Personal Trainers · New Orleans LA
Booking software for personal trainers in New Orleans
123 is the 2023 County Business Patterns count of fitness and recreational sports centers with payroll in the New Orleans metro, the category that covers gyms, Pilates studios and yoga studios. 59 of them had four or fewer staff.
Whether you train clients on a gym floor, in a park or at their homes around New Orleans, BookAndGo puts every session on one calendar and lets clients book the time and place they want.
Online booking around the clock
Clients book from your page any time, and the slot comes off your calendar the moment they do.
Email confirmations and reminders
Every booking is confirmed and reminded by email, so fewer clients forget.
Invoices from the booking
Raise an invoice from the appointment, with the sales tax rate you set.
Built for New Orleans personal trainers
New Orleans had 123 employer fitness centers, 12.7 per 100,000 residents, and almost half, 59, had fewer than five staff, so small studios are a big part of the scene. Jefferson Parish had 60 and Orleans Parish 47. Only 17 had twenty or more staff. With the metro's population estimate down 4.1 percent between the 2020 base and 2024, growth for a trainer comes from keeping clients and filling small-group sessions rather than from a rising tide, which is where headcount limits on a bootcamp help.
Jefferson Parish has 14.1 fitness centers per 100,000 residents and Orleans Parish 12.9, about one employer fitness center for every 7,900 people metro-wide. Both parishes shrank from the 2020 base to 2024. For a trainer, that makes a cancellation more expensive, and no-show protection plus email reminders protect the sessions already on the books.
Within Louisiana, Jefferson Parish ranks 7th of 43 parishes with 20,000 or more residents for fitness centers per 100,000 people, at 14.1; St. Tammany Parish is at 14.1 and Orleans Parish is at 12.9.
Measured as employer fitness centers per 100,000 residents, New Orleans sits between Birmingham, AL at 12.7 and Baltimore, MD at 12.7, the metros ranked either side of it. For businesses in the class that holds independent personal training, New Orleans has 6.9 per 100,000, next to Portland, OR at 6.9 and Carson City, NV at 6.9.
Census builds this metro from seven counties or equivalents, including Jefferson Parish, Orleans Parish and Plaquemines Parish, so read these as regional numbers rather than a city count. Independent trainers' own businesses fall in a second Census class, all other personal services (NAICS 812990), which had 67 establishments in the New Orleans metro. Within the mixed personal services class, Orleans Parish had 34 and Jefferson Parish 27. 56 of its 67 had fewer than five employees.
The largest county counts were Jefferson Parish (60), Orleans Parish (47) and St. Charles Parish (6). That puts 49 percent of the metro total in Jefferson Parish. Sorted by staff numbers, 59 had fewer than five employees, 30 had five to nine, 17 had ten to nineteen, 14 had twenty to forty-nine and 3 had fifty to ninety-nine.
Email reminders go out ahead of each session, at 24 hours and 2 hours by default, and you can change the timing. Book a regular into the same slot every week or every two weeks in one action. Each session is a real appointment with its own reminder, and you can move or cancel the whole series at once.
Frequently asked
Are most fitness businesses in New Orleans small?
Of the 123 employer fitness and recreational sports centers in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro in County Business Patterns 2023, 59 had fewer than five employees, or 48 percent, and trainers working alone with no payroll are not in that count.
How does no-show protection work?
Clients who reach three no-shows are automatically blocked from booking online, so the slot goes to someone who will turn up.
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