XSport Fitness Reviews

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Can make a lot of money through prospecting the right leads from the right locations

Cons – No room for growth, management expects unreal results.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so condescending.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Enjoyed learning that XSport is a family owned business. The new employee orientation was informative and the facilities are nice.

Cons – Brought in for a group interview, offered a position on the spot, which was unexpected. Had to drive quite far to new employee orientation. Would have been nice if the gym that hired the new group would have connected us to each other for car pooling. Completed the orientation with no communication about when to come into the assigned gym to work. Had to be very proactive to work. Even after going in for the first shift, had to ask every shift when I could work next. Was very disappointed with that.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate to your new hires in the city that they will have to get to the suburbs for the new employee orientation. Suggest they talk to each other and carpool. Give your new employees some sort of schedule, at least a week at a time. Having to ask to work is frustrating.

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

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

Pros – Everyone there is a great person to work with and you can become a family pretty quickly
They are one of the highest paying comm in the industry
There are a lot of locations which means quick advancement and multiple positions to grow into
the members at lakeview are the best

Cons – long hours but its made up for with the compensation
its tough having a work/life balance only because when you are there you will be making money so you want to be there all the time

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

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness full-time

Pros – I honestly loved working at xsport, especially the people I worked with. I learned a great deal from the other trainers. The management was tought but fair. You have to put in long hours but is well worth it to build a client base. You have sales goals to hit every month, and if you don't hit them, you're gone. I never had an issue hitting my goals so I didn't find a problem with it.

Cons – None. Loved the job, loved my clients, and the people I worked with were great. It was frustrating not having consistant hours but that is the personal training business.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't force high pressue sales to hit YOUR sales goal for the club. It puts us trainers in a bad situation. We work with out clients and want to continue to keep them happy and if they aren't ready to but another 20 pack of session because they have 10 left don't force us to try and sell them to buy more.

Current Employee – been working at XSport Fitness

Pros – Free gym for employees lots of locations

Cons – All they care about is screwing people over to make more $$$$. Minimum wage and you work your ass off to meet goals

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness full-time for less than a year

Pros – BEST REASON to work at Xsport Fitness is to network, you always meet new people and can help change their lives by helping them live an more active healthy lifestyle.

Cons – I didn't like that is isn't fair in this type of business. Employees fight over what customer was theirs and what appointment's was theirs. Many times the manager would get all the walk ins and not set the example by going out as well like the team to get leads. Employees sales would be taken by other employees and in all it was bad.

Advice to Senior Management – There should be better man-agent, I was in a pre-sales trailer and it was very unprofessional. The manager always cursed and was very lazy. Employees would argue with each other and the manager would never inter fear or say anything. He would tell us that he didn't care as long as we produced his numbers. this is why i left Xsport recently.

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

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness part-time for more than a year

Pros – fun, some great clients!!!fashionable, extremely busy. good equipment. so much potentiall

Cons – extremely busy.Stupid Repetitive meetings and classes. Plenty of hours of training being sold but far too many trainers being continuosly hired.. instead of supplying the existing trainers with more clients-hours they keep hiring new trainers to fill up a busy 5-8 pm shift. management is extremely anal with supplement, training sales, etc..comissions for supplement sales are stolen from the girls that work the front desk, those sales numbers dont show up on your monthly goals and prevents you from your raise. If that doesnt prevent something else will. Trainers stealing clients from other trainers. an extremely disgusting, dirty locker room.. especially at late hours. Missing comissions! No benefits.. its too difficult to consistently keep 30+ hours with the amount of new trainers always being hired. thus no benefits and poor weekly pay. I have trained in Other gyms and other states.. maybe its the Chicago transit system, parking authority, traffic, etc... but this gyms clients consistently did not show up for scheduled sessions. somesort of cultural problem... extremely improper business.

Advice to Senior Management – take care of your existing trainers. dont try and blame them for a lack of hours or supplement sales.. if the trainer wants more hours to train... get it to them!!! stop hiring more and more trainers to fill up a few busy spots... that spreads the other hours to thin.

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good clients, lots of business coming in.

Cons – deducted commissions constantly for no apparent reason
Fight to get back money owed to me
raise system flawwed
Work 6am to 9pm 5 days a week plus one weekend day.

Advice to Senior Management – Change how you go about commissions process, the trainers want to get more clients, but they want to be paid for their efforts on their clients.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at XSport Fitness full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Free membership
- Meet new people
- Very High Energy and Fun but thats only if your projecting goal!!!

Cons – 1. +40 plus hours with no overtime.
2. Sink or swim attitude.
3. Under qualified upper management.
4. Unfair pay wages.
5. Favoritism at best.
6. The list can keep going.

Advice to Senior Management – Well some advice is that you should start back from scratch and hire well trained and experienced managers. Also word of the wise ever since I left in 2007 I have been informed about all the illegal practices your company does on a HR level (sexual harassment, vulgar language, discrimination based on race and lifestyle).
One regional manager told me directly that this company work on the concept of implementing fear in its employees to achieve greater results. This is a direct quote!!! He also told me that favoritism is true and he believes that is what the owner believes in. I am so glad I quit when I did... Blinded by money and fake friends... That was my mistake!!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – flexible hours and decent pay

Cons – Incompetent management that refers new clients to friends rather than most qualified trainers