Gold's Gym Reviews

Pros

dedicated lifters
Competitors train here
Small comunitee/gym

Cons

not a ton of room to get your admin work done for your clients.
small client pool to prospect from while at the club
it gets a little hot in there

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of your trainers and they will take care of you.. My experience while there was awesome.

Pros

Unlimited access to Gold's for you and your spouse.
Good work environment, always fun and energetic people coming in a out everyday.

Cons

The finger never lifted. Meaning management never lets up. Super high pressure sales. Should be a fun atmosphere for employees, but it is extremely stressful. No matter how good of job you do (even if you are a top performer) you never get praised for it. Its always what you can do better or what you haven't done. And the carrot is always dangled just far enough away you cant reach it.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop micromanaging! Treat your sales team with respect.
Stop dangling the carrot so far away. Well payed employees are happy employees, and in turn creates producing employees.

Pros

Free membership
casual dress
could eat at desk

Cons

They have a major lack of communication and even though it's part of doing your job correctly they still don't communicate things to you. They are geared more towards quanitity over quality. They run too many specials which brings in more members which makes the current members angry. They will release you from you job for very trivial things but allow people who are actually breaking the law to stay employed with them. Overall not a very good place to work. Not compensated for the things you do well.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to manage. Take some classes on communication with employees. Praise those who do things well and save the firing for people who actually do stuff wrong that affects how they do their job.

Pros

Great Atmosphere, competitive pay (entry level), if your a veteran in your field don't think making the transition to Gold's is going to be worth your while.

Cons

Strong pressure to sell, very non transparent with contracts, increasing dues,

Advice to Senior Management

Make contracts more transparent, sales goals must be realistic, having 250 new members in the month of November not a feasible goal.

Pros

Great atmosphere with clients, Exposure to new clients, great facilities,

Cons

Lower than average pay for successful personal trainers. Trainers are better at selling than the sales staff.

Advice to Senior Management

Do better at giving your trainers good opportunities for clients. Management and sales need to work harder to make their own sales so that the training staff has more time to train and less time worrying about orientations and sales goals. I met my goals consistently and once i was training a full time schedule I still had to put in extra effort when the Sales/Training Managers should be making more sales at that point. The Training Manager was outsold by her staff every month, and expected trainers to still set their own G.O's.

Pros

Get to meet interesting people.
give you time to learn a little about the business of fitness.

Cons

Management only cares about their bonuses and sales numbers.
Hire way more trainers than need be.
Good trainers by Golds Gym LA standpoint are sales men and has nothing to do with your knowledge of fitness.
If you care about fitness and your clients do not work here.
Trainers are required to sale a certain about of training each month as well as sale supplements in which gold gym has a contract with only one genertic brand that know one else has heard of.
the pay sucks.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to employees like they are adults and not like your trying to sale them on an ideal to hustle and make YOU bonus money because the trainers do not get any bonuses. Show some respect for fitness and your members.

Pros

Flexible schedule, good pay, respect from club members ,

Cons

Pressure from management to make sales, no sales team, too aggressive sales tatics

Advice to Senior Management

Tone down the aggressive sales it would make members much more comfortable. Be more grateful for the business trainers bring in.

Pros

I am helping folks realize their life potential through fitness. I am very proud to be a part of this.

Cons

I see the model for middle and upper management seem to be 20-30 somethings.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep growing

Pros

Great People, Motivates you to keep in shape, learn about the fitness industry

Cons

Sometimes have to work odd hours

Pros

management team and general manager at the Golds in Sacramento is what makes that gym a great place to work

Cons

2 of the 3 parties in the executive committee is a dentist and a former construction worker who have no experience at all how to run a gym.

Advice to Senior Management

Let management run the gym that's why you hired them not the construction worker and the dentist