Here is the link to the gym in the Dominican,

www.clubbodyshop.com

Best fitness club in the Caribbean

My non official co-op placement

Before i went on my co-op in Miami Fl to work with kids and in a gym, I was requested my my employe that I needed some reference and some experience in the fitness industry. They had told me that with at least one month of experience I could later on in the summer go work in my placement in Miami on Shulas club.

I worked on a gym in the Dominican called Club Body Shop, it is the most well known, biggest, modern, and fancy gym in the whole Dominican. I had the opportunity to had good contacts as I always network and socialize with as many people as I can, I had the privilege to explain my situation to the club owner who is really close to me, and has taken me through a lot of procedures so i could start to know the industry.

month and a half went by will i worked full time for really low pay at the front desk of the gym and i could see most of the procedures every client had to go threw, from signing in, to making payments, requesting information, how to manage clients and many others task i could get familiar with so I would not be in limbo when I got to Miami to my better paid job.

Effectively this first job gave me a lot of knowledge on the fitness industry and a good reference for my new employment. I would like to thank the Body Shop for giving me the opportunity of my life not only for this placement they offered me but for other things they had done for me, this is my second home in the Dominican I know almost everyone there, and they had always been there for me.

To close this post want to say I look forward for another great and even more challenging co-op next year that will make me implement what I have learned during my studies. If i am not wrong thats what co-op is all about and i want to give thanks to Micki for being such a great person thanks for being there for us.

week #7

Unfortunately my official co-op in miami has ended after 7 hard working weeks. During this experience I can know say that I know how a gym is runed, although I have much more to learn about the marketing and administrative aspect of the industry, I could not focus on on this in this short period of time. In the other hand I did learned about how everything works inside the gym, from how to train different types of people, to cleaning the machines, i did a lot of different jobs in the gym are, assisted clients, showed how to use the gym equipment, learned how to teach fitness classes and personalized classes to old and young people. I also worked in the beginning with kids and learned how to deal with my patience and how to deal with different situations such as angry parents or a crying kid.

I believe this co op has helped me learned a lot of things that only experience can give me, without this experience i would never have any idea of what this was like. Now I can say I did it...

Week # 6

This week has finished and has been a normal working week were I could attend to a different speeche by our head instructor Ricki Ali this guy is fifty years old and looks like 30 and works out like 2o its just amazing his physic at his age, and it is even more impacting the knowledge he has about the fitness industry, he ofteb provides all the trainers withb one spech once a week.

Know I am in my oficial last week of work on Shulas Club and hopfully will be to see my family in the next couple of weeks.

Fifth Week

Surprisingly I have more than one month working full time and it has past by really fast, I had worked before in diffrent jobs but most of them were part time or only two or three weekdays aa week. Working on the th gym has helped me gain a lot of knowledge on the fitness indusrty and during this week I could attend a training meeting were we talked about the how people lifstyle affect their life and what we as trainers can do to help them out. This was one of the several things we have been doing this week. Sometimes I work extra hours to cover a working partner or something like that, for that reason I am being paid more and can get more working hours. Because I work eight hours a day, I dont count those hours I spend playing in the basketball court or working out oustside my working hours.

Forth Week

The fourth week has past by really fast, it has been fun to work inside the gym the whole day but what is know happening to me is that after i am done work I want to leave the gym as fast as possible and I do not get any time to do my own workout, even though I sometimes go to another gym closer to my house to lift some weights whenever I can.  For instance last week and this week  my schedule was reassign and now i get to work until the gym closes at 11, because of this change i have more responsibilities, I have to make sure the whole gym is cleaned, organized and everything of before i leave, and of course make sure no one stays inside the gym.

Third Week

The third week has past by and it felt pretty quick compared to the first two weeks, this week I was working in a totally different position that i got because someone had to replace the only floor staff the gym ha at Shulas. Because they knew I had experience working with the machinery and knew how to deal with clients they told me if i wanted to take this position, and of course I said yes no problem. With this sudden promotion i know get little more pay and is a totally different experience were i have to deal with grown up people an not with little kids. Although I love working with kids it is not the area that I am interested to learn about, I am searching to acquire good relations and knowledge about the fitness industry and since last week I am working my way up. 

As a floor staff i need to make sure every piece of equipment is working correctly, everything is its place and that the clubs clients are satisfy. I also have to deal with any problem or inquiries this clients might have.