Pros
-Excellent camaraderie, atmosphere. -Decent sales training, workshops and management staff. -Leads are provided by the gym -You also receive some ongoing clients -If you come only from Cert III or Cert IV this is the place for you.
Cons
-Salary of $40/h. Which means, $26,6 per session. Don't be fooled by the $40/h, remember that booking sessions back to back is hard, so the amount of money you earn for the time you spend at the gym is stupid. Also, you will need to pay taxes and super afterwards. - During first 10 weeks, 4 UNPAID hours a week are mandatory for development. After the 10th week, luckily it is only 2. - Every new lead you get, you either have to do x2 free sessions and then sell pt ongoing to them or a complementary one before presenting prices. Forget about moving up to PT level 2 (better hourly rate) if you've got something on the side. It will be extremely difficult to get to the minimum number of sessions required (maintain for 3 months over 30 paid sessions) and then submit an application that very likely will be rejected the first time to make minor changes. -Sales team is not very honest and pushes PT ongoing to new members that think they are only getting into 6 total sessions (4 paid 2 free). Sales team gets commission and PT ends up doing 6 sessions, getting paid for 2 and having a cancel. This happens to many PTs way more often than it should. FP aims for 30% conversion rate. In order to get 30 paid clients you need to do around 200 free sessions (100 clients). That is a bit over 5k you are doing for free. Not counting any complementary sessions that the gym gives to current members to make them look good or just because. Doing the call drive a week is about 6-8h when you start as you are given so many leads which equals AUD240-320. Then 4h of mentoring/workshops for 10 weeks which makes AUD1600. So you end up doing 7k of free labour easily. 30 paid sessions at level 1 is a salary of AUD800/week. Just a bit below 42k a year gross.