higher position because of it.  But what do the rest of the staff get for helping meet that goal?  A stupid little gold pin that we wear on our shirts....lame.  They try to make it seem cool and say that we are the best in the nation so we should be proud to wear a dumb gold pin...but no, I need to support myself and my family, I need money for my hard work, not a pin.  Not to mention there are certain leads within the PT department that make bonus checks for hitting their goal.  For example: There is a weight loss companies lead who if we meet our goal over the quarter that person gets a $1000 bonus.  But who helped that person look good and meet the goal?  US!  And we get no bonus check whatsoever!  Moving up in this company is a game that you have to play.  There are a lot of people steam rolling over others to make more money towards there individual goal.  Believe me, you can find somewhere else that is way less stressful to work at!  Oh and just so you all know I made about $15,000 working at Lifetime over 8 months....if that is the kind of starting salary you want then by all means go for it!

I have a lot to say about lifetime fitness. I will say it is definitely a great place to start out and i've met a lot of lifelong friends through lifetime and still pay for a membership because it is convenient and the facilities are great. The training department is a disaster. Lots of empty promises and no follow through. You are not fairly compensated for your time, if you're not selling or servicing sessions you're not making money. Management expects you to make cold calls and approach members on the floor and use predatory sales tactics. It made me lose my passion for health and fitness because I couldn't help people or pay my bills if I didn't sell. Icried in my managers office on multiple occasions. have The company preaches integrity as a core value but they have none. Upper level managers are overcompensated and over valued while front line employees are treated like garbage. Managers will gaslight you when you ask for help or speak up about problems. II tried to quit twice and was gaslit into staying. I was convinced by the manager at another location to transfer by being promised 2 leadership positions and there was never any follow through on those promises even though I gave up all of my old clients to transfer. The managers turned over after a month of me working at the second location and the new manager said that those promises were the previous managers promises and therefore she didn't have to follow through with them. I had the highest sales in my club and was fulfilling 3 leadership roles (without compensation or the official title) at one point and still couldn't afford my bills, I asked for help with filling my classes and my manager told me "you need to keep better track of your business." She was constantly doing shady things and messing up contracts and it directly affected my business. She used to make us reuse the facemasks for the metabolic testing because she refused to order more and several of my clients got STREP from the masks- EW! Lifetime is also an HR nightmare with managers who date and sleep with front line employees and members left and right. Finally, expect to work 50-60 hours to hit your sales goals and make enough money to pay your bills. Lifetime is a cult, if you're not willing to drink the kool-aid and sell your soul, find another place to train. 

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