Is Now the Right Time to Hire More Instructors at Your Wellness Fitness Center or Fitness Studio?
Last Updated on 6 August, 2025
Your business is growing — congratulations! But is it the right time to hire more instructors for your fitness center or fitness studio?
That depends, and for the most part, on several key factors: need and demand, time and space, and cash flow.
Start by asking yourself these questions:
- Do you see more demand for your classes than spots you have available?
- Do you have a particular area of fitness that you would like to offer to customers, but don’t currently have any instructors capable of teaching it?
- Do you have enough space and time slots available in your studio to ensure your new instructors will have enough work?
- Do you have enough cash flow to pay the wages or salary of new instructors?
- Do you have the appropriate software management system in place to take on more employees?
If so, it might be the right time to consider bringing on new instructors and expanding your product offerings.
Making the Decision to Begin Hiring
Chances are, you’ve already considered those four questions. You’ve probably seen a demand to increase the number of classes you offer and need to bring on new instructors to satisfy that demand. You have empty time slots in your schedule or a new location with lots of space. And, you’ve gone over your finances, which indicate that you’ve got the cash on hand necessary to cover the extra expenses and payroll obligations. Now, it’s time to check out the business management software you’ve got in place.
Can it handle the extra capacity? Is it ready to take care of the new employees you’ll be adding to your team? Do you have to pay additional fees for additional staff? Do you have to pay extra fees for new clients? Do you even have a software management system in place?
The truth is, even if you’re not planning on hiring new employees in the immediate future, a high-quality fitness business management software platform can make the process seamless when you do decide to bring new employees onboard. It’s critical that you choose the software that not only helps you manage your business costs but is also a tool you can lean on when you decide to expand your studio’s offerings and hire new employees.
How WellnessLiving Can Help
When high-quality, high-traffic studios and other fitness businesses need the best administration and automation software, they turn to us. WellnessLiving’s goal is to empower boutique fitness studios, independent fitness professionals, and health and wellness businesses with a platform that provides them access to the tools and data they need to automate, manage, market and grow their businesses.
Keeping track of a large number of fitness instructors and other employees can be extremely difficult.
You need a solution that:
- Organizes all of the payroll and pertinent information of each instructor online — accessible from any location or computer
- Schedules different classes around the various schedules of your instructors
- Automates payroll
- Allows instructors to log in and check-in at different locations
- Handles cancellations or replacement instructors at a moment’s notice
If you’re considering hiring new fitness instructors for your business, be sure that you have the software management system you need in place beforehand. Doing so will help you expand your product offerings more effectively without disrupting the day-to-day flow of your existing business.
If you’d like to speak with a WellnessLiving representative to see how our next-generation software platform can help you grow your fitness business, book a free demo of the platform, or call us at 1 (888) 668-7728.
