What is the retirement plan like at Crunch Fitness?

Good company to work with if you’re just starting out as a personal trainer. The company equips you with tools to be successful and you will be surrounded by people with a lot of experience that you can learn from. Also Crunch pays better than most big commercial gyms. If you put in the work, there is potential to make up to six figures. Crunch also contributes to your retirement if you’ve been with the company for a year which is great.

Pay is strictly commission. There is no hourly rate. When you start off, you basically work for free for the first few months. So if you can’t afford to receive paychecks of around $300 for your first month or 2, this job is not good. You are expected to find your own leads which can be annoying. There is an expectation to make cold calls. Also management is constantly changing (around every 3 months) so sometimes the team feels unstable. Depending on the manager, they can be pushy with sales goals and numbers. Sometimes it can feel like they care more about numbers than the people/services provided.

Everyone there is great to work with! They help speed up your learning curve. Set your hours. There are great perks at certain locations too.

No 401k, You have to make sure you give yourself time to build your clientele base.

-Free gym membership and PT sessions -My position was super easy -Generally great co workers

-Incompetent management that does not know how to train their employees -Management is terrible at communicating. They ignore emails, texts, etc. Unless it’s something they inquired about first. -They moved me part time without warning. My position was full time for 7 months, and my last 2 were part time with no warning. I was left scrambling to find another job to keep a steady income. -There are no benefits to speak of besides for health insurance. No PTO, no retirement, nothing. The pay was also less than what was listed on the job posting and was only boosted after months of asking. -They will fire good employees for no reason and keep bad ones. They wrote up someone for having to leave and take care of their child who was throwing up blood at school and later fired them for having to stay home with them. They also fired the AGM for not coming in to cover a shift in the middle of the night when he has children to watch. -They did not let me do my job. They tore apart my position and left it with barely anything to do for no reason. I was never given a bad report or told what I was doing was wrong, I was just stripped of responsibilities I was doing well at. -When working at the pre-enrollment site, no on site bathroom was provided, so I had to walk in sometimes harsh weather conditions just to relieve myself. Water was also not always available. Temperature control in the pre-enrollment trailer was poor and I was left drenched in sweat in the summer and freezing cold in the winter on certain days. -When I injured myself on site on a break, I learned the company did not have workers comp set up in the state (I didn’t meet the requirements for it but still, how can you not have it set up???). They also did not know about sick and safe time which is required by law in my state. -Has super scummy business practices. Since I dealt with customer complaints over social media, I saw how many people they overcharged and screwed over.

Good to get started as a brand new PT or sales team member. Friendly members and decently well equipped gym. Clean environment thanks to the wonderful janitor: Alex who works tirelessly to keep the place looking immaculate.

Almost zero benefits as a trainer, no healthcare or 401k match or anything else, part time work. Meager 25% discount on overpriced supplements and dorky apparel. Most of the clients end up with a select few buddies of the membership sales team. All others hustle and barely have any hours and thus earn eight to ten hours of minimum wage for "non-session" hours, plus San Mateo minimum wage + session comp when working with clients. If they hit the monthly 2000 or 2500 dollar sales goal they end up with 10% of that, i.e. 200 to 250 dollars. So most paychecks (semi monthly if I recall) I would end up earning 650-800 dollars and once a month I would get my 200-1000 dollars sales commission compensation, which after taxes ends up being even less. On top of getting seriously under-compensated you will be expected to hustle people into buying the overpriced supplements for - yet again - a very low commission rate. I used to work nearly every day and had to move my schedule around for clients, but was barely able to get enough work to keep my head above water. Definitely be prepared to work a second job or do Uber on the side, especially if you live an adult life with the expenses of this area factored in. Be prepared to work with ex-cons and generally shady people who do illegal drugs on the job, take steroids and sexually harass women and get away with it, just get moved around to different locations and demoted right and left. Avoid this place if you value your finances and sanity. I did a bunch of work for no pay, which is part of the reason why I had such good sales despite having very few clients and even got in trouble for giving my clients extra attention after their sessions and even after I had charged them hundreds of dollars for training sessions. Even though some trainers will only meet with two clients a day we are expected to keep sessions to 50 minutes or less and can't even talk to clients off the clock according to the manager who worked there for six months and started bossing me around and writing me up right and left. One more thing: they used to hire way too many trainers, far beyond what was warranted to meet client demand. Then when we didn't hit our goal we got this annoying pep talk from this tatted up, arrogant manager who was a complete sociopath.