Fitness Trainer

About This Role

Working as a Fitness Trainer, you will help individuals achieve their health, wellness, and fitness goals through expert instruction, encouragement, and personalized program support. This client-focused role involves assessing fitness levels, developing customized training programs, and leading one-on-one and group sessions within the recreation team.

Responsibilities

• Assess individual fitness levels
• Develop customized training and fitness programs
• Lead both one-on-one and group training sessions
• Provide professional guidance on exercise techniques, health and fitness practices, and the safe and effective use of weight training and fitness equipment
• Ensure participants use proper form and follow established safety standards
• Oversee weight room and recreational gym operations during training sessions
• Help maintain a safe, welcoming, and motivating environment for all users
• Monitor equipment condition and identify maintenance needs
• Carry out minor equipment repairs where appropriate
• Exercise sound judgment and work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Adapt approach to meet the needs of a diverse range of participants and customers
• Prepare and maintain correspondence, records and reports
• Present ideas and viewpoints effectively both orally and in writing
• Operate a variety of equipment used in programs for health, wellness and fitness facilities

Requirements

• Sound knowledge of the principles, practices and objectives of individual weight training and fitness programs and of the various types of weight training equipment
• Sound knowledge of current personal training industry standards and methods of practice
• Sound knowledge of applicable policies, regulations and rules governing the work performed
• Working knowledge of the principals of anatomy and physiology as it applies to the work performed
• Ability to oversee weight room and recreational gym operations when leading an individual or group training session
• Working knowledge of fitness equipment machines and ability to do assessment and minor repairs
• Ability to evaluate individual’s fitness levels, develop individual weight training and fitness programs, and provide advice and guidance relative to health and fitness matters
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts and deal tactfully and diplomatically with a variety of customers
• Completion of Grade 12 supplemented by a diploma or certification program in community recreation, leadership and/or sports science, and sound related experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience