Is Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge a real trainer

No. He is invented for this page, and so is Ponsonby Ridge Fitness. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's practice.

How should self-employment be written

As a role with a client count and a session volume. Thirty-four regular clients and forty-five sessions a week is a business, and a gym hiring you wants to know whether you can fill a diary.

Why does retention matter more than results

Because client results belong to the client and retention belongs to the trainer. Sixty-eight per cent at twelve months is a claim about your practice that a gym manager can act on.

What did the checker score it

98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content, on 431 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.

Should transformation results be listed

Not as client before and after figures. They are the client's, they are unverifiable on a page, and a professional reader discounts them. Progress reviews with measured tests is the version that holds up.

Which design is this rendered in

Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. This page used to be rendered in Editorial and argued that a gym manager reads the page directly. The document was moved on 2026-09-14, and the old argument was the weaker one: each of the eight exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Example · Fitness

A free personal trainer résumé example, with retention as the headline

One complete personal trainer résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— anyone can fill a diary once. keeping it full is the trade.

The personal trainer example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Minimal design: name, summary, three dated roles with five lines under each, education, skills and certifications — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Minimal design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Personal training résumés are usually a certificate list and a sentence about passion, which tells a gym manager nothing they can act on. This example is written out in full so you can read a commercial version, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge
Personal Trainer
Auckland, New Zealand · [email protected] · +64 9 555 0264

Summary
Personal trainer with eight years in gyms and independent practice, working on retention, progression and the client who has started eleven times before. Delivers 45 sessions a week to 34 regular clients.

Experience

Self-employed Personal Trainer · Self-employed, Auckland · 2022 to present

Built a client base of 34 regular clients from nothing and delivered 45 sessions a week without a paid advertisement.
Kept 12-month client retention at 68% across 3 years by reviewing every programme with the client each 6 weeks and writing the next block down.
Ran 3 group programmes of 10 clients each and held attendance at 90% over 12 weeks of every intake across two years.
Completed 200 progress assessments a year with measured strength and movement tests, and rewrote the client's programme after each one.
Managed the business alone, invoiced 2 300 sessions a year and collected 99% of the fees within 7 days of the session itself.

Gym Instructor and Trainer · Ponsonby Ridge Fitness, Auckland · 2019 to 2022

Inducted 600 new members onto the gym floor and wrote a first programme for each of them within one week.
Grew personal training hours sold by the club by 38% over 18 months and filled 4 trainers' diaries to capacity.
Taught 8 classes a week for up to 24 participants and held average attendance above 20 for 2 full years.
Rebuilt the induction script for 6 instructors and lifted the conversion from induction to paid sessions from 9% to 21%.
Handled 30 member questions a shift on the floor, from technique to injury, and referred 40 cases to a physiotherapist.

Gym Assistant · Ponsonby Ridge Fitness, Auckland · 2017 to 2019

Covered 5 shifts a week on reception and the gym floor and signed in 400 members a day at peak.
Cleaned and checked 60 machines a week against the maintenance sheet and reported 30 faults over 2 years to the manager.
Delivered 200 gym inductions over 2 years while studying for the diploma, and kept a waiting list of 15 clients.
Ran 4 induction sessions a week for new joiners and kept a 6-month retention rate of 61% on those members.
Completed the diploma in exercise science over 2 years while working 30 hours a week on the gym floor.

Education
Diploma in Exercise Science · Waiheke Institute of Sport, Auckland · 2017 to 2019

Skills
programme design, strength coaching, movement assessment, client retention, group fitness, nutrition guidance within scope, progress testing, gym inductions, small business administration, client communication

Certifications
Registered exercise professional · 2019
First aid and CPR · 2025

Retention is the headline

Thirty-four regular clients, forty-five sessions a week, and twelve-month retention at 68%. The third of those is the one that matters, because filling a diary once is a marketing problem and keeping it full is the trade.

The example deliberately does not compare that figure to an industry average, because a number quoted without a source is worth nothing. If you have a figure from your own gym's reporting, say whose figure it is.

The gym role is the commercial evidence

Six hundred members inducted with first programmes written. Personal training hours sold by the club up 38% in eighteen months. Eight classes a week for up to 24 participants. A gym manager reading those knows this trainer generates revenue for the building as well as for themselves.

Two hundred progress reviews a year with measured strength and movement tests is the professional line. It describes a practice with a method rather than a series of sessions.

Skills for a personal trainer résumé, grouped

Lorcan's skills fall into coaching, clients and business. Coaching: programme design, strength coaching, movement assessment, progress testing, group fitness. Clients: client retention, client communication, nutrition guidance within scope. Business: gym inductions, small business administration. A gym manager reads the client group as the proof you keep people training.

Specialist coaches, for example in rehabilitation or endurance, add their specialism as a group. Groups can be renamed or dropped in the free résumé builder at any time.

From gym assistant to self-employed trainer

A gym assistant's résumé proves the floor: inductions, cleaning, members helped. The Ponsonby Ridge roles start there. An instructor adds classes and the first paying clients.

A self-employed trainer adds retention, revenue and the business: clients kept, sessions sold, a schedule filled. Write self-employment like a job. The freelance work guide covers the format.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. Here the reading found three dated roles with five achievement lines under each, one diploma, ten distinct skills and both certifications with their years. The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here. How the reading and the score are produced is set out in the note on how these examples are made.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge's personal trainer résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge's personal trainer résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What this example leaves off

No client photographs, no before and after images and no testimonials. Those belong to the client, they cannot be verified on a page, and a professional reader treats a page built on them as a marketing document rather than an application.

Nutrition claims outside the scope of the qualification are left off as well. The skills row says nutrition guidance within scope on purpose, because a trainer who overstates that on a résumé is a liability a gym has to manage.

What to change for your own

Change the practice. Studio, gym floor, online coaching, sports conditioning and rehabilitation-adjacent work all use this shape with different measures. Then put in your own client count, session volume, retention and any revenue you generated for a club.

Keep the registration and first aid with their years. Keep claims inside your scope of practice. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the physiotherapist example, the early years example and the barista example sit beside this one.

Write yours beside it

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Questions

Is Lorcan Vasquez-Etheridge a real trainer: No. He is invented for this page, and so is Ponsonby Ridge Fitness. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's practice.
How should self-employment be written: As a role with a client count and a session volume. Thirty-four regular clients and forty-five sessions a week is a business, and a gym hiring you wants to know whether you can fill a diary.
Why does retention matter more than results: Because client results belong to the client and retention belongs to the trainer. Sixty-eight per cent at twelve months is a claim about your practice that a gym manager can act on.
What did the checker score it: 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content, on 431 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.
Should transformation results be listed: Not as client before and after figures. They are the client's, they are unverifiable on a page, and a professional reader discounts them. Progress reviews with measured tests is the version that holds up.
Which design is this rendered in: Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. This page used to be rendered in Editorial and argued that a gym manager reads the page directly. The document was moved on 2026-09-14, and the old argument was the weaker one: each of the eight exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.