About This Role
This role involves helping individuals achieve their health, wellness, and fitness goals through expert instruction, encouragement, and personalized program support. The Fitness Trainer will assess fitness levels, develop customized training programs, and lead one-on-one and group sessions, while also overseeing weight room and recreational gym operations.
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 a variety 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
- Work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Adapt approach to meet the needs of a diverse range of participants and customers
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts
- Deal tactfully and diplomatically with a variety of customers
- Prepare and maintain correspondence, records and reports
- Present ideas and viewpoints effectively both orally and in writing
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
- Skill in the operation of a variety of equipment used in programs for health, wellness and fitness facilities
- 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
