Fitness Coach

Who We Are:

Staffing Fitness is a recruitment agency that finds top talent in the health, fitness, wellness, and beauty industry. We assist our clients in finding amazing candidates with top-notch skills to be the best fit for the right opportunity. Our client will be disclosed upon being selected for the interviewing process.

Our Client x Job Description:

Want to join a fitness movement where you help change the lives of raving fans while launching your career to the next level? Our Client delivers semi-private personal training & group fitness classes for individuals and companies. We create thriving fitness communities through a consistent functional fitness experience, nutrition guidance and accountability. We are 100% focused on helping our clients achieve a higher quality of life by helping them achieve results. Our community and relationships impact our clients far beyond the four walls of the gym.

What Makes Us Different?

We live by a set of core values as individuals and as a company. We believe is a program for anyone of any athletic background who wants to work hard to make a change in his or her life - and we follow our own advice. Every location in the brand follows central programming for our group classes and athletes see it on our app. Our semi-private personal training is an individual design for each individual athlete's goals, limitations and capacity. Coaches have defined systems to execute the brand with the freedom to modify and scale the program to meet individual athlete's needs. Best practices, support and innovation are shared by fellow franchisees and the franchisor. The brand has nearly 30 locations open today and has been covered by the national fitness and business media. We're part of a larger brand platform vs. being a lone ranger gym. We multiply and develop our team members and expect results with integrity. We evaluate performance and career advancement by how team members live our core values just as much as by the results they achieve.

Why Our Client?

We've been in business for almost 10 years. We survived the pandemic, kept all of our team employed, innovated our business model and made strategic investments for the future. We have improved the fitness career opportunity in our market. Coaches work full time in salaried positions plus benefits. High performance earns our top team members incentive compensation beyond salary and a variety of advancement opportunities. We're the largest franchisee in the system with seasoned business owners who started as athletes. Our company has won various performance awards in the system from 2015 - 2021 and currently operate some of the top-ranked gyms in the brand. We care about each other and our athletes and do life together. Our larger vision is to expand to other markets in the Southeast.

What We Look for in a Coach?

Our coaches are passionate about helping impact people through functional fitness. We seek high-energy professionals with warm personalities. hose who have invested in fitness-related degrees, professional fitness certifications and a clear career path in fitness are preferred. We can provide the right environment for those types of candidates to build a great career.

You've got to love functional fitness, be working out and living that lifestyle personally, believe in and practice supportive nutrition, be believable as a coach and embrace the fact that training athletes means starting your work earlier or ending it later than the typical business day. We want mature, servant-hearted coaches who put co-workers and client athletes before their own training ambitions. We seek resilient, positive personalities who persevere, relate well to all kinds of people and have a healthy sense of humor. We want initiators who are committed to achieving results. Rock star team players will thrive here if they follow our systems while also being flexible in serving our athletes. We seek life-long learners who already live our core values and are coachable.

Preferred Education & Certifications (not all required):

Bachelor's and/or Master's in Exercise Science, Nutrition or related field

Any of the certifications below:

NSCA - Certified Personal Trainer

NSCA - Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

ACSM - Certified Personal Trainer

ACE - Certified Personal Trainer

ACE - Group Fitness Instructor

NCSF - Certified Personal Trainer

Other certifications:

Functional Movement Systems - Level 1 or 2

StrongFirst--KB Level 1 or 2, bodyweight, barrel

Precision Nutrition (PN) Level 1 or 2, USAW, Level 1 or 2

Any other functional fitness certs

Experience/Skills/Requirements:

1 - 4 years experience in coaching high intensity group fitness classes with Olympic lifts, power lifts, gymnastic movements, cardio (running, jump rope, air bike, rowing, etc.), HIIT, bootcamps or CF

1 - 4 years experience in personal training (including the programming); any outside sales experience in fitness or a related industry is a plus.

Solid small group communication skills to athletes of various backgrounds, ages and abilities. Ability to command a class while keeping the atmosphere fun and energetic. Engages with athletes during classes or sessions.

Demonstrated skill & diligence with athlete follow up outside of class, athlete assessments, online tracking systems, point-of-sale operations/inventory, facility maintenance/cleaning.

Communicates clearly with supervisor/leader, fellow coaches and client athletes.

Sets a goal and then takes action to conquer it. Always learning, growing and being stretched.

Desires to be a part of something larger than yourself. Works hard but also likes to have fun while getting things done.

Must Understand:

People. Emotional Intelligence.

New technology and how to use it in your location within the guidelines. This includes but is not limited to social media, online platforms, business tools and mobile apps.

Apple OS: Mail, Keynote and basic Word Processing and Spreadsheet apps (Word/Pages,

Excel/Numbers)

Google Calendar, Mail, Drive, Meet, Docs, Sheets

Concepts in using our proprietary online portal and CRM (ClubReady)

This is NOT an Ordinary Job - this is not a 9-to-5pm' kind of job. This is a do whatever it takes' opportunity in which you have a passion for helping your gym impact people and grow very quickly. We want go-getter leaders who are not afraid to fail.

We will train you on the movement standards, programming, systems to use and the schedule to run. But, you have to execute.

You will have help from owners, your location manager, your fellow coaches and the franchisor. We expect you to use the skills and talents that got you the job.

Do Not Apply If...

Don't apply if you want a company that will give you lots of time to get up to speed at an easy pace.

Don't apply if you've never coached functional fitness group classes with barbell / olympic lift movements.

Don't apply if you've never served a group of clients in personal or semi-private training

Don't apply if employment with our company would be your first, full-time group or personal

training fitness job.

Don't apply if you can't see yourself having to give up pursuing the CF open, regionals or

games.

Don't apply if your own fitness goals, program, etc. are more important to you than coaching

clients.

Don't apply if you don't agree with or embrace our core values.

Preferred education:

Bachelor's degree in Nutrition, Exercise Science, Kinesiology or related field

Or, Business degree with relevant fitness experience

Required experience:

Functional fitness experience as a trainer / coach in both bootcamp/HIIT and barbell movements (olympic and power lifts) for at least 1 year

Personal training experience (including programming) for at least 1 year

License or certifications:

Driver's License (required)

Certified Personal Trainer and/or Group Fitness Cert from NSCA, ACE, NSCF or ACSM

(preferred)

Compensation:

-$45k-$55k salary + bonus structure