stretch practitioner

general manager

assistant general manager

front desk agent

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Stretch Zone

If you are new to personal training, work at Stretch Zone. You will learn so much about the human body and how to stretch a person properly. You will make people feel better, stand taller and perhaps give them a bit of confidence. You will also hone your people skills - all of this, of course, if you apply yourself. You will also learn about your own body, what you can take, what you need to work on more in the gym. You will probably get symptoms of carpel tunnel, an impinged nerve, a bulging disc or two and definitely some sore muscles of which you weren't aware. 

If you are an opportunist, take advantage of the opportunity to pick up clients at SZ. If you are a massage therapist or personal trainer, you can absolutely sell your services and perhaps pick up a client or two which will supplement your wages. You can also sell supplements or healthy food you may make yourself. You will certainly have a captive audience for at least 28 minutes... and if you are good at stretching, they will be receptive to your advice on other health issues. Massage therapists seem to pick up more clients than personal trainers - and they seem to be better at the body work than personal trainers. I suppose this is the 1000 hours of body work training they have to do to get licensed. At any rate, massage therapists - take heed!

If you are older (40), please be very aware as to how your body feels when working. If you have existing disc problems they will get aggravated with all the hard labor you will be doing. If taking a job at a warehouse shlepping heavy boxes is not an option for you, neither is this job - because it is JUST AS HARD or harder than a warehouse job. You will have very large and or very tight people which translates to A LOT of resistance. You will also have small limber people - but the ones you will remember when you go to bed at night are the ones that cause you pain. If you have a big ego plus previous injury, well... don't say I didn't warn you. Whatever you make (and more) will be spent in therapy trying to recover. Ask me how I know.

I am grateful to have worked for SZ as I have learned so much - how to stretch people properly, how to make small talk, how to connect better. I have met some amazing people who have impacted my life to become an even better person. I have become more aware of my limitations and resilience. I have had a hard lesson of my worth - and I am worth so much more than $10 per stretch, unpaid cancelled appointments and work off the clock. But as a learning tool, all of it was worth it. I am a better personal trainer and even more inspired to help people move and feel better.

I have read several of the reviews of other workers on this site - and I have to say, the management at the Boynton Beach store was superb. Management was understanding of conflicts in schedule with other jobs/clients, as well as physical issues - because she had been there and done it herself. Management is going to vary where ever you go... so don't let that deter you. Go and do - Learn all you can and enjoy the process. Just be careful of your own limitations - yes, you have them!! :)

What is the best part of working at the company?
I loved the rapport I developed with the clients. It felt very family oriented. I also really really loved how involved and supportive the owners and manager was. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience and job. I had just moved from another state with the nearest family/friends about 8 hours away. they welcomed me in with open arms from day 1. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I would say the amount of minimal calls we were required to make daily to fill the stretchers schedules BUT I found that clients answered their phones more often around 8-9 am on their way to work,  11-1 during lunch times (during the week), and 5-6 pm when they’re out of work! Work smarter not harder. it’s better to be intentional too when making those phone calls. You don’t want to be thought of as a nuisance. You want to create intentional rapports with the clients 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
We worked together as a team! They were always so great when it came to working with my school schedule. It was always fun participating in conversations with the stretchers and their clients. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
get in, listen to voice messages, check the text lines, check the stretchers schedules to see if there were no shows and have them decide if they want to take their credit or not, call new prospects to have them come in for a demo, call older prospects and LVM to those who don’t answer, ensure we were stocked up on supplies, vacuum every other day (stretchers and clients are in socks all day so you want a clean carpet), make sure the restroom is clean (clients change in their and like to go before getting stretched), make sure to resign clients who are running out of credits, and when I was done with my duties, I got to study (yes it was okay with my manager and the owner) (yes they were that fantastic)

The idea is simple and the overhead is rather low since they sell a service rather than goods.  The problem is that the pay is low if you are hourly.  The pay rate is high for commission but the work is very taxing and if you aren’t booked, you don’t get paid for your time.  A lot of what makes it work or not is if the regional managers can create a fee schedule that works for the demographic they are targeting and management for the South Florida region (managers are also largely co-owners of the region franchises) are not apt for this task.  Another issue I had as a stretcher is that they wanted me there at 7am which is tough anyway but especially in Miami morning traffic.  Often times my 7am appt would no-show and I wasn’t compensated.  It would ruin my day and was so frustrating.  Also, my manager really didn’t  follow the protocols that we were taught and told we’d be fired immediately if we didn’t follow them as true as possible.  She loved to talk about how she was a fast learner and learned it all so effortlessly while actually not doing the stretches or following company’s policy correctly lol The whole experience was frustrating so I transitioned to a clerical role only to find that was even more frustrating bc many of my co-workers has zero motivation and work ethic and the managers all wanted something different.  Admin duties were not streamlined nor effective and it created a lot of stress and unhappy customers.  I really like all the people there on a personal level but the inefficacy was too much for me.  I hated all the unnecessary blowback and I didn’t feel like I was doing anyone any good, especially myself working for $10 an hour at a location that wasn’t convenient (they made me move locations due to restructuring).  I was happy to quit.

Stretchzone is a very physical job with very minimum pay. The company will advertise $20 an hour but the pay is structured with amount of stretches each stretch with a $10 compensation meaning that you would only be able to make $20 an hour with no breaks which is near impossible with how physical the job is. 
During the intense and short 1 week training you are taught all the stretches with how to perform them with the least amount of abuse on your body but when stretching bigger people >200lbs the load on your body is intense even when performing protocol properly making it a very hard job. Clients are spending anywhere between $35-$70 dollars a stretch with practitioner compensation only being $10 is ridiculous.
The first stretch is a free demo and is only supposed to be done by Managers but managers will end making practitioners do their jobs by making practitioners do demos and sales with no sales training and no commission for compensation.
Although the pay is extremely low for the job the only thing i found great about stretch-zone was the culture of the job and the flexibility you have to work. The work environment is very nice and you genuinely get to help people everyday because the product does work. Also the flexibility of the job is great because you can essentially choose when you want to be available or booked as a practitioner but any breaks or time you take off will affect your salary because if you are not fully booked you will be making $10 an hour. 
But to be doing a very similar job as a physical therapist and making a fraction of the salary i wouldn't recommend stretch-zone for work to anyone.

I worked for stretch Zone for 2 years as not only a stretch practitioner but also a general manager. The best part of the job was literally using your hands on skills to help people and develop relationships with them. Everything else about the job sucked. 

The pay is terrible and should be way more than it is for the type of skill and anatomy knowledge practitioners are required to have. 

If you get popular because you're good at your job, you can very easily get overworked and burnt out and run the risk of overuse injuries to your own body. I know waitstaff that get paid better than we did and they didn't have to have nearly as much skill. 

The people who stretch are also expected to handle texts, phone calls, and tedious busy work on the computer because some locations are too cheap to hire a front desk person or can't find anybody to do the job. So it's like you're expected to be front desk/call center and stretch practitioner in one, but you only get paid for one job. 

As a manager, you're pressured to always make sales on packages even when the people you're trying to sell to can't afford it or have factors in their lives you can't change or control. And if you don't make enough sales, you get in trouble with ownership and corporate. 

Speaking of corporate, they seem to think Stretch Zones can be opened anywhere and everywhere, even within 5 miles sometimes of an existing location, which then makes both locations suffer sales-wise. They're not Waffle Houses and should not be treated as such. 

Overall, I don't see this company surviving long term. Not unless they pay and protect their employees better and make some big changes to the way they operate.

My time here has been wonderful only because of direct staff. The staff at my location would fight for everyone because we were in the trenches together trying to piece together a ship that was broken when we got it.

That being said let me tell you the pros and cons...

Pros: 

-They train you in one week to know everything about being a practitioner.
-They offer some flexibility in schedule, but that is not guaranteed.
-You get to help a lot of people who have various conditions and suffer from chronic pain.
-You are given uniforms to wear to work.
-Some Owners are extremely empathetic and will work with you depending on situations.

Cons:

-They expect you to know an entire job in a week based off of training. (Which is only a SALES PITCH)
-They never give formal training once you go through the one week of original orientation.
-Expectations are far beyond what you have been taught, as you will HAVE TO TEACH YOURSELF 90% of what you do.
-Being ridiculed, talked down to, and waiting days on answers for support.
-They hire some people clearly under-qualified for their position and it puts so much stress on people who have been in the health field for a long time in management.
-Promises always appear to be cast out and never seem to come to fruition. (This includes insurance.)
-They understaff and put a lot of strain on current employees to over perform on a regular basis.
-Extreme Micromanagement

The staff at this location made the culture amazing. It was extremely tiring to hear every small thing everyone did wrong, and rarely would you hear the things you did well. 



This job gave me permanent nerve damage. I had to get 2 ulnar nerve transposition surgeries because of this job. It's no better than working in a factory all day long and it will destroy your body. Stretch Zone provides zero benefits, no paid time off, and if you get injured you can't work. This job screwed me over and they wouldn't even help me pay for my surgeries even though it was this job that caused all the nerve damage. I have never had any problems with my body and never had any nerve issues until I started working here. I was also forced to clock out whenever I didn't have someone on my schedule even though I was expected to be there for the entirety of my shift. You never get the full hours that you have scheduled because there's always so much inconsistancy with the schedule. I worked my butt off to get my schedule full and was never able to make the money I needed. Even if you get promoted to assistant general manager you only make $1 more than your coworkers and only get 2% of the commission off of any program you sell. 2% commission there usually only comes out to being an extra $2 on the sale you make so it isn't even worth being the assistant general manager. You are disposable and replacable here. The general manager doesn't even get benefits and they run the store for long hours everyday. This culture does not care about you no matter how much they try make it seem like they do. This job will ruin your body, exploit you for all your labor, ruin your social life, and it will never be able to provide what you need.

You are only getting paid when working with clients, which wouldn’t be a problem if clients were plentiful. The problem is often they aren’t. You don’t get paid if you aren’t working with a client, so you have to sit around, spend your time there, and not get paid for it. You could scheudle yourself to work a ton of hours, but that doesn’t mean anything if you don’t get any clients on your schedule. And you aren’t the one to schedule them, either clients sign up on an app or the general manager schedules them on practitioners. Essentially, you are on call just to stretch, and you might only have one or two people on your schedule with hours of break in between. It does not feel worth it to drive to do one stretch just to wait around for hours or maybe head home to come back and do another stretch. 

You can get lucky with the manager in charge of the store, mine was great, friendly, and enjoyable. However, the upper management/franchisees/corporate clearly has no idea what they’re doing. Practitioners are treated as disposable and never really get a full schedule. Even if your schedule was full its physically demanding work for mediocre pay. If they want their practitioners to stick around then they should compensate them accordingly, and all my coworkers agree. Getting enough clients will probably never happen because the price of the service is ridiculously high. Don’t work here.

As the front desk employee, I was asked to make a minimum of 100 calls a day to clients who have signed up to be interested in coming in for a free demo. If I was to actually make 100 calls, I'd have to be dialing a number, on average, every 4 minutes. And that's with other responsibilities I have been tasked with, such as marketing, studio cleaning, and checking in and out clients walking in. 
It's an unrealistic expectation, and clearly, people don't want to be called that often. I was hung up on so many times, and our number is blocked by so many of our prospects. 
I was told repeatedly that I was going to receive proper training and that I will be taught everything I will need to know to do my job efficiently. Silly me for thinking that was true. On my first day I was greeted by the ASM who was very obviously over this job. "I don't mean to jade you on your first day, but this job is awful." I took that with a grain of salt coming from a tainted employee, but boy were they right. They didn't really show me much of how to navigate the program we use, because they didn't know much themselves, due to, you guessed it, poor training. I was then expected to do things without ever being taught how to do, and deal with situations I was never shown how to handle. That ASM  left within that week to a different job. We hired their replacement a month or so later, and they lasted about 2 weeks, for good reason. 


I worked at the North Myrtle Beach and South Myrtle Beach location and want to share my experience. Overall, communication and professional leadership felt very lacking.
At South, day-to-day interactions often felt dismissive or unprofessional, including being frequently ignored or not acknowledged in normal workplace situations. There also seemed to be more indirect communication of issues rather than open, respectful conversations.
The work environment often felt uncomfortable and not supportive, and morale suffered as a result. In my experience, leadership style played a major role in that dynamic.

At North, I encountered a management style that felt challenging and at times unprofessional. There were instances where I felt disrespected, including concerns related to personal boundaries, such as being physically moved in my chair after I had already addressed related concerns with higher levels of leadership. Unfortunately, the behavior and overall pattern of disrespect continued even after these concerns were raised. I believe improved accountability and clearer communication standards within management would benefit the workplace.

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