Pros
You're never alone to suffer on your own. Your fellow trainers are great people with whom you share the same pains. The only good thing I got from 2yrs with this company is thick skin development and relationships built with co-workers and clients.
Kontras
Where to start...Akradi (CEO) is a very greedy individual who only cares about growing revenue, NOT his employees who are great people just wanting to help change lives through training and encouraging more sound health decisions. Pay structure is horrible (100% of earning comes from commission, NO paid Holidays, horrible vacation accrual, horrible benefits that do not cover much). They operate with something called the DRAW system, in which there are 2 forms of pay: They will pay you OR YOU will pay you (commission). They will pay you $11.88/hr as long as you clock in for a normal 80hr pay period. YOU will pay yourself by selling and servicing personal training, selling nutritional products, etc. Example: Let's say when you start, you sell some personal training and nutritional products. You do this decently for your first 80 hour pay period (2 weeks). Your commission earnings for these 80 hours crunches down to let's say $7/hr. Well, Life Time will give you $4.88/hr to make up the $11.88/hr I referenced above. How nice, they will make up the difference. However, they will keep track of all the money they LENT you and put it into a DRAW balance. So you do this for about 2 months, and your DRAW balance gets to about $500. Then you start doing better. Let's say you start selling more and make roughly $16/hr from your commissions. Well, LT will adjust your earning to $11.88/hr, NOT the $16/hr you worked hard for. They do this so to pay back on your DRAW balance. Basically, you will hardly ever make more than $11.88/hr and get horrible benefits. I hope this made sense. Do not waste your time working for Life Time as a personal trainer.
