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Ultimate Performance

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It could be a good place to work if they paid fairly. - Personal Trainer Ultimate Performance Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2025
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Pros

It’s a good place to learn about diet and stay updated on some keys exercises techniques.

Cons

I’d like to bring to your attention a few concerns I have. During my first junior year, the gym set unrealistic expectations about clients’ results and held me responsible for their non-renewal of contracts (which are, frankly, way too expensive). The gym manager lacks the autonomy to address gym-related issues without consulting the regional manager, which seems like an unnecessary restriction. The mentorship program could be improved, particularly in terms of the quality of the learning materials provided and the mentor’s experience. Only one mentor has any real experience. While the gym promises competitive salaries, the actual compensation is significantly lower than the market rate and below the legally established minimum wage for the industry and professionals of this grade. Even though you’re officially paid for the hours of training you provide to your clients, you’re still obligated to follow up with them daily, which takes up a considerable amount of time and isn’t considered pay hours. In my experience, the gym doesn’t consider relevant experience or degree when hiring employees. It doesn’t offer fair salaries or a good promotion system. Instead, it seems like the business is focused on hiring junior, inexperienced staff who could be underpaid. Promised promotions are often delayed and come with low pay. High expectations from management and the company create an imbalance between wage stress and workload, resulting in severe overload and emotional distress.

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5.0
Apr 23, 2025
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Pros

Great company for learning how to be a top class personal trainer

Cons

Growth is dependent on client success

3.0
Apr 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

This company will pay you well if you work your butt off. It also has a salary guarantee of about $42,500 which is quite nice. Once you do enough sessions per month, you can make more than this but you have to do more than 90 sessions per month to make more than this figure. Its a lot of work and a lot of hours, but the pay is pretty solid relative to the rest of the industry.

Cons

Not much work/life balance. Ultimate Performance very much has "their way" of doing things, so if you're looking to work at a place where you kind of feel like you're own boss and you're building your own business, this place is not it. Their focus is SOLELY on drastic body composition change such that nutrition coaching is like 90% of the job. The work culture is very much, "put your head down, work your butt off, and you'll get recognized." Not necessarily a bad thing, but maybe not for me. Oh and I forgot this biggest con: you work every Saturday. Literally 6 days a week EVERY week, especially if you're trying to make more than that $42,500 per year. It's sort of a half day on Saturday, but you are working 6 days a week every week essentially. Benefits are more or less non-existent and PTO is 5 days.

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