Equinox Personal Trainer Diary — Days 4&5: Microdosing EQX Training, a Luxury Conundrum
I am a NYC-based data scientist embarking on a journey into becoming an Equinox Personal Trainer. This is my diary.
I realized enumerating the days starting at day -4 made little to no sense, so I made some post-publication revisions. God forbid I realized I was being too cute with it. Sue me.
I’m sorry I didn’t update y’all yesterday.
I wanted to, I swear, but I had a busy day and thought I should catch some zzzs. Am I gonna be shamed for caring about my health? As a personal trainer?
Damn, that may be too aggressive of an attempted guilt trip.
But I will say, there is not too much to report.
I did some additional studying, but since I’ve still yet to hear back from management about what I should focus on learning since I finished the certification course (which you can read about here).
I don’t know how EQX Personal Trainers can dress the part.
Unless the employee discounts are really good, the images of PTs in all of the nicest, luxury athletic brands in sleek, all-black outfits astounds me. Especially considering I still have a lot of athletic clothes from an era before I knew better in terms of how I dress…
But I guess I’ve always wondered how the employees on the floor at high-end retail fashion afford to be kitted and fitted in their company’s clothing when their clientele have a minimum of a six-figure salary.
Maybe I’ll have a sense soon enough. Maybe I’ll spend more than my paycheck to make sure I look the part.
For now, I’m confused.
From my training microdose, it’s clear that complimentary services are a PTs easiest opportunity to gain a client.
When someone becomes a member at Equinox, they get to complimentary services: an Equifit and a complimentary PT session (CPT). A CPT sounds pretty self-explanatory, but an Equifit sounds quite vague.
To pull from an Equinox Technology article:
Equifit is a key assessment tool for personal training and is often the first step in the training journey. This “full body assessment” is meant to help customers understand where they stand in terms of their fitness level and help trainers provide insights, identify opportunities for improvement and help formulate a custom training program to help members achieve their goal.
So, as you can tell, like PEMDAS, there’s an order to this operation. A member starts with their Equifit, this assessment, and then has a CPT.
There’s a lot that the PT needs to learn about the client in the Equifit, and they also need to make sure they sell themselves as a PT during the assessment, because the training does talk about members requesting different PTs after an Equifit, which…
Ouch, that’s gotta sting.
But, anyways, the CPT then is supposed to be a way to show a potential client some of the EQX secret sauce with how intentioned and research-conscious the workout workflow is as well as how phenomenal the PT is, of course.
And the resources EQX provides the PTs seems really helpful.
Naturally, they want you to create workouts within the EQX science of it all, but you do have the ability to track meticulously about the work, the client’s schedule, and anything else relevant to their training and performance. You can even find exercises to swap in and out if needed.
(People love their AI and LLMs, but there’s nothing like a good tag and filter to get the job done.)
I do wonder though, since I’ll want to make sure to keep track of everything, if this will be my excuse to become a professional iPad kid.
That’s all for today!
Again, I am waiting for some feedback, so I don’t know when my next day of work will be, so I don’t know when my next entry will be.
I hope to see you at the East 92nd Street NYC Equinox!
Note: I am a personal trainer at Equinox. My opinions are my own and don’t necessarily reflect those of Equinox.
