Washingon, DC Fitness Job: Would You Like To Have Fun, Make Money & Help People At The Same Time?
February 25, 2010 by admin
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Could you be the next highest paid personal trainer employee in Washington, DC?
We are looking for someone to be a part-time fitness coach and to lead group interval classes. (With the opportunity to move into a full time position with benefits.)
Benefits:
- Good pay (the highest hourly take home pay – $45/hr take home as an employee - of any personal training job in Washington, DC)
- No planning on your part (You simply execute our system and coach the participants to move through the workout correctly and safely. We will train you in our system, how to do our classes, and how to modify exercises for all levels of fitness. No certification or experience required.)
- Fun
- Steady income
- No marketing (we will take care of all of that, all you have to do is be prepared, master our systems, show up early and rock the classes and sessions)
- No traveling – the clients come to us
Who we looking for:
- Someone very punctual – we’re only looking for people who arrive early
- Someone very professional – clean, well groomed, good language
- Someone very reliable – you’ve got to be in town to teach the class
- Someone who can follow directions – we are only looking for people to implement our program, not someone interested in reinventing the wheel (We are hiring because there is far more demand for our services/system than we can provide)
- Someone who brings their best EVERY day – if you can’t put aside whatever is going on in your life and show up with positive energy to give to our clients, then don’t bother
- Someone who is great with other people – who likes being around others, who others like being around and who is great at motivating others
Hours we are looking for:
M-F 6:00am, 7:00am, 8:00am
M-Th 5:30pm, 6:30p, 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Saturdays 8:00am-1:00pm
What to do if you are interested:
*Do not email us
*Do not call us
*Do not visit us
*Send your resume to:
Josef Brandenburg
c/o Definitions
1070 Thomas Jefferson St., NW
Washington, DC 20007
How To Get The Body You Deserve
December 23, 2009 by admin
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There is a very good reason that I did not name my business “the body you deserve” – I would have nothing to sell. Everyone already has EXACTLY the body they deserve. You’ve already earned that. If what you have isn’t what you want, then there is only one thing that needs to change – you.
You look and feel exactly the way you deserve to feel based on the choices you have made up until this point. This is one of those things that nobody really likes to hear, but inside everyone knows is true.
I do everything right, but I've still get this butt on my stomach. What gives?
It’s like when a client comes in a says, “I’m doing everything right, but the scale Read more
My Very First Personal Trainer (a.k.a. Getting Ripped Off!)
September 24, 2008 by admin
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Calhoun J. Pigglesworth III, Certified Personal Trainer (REALLY!)
I hired my very first Washington, DC personal trainer way back when I was just 17 years old. I had been talking to one of the trainer’s at the gym for several weeks about taking my body to the next level. He seemed very confident that he could help me reach my goals, and I liked that. The only problem was the price – I had no idea that hiring a personal trainer would cost so much!
That summer I was working as a life guard, so for the next few months I worked overtime and I saved up for the personal training package that he said I needed. The day finally arrived that I had the money to hire the trainer, and I was SO freakin’ excited. I kept thinking about the muscles and the abs that he had promised me, and I couldn’t wait to transform my physique.
I arrived for my very first session. He told me to warm-up. I did. Then he met me in the weight room and he kicked my ass like there was no tomorrow. I barely stumbled out of their on my feet. I though to myself, “this is it! This is what it’s going to take to get the body I want. All that time at the pool is worth it – I got myself a personal trainer.”
Funny movie, sad reality
He told me that he wanted me to see him two more times that week, so I did. I even showed up early so that I could be warm before our session started. He kicked my butt even harder, and I smiled both times.
The same thing happened in week #2 – he wanted me to see him three times, and I did. At our first session in week #3 he tells me that I am all out of sessions, and asks how many more I would like to buy. I tell him that I spent my ENTIRE summer savings on those seven personal training sessions at $75 a piece – I can’t afford any more, and Washington, DC’s pools are closed for the summer.
I ask him for the workouts that he has been taking me through. He tells me that it is against club policy to hand them over to clients. (By the way, I checked, no such policy exists.) So, that’s it – seven sessions over the course of less than two and a half weeks and I am on my own again. I have NO plan, NO program, NO guide whatsoever about how to get what I paid for.
In case you were wondering my body had not miraculously transformed over the past 16 days – I don’t even know if I’ve made a single ounce of progress because he never measured anything. I am really pissed. I feel embarrassed for being broke and hurt that he didn’t want to help me and the sneaking suspicion that…
I Just Got Ripped Off!
Stealing money from a kid... tsk, tsk
If you really think about what happened I just got ripped off. He promised me the body I’d always wanted and he told me that I needed to buy the package that I did buy in order to get it. I held up my end of the bargain, but I didn’t actually make any noticeable progress whatsoever.
The VERY sad fact is that my experience is the exact same as 99.99% of ALL people who hire a personal trainer, whether that be in Washington, DC or anywhere else.
How do I know? Because I eventually became a personal trainer, and my managers and peers told me to do exactly the same things to my clients that the unethical trainer did to me that summer – “just try and get as many sessions out of them as possible” (no mention or discussion of results whatsoever). That is a REAL quote that I heard over and over and over again.
No, that’s not just the particular health club chain that I worked for because I’ve worked for four different clubs in three states (CA, MD, DC).
Because of that experience I have made it my professional mission to make sure that I do whatever I possibly can to make sure that no one else gets ripped off like I did. With that here is my guide to getting the truly professional advice that you need and deserve to create the body you want.
Josef Brandenburg is author of The Body You Want and 2009 Personal Trainer of the Year Nominee. He focuses on helping regular, busy people create rapid and sustainable fat-loss in the time that they actually have. Click here to find out more.
