Element Personal Training Reviews

It can be a massive grind especially in sales. People can and will burn out and while this is common in sales I don’t believe we do enough to recognize this. To be fair this may be a limitation within the industry and not specific to this company but I have seen (myself included) a lot of very talented trainers/ sales people ect fall behind not because of skill or talent but just loss of motivation and recognition. The disconnect between trainers and managers and sometimes gym staff; a lot of clubs I’ve seen will, at some point, struggle with a divide between the training staff (and their expectations) and the managers and I believe it causes a lot of issues that make the job harder. This is common in a lot of places but it truly hurt me to see when so many avoidable and dramatic instances could have easily been avoided if we weren’t also so focused on sales. If we had bad managers and trainers it wouldn’t have hurt as bad but we did and it sucked! The work life balance. In short/ conclusion; this company does and have short comings. The seemingly single minded focus on sales does get in the way at times but some of the best leaders I’ve worked with in my career, worked here. There isn’t anything that can’t be fixed I personally just felt like I couldn’t help fix the issues while I was there and I personally was a part of the problem sometimes either due to my own faults or limitations of the industry.

- Top manager makes big claims and promises, but will then not follow through with said claims - Head trainer is an overly emotional and petty person with lacking leadership skills. He chose to terminate my employment because I hurt his feelings by being bluntly honest with him (like almost every manager who worked there when I was there did to us). Top manager backed up this decision after telling me the day before I was instrumental to the team and making his regular big claims - Another manager there (who's name is definitely not the same as the country south of Florida) regularly had trainers, managers, clients, and even regular gym members complain about his conduct, to include things like creeping women out, low-key sexual harassment, stiring up drama by leaving electronic notes on the laptop of the social media girl at the gym referencing her significant others' cheating behavior and then acting like it wasn't him, regularly treating the trainers like crap and talking to us like we were 10 years old, having a sexual relationship with one of the trainers (which said trainer told me afterward was extremely uncomfortable and scary looking back on it)....and many other concerning behaviors - Pay was crap - Pushed sales too hard, and would try to sell members that were obviously not ready to purchase personal training Overall an extremely disorganized place to work with managers lacking leadership, communication, and sometimes even basic fitness training skills. And with way too much drama happening all the time. If you're a new personal trainer looking for a chill but positively energetic place to work, grow your career and training skills, and build relationships/network with clients and co-workers alike? Look elsewhere.