Pros
The only reason to work at Equinox is the amount of education and experience the trainers there have. There are very knowledgeable people to collaborate with and learn from. This is the ONLY benefit of working as a trainer there.
Cons
Be prepared to offer a very expensive service to your clients of which you will only ever get paid 30% maximum. The hours are very sporadic and floor shifts are brutal. They call it time to "build your business" and it is very hard to do that while having to work on the floor. Of all the trainers I talked to, 90% of them could not pick up a client in a "blue floor shirt" because of the stigma. Upon being hired my group was told almost all the trainers had full time client loads (21+ sessions a week) but I soon learned that only about 8 out of almost 60 trainers at the club actually had that. Mind you, you have to do floor shifts if you don't have a full client load and a lot of these trainers have been there 2+ years without full time client schedules. Plus the clientele, while rich are always traveling so it's like running in a hamster wheel. It is very much like playing chutes and ladders, there are so many hoops to jump through by the time you think you're getting somewhere, think again. They like to say if you keep your head down and work hard things will happen, so maybe it's just this location, but the system is stacked against you, whatever management tells you, don't believe otherwise. Even the trainers who were set up to help us in the beginning soon began to show and tell us how burnt out and exhausted they were and two of them quit not even after two months of us arriving.