u/Tight-Passion6375

Hi all! I worked at LA Fitness for about 6 months. I quit due to needing to travel out of the country for a family emergency, and they told me I didn’t have enough time to take 2 months off. I am going back home soon and I started applying for jobs. I got an opportunity to interview with Lifetime.

Of course it’s still early but I did some research and it seems like it can be a stressful job due to sales and quotas. This will be an adjustment as at LA Fitness trainers aren’t required to sell or meet sales goals.

My concern is: is it too much of a jump? To go from not having sales goals (mind you I have 6 months experience) to now having to meet the demands of a high end gym like Lifetime? Has anyone gone from LA to lifetime? What was your experience? Was it a hard transition? Any advice? Thanks!

Hello, I am 27 F, I live in the U.S, and I am a Muslim. I would like to get married but it seems like it’s too difficult. Between cultural differences (I consider myself a mix of Egyptian and American), and the battle of choosing to stay true to the religion in a country that promotes the vary things Islam says is haram, and by that I mean finding someone who stayed true because I did (no smoking, drinking, no def before marriage). Most Muslims are too Americanized or too Egyptian for me. Anyway not the point. I was curious for those who are married and are happy: how long did you know your spouse for before engagement? How long was the engagement? What do you see as key in marriage to find the right partner?

My brother was married but he is getting divorced, and my parents divorced. I am concerned about picking the wrong person. Any advice is appreciated!

Hello, I am 27 F, I live in the U.S, and I am a Muslim. I would like to get married but it seems like it’s too difficult. Between cultural differences (I consider myself a mix of Egyptian and American), and the battle of choosing to stay true to the religion in a country that promotes the vary things Islam says is haram, and by that I mean finding someone who stayed true because I did (no smoking, drinking, no def before marriage). Most Muslims are too Americanized or too Egyptian for me. Anyway not the point. I was curious for those who are married and are happy: how long did you know your spouse for before engagement? How long was the engagement? What do you see as key in marriage to find the right partner?

My brother was married but he is getting divorced, and my parents divorced. I am concerned about picking the wrong person. Any advice is appreciated!

Hi all! I am a PT at LA fitness. Been there for about 5 months. I’m going on vacation and I tried to go about putting the leave in the system the right way. I put in family emergency. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time accumulated to take the 2 months I want off. The solution would be to fire me/rehire me. They just let go of my PTD, and the GM is overseeing PT. I asked the GM how likely would it be that my position would still be open by the time I come back (End of August)? He said it’s not that easy to find people in general, and worst comes to worst I apply at another location and request to transfer to my old location I was hired at. But now I am thinking: if I come back and I can’t get the position again and I apply to other gyms, would I be better off quitting and then trying to get rehired? It would look bad on my resume if I got “fired” and even if I explain Idk how it would look to them that they fired me just to rehire me cuz I wanted to go on vacation. Please advise!

EDIT: I put in my resignation letter 6/23/26

Hi all, I started working as a personal trainer at LA Fitness in mid January. I told myself I would stay for at least a year for experience. However I am now considering leaving. If I felt like there was a solution to my issue, I would put in a transfer request at least but I just feel like this is just how LA fitness is. Please advise! Let me know what you think. Here we go:

I started at LA fitness in mid January and when I came on board, there was no PTD and it was clear that they were trying to pick this location up sales wise. So I started with little to no guidance and I kind of just tried to figure my way out. I started to get clients through the app. Eventually, a couple of weeks later, they got me a PTD. I loved my PTD. He was not a byproduct of LA fitness and was new to LA just like me.

Unfortunately, he ended up having to move and they had to replace my PTD. The PTD I did have got me a couple of clients. My previous PTD was a people person not a sales person. They replaced my PTD with another one from another location and this guy is very much a byproduct of LA Fitness. He’s been in LA for years, he worked his way up. One of the three trainers ended up quitting and he had to replace him with somebody else so he hired a new trainer.

It was very clear from the beginning that these two were very close and attached at the hip and I very much felt like an outsider. I also felt like there was a favoritism for his trainer because I kept seeing new names popped up on his schedule and these were definitely new because they mark when it’s a new client or a new person to personal training.

And the PTD would brag about how good he is at sales but I would not see him giving me clients. I felt all this, but I had no true confirmation, but I was checking with other people and they understood how I saw things. But the final straw for me was yesterday I went to work and I was talking to my PTD.

My PTD told me one of my clients have come in to cancel his personal training and that he convinced him not to and then he convinced him to train over the summer until I come back from vacation. This particular client I was going to see that same day, and was his story different. The client told me he canceled the Personal training, that he will not be training over the summer, that I had nothing to do with me, and that he was using it to really kind of get his form down and set him on the right path. He said he had accumulated so many sessions that it doesn’t make sense for him to spend $600 a month to pay for more sessions when he hasn’t finished the ones that he already purchased. I understand his point and I don’t picture every client staying with me forever. I’m OK with it.

But apparently, after that, the client was very agitated with my PTD, and the PTD put another charge on his card. The client also separately texted him to clarify that he will not be continuing training.

At the end of the session the client wished me luck and warned me not to trust the PTD because he did not have good things to say about me and essentially he plans on taking all my clients and putting him with another putting them with another trainer permanently. Speaking poorly about me to my own client is the last straw, that is extremely unprofessional. Also, this just tells me that he is out to make me fail, and I refuse to be under someone who wants to see me fail. And now I have confirmation that my thoughts and my intuition was right.

As a PTD, you should want your personal trainers to succeed because it looks good for you. And you would think he would be smart about the fact that I retain clients very well. I have like 11 consistent clients, and mind you this was WITHOUT HIS HELP. Plus his buddy is moving and leaving. So if I quit he is screwed, he will have 1 of 3 trainers.

But honestly i don’t care because you are a child for talking about me poorly to my client, so I have no sympathy for you. I am thinking of giving a week notice, and I will hand it to the GM cuz the PTD doesn’t deserve to get the news from me, as he can’t speak properly of me anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️.

I thought about putting in for a transfer, but I also have to remind myself that this is just the way that LA Fitness is are very sales driven. They don’t care about people. The only way I could see it getting better as if I transferred to another location but if this is how LA fitness is, I’m just gonna have the same problem again. So I feel like my best bet is to quit go on my vacation, come back and apply for other jobs. What did you think? Please advise. Thanks.

Hello, So I started working at LA fitness a few months ago. Long story short I was hired when there was no PTD and that location was not doing well in sales. Lots of changes were made and eventually a PTD was hired. I truly loved working with him and he would get me clients. I have retained those clients to this day. Fast forward he is moving and so now they need to replace my PTD. I got a new one and there is also another new trainer as one of the three quit. I have noticed those two are attached at the hip. You can’t find one without the other. I also noticed that this new trainer is getting many new clients, meanwhile my client list remains the same. I know the job of the PTD is to sell PT and assign PTs clients. He has now been my PTD for 2/3 months now and I am not getting clients through him. But the new PT is clearly being taken care of.

What are your experiences with PTDs? Is this normal? Why is he not getting me clients? I have shown I retain clients, so it would make sense for him to feed me more.