Life Time Fitness Reviews

I worked at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free membership. Very "healthy" environment to work in- culture that is encouraging of healthy eating, exercise, etc. Related to that though- You will be in the (silently judged) minority of your're out of shape, overweight, drink soda, etc.

Mostly business casual dress code.

Certain positions also allotted cell phone and home internet connectivity allowance in addition to base salary, usually had access to great cutting edge technology, very satisfied with salary.

Cons – Only 10 days of PTO a year (whether it's sick or vacation), that you must use by the end of the calendar year. This does not allow for much work/life balance.

Benefits were just OK, which is a little odd considering it's a "Healthy Way of Life Company"

CEO has a temper- which I witnessed firsthand, not just going off of rumors. He is very driven, and perhaps that is the type of personality needed to be "successful" but cursing and losing your temper with employees or situations usually doesn't go over well in the long run.

His team of upper management is comprised of guys that have been by his side nodding yes since the first club was opened. For the most part, it's not horrible, but you eventually get the feeling that you either 'drink the kool aid' or you don't, and if you don't you're out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Life Time Fitness part-time for less than a year

Pros – The free membership is great and I love to eat in the cafe!

Cons – There really aren't any. I am really enjoying learning more about the company and can't think of any cons to it.

Advice to Senior Management – To get to know your must valuable resource, you human capital.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free gym membership
Some members are nice
You have a job and a pay check
If you are lucky and drink the kool aid you may move up

Cons – I find it amazing as I google this company all I read is how they are a 1 billion dollar company and how they are expanding everywhere, and also the pictures of the CEO Bahram with his narsisistic phony smile. If you have ever had the misfortune to work with this guy you'd know all he does is yell and scream and insult overweight people. You'd love to root for this rags to riches guy, but his arrogance and temper make it impossible. This goes additionally for his coat tail riding "yes men" that execute all of his orders, who's only talents seems to be enjoying hearing themselves give phoney speeches and mindless conference calls.

Oh, if only people knew what goes on behind closed doors In this company , people would never join or buy their stock.

The main reason for the success of life time fitness is in the way they exploit employees on the front lines. They prey of the weak and desparate then work them at low pay unti burn out. This cycle continues over and over. They operate 60+ mill clubs at bare minimum expenses so they can sell stock. Non-salary salespeople and trainers can also be factored in and salaried employes being stretched out over 60-70 hours per week. Also, this company nickel and dimes every expense from supplies to bonuses (which are incredibly difficult to achieve on purpose). One example is how they avoid parking lot cleaning by making it mandatory that employees pick up garbage while OFF shift. I witnessed an employee get written up for insubordination when demanding to get paid for cleaning the parking lot. It's amazing how this company takes every penny off the sweat of their employees backs and hands it to their #1 customer, the shareholder.

This CEO #1 obession is to maximize shareholder wealth at all cost, period. If you think it's to create a "Healthy way of life" for members, work for him for a few months selling memberships or cleaning lockerrooms and you'll see his true intentions.

While as a manager with this company I've seen things that I've only heard about in factories in 3rd world countries. Overworked and underpaid and no life balance just for starters (7 days PTO a year?). I could go on and on, they build big beautiful clubs then pay the minimum of wages to operate it. Then break every EEOC and labor law imaginable, and do so with cold, calculating and arrogant intent.
 I've witnessed good hard working people who were disparate for work, making minimum wage, cleaning toilets, thrown to the curb for the most trivial of reasons, including being overweight and/or not speaking clear English.

Yes, I'm ashamed to admit it, but for a short time, I drank the kool aid also. I could recite the mission and vision without hesitation, but eventually I woke up, like the others who have written about this company on Glassdoor.
This is because you don't see it at first but after a while, when the smiles turn to anger, the true face of Life Time Fitness slowly emerges. If you don't fit their model you are squeezed to quit or thrown in the laundry room to fold hundreds of towels a day. The laundry room is where they hide the undesirables.

This company is the equivalent of the Christler Motor Co. pretending to be Mercedes Benz. In reality, Life Time Fitness is a glorified LA Fitness, it's too bad the unuspected members paying $200+ a month doesnt know it yet. But as the economy continues to struggle and folks start to see through the LTF facade of smoke and mirrors, they'll spend their money somewere else. It's only a matter of time..... "You can only fool some of the people some of the time"

 How this company has not been slapped with a class action lawsuit as of yet, I have no idea but if they continue to abuse the people who create their paper empire, it will happen soon and their "Healthy way of life" motto will be exposed for the lie that it is.

Advice to Senior Management – Greed may be good..... but.....Every dog has its day.

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

I have been working at Life Time Fitness full-time for more than a year

Pros – Ive met some good people

Cons – They bend every rule in the book to pay the employees as little as possible and not get legal action taken against them.

They expect you to have no life outside of work.

All they care about is money, They preach about how its a Results Based Culture for the client when in reality its a Revenue Based Culture because all that they talk about in meetings is how to increase revenue instead of how each trainers clients are progressing.

They put you through a 40 hour certification before you start your first day as a trainer and instead of teaching you training techniques and ways make you a better trainer they spend the entire 40 hours going over what to say to members to get them to buy things from you

They will hire a "trainer" who can't even teach something as simple as proper squat form as long as they can sell

Have mandatory meetings 3x a week and do not pay you for them

You work in 100% commission so if you are not training you are not being paid yet they require you to work a 9 hour shift and expect you to clean the building when you are not training and pay you 0$ for it and you get in trouble if you are not cleaning

You get PTO but if you want to take off for the holidays you must put in for it months before or you wont get it and if you don't get it you lose it they will not carry it over or pay you out for it

They put so much pressure on you to sell that you become as inconsiderate as the CEO is and will do anything to make a sale even if its convince a member to buy a product they do not really need because if they don't buy anything you don't get paid and will not hit your quota..(so much for it being all about the member)

They have countless amounts of online training they require you to do that are completely pointless and they do not pay you to complete them if you are a Trainer or Sales Adviser

You are pressured by management to participate in the club events, classes, and training on your non working hours so on top of the ungodly amount hours they make you work they expect you to spend your free time taking a class or "getting involved" in their events that they hold that they will still make you pay for.

Ive never been at a job where the turnover rate was so high that an entire department had a whole new staff within a month.

The Facility Operations staff is ridiculously understaffed and under paid for the amount of work they do as well as the type of work they are expected to do. They are also treated like worthless garbage by the other Team members who make them do anything and everything just because they are to lazy to do it themselves.

If you have no family, friends, personal life, or bills to pay, and if you like being treated like you're worthless this is a great job for you....good luck

Advice to Senior Management – Stop lying to your employees we know its all about the money, stop pretending you really care about the members.

You get what you pay for, dont expect to get the best out of your employees when you give them barely any pay

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

I have been working at Life Time Fitness part-time for more than a year

Pros – Friendly, caring staff in all departments, fun and energetic environment

Cons – Very high-class clientele sometimes makes it hard to please them, even when service and products are already provided at above average.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Life Time Fitness full-time for less than a year

Pros – facility was overall pretty nice

Cons – no prospects for training, nobody who could afford training.

Advice to Senior Management – Lower prices for training

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Life Time Fitness part-time for more than a year

Pros – get a free membership, fun job, like working with the kids, can be creative

Cons – there is little opportunity to move up in lifetime, and nearly impossible to get raises, hard to get time off.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have 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

I 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

I have 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