WELLNESS CENTER FITNESS INSTRUCTOR

Description

SUMMARY 

A fitness instructor designs and leads exercise programs for individuals or groups, focusing on helping clients achieve health and fitness goals like weight loss or strength building by teaching proper techniques, monitoring progress, ensuring safety, providing motivation, and often giving nutritional guidance. They assess fitness levels, create personalized workout plans, demonstrate equipment use, modify exercises for injuries, and track client results to promote overall wellness

NOTE: This is a PRN position (not part-time or full-time).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Primary Duties:

• Client Assessment & Planning - Evaluate client needs, goals, fitness levels, and health conditions to create personalized  workout routines. 

• Instruction & Demonstration - Teach proper form for exercises, demonstrate techniques, and show correct usage of gym equipment. 

• Motivation & Support - Encourage and motivate clients during sessions, build positive relationships, and hold them accountable. 

• Progress Monitoring - Track client progress, measure fitness metrics, and adjust programs as needed. 

• Safety & Emergency Care - Enforce hygiene guidelines, ensure client safety during workouts, and administer first aid or CPR if necessary

• Education - Provide advice on healthy lifestyle choices, nutrition, and sustainable habits

• Group & Individual Sessions - Lead both one-on-one training and larger group classes. 

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Fitness Instructor Certification
• CPR certified

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described in the following tables are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to unpleasant work environments such as high noise, exposure to heat or cold.  Due to the nature of the organization, employees could be exposed to biohazardous conditions such as radiation and blood borne pathogens.  Employees will be exposed to stressful situations, which require critical thinking and immediate resolution.

Requirements

Physical Demands of this position include:

• May require you to life up to 100 pounds with frequent lifting and/or carrying objects up to 50 pounds.
• Constant hearing, reaching, seeing, speaking, standing, walking, pushing, pulling.
• Frequent bending, lifting, carrying, overhead reaching.
• Occasional keying, kneeling, smelling.