Life Time Fitness Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness part-time for less than a year

Pros – We were allowed a lunch allowance for each work shift.

Cons – I worked outside at the pool concesssions, so my job was always based on the weather. If the weather was bad or there weren't a lot of people at the pool, I was told not to come to work. If I was already at work, and it wasn't busy, then those who had worked there in past summers were allowed to stay, and I was forced to go home. I maybe worked a total of 40 hours that summer because I was constantly getting the shaft when it came to working shifts.

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness part-time for less than a year

Pros – Free membership, flexible hours, multiple locations

Cons – High turnover, no leadership from management, and a complacent atmosphere.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Flexible schedule as a trainer for the most part. (You have shifts, but as a commissioned employee they can't make you work specific hours.)
- Good way to learn the basics of being a trainer: Client management, programming, and sales/marketing yourself as a trainer.
- Time you spend with your clients is amazing, you actually do make a difference in their lives and you get to see some amazing transformations as well.

Cons – - It doesn't matter how well your clients do in reaching their fitness goals, if they don't sign up for more sessions every month, the company doesn't care.
- You spend hours everyday and week having "meetings" where management berates you for not hitting sales goals.
- Even if you hit goals, there's always a service/product of the month they make you push on every client whether it's right for the client or not.
- Level of education among trainers is hit or miss. If you see a trainer teaching something wrong, you're not supposed to help their clients.
- Too much politics/high school-esque drama/cliques. You're either in the popular crowd or you're on the outside and you get no help and have to fend for yourself.
- Completely commission based job, if you don't sell anything - you don't make any money.
- You work all day, every day when you're trying to make sales/get clients - splits shifts, mornings and nights, weekends, and you work 18 hours on the last day of the month to try and make your department's sales quotas - No life!

Advice to Senior Management – It starts at the corporate level. I understand the idea behind commission based jobs, but you're robbing clients of real results when the advice they're given is driven by money and not the actual well-being of the clients. Treating people right is more important than selling them another thing!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than a year

Pros – I have seen advisers make sickening amounts of money
young/fun culture
free meals and drinks often
great training program
free gym membership ( Though I never had time to use it)
great on-boarding pay for first 6 months
Loved the sales managers and GM I had at my location- extremely helpful and kind.
Relatively fun and easy position.

Cons – Very high turnover
It wasn't surprising to see advisers working entire months without days off to hit personal targets.
To be successful you will need to put in between 65-80 hours each week.
You never get weekends off. Most advisers work holidays.
Bad work/life balance. I felt married to my career.

Advice to Senior Management – Start encouraging your workers to live the healthy way of life.
Promote those who are eager to inspire and teach. Not those who are only good for working 28 days straight.
Don't use non-paid days off as *gifts*.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Free membership, discount in cafe and other sections of the club, good hours

Cons – Glass ceiling, uniforms didn't breathe well, not forgiving with taking time off

Advice to Senior Management – Make your employees (team members, not managers) feel like they matter.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Life Time Fitness

Pros – Opportunity to change members lives positively

Cons – No work life balance
Difficult to live a healthy way of life
Lack of employee appreciation

Advice to Senior Management – Practice what you preach, make solid decisions before launching them

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness part-time for less than a year

Pros – I was able to bring my children with me to work which was nice. This company promotes healthy living which is aweseome. I like their Mission and Vision Statements.

Cons – This club was formerly Lifestyle so lots of changes going on since Lifetime had just bought out. Management was also changing so everything took time before getting completed. All management cares about is numbers. The only ones I felt were important in the club were the personal trainers and sales. Not enough staffing in the Child Center. Lots of expectations for a minimum wage job.

Advice to Senior Management – More staffing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Life Time Fitness full-time for less than a year

Pros – Membership, great fellow employees, most members are friendly, position not mentally challenging.

Cons – Some members are extremely rude and disrespectful, overwelming amount of work for very little pay, expectation to work nights, weekends and on ALL holidays with NO extra pay! Disrespect on some level from the top down...the role is bottom of the barrel and you are treated as such. All responsibility for operations will fall on your shoulders even at the team member level, you do what no one else wants to do, and do it in an undrestaffed environment while making very little money for the amount of hard work expected. Pay is less in this position than similar positions in other companies because of the free membership (which you will barely use if you are full time because you essentially live there and do not want to be there when you don't have to be.) I would advise only working in this position part time for the free membership and have another job that pays better as your primary income, this is a burn out role for full time.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay employees fairly, give incentives, pay time and a half for holidays or allow holidays off, respect your employees and recognize them for hard work.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Beautiful facility. Clean environment...DH's do an incredible job.

Cons – Managers are expected to give up their entire lives to work at Life Time. There is no work/life balance and managers are treated poorly. They are expected to be on call 24/7 and give up everything else if called. I was called back in from out of town once when there was dust and dead bugs in the corner of my area. I would not advise anyone to work in management at LTF.

Advice to Senior Management – Walk a day in your Department Heads shoes. When someone gives you their all, make sure you are giving something back to them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Life Time Fitness part-time for more than a year

Pros – Free gym membership * Flexible Schedule * Nice Co-Workers

Cons – No holiday pay for Operations Employees at Maple Grove Facility * No break room available to employees * Operations employees paid under the Federal Poverty Guideline * Training is irrelevant to the tasks performed * Department Heads at each facility receive $3600.00 quarterly bonuses if they understaff and undercut supplies for their teams by 15% of their monthly budget. * Pressured by Corporate and Management to pay the company $20.00 of one's own money and volunteer New Year's Day (or work without additional holiday pay/compensation at one's home facility) for a 5k run/member drive.

Advice to Senior Management – If Management wants 5-Star facilities, it's only fair to pay 5-Star wages. When comparing to other companies with similar business models, Life Time is far below the median wage by at least $3.00/hr. But Life Time is making money, so they are doing something right for upper management's wallet.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company