Personal Trainer- Westport, CT
Location: Westport, CT
Dept: Personal Training
Type: Part Time to Full Time
Experience: Mid Level
Personal training is about helping your clients get better: fitter, healthier, stronger, smarter. But as an ambitious trainer, you don't stop with clients. You push yourself, too, gaining sharper strategies, better methods, and increased mental clarity every waking moment. You believe it's your calling to make the world a fitter, healthier place.
Our team of elite trainers for city-dwellers treat their craft as more than a job. Our recruitment process is rigorous. To work at Focus, you need resilience, know-how, and passion to spare. Like our clients, you take improvement seriously. You are present, supportive, and prepared. You need to be part of a movement, and that movement is us.
If this describes you, please submit your application.
Technical Requirements:
- You have a college degree in an exercise-related field or a certificate from a licensed vocational program specializing in personal training.
If you're certified, it's with a top-tier, nationally accredited certification. You also have serious practical experience and can demonstrate to us that you are committed to professional growth and continued education. - You are able to safely facilitate in-person exercise sessions and provide exercise technique demonstrations, safely spot all exercises, and ensure overall scene safety during client sessions.
- You can efficiently utilize public and/or private transportation as well as public or private ingress/egress to meet clients at their homes, residential building gyms, outdoor city parks, or independently owned fitness studios.
- Have availability to complete a minimum of 16 sessions per week for full-time or 6 sessions per week, part-time, including the hours of 6am-10am and/or 5pm-8pm Monday through Friday
- Lifting requirements: be able to safely hand a client a 50 lbs free weight, or take it from them.
Character Specifications: You're:
- Helpful. You genuinely want to make people's lives better.
- Mature. No matter your age, you can handle any situation with poise, decisiveness, and a lack of drama.
- Active. You take excellent care of your body from the inside out.
- Resourceful. You've got to travel and train in multiple environments: from gyms to living rooms to penthouses.
- Hungry. The thought of spending Saturday at an all-day continuing education course is exciting--not depressing.
- Open. We're going to study, tweak and engineer your technique to help you realize your fullest potential.
- Tough. That 6 am wake-up call? Traveling to clients' homes throughout the city? Little fazes you.
- Friendly. Enough said!
Compensation: Competitive pay and benefits starting at $37-$67 per hour. No selling or floor shifts. The position is flexible and we are looking for immediate hires
FOCUS Benefits:
- Monthly free education events
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Reimbursements for travel
- Education stipends for certifications, classes, and workshops in the area
- 401K
- Paid time off. Yes- you can get paid to have another Focus trainer cover your clients!
- Workers comp & disability
- A supportive, cooperative team of dedicated professionals
If you want to join our movement, please fill out your application completely and thoughtfully.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]
To learn more about the company, please visit our website at www.focusnyc.com.
Good Luck!
The Focus Team
