Health Fitness Professional Job Description
Health Fitness Professional Duties & Responsibilities
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Health Fitness Professional Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Fitness Professional
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AED, CPR, NASM, ACSM, NSCA, AFAA, ACE
Education for Health Fitness Professional
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health fitness professional job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Exercise Science, Kinesiology, Health Promotion, Education, Wellness, Health, Public Health, Health Education, Athletic Training, Sports Management
Skills for Health Fitness Professional
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Desired experience for health fitness professional includes:
Health Fitness Professional Examples
Health Fitness Professional Job Description
- Assist manager with equipment management including repairs, preventative maintenance plans and contracts, equipment layout, purchasing, vendor relations
- Conducts fitness assessments, one-on-one exercise programming (personal training) and provides education to clients
- Interview and hire group exercise instructors
- Interview and hire interns and provide ongoing support while the intern is onsite
- Instructs 30-minute Group Fitness classes
- Provides one on one personal training to people of varying fitness levels
- Closes facility and maintains safety and cleanliness of the facility to ensure it is ready for the following day
- Instructs a variety of group exercise classes and motivate participants
- Interview and hire group exercise instructors and interns, providing ongoing support while they are onsite
- Provide front desk coverage and other duties as needed/assigned
- Personal Training certification from ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, NASM is strongly preferred, but will be required within the first 60 days in this role
- Bachelor’s Degree in a health/fitness related field
- A solid knowledge base of nutrition, exercise, weight management, tobacco cessation, and disease management is also a plus
- Creative and motivated individual, with strong attention to detail, who will take initiative and be willing to present ideas to the manager and the team
- Personal Training certification (from ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, or NASM) is strongly preferred, but will be required within the first six months in this role
- Spinning or Cycling certification is a plus
Health Fitness Professional Job Description
- Oversees the Fall and Spring Sports and Recreation Programs (Basketball and Volleyball)
- Join one of the HFP’s Teams (Fee for Service, Events, Safety, or Website Team) to provide or improve on-site programming, knowledge, ideas, and materials to the other client sites to enhance our offerings
- Provides individual and group exercise instruction for CrossFit or bootcamp style classes
- Creates and maintains educational bulletin boards, newsletters and other marketing & communication materials
- Collects and documents appropriate program data to support the ROI process
- Close facility and maintain safety and cleanliness of the facility to ensure it is ready for the following day
- Completes administrative and facility maintenance tasks as needed to assist with facility management and cleanliness
- Assists with wellness events and promotes fitness offerings in various Lake County locations
- Supports workplace injury prevention and conditioning
- Support/oversee day-to-day operations of the Fitness Facility
- Personal Training certification (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, or NASM) is preferred, but will be required within 3 months of hire
- Industry recognized Group Exercise certification is strongly preferred but will be required within the first 3 months in this role
- Personal Training certification (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, or NASM) is strongly preferred
- Experience teaching group exercise is required
- Personal Training certification will be required within 6 months of hire (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, or NASM)
- Group Exercise class instruction requires recognized industry certification (will be required within the first 3 months in this roll)
Health Fitness Professional Job Description
- Assist with training and supervision of student interns
- Support/oversee day-to-day operations of the Fitness Facility from administrative/front desk duties to working knowledge and compliance to site specific emergency response plans
- Assists with the implementation of all fitness center management activities like teaching fun, safe and motivating group exercise classes as outlined in contract, floor coverage/front desk coverage, fitness testing, orientations, exercise prescriptions
- Lead movement and stretch breaks and Group Exercise classes
- Performs laundry and cleaning duties at the facility
- Creates and maintains the exercise/fitness bulletin board
- Maintains membership files and database secure
- Performs daily cleaning of equipment and other facility maintenance responsibilities
- Assists with projects and other duties as assigned
- Leads a variety of health education seminars
- Personal Training certification from ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA or NASM preferred, but required within first 3 months of employment
- A certification in Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is preferred, but will be required within the first three months in this role
- A minimum of one year of related industry experience is strongly preferred
- Industry recognized Group Exercise certification from ACE, AFAA or ACSM is strongly preferred
- Industry recognized Group Exercise certification is preferred, but will be required within 3 months of hire
- Ability to instruct a variety of group exercise formats is strongly preferred
Health Fitness Professional Job Description
- Supervises fitness facility
- Provides virtual and in-person individual and group exercise instruction
- Conducts virtual and in-person fitness testing and assessments and advises participants of results
- Projects and other duties assigned
- Promotes program offerings and engagement efforts to increase participation and re-engage inactive participants
- Conducts fitness testing and assessments and advises participants of results both onsite and virtually
- Recruiting efforts for new members onsite and virtually
- Provides individual and group exercise instruction in future state
- Utilize marketing and communications that may be delivered onsite and virtually to improve engagement
- Provides personal and in-person individual personal training and group exercise instruction
- Personal Training certification (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, NASM, or CanFit Pro) is preferred, but will be required within the first six months of employment
- Group Exercise class instruction requires recognized industry certification preferred or within 6 months of hire
- Personal Training requires industry certification (ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA, or NASM) preferred or within 6 months of hire
- Personal Training certification from ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA or NASM required/preferred
- CPR/AED and first aid certifications or a BLS certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross will be required before start date
- CPR/AED and first aid certifications from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
Health Fitness Professional Job Description
- Must have access to quality wifi/webcam/computer and strong virtual skills as this position will be temporarily remote or hybrid of on-site & remote
- Provides individual and group exercise instruction onsite and virtually
- Conducts fitness testing and assessments onsite and virtually and advises participants of results
- Creates and maintains bulletin boards, newsletters, Microsoft Teams posts, and other marketing & communication materials
- Creates marketing communications that may be delivered onsite and virtually
- Virtual Fitness as applicable
- Interacts with participants in-person and virtually and monitors equipment and participant safety
- Assist members with checking in or answering questions
- Making sure the fitness center is clean and professional
- Other tasks including but not limited to, cleaning equipment, washing and folding towels, being available to answer member questions and promoting a safe and encouraging environment
- Personal Training certification a plus, but not required (ACE, AFAA, NSCA, NASM, ACSM)
- Industry recognized Group Exercise Instructor certification
- Personal Training certification from ACE, AFAA, ACSM, NSCA or NASM is preferred, but will be required within the first 6 months in this role
- Current First Aid and CPR/AED or BLS certifications from American Heart Association or American Red Cross
- Personal Training requires industry certification (ACE, AFAA, NSCA, NASM) (if not currently certified, must obtain within three months of hire)
- Current First Aid and CPR/AED or BLS certifications through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross