MAX Excellence Checklist January 2014

1. Health, Exercise and Lifestyle Professional
Checklist of Excellence
To Assist You on your Journey to Being
a Top Level Fitness Professional

2. All the MAX Standards are in place to raise the
professional standards of the fitness
PROFESSION and for YOU to be taken
seriously,
as a fitness professional!

3. All the MAX
professional
standards are
designed to make
YOU a top level
professional
AND you can WIN
AWARDS at MAX
when you do!!

4. 3 awards:
1.The Excellence Award
2.The Most Professionally Presented Award
3.The POWERCLEANER Award

5. Health, Exercise and
Lifestyle Professional
of Excellence
Criteria
This award is chosen very carefully
by YOU, and then the MAX Team and is
based on the Non-Negotiable Traits of a
Superb Health, Exercise and Lifestyle
Professional.
If you do not vote-there will be no awards
given that strong (week)

6. Most Professionally
Presented

7. POWERCLEANER

8. Voting for
Excellence Awards
Voting…
•
No votes from your class-no awards
given
• The MAX team nominates & vote
if you have
• You can vote for a classmate
• You can vote for yourself
(Email Rowie @
behappyness@maxfitnesscollege.com)
• You can be voted for and be
awarded more than once,
-we are looking for outstanding
students who will become superb
MAX Health, Exercise and Lifestyle
Professionals
• You must be a College award winner
to be awarded at Graduation as
the MAX Health, Exercise and
Lifestyle Professional of the Year!!

9. Professional
Dress Standards
For the ultimate
Fitness
Professional

10. For the Business
Sessions, and all
other session if you
choose to, you will
need to wear your
full corporate suit…
All day-jacket on at all times
Name Badge at all times
Shiny black, fully closed in shoes
and black socks (guys)
Top button done up
No butts, boobies or biceps
showing
No t-shirts or stretch tops (ladies)
The MAX scarf/tie when we go on
excursions
NOTE: if you lower any of the
standards you will be lowering the
standards of your new profession

11. Your
Professional
Uniform
NOTE: if you lower any of the standards
you cannot attend class
•Your professional uniform
polo shirt
• Long black corporate
pants
• Your Name Badge
• Shiny black shoes corporate
shoes
• Black socks
• A corporate leather belt
socks
• A Long sleeve polo shirt if you
have tattoos on your arms

12. What to wear when you
are being trained/ when
you are exercising
•Your professional uniform polo
shirt
NOTE: if you lower any of the standards
you cannot attend class
•Knee length or longer, black
shorts
track pants or tights (ladies) –no
other colours added, just plain
black
• white socks
• clean black/white/blue and/or
sports shoes
• Long sleeve shirt and long
tights or track pants if you have
tattoos on your arms or legs

13. Present Well
& SMELL Great!!
We have an deodorant,
toothpaste etc in your
College-please use it and ask
other people to use it if
required- a smelly Personal
Trainer, with bad breath is
very unlikely to have any
clients!!

14. Top Level Presentation Standards for a Professional
Clean, corporate cut, corporate
hairstyle. Short hair for the men &
clean shaven-NO facial hair. Ladies,
your long hair must be tied up for
practical sessions
Ladies: Only one piece of jewellery
on each spot…
1 bracelet on each arm, one ring on
each hand, no thumb rings, only
one earring each ear, no dangles
(ladies only)
No tattoos or piercings showing
(tongue’s and inner ears included)) NOTE: if you lower any of the standards
Corporate make-up (ladies)
-Red or clear nail polish only
you will be lowering the professional
standards of your new profession. Do it
twice at MAX and we will need to transfer
you to AT HOME Learning

15. As from today,
YOU are a
Health,
Exercise and
Lifestyle
Professional!!
Please dress like one, even
when you are not in the
College and think about who
you could meet on your way to
and from the college?

16. Fitness
PROFESSIONALS
are always on
time!!
If your Personal Trainer
arrives late, you will feel
disrespected-We are
always on time at MAX to
make sure we are as top
level professionals
Professional
Punctuality

17. BEING Here…
If you did not tell your client you were not
available to train them-would you let them
know? How much notice would you give them?
Would they worry about you if you said you
were coming and you didn’t show up?
Lets practice now-if you are not coming to
class, you must call your college to let us
know

18. Good Manners
Professional Etiquette
means you will
ALWAYS call your
International College
Coach if you are
unable to attend class?
They will worry about you
until they hear from you as
your client will worry if you
don’t show up and did not
call!!

19. To Graduate as a Superb MAX
Health, Exercise and Lifestyle
Professional –you must attend all of
your classes to Graduate
If your client
misses a PT
session, they
will not get
the fastest
results
A missed session can be made up by an
online session in your college with a 5
point report to be included in your final
assessments and signed off by your
International Fitness Business Coach

20. Mobile Phones
Would you train with, invest
money in a professional
person who answers their
phone, sends and receives
text messages and checks
their Facebook during the
time you are paying them?
Lets get it right at MAX so
you never get it wrong when
you have a paying client!!
If your phone rings in class
you must make a donation to
the RSPCA/SPCA and leave
the classroom-you can return
for the next session

21. A messy PT studio is not attractive or
professional-Start NOW and keep your MAX PT
Studio/ College clean, tidy and your bags away, suits
hung up. No bags lying around the PT Studio so none
in the MAX Boardroom!!
Professionals never leave their things lying around!!

22. MAX College Help Desk
times for Fitness Sessions
•8am-3.30pm MagicalDAY (Mon)
•8am-6.30 pm TERRIFICday (Tues)
•8am-3.30pm WOWDAY (Wed)
12 noon-8pm ThankfulDAY (Thurs)
XTS Excellence Training Sessions. Your
College is a fully functional Personal
Training Studio today!!
•FUNDAY (Fri) &
SoooooperDAY (Sat)
are MAX PLAY AWAY DAYS
•8am-11am SparkleDAY (Sun)
Come in early for breakfast or a snack

23. MAX College Help Desk
times for Business Sessions
•8am-3.30pm MagicalDAY (Mon)
•8am-6.30 pm TERRIFICday (Tues)
•8am-3.30pm WOWDAY (Wed)
•8am- 1pm FUNDAY (Fri)
5.30pm-9pm on ThankfulDAY (Thurs)
XTS Excellence Training Sessions. Your
College is a fully functional Personal
Training Studio tonight!!
SoooooperDAY (Sat) is the MAX
PLAY AWAY DAY during business
sessions
•8am-11am SparkleDAY (Sun)
Come in early for breakfast or a snack

24. MAX College Help Desk times
for Study Strongs…(weeks)
• MAGICALDAY (Mon) PLAY AWAY STUDY DAY
• TERRIFICday (Tues) PLAY AWAY STUDY DAY
• 8am-5pm WOWDAY (Wed) –college open for
Excellence Training Sessions (practical training
and study)
• 8am-8pm ThankfulDAY (Thurs)
XTS Excellence Training Sessions. Your College is a
fully functional Personal Training Studio today and
tonight!!
•8am-11am SparkleDAY (Sun)
MAGICALDAY (Mon), TERRIFICday (Tues), FUNDAY (Fri)
and SoooooperDAY (Sat) are the MAX PLAY AWAY DAYS
during study Strongs business sessions

25. THANKFULday (Thurs)
12 noon-8pm during Fitness Sessions
5.30pm-9pm during Business Sessions
WOWday (Wed) 8am-5pm and
THANKFULday (Thurs) 8am-8pm during
Study weeks
XTS – Extra
Training
Sessions
Your MAX College is a fully
functional Personal
Training Studio
You can a train your clients (completed sessions 1-40)
You must be trained by a MAX Team Player
You must complete your practical assessments during
XTS days
You can practice your PT skills by training each other

26. Class/Break Times
• Day time classes start at 8.30am sharp
• Play Lunch / Morning Tea / ¼ time: 11am
• Lunch / ½ time: 12.30pm-1.15pm (45 mins)
• Play Lunch / Afternoon Tea /3¼ time: 3.30pm
• POWERCLEAN : 5.30pm
• Evening Classes start at 6pm Sharp
• ½ time is at 7.30pm
•POWERCLEAN @ 9pm (all day on
THANKFULday (Thurs) and a big
one at 8pm

27. Power Clean
We clean your
International College
together, with a
cleaning checklist,
everyday before you
leave.
All MAX Health,
Exercise and Lifestyle
Professionals have a
have Soooooper Clean
Fitness Facility, gym,
health club or Personal
Training studio!!

28. Your Textbooks
All you need to
study and learn is
online…
Textbooks
PowerPoints
All your assessments
All the MAX Diploma
Sessions have been
filmed in real timeplease watch multiple
times for accelerated
learning

29. Your MAX Knowledge Checks,
assessments and evaluations
All done online until your final
written and practical
evaluation
All must be completed before
you can complete your Final
written and practical
evaluation
Keep them up-to-date with the
sessions you are studying

30. Accelerated Learning
We teach all of the really
important concepts
visually, auditory and by
doing… Enjoy our unique
fun dances and games to
help you remember the
important stuff!!
And when you are
teaching your clients how
to achieve their goalsplease use all of the
learning styles too!!

31. Accelerated Success
“Goals that do not get set,
do not get achieved!”
• At the start of all MAX classes,
to practice your chatting
skills, and to share your goals with people who want to help
you achieve them, have your goals ready to share...
• In the present tense
• With passion and belief
• With energy and enthusiasm
• Your whole class and the MAX Team can help you focus on
and achieve your goal!!

32. Brain Breaks
We get you up & MOVING every
20-30 minutes to make sure your brain is fresh and always
soaking up as much as possible-please pick a time keeper?

33. Accelerated Learning
Seat Changes
We need you to change seats after every break-great for your communication
skills, safer for your neck…
And a BIG part of being a Professional – you can communicate superbly with
everyone!!

34. Your First Aid
Online questions
You must have it
completed them
before you attend
First Aid, practical
sessions in class.

35. Prac Session Training
Partners
You must train ALL
the people in your
class and people from
other classes-Swap
training partners
every practical
session. A true
Professional can look
after all the people in
their lives, not just
the ones they know
and like best!!

36. MAX Professional
Under 18
Legal Requirement… If we take you to
a training location away from your
College you will need to travel with
the International Fitness Business
Coach and another adult. As a group
we will organise to car pool so we can
all travel together.

37. •Your classes will often be visited by guests from the profession of fitness-to
share all the opportunities available to you
•You will visit Health Clubs, Gyms, PT Studios, the Supermarket and the top end
designer stores to study customer service
•We do prac sessions outside, in the park, at the beach, even in the dark-we are
training you for every fitness business scenario
Preparing You
For The Fitness Profession

38. Jump Quiz Days
• Every TerrificDAY
(Tues)
• Great prizes
• A fun way to learn
• Part of your final
evaluation as a Health,
Exercise and Lifestyle
Professional (your ability to
participate effectively in a team activity)
AND a Fun thing to do in your Personal
Training Studio or on a gym floor too!!

39. The weekly
MAXWAY
for Giving
Food, towels, toys and $$$ for the Puppies:
Please join the MAX
team and give a weekly donation of food, a towel, a toy or a gold coin donation
for the RSPCA (OZ) SPCA (NZ). There is a basket and a donation box in your
college. When you go grocery shopping each week, or when you are doing your
housework, please find, buy or pick up a gift for the puppies, bring it into the
college and we will deliver it for you.
The team at the RSPCA/SPCA work so hard to look after the abandoned, hurt
and damaged doggies, please help us help them.

40. Cheers,
Thankyou
and
Appreciation
Please use it daily
to thank your
fellow fitness
professionals

41. Cheers & Challenges
Feedforward
(back) is
the breakfast
of champions
Giving and receiving feedforward is a major key to
being a Professional Person-always ask for more!!

42. For your
PEOPLE
Cheers &
Challenges
A professional will go directly to the PERSON and give
them specific, immediate feedforward.
You would like your Personal Training Clients to come
to YOU, not whine to someone else about YOU!!

43. For your THINGS
Cheers & Challenges
Please email Rowie directly
behappyness@maxfitnesscollege.com

44. Your Student
Loan Enquiries
The only thing that your MAX Team cannot
help you with!!

45. How to Keep Updated
Read your MAXWAY newzletter every
week
Read your table signs, Plasma and
Notice-board EVERY Strong (week)
Visit the website regularly
Attend XTS for the whole session
Call Rowie if you have any questions
NZ: 021 481 444 or email her at
rowie@maxfitnesscollege.com

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47. Emergency Evacuation
Ask your College
Coach where
to go and what
to do

48. Fire Extinguishers &
First Aid Kits
Ask your
College
Coach
what to
do

49. Toilets
Please let us know if the toilets are ever
dirty or un-stocked so we can sort them
quickly!!
Where to tinkle...

50. Parking
Where can I park?

51. Your Food
Please use the fridge
for all your meals
and please empty it
out before you go
home- as you will if
you are a Team Player in
a Health Club or
Personal Trainer Studio.
We empty the fridges at
5.30pm & 9pm everyday
and you will too at your
fitness facility-dirty,
messy fridges are not
nice anywhere!!

52. Superb Etiquette
No Food in the Boardroom or
the Skills centre

53. Treats & Snacks
This is your home away
from home so please help
yourself to the treats and
snacks we provide
everyday. If there is a
special treat you would
like, please let your
College Coach know…
We do this so feel
how WOW it will
be for your clients
in your Health
Club or PT Studio

54. Treats & Snacks
Why always have
lollies, chocolates and
biscuits as well as
fruit, toast and
cereal?
All treats are YOUR
choice…You don’t have to
eat anything or you can
eat everything and please
remember, other people
will have different tastes
to you

55. Smoking
Can I smoke
in or around
the College?
NO!!

56. Alcohol
Alcohol on your
breathNO CLASS for you
today!!

57. Found Property
It stays in the
FOUND PROPERTY
Box until SparkleDAY
(Sun)
Then EVERYTHING gets
given to charity
Yes, Tupperware
containers too!!

58. Headache Tablets
One of the only things
your MAX TEAM
cannot give you
Please don’t ask xx

59. Dating a MAX Team Player ?
Please No-until after Graduation!

60. MAX
MASTERY
The top 1%
of MAX
Graduateswill you be a
MAX
MASTER?

61.
MAX MASTERY for
Executive Trainers
· All your Diploma sessions attended with the 12 week fulltime and 24
week part-time timeframe-no missed sessions!!
· All online and practical assessments completed the day you complete all
96 Diploma Sessions
· The final written evaluation completed at Session 95 (or Session 64 for
MAX Health, Exercise and Lifestyle Professionals who begin the
Diploma Program at Session 65)
•A perfect, “Venture Capitalist” (why people should do business with you
chat at session 96)
· The Final PT (Practical) Evaluation completed and you are, “Profession
Ready and Confident” with in 7 days, of the last day of your Diploma
Program Time-frame

62. YOUR Graduation

63. To Graduate
You must complete and attend
every Session
All your ONLINE assessments must
be completed
You must have achieved 100%
success in your final written and
practical evaluations
Your student Loan must be
complete

64. Celebrate With ALL Your Family &
Friends!!
YES, you can invite them ALL

65. Lifetime
Education
Please don’t feel like you need
to complete your program
quickly or with the class you
begin with. You have 18 months
to complete your qualifications
when you have Graduated, you
can re-sit/ refresh all or part of
the Diploma, watch it all again
online, keep visiting your
college and come to XTS and
MAXCLUBS for a lifetime for
free!

66. Executive Trainers - Your
Advanced Business Diploma
Your Advanced Fitness Business Diploma
is THE Most exciting part of your MAX
Education:
•Ongoing help and support for your
fitness business / career
•12 private mentor sessions as soon as
you have completed all the
requirements to Graduate from The
First Business Diploma
•A n Advanced Diploma in Business to
keep you at the top level of All Fitness
Professionals in the world!!
•The opportunity to Graduate twice

67. Welcome to the
most Rewarding
Career in the
world
Meet ABE
Head Trainer at
TOMFIT, full-time
MAX Health,
Exercise and
Lifestyle
Professional