A fitness trainer usually works in a gym, a fitness place, or a private room, where they meet with people one by one or in groups, and do fitness checks, talks, and times. A fitness trainer may also work in other places, such as schools, hospitals, companies, or sports teams, where they give fitness help to special groups, such as students, patients, workers, or players.
A fitness trainer’s main jobs are:
- To make and do safe, good, and fun exercise plans that fit the person’s needs, goals, likes, and skills.
- To show and watch the person on how to do the exercises right, using good way, method, and things.
- To check and judge the person’s progress, work, and comments, and change the plan as needed.
- To make and cheer the person to keep to the plan and get their wanted results.
- To teach and tell the person about different parts of fitness, such as food, water, rest, and how to not get hurt.
A fitness trainer’s main skills and needs are:
- To have a high level of fitness, health, and wellness, and a love for helping others.
- To have a paper from a good fitness group, such as the American Council on Exercise (ACE), the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), or the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA).
- To have a degree or paper in a related thing, such as exercise science, body movement, or physical education, or a special paper in a specific thing, such as personal training, group fitness, strength and making better, or fixing exercise.
- To have knowing and doing in different kinds of exercises, such as air, power, bend, balance, and last, and how to change them for different people, such as new, old, having a baby, or people with long problems.
- To have great talking, people, and service skills, and the way to make connection, trust, and stay with people.
- To have good putting things in order, time use, and solving skills, and the way to work alone or with a team.
A fitness trainer’s main hard things and good things are:
- To face a hard and asking market, where they have to always make their skills, knowing, and papers better, and sell themselves to get and keep people.
- To deal with different body, mind, and feeling asks, such as working long and not regular hours, doing many people and things, dealing with worry and push, and taking care of hurts and dangers.
- To enjoy a full and happy work, where they can make a good change in people’s lives, see their changes and wins, and share their love and happy for fitness.
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