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Snap Fitness

An excellent career move for a Personal Trainer looking for advancement, but there are many like you looking for the same lucrative move up. This means your employer can and will replace you. I was good at my job, the gym was retaining members due to high satisfaction with customer service and constant positive feedback from mystery shoppers reflected this in numerical form. Unfortunately this was all the franchisee cared about: numbers. KPIs, Excel Spreadsheets with various statistics. Doesn't matter that the gym was doing well enough that they were able to sell off their other non-gym related business and effectively retire on their now primary income due to the stability brought by effective employees (i.e me). No acknowledgement or recognition whatsoever. Correspondence could be broken down to two types. "Nothing" because the numbers are good or "More" because numbers are not good. Having been a member for years before moving into the role I had seen many come and go before me with most not lasting more than a few months, but it's not until you perform the role that you fully understand why. I lasted longer than most (nearly 2 years) but in the end I couldn't put up with the lack of social decency any longer. The entire time the franchisee didn't bother forming a lasting employer/employee relationship I assume because I am replaceable despite my achievements. The only reason I lasted as long as I did was because I had made some very good friends among the regulars who made working there an absolute joy and created the cycle of happy members/happy staff/ new happy members/great atmosphere/etc etc. Your potential franchisee might treat employees differently, but it's highly unlikely based on the response from asking managers of other gyms how their franchisees treated them.

This was a challenging job but I learned a lot from it. 
I do not regret working here however, my time is done. 
I can no longer hold stress over this position and think about work 24/7.
Pros: You will learn many things from your members and from the job through your time. The brand is great, the CEO and head office team are fantastic + very helpful.
cons: Long, awkward hours. If you need to make a personal appointment, it can be very difficult. Management can be great however, some forget what it is was like to be the club manager and point fingers too often. Work load can be overwhelming and draining. Don't expect to leave work on-time all the time especially close out sales. Will find eventually, you take work home and this most likely won't be recognised.

I loved this job. It was such a fun environment and I really enjoyed being around like minded people. The club was struggling when I took over and I successfully increased the membership numbers while keeping current member cancellations to a minimum.

I started as a weekend manager at a Snap Fitness club in Kensington, Sydney. After impressing upper management I was offered my own club in Double Bay with sponsorship. I only left as The Australian Government took my job off the sponsorship list, which meant I could no longer apply for PR.

Typically my day to day would consist of signing up new members, keeping the gym presentable, dealing with current member inquiries, building the business, leasing with members and our Personnel Trainers, cash handling/taking payments, replying to emails, answering the phone/making phone calls and communicating with upper management.

Snap was a company who benefited far more from my employment than I did from working there. As a trainer I was expected to do tasks that were the role of an employee but I paid rent to work there, so I did more unpaid work than I would have liked. It impacted on my ability to earn my own wage. 

As a manager I was expected to do far too many roles. Work such as debt collecting should not have been included in my time manning the desk in the club. These finance roles should have been done in house by company employees, not in the gym.

SnapFitness is a well thought out gym. While working there my typical dat at work was: filling out paper work, working the desk, cleaning toliets/mirrors/equipment, taking clients on a tour of the gym. My supervisor was extremely helpful, talking us through things, showing me the right way to do things. The hardest part of the job was the stock take double checking it, triple checking. Making sure it was correct before i ordered more. The most enjoyable part of the job was seeing clients come in have a good work out and seeing results.

It was always good fun working at Snap Fitness, at the time I worked there I was very dedicated to my fitness and being surrounding by those who had the same mindset and similar goals was a great workplace to be involved in.

During my time their I met a lot of new friends that I still keep in contact with today. Sharing similar values and beliefs was really beneficial for myself.

Being thrown into the deep end was a fantastic way to learn the ropes and provided me with the perfect opportunity to think on my feet and outside the box. 

My role is a very heavily administrative role, whilst managing a small team and running the day to day operations. 

Brilliant experience and am wanting to take my career and knowledge to the next level.

This place was meant to be a dream come true but finding out the costs made me say no to a future. I learned a lot and found that it was truly my kind of industry to be in, the aim of training and helping people.

The co-workers were nice until I got some discomforting information from one of my references. The clients and gym were perfect but support was lacking.

I was unfortunate enough to work under a manager that had no compassion or care for his staff. I went above and beyond my expected club hours and he still expected more. I had no support in generating clients, and when I left messages for the "PT Development Officer" to call me, I never heard back! I was basically used as free labour to run group fitness, clean, and call members who's accounts were in debt.

I clean once a week for free. 
Take 4 classes a week for free.
I have learned to deal with different people.
The manager and assistant manager and I are friends so it's a fun job.
The culture is also pretty fun with different people who know you in the gym.
The hardest part is the 30 minute drive and dealing with sales.
The most enjoyable part is seeing people achieve their goals and seeing them be happy.

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