Initially, I spoke with the owner in a casual conversation about being a trainer there and he encouraged me to apply. I returned an application within a day or two, then I received a call about a month later from the Training Manager. I went in for a 1:1 interview with the Training Manager an couple of days after that. He asked some questions about my previous personal training experience and experience in sales, he then talked about the way compensation is structured and what the "quotas" were for sales. After that he said I could begin the shadow program in which I would follow trainers while they trained their clients and begin to train clients for pay after I had completed that.