Personal Trainer Jobs

New York Sports Clubs and our family of brands is a long-standing, dynamic fitness club brand with locations in the Northeast, Florida and Switzerland. We consider ourselves your local neighborhood gym! It is our goal to provide our members with fitness results, positive change and personal connections through innovative programming and knowledgeable staff.

Our mission is to “Improve Lives Through Fitness”. We work with passion and integrity, and we always treat others with appreciation and respect. We are a diverse community committed to being better today than we were yesterday, and better tomorrow than we were today. The New York Sports Clubs and our family of brands community is bonded by a common vision with the objective of being the employer destination of choice and strongest fitness brand. Our purpose is to help others be their best. We achieve this through our Five Agreements: Be welcoming, Listen with care, Learn from failure, Celebrate success, and Make excellence a habit every day.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Personal Trainer focuses on providing a positive fitness experience relevant to our member's specific goals (S.M.A.R.T. goals) through scientifically based, personally tailored fitness programs. The Personal Trainer creates value in our fitness programs and member experience through one-on-one personal training, small group training and member engagement activities including, but not limited to, fitness floor member engagement, relevant fitness special events, external fitness education and outreach. The Personal Trainer drives retention through motivation, accountability, consistency and knowledge-based fitness programs where growth and results are a main focus. This applies to both the member experience and their personal training business.

• Additional duties as assigned.
• Successfully navigating through basic IT platforms.
• Completing all administrative tasks including, but not limited to, scheduling PT sessions two weeks in advance, rescheduling all canceled appointments and following session authorization policies.
• Quickly addressing any member issues, questions or concerns regarding their fitness programs, including cancel requests, suspensions and transfers and escalate issues to management appropriately.
• Continuously modeling and promoting the NYSC and our family of brands mission, mission statement, and values with pride and integrity.
• Making sure that fitness equipment is maintained and fitness floor meets or exceeds safety and functional standards.
• Maintaining PT certifications and necessary continuing education credits.
• Creating smart goal action plans to meet individual goals for revenue, sales and retention.
• Must meet and maintain monthly and quarterly production minimums for specified PT professional job role.
• Partnering with sales team to meet new members and prospects, to review Needs Analysis and to present fitness services at POS.
• Required to progress to a Staff Trainer Level 2 personal trainer in accordance with NYSC and our family of brands’ production minimum policy within 90 days of hire.
• Proficiency in the use of our POS and membership system, timekeeping any other computer programs required to meet the business needs of the customer and NYSC and our family of brands.
• Engaging with members, clients and peers through internal and external prospecting activities.
• Working with individual clients around their specific needs, goals and schedules to prescribe a tailored fitness program to gain the best results.
• Properly utilizing all fitness tools provided.
• Delivering safe and effective fitness programs followed with documented mid-program fitness assessments.
• Reviewing and adhering to all NYSC and our family of brands documents including but not limited to policies and procedures, employee handbook, state supplement, codes of conduct, etc.
• Working closely with clients, maintaining accountability by keeping in contact with clients outside of training appointments.
• Quickly addressing any maintenance or equipment issues that are visible to members.
• Being on time for all shifts.
• Regularly partnering with Fitness Leader for direction, coaching and feedback.
• Hitting and exceeding all revenue, session and sales targets reflecting a consistent month over month growth.
• Providing a legendary member experience by consistently executing the Five Agreements.
• Maintaining client programs and fitness assessment forms; proper storing in home facility.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree helpful, but not required in Exercise Physiology, Kinesiology, Recreation or P.E. related field.
• Basic computer literacy.
• Physical demands include ability to lift up to 45 pounds with or without reasonable accommodations, walk through all areas of clubs, climbing stairs (where applicable), repetitive squatting, bending and lifting, restacking of weights, moving of equipment as necessary and ability to demonstrate other exercise movements as part of a personal fitness workout. The company reserves the right to change them as business needs require and that jobs may require other tasks as assigned to the employee by the company.
• Active Child & Adult AED/CPR required.
• Must have and maintain active NYSC and our family of brands approved Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) from one of the following:
• Good technical (fitness programming) skills and time management skills.
• Previous personal training experience not required, but if available corporate gym setting preferred.
• H.S, Diploma or GED equivalent.

APPROVED LIST OF PERSONAL TRAINING CERTIFICATIONS AT NYSC – REQUIRED FOR HIRE

• IFPA – International Fitness Professionals Association
• AFAA – Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
• NCSF- National Council on Strength and Fitness
• ISCA-International Strength and Conditioning Association
• AAPTE – Academy of Applied Personal Training Education
• ACE – American Council on Exercise
• NSCA – National Strength and Conditioning Association
• NASM – National Academy of Sports Medicine
• ACSM – American College of Sports Medicine
• NCCPT
• ISSA – International Sports Sciences Association
• AAPT – American Academy of Personal Training
• NFPT – National Federal of Professional Trainers
• NCEP - National College of Exercise Professionals
• The Cooper Institute
• NESTA – National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association
• NPTI – National Personal Training Institute
• Pro-PTA
• WITS – World Instructor Training Schools
• The Swedish Institute