Personal Trainer
For personal trainers who already know how the industry works
First client at 06:30. Last one at 20:30. Four dead hours in between.
You learned anatomy and how to build a program that goes somewhere. Most people still see a rep counter, and you’re paid like one. The pay grows for a couple of years, then the only lever left is more hours.
Then a client’s shoulder starts to hurt in week six. You adjust, you guess, you refer them to a physio you’ve never met. You don’t hear back. Often the client doesn’t come back either.
Sound familiar? Read on ;)
I promise you this won’t be like all the other more-of-the-same job ads. Not “a market rate salary”, not “be dynamic and flexible”, not “don’t have a 9-to-5-mentality” and all that blah blah.
This is an explanation of why EBP Studio exists the way it exists, and why we’re hiring new team members. The order we tell it in isn’t marketing. It’s how the place grew.
A lot of the clients we see have something specific in common. They’ve already been somewhere else.
Clients who want more than an upper/lower split and 3x10. Athletes who’ve cycled through three coaches and two physios without finding the cause. Chronic low back pain that didn’t resolve with the standard protocol. People training towards surgery, or rebuilding after it.
We don’t give guarantees. We help the client take control of their situation, and it’s a real partnership, actually. Let a client’s story speak for itself. From our Google reviews:
(translated from Dutch)
“My business partner and I train together twice a week with one of EBP’s personal trainers, alternating between Olivier and Annelou. It’s great fun, varied (a new program every 10 weeks), sometimes tough, but you always leave feeling satisfied. They coach well, correct where needed, and the atmosphere is great. And we’re making progress, getting stronger and feeling good. A solid 5 stars!”
You’d be working alongside specialists who have real depth in what they do.
Querine (MSc) heads the pelvic physio department. Thomas and Julian specialise in complex shoulder and lower back cases, including the second opinions before surgery. Annelou sees a lot of lower limb and running-related injuries, both conservative and post-surgical. Together with the rest of the team, they’re the colleagues you’ll spar with daily on the cases that don’t fit a standard protocol. Most of our personal trainers are physiotherapists too, alongside an experienced trainer and teacher.
When a client’s knee flares up in week six, the person who can assess it works down the hall. You’re part of the conversation about what happens next. Pre-surgical training and post-surgical rehab are things we do together with the trainer. With us, you can’t lose your client to a physio ;)
A weekly team meeting on professional and organisational topics, regular case meetings and periodic check-in and feedback moments. Another example of how we structure what we do and how we work together.
People gladly pay more for quality, so you have to be ready to live up to the expectation.
The starting level depends on your competencies. Show us what you’ve got.
At 32h/week, gross per month:
- Level 1: €2.426 (€17,50 an hour)
- Level 2: €3.154 (€22,75 an hour)
- Level 3: €3.778 (€27,25 an hour)
At every level, that’s 27 client hours a week. The other hours, up to 5 a week, are for team meetings, case discussions, a project you like working on, and the rest of the non-client work. They’re part of your contract and your salary.
We’re open to discuss a study allowance, for example for a course or certification.
We’d rather grow your competence together, than grow your hours (and burn-out soon after…)
The competency framework continues to Level 4 and 5. That’s where you shape standards across the practice and lead the leaders. Numbers are in the conversation once we get into a serious interview.
We help you grow. Either into an exceptional trainer, or into a leader who helps develop fellow team members. Want to run a whole location eventually? We provide both the podium and the safety net.
As an example of what growth looks like for our Performance Motivation competency:
- Level 1: improves own performance on own initiative. Actively asks for feedback.
- Level 2: looks for ways to improve yourself with a structured development plan.
- Level 3: looks for ways to improve yourself and helps colleagues develop along a clear plan.
Most hiring runs the same way at every gym or studio. A chat or two, a contract, you start, you find out six months in whether the fit was real. We’ve watched that play out and we’d rather know sooner. So would you.
The first month is an extension of the application process. This gives us the chance to get to know each other better.
- Week 1: shadowing colleagues. Getting to know them, the work, the place.
- Week 2: start seeing your own clients, with intervision. Feedback moments during the week.
- Week 3: apply week 2’s feedback.
- Week 4: decision week. Either we both confirm the fit and continue, or there’s a clean out. No hard feelings.
The first month isn’t about distrust of your capability. It’s about respecting that integration into a particular clinical culture takes deliberate effort. The alternative most places use is dumping an experienced trainer into a schedule in week one and calling it onboarding. That’s not how you get the best work out of someone. The structure above is how we invest in the fit, for both of us, instead of pretending integration just happens.
This applies to every new hire regardless of experience. We don’t change the structure for seniority.
Practical: 20+ hours in 2+ days per week, open to working 1-2 evenings. No split shifts, unless you want them. Fluent English and/or Dutch. A Milo certification is a plus.
If this sounds like you, let us know. Send over your CV and a 2-3 minute clip introducing yourself and your motivation. From there we’ll invite you in for a conversation.
Thomas Mulder
+31 6 330 96 586
tm@ebp-studio.com
EBP Studio · Churchill-laan 87a · Amsterdam