If you are interested in building a Personal Training career that will allow you to:

1) See the world.

2) Be pushed to never accept anything less than your very best.

3) Work alongside some of the leading trainers in the fitness industry

4) Build a genuine career that is much more than trading your time for money on a commercial gym floor, so that you can grow into the right long-term role for you.

5) Work in a culture where results not numbers are the name of the game.

6) Be judged for your ability to "make a change" (which can mean many things depending upon the client and the niche that you yourself follow) and not on your ability to self-promote and talk about yourself on social media.

Then we want to speak to YOU.

As an idea of what it takes to make it at UP to the extent that we would consider you to eventually take a senior role as the leader of a gym, if any of the following refers to you then it’s probably best that you don’t apply:

1) You are a precious flower. I’m actually not a dictator or an autocrat and try to always be fair and empathetic to my team. However, I have a strong personality and will not suffer fools. Make a mistake once and you’re forgiven. Make the same mistake twice and we have a problem. If you can’t take constructive criticism then you’d hate working for me. And whilst a lot of people may think that they are robust enough to take well meaning advice on the chin, most are not if they look within themselves in a truly honest fashion.

2) You cannot think for yourself. A business failing of mine is that I am not the best at spelling things out step by step. I explain what I want and then I often let you get on and do it. You can sink or you can swim in this environment. Many people claim to like this lack of structure (for example, I also loathe job titles and free wheel / wing it far too often, my attitude is “that’s a great idea, lets do it and find a way” more than “we must find a way to do it before thinking of doing it”) but when presented with the reality of it they flounder and want to swim back to their comfort zone. My way is arguably more fun and dynamic, but it can be more stressful and isn’t right for the mindset of many people from corporate backgrounds.

3) You are a nine to fiver. I want my team to have a life, but working for me means emails at all hours and the automatic assumption that your work is a huge priority in your life. If you need to attend your child’s graduation ceremony then time away is fine pretty much no matter what, but if something is urgent and you need to skip dinner with your better half to hit a deadline then cancelled dinner and time off on another day (that may not come for months) is the expected response.

4) You are a maverick. I want a free thinker who isn’t frightened to tell me their mind and have ideas of their own. In fact this is hugely important for me. However, if you have to run off with your own ideas all the time then this won’t work. We have a strong culture and a clear and very forthright way of marketing ourselves (at heart I believe that UP does a few things better than everyone else, namely helping clients achieve their goals) and we are honest and clear on that in the way we present ourselves. You need to be a team player who is completely comfortable with executing the team’s vision.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. Aptitude can be taught but you do need to look hard at yourself before you apply to UP. We are not an easy company to work for because we demand that you deliver your very best performance every single time. This is the UP Way and it is a non-negotiable quality that we are looking for.

If you think you’ve got what it takes to spend a period of time (6-12 months minimum) learning from our London team before heading to Copenhagen, Stockholm or Oslo then we would love to hear from you.