Cooper Fitness Center Internship - Summer Semester

Description

Summer 2025: June 2, 2025 - August 8, 2025 (10 weeks)

Monday- Friday (full and part -time available) working around school requirements

Available Tracks 

· Health & Fitness

· Wellness 

· Retail & Hospitality

Cooper Fitness Center, a 50,000+ square foot high-end health and fitness facility located in North Dallas, is one of the eight entities located on Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s 30-acre Aerobics Center campus. As the fitness center that started it all, Cooper Fitness Center offers its members a best-in-class experience—proven, science-based programs led by some of the nation’s most experienced fitness trainers, instructors and sports professionals in a newly-renovated, state-of-the-art facility. The facility also offers its members access to boutique shopping, on-campus restaurant, and day spa experiences and amenities to complete the lifestyle experience. 

The Cooper Fitness Center internship program seeks students interested in pursuing a health, fitness, retail or hospitality career path who possess a drive to provide excellence in customer service. Cooper Fitness Center offers students an opportunity to work alongside some of the leading professionals in the industry. Through hands-on work, students can gain practical, real-world experience in a variety of areas including facility operations, health promotion, nutrition, wellness programming, children's health, fitness training, fitness club programming, event programming, marketing & promotion, retail boutique operations, spa operations and more.  

About Cooper Aerobics

Cooper Aerobics has been helping improve the quality and quantity of millions of lives through prevention since 1970. We inspire individuals to make good health a habit to live longer, healthier and more productive lives through our products and services.

• Cooper Clinic’s comprehensive physical exam gives patients an in-depth picture of their health and an action plan to improve it.
• Cooper Fitness Center is the fitness center of choice for members that belong to a healthy-living community, not just a gym.
• Cooper Spa helps bring life back in balance through relaxation and renewal services.
• Cooper Hotel & Conference Center provides guests easy access to all that Cooper Aerobics has to offer.
• Cooper Complete is a pure, potent vitamin and supplement line scientifically proven to improve well-being.
• Cooper Wellness Strategies takes the Cooper philosophies for individuals and transforms them to improve the physical and fiscal health of a company and its workforce.

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Internship Responsibilities

May include but not limited to the following:

ALL TRACKS

• Customer Service – Serves as an extension of Cooper Fitness Center and Cooper Spa teams to provide exemplary customer service. Everything you will do will reflect upon Cooper Fitness Center so we will spend time encouraging, coaching and helping to develop critical customer service skills in this industry including work on our member survey response team.
• Service Desk Role – Learn how to use our member management software by processing check-in of members and point of sale, as well as and improve multi-tasking by receiving and responding to general calls related to our facility or programs. An ability to assist with exceptional customer service, member concerns or comments will also be encouraged.
• Campus-wide Activities – Interns are required to assist in planning and implementation of special Cooper Fitness Center member events (Member Appreciation Picnic, Member Social Events, etc.)
• Special Projects – Special projects for university course requirements or special interests are accommodated.

HEALTH & FITNESS TRACK (Exercise Science or Health-Related Major Required)

• Fitness Floor Supervision – Provide assistance to members/guests with Power Plate Vibration Training exercises, resistance training technique and fitness related questions/concerns; teach Core Conditioning Classes; maintain fitness floor cleanliness and order.
• Wellness Program – Work with our Wellness Program Manager to assist with and promote monthly events and programming to our members, learn how to coordinate projects with the marketing team, assist/administer wellness assessments to members, design/implement a workshop